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Representation, abstraction, and simple-minded sophisticates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

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Peter Dayan*
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max Planck-Ring 8, 72076Tübingen, Germany. dayan@tue.mpg.de https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/publication-search/60427?person=persons217460
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Abstract

Bayesian decision theory provides a simple formal elucidation of some of the ways that representation and representational abstraction are involved with, and exploit, both prediction and its rather distant cousin, predictive coding. Both model-free and model-based methods are involved.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e126
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