Statistically optimal perception and learning: from behavior to neural representations

J Fiser, P Berkes, G Orbán, M Lengyel - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2010 - cell.com
Human perception has recently been characterized as statistical inference based on noisy
and ambiguous sensory inputs. Moreover, suitable neural representations of uncertainty …

Hippocampal contributions to control: the third way

M Lengyel, P Dayan - Advances in neural information …, 2007 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent experimental studies have focused on the specialization of different neural structures
for different types of instrumental behavior. Recent theoretical work has provided normative …

Neuromodulation of the feedforward dentate gyrus-CA3 microcircuit

LY Prince, TJ Bacon, CM Tigaret… - Frontiers in synaptic …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The feedforward dentate gyrus-CA3 microcircuit in the hippocampus is thought to activate
ensembles of CA3 pyramidal cells and interneurons to encode and retrieve episodic …

An effect of serotonergic stimulation on learning rates for rewards apparent after long intertrial intervals

K Iigaya, MS Fonseca, M Murakami, ZF Mainen… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Serotonin has widespread, but computationally obscure, modulatory effects on learning and
cognition. Here, we studied the impact of optogenetic stimulation of dorsal raphe serotonin …

Forward and backward inference in spatial cognition

WD Penny, P Zeidman, N Burgess - PLoS computational biology, 2013 - journals.plos.org
This paper shows that the various computations underlying spatial cognition can be
implemented using statistical inference in a single probabilistic model. Inference is …

Bayesian models of brain and behaviour

W Penny - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a review of Bayesian models of brain and behaviour. We first review the
basic principles of Bayesian inference. This is followed by descriptions of sampling and …

Top-down feedback in an HMAX-like cortical model of object perception based on hierarchical Bayesian networks and belief propagation

S Dura-Bernal, T Wennekers, SL Denham - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Hierarchical generative models, such as Bayesian networks, and belief propagation have
been shown to provide a theoretical framework that can account for perceptual processes …

Optimal recall from bounded metaplastic synapses: predicting functional adaptations in hippocampal area CA3

C Savin, P Dayan, M Lengyel - PLoS computational biology, 2014 - journals.plos.org
A venerable history of classical work on autoassociative memory has significantly shaped
our understanding of several features of the hippocampus, and most prominently of its CA3 …

What multiplexing means for the interpretation of functional MRI data

CA Olman - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Despite technology advances that have enabled routine acquisition of functional MRI data
with sub-millimeter resolution, the inferences that cognitive neuroscientists must make to link …

Associative memory of phase-coded spatiotemporal patterns in leaky Integrate and Fire networks

S Scarpetta, F Giacco - Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 2013 - Springer
We study the collective dynamics of a Leaky Integrate and Fire network in which precise
relative phase relationship of spikes among neurons are stored, as attractors of the …