Risk attitudes can shift across contexts and even between identical choices. Here, the authors show that as parietal payoff representations grow noisier, the brain leans more on prior beliefs, biasing...

Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn.

Brain activity in the pre-supplementary motor area and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex represents gaze-weighted accumulated evidence signals in value-based decision-making.

How sensory systems rapidly adapt to changing stimulus statistics remains unclear. Here the authors show that gain adaptation in recurrent networks can implement fast efficient coding, unifying prior ...

A theory of efficient coding wherein the precision of representations is endogenous, task-dependent, and prior-dependent predicts scaling laws for imprecision and is supported by numerosity perception...

Junior Theoretical Neuroscientists Workshop on Simons Foundation

Blanco Malerba et al. demonstrate that extended, irregular tuning curves, observed in the brain, efficiently compress information in a low-dimensional representation. Optimal smoothness of tuning curv...

As the statistics of sensory environments often change, neural sensory systems must adapt to maintain useful representations. Efficient coding prescribes that neuronal tuning curves should be optimize...