Timing: 17th of July 2019,9.30 till 18.30
Location: Room S3
Organizers:
Alexandre Hyafil (UPF, CRM, Barcelona): alexandre . hyafil (at) gmail.com
Jaime de la Rocha (Idibaps, Barcelona): jrochav (at) clinic.cat
Workshop duration: one day
Overview:
The workshop will gather scientists with different perspectives on the subject of serial perceptual biases with a focus on either modelling biases (at different levels) or developing theoretical accounts that might explain them, from normative accounts to physiological mechanisms. The existence of such biases has been known for decades but up to few years ago, their analysis was confined to a small psychology community. In the last 2-3 years, there has been a surge of studies from neuroscientists over various specialties. We now realize that sequential decision biases are more complex and ubiquitous as previously thought, and that they offer a window into cognitive mechanisms at the interface of perceptual-based and value-based decision-making. The workshop will provide an enriching mix of experimental models (healthy humans, human patients, primates, rodents), modalities/systems (vision, audition, working memory) and modelling scales (spiking networks, latent variable models, Bayesian models).
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Some relevant recent references from our speakers:
Akrami, A., Kopec, C. D., Diamond, M. E., & Brody, C. D. (2018). Posterior parietal cortex represents sensory history and mediates its effects on behaviour. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25510
Meyniel, F., Maheu, M., Dehaene, S., Cleeremans, A., Kouider, S., & Devinsky, O. (2016). Human Inferences about Sequences: A Minimal Transition Probability Model. PLOS Computational Biology, 12(12), e1005260. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005260
Braun, A., Urai, A. E., & Donner, T. H. (2018). Adaptive History Biases Result from Confidence-weighted Accumulation of Past Choices. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38(10), 2418–2429. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2189-17.2017
Lebovich, L., Darshan, R., Lavi, Y., Hansel, D., & Loewenstein, Y. (2018). Idiosyncratic choice bias in decision tasks naturally emerges from neuronal network dynamics. BioRxiv, 284877. https://doi.org/10.1101/284877
Fritsche, M., Mostert, P., & de Lange, F. P. (2017). Opposite Effects of Recent History on Perception and Decision. Current Biology, 27(4), 590–595. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.006
Hermoso-Mendizabal, A., Hyafil, A., Rueda-Orozco, P. E., Jaramillo, S., Robbe, D., & Rocha, J. de la. (2018). Response outcomes gate the impact of expectations on perceptual decisions. BioRxiv, 433409. https://doi.org/10.1101/433409
Cicchini, G.M., Mikellidou, K. & Burr, D. (2018). The functional role of serial dependence, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B . PDF
Lieder, I., Adam, V., Frenkel, O., Jaffe-Dax, S., Sahani, M., & Ahissar, M. (2019). Perceptual bias reveals slow-updating in autism and fast-forgetting in dyslexia. Nature neuroscience, 22(2), 256. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0308-9