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SUMMARY:Computational Neuroscience Journal Club - Kris Jensen and Marine S
 chimel
DTSTART:20220125T133000Z
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CONTACT:Jake Stroud
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our fortnightly journal club online via zoo
 m where two presenters will jointly present a topic together. The next top
 ic is ‘Mental simulation for prediction and inference of physical system
 s’ presented by Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.\n\nZoom information: htt
 ps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84958321096?pwd=dFpsYnpJYWVNeHlJbEFKbW1OTzFiQT09 Me
 eting ID: 849 5832 1096 Passcode: 506576\n\nSummary:\nHumans and other ani
 mals have an impressive capacity for inferring and predicting physical phe
 nomena\, yet it remains unclear how the brain performs these complex compu
 tations from sensory input. We will provide an overview of work which mode
 ls the understanding of ‘intuitive physics’ as a combination of noisy 
 Bayesian inference and an internal ‘physics engine’ that approximates 
 Newtonian mechanics. We will consider both how this framework can be used 
 to predict the evolution of physical systems\, and how it allows inference
  of the underlying physical parameters from observations of the temporal e
 volution of the world.\n\nRecommended reading:\n\nBattaglia et al. (PNAS 2
 013): “Simulation as an engine of physical scene understanding”.\n\nHa
 mrick et al. (Cognition 2016): “Inferring mass in complex scenes by ment
 al simulation”.\n\nSchwettmann et al. (eLife 2019): “Invariant represe
 ntations of mass in the human brain”.
LOCATION:Online on Zoom
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