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Bayesian Brain Hypothesis

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The Bayesian Brain: The Role of Uncertainty in Neural Coding and Computation

David Knill & Alexandre Pouget

Argues the brain represents sensory uncertainty explicitly and combines cues by weighting each according to its reliability, as Bayesian inference would prescribe.

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Bayesian Integration in Sensorimotor Learning

Konrad Kording & Daniel Wolpert

Shows experimentally that people combine a learned prior over movement outcomes with sensory feedback in a way that matches Bayesian statistical inference.

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The Bayesian Brain: The Role of Uncertainty in Neural Coding and Computation

Bayesian Integration in Sensorimotor Learning

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