Browsing Systems Design Engineering by Subject "Theoretical neuroscience"
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Neural Plausibility of Bayesian Inference
(University of Waterloo, 2018-07-31)Behavioral studies have shown that humans account for uncertainty in a way that is nearly optimal in the Bayesian sense. Probabilistic models based on Bayes' theorem have been widely used for understanding human cognition, ... -
A neurocomputational model of the mammalian fear conditioning circuit
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-24)In this thesis, I present a computational neural model that reproduces the high-level behavioural results of well-known fear conditioning experiments: first-order conditioning, second-order conditioning, sensory preconditioning, ...