Jonathan W. Pillow

Aggression experience and observation drive shared behavioural and neural changes

ABSTRACT The ability to observe the social behavior of others and use observed information to bias future action is a fundamental building block of social cognition 1,2 . A foundational question is whether social observation and experience engage common circuit mechanisms that en...

Bayesian efficient coding

The efficient coding hypothesis, which proposes that neurons are optimized to maximize information about the environment, has provided a guiding theoretical framework for sensory and systems neuroscience. More recently, a theory known as the Bayesian Brain hypothesis has focused...