Models of the Mind

For every experience in which two neurons are either both active or inactive, the connection between them is strengthened.

The neuromodulators causing these changes were all released from neurons that normally provide input to this circuit.

Bayes’ rule is a description of how to reason rationally under conditions of uncertainty.

When the pull from the prior is strong, it can make you hardly believe your own eyes.

‘Learning representations by back-propagating errors’, written by two cognitive scientists from the University of California San Diego, David Rumelhart and Ronald Williams, and a computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon, Geoffrey Hinton,

Specifically, the activity of one simple cell was calculated as the sum of the thalamus activity at one location multiplied by the filter. Sliding the filter across the whole image created a set of simple cells all with

it imbues neurons with the ability to identify sequences.

If neuromodulators can release the activity of neurons in a circuit from the strict constraints of their architecture, then structure is not destiny.

The maximum rate at which information can be sent over a channel without errors is known as the channel’s capacity.