The anatomy of bias : how neural circuits weigh the options / / Jan Lauwereyns
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| Autore: |
Lauwereyns Jan <1969->
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| Titolo: |
The anatomy of bias : how neural circuits weigh the options / / Jan Lauwereyns
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
| ©2010 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 262 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 153.8/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Neural circuitry - Mathematical models |
| Decision making - Physiological aspects | |
| Bayesian statistical decision theory | |
| Neural networks (Neurobiology) - Mathematical models | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | NEUROSCIENCE/General |
| COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Prelude: a double inheritance, a single question -- Bayes and bias -- Wish come true -- Fear materialized -- The familiarity fallacy -- The proximity trap -- Less is more -- Utopia--a world without bias -- Coda: the pleasure of prediction error. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this engaging, even lyrical, book, Jan Lauwereyns examines the neural underpinnings of decision-making, using 'bias' as his core concept rather than the more common but noncommittal terms 'selection' and 'attention'. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The anatomy of bias |
| ISBN: | 0-262-29160-6 |
| 1-282-54193-5 | |
| 9786612541933 | |
| 0-262-27799-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811862903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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