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The Bayesian-Laplacian Brain

Zeki, S; Chen, O; (2017) The Bayesian-Laplacian Brain. BioRxiv: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

We discuss here what we feel could be an improvement in future discussions of the brain acting as a Bayesian-Laplacian system, by distinguishing between two classes of priors on which the brain's inferential systems operate. In one category are biological priors (β priors) and in the other artefactual ones (α priors). We argue that β priors are inherited or acquired very rapidly after birth and are much more resistant to varying experiences than α priors which, being continuously acquired at various stages throughout post-natal life, are much more accommodating of, and hospitable to, new experiences. Consequently, the posteriors generated from the two sets of priors are likewise different, being more constrained (i.e., precise) for β than for α priors.

Type: Working / discussion paper
Title: The Bayesian-Laplacian Brain
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1101/094516
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1101/094516
Language: English
Additional information: The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder. It is made available under a CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license.
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Cell and Developmental Biology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1557750
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