Efficient coding makes and breaks Webers law
Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Raphael Yamamoto, Samuel Joseph Gershman
This study shows that Webers law arises from efficient coding principles and can be broken by altering stimulus frequency distributions.
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Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Raphael Yamamoto, Samuel Joseph Gershman
This study shows that Webers law arises from efficient coding principles and can be broken by altering stimulus frequency distributions.
Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Maximilian V. Harl, Samuel Joseph Gershman
This study introduces a gain-adaptive recurrent network model that explains adaptive tuning curves and reconciles adapter repulsion and prior attraction in sensory systems.
Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Michael Woodford
The paper shows that perceptual imprecision in number sense depends on task context and prior distribution, suggesting endogenous determination of perceptual noise.
Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Gilles de Hollander, Saurabh Bedi…·Christian Carl Ruff
This study shows that human parietal cortex dynamically recalibrates number representations based on context, improving behavioral accuracy through distributed range adaptation.
Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Samuel Joseph Gershman
The paper examines Bayesian observer variability in a numerosity-estimation task and finds anti-Weber behavior, similar to human subjects, suggesting variability is influenced by prior distribution skewness.
Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Michael Woodford
The paper shows that imprecise counting of observations in averaging tasks leads to primacy and recency effects, modeled by a Bayesian central tendency mechanism.
Arthur Prat-Carrabin, Robert C. Wilson, Jonathan D. Cohen, Rava Azeredo da Silveira
This study investigates how humans adapt their inference processes to temporal structure in stimuli, showing suboptimal behavior that can be modeled by sampling-based inference.