Perceptual experience is influenced both by incoming sensory information and prior
knowledge about the world, a concept recently formalised within Bayesian decision theory …

In order to generate skilled and efficient actions, the motor system must find solutions to
several problems inherent in sensorimotor control, including nonlinearity, nonstationarity …

INTRODUCTION Compositionality, generalization, and learning from a few examples are
among the hallmarks of human intelligence. CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public …

Deep Belief Networks (DBNs) have recently shown impressive performance on a broad
range of classification problems. Their generative properties allow better understanding of …

The visual system can only accurately represent a handful of objects at once. How do we
cope with this severe capacity limitation? One possibility is to use selective attention to …

Prediction errors (PE) are a central notion in theoretical models of reinforcement learning,
perceptual inference, decision-making and cognition, and prediction error signals have …

To perceive the external environment our brain uses multiple sources of sensory information
derived from several different modalities, including vision, touch and audition. All these …

We perceive the shapes and material properties of objects quickly and reliably despite the
complexity and objective ambiguities of natural images. Typical images are highly complex …

Action selection is a fundamental decision process for us, and depends on the state of both
our body and the environment. Because signals in our sensory and motor systems are …

How do psychedelic drugs produce their characteristic range of acute effects in perception,
emotion, cognition, and sense of self? How do these effects relate to the clinical efficacy of …