Since the cognitivist revolution around the 1950s, it’s become commonplace that cognition involves computation/information processing. The two terms are generally used more or less interchangeably.But it seems to me that “computation” and “information processing” mean two clearly distinct things. Paradigmatically, computation is the processing of digits according to appropriate rules, …
In Perception … Processing of the Müller-Lyer illusion by a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) Irene M Pepperberg, Jennifer Vicinay, Patrick Cavanagh Received 28 November 2006, in revised form 31 May 2007; published online 1 May 2008 Abstract. Alex, a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) who identifies the bigger or smaller of two objects by …
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It’s the title of a provocative new article in Nature Neuroscience. For those interested in free will and the brain.
Here is a 3 min video about it. A little hyped, but pretty cool. (Hat tip to Ritesh Mehta.)
Below is a reference to a recent paper showing specific ways in which (some) data collected using a certain data acquisition system (Plexon) are not trustworthy (from the Journal of Neuroscience Methods). This is significant, as a very large number of labs use Plexon. This could be an interesting case …
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