NIPS
2004
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2004
The representation of acoustic signals at the cochlear nerve must serve a wide range of auditory tasks that require exquisite sensitivity in both time and frequency. Lewicki (2002...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Psychologists call behavior intrinsically motivated when it is engaged in for its own sake rather than as a step toward solving a specific problem of clear practical value. But wh...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We describe an approach to building brain-computer interfaces (BCI) based on graphical models for probabilistic inference and learning. We show how a dynamic Bayesian network (DBN...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
This paper presents a general family of algebraic positive definite similarity functions over spaces of matrices with varying column rank. The columns can represent local regions ...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Agents learning to act in a partially observable domain may need to overcome the problem of perceptual aliasing
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Alternative splicing (AS) is an important and frequent step in mammalian gene expression that allows a single gene to specify multiple products, and is crucial for the regulation ...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
An auditory "scene", composed of overlapping acoustic sources, can be viewed as a complex object whose constituent parts are the individual sources. Pitch is known to be...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We devise and experiment with a dynamical kernel-based system for tracking hand movements from neural activity. The state of the system corresponds to the hand location, velocity,...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We study the synthesis of neural coding, selective attention and perceptual decision making. We build a hierarchical neural architecture that implements Bayesian integration of no...
NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
In the analysis of natural images, Gaussian scale mixtures (GSM) have been used to account for the statistics of filter responses, and to inspire hierarchical cortical representat...