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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Megan Peters\nhosted by Andrew Saxe\nAbstract: Computa
 tional and cognitive neuroscience techniques have made great strides towar
 ds describing the neural computations underlying perceptual inference and
  decision-making under uncertainty. These tools tell us how and why percep
 tual illusions occur\, which brain areas may represent noisy information 
 in a probabilistic manner\, and so on. However\, an understanding of the s
 ubjective\, qualitative aspects of perception remains elusive: qualia\, o
 r the personal\, intrinsic properties of phenomenal awareness\, have remai
 ned out of reach of these computational analytic insights. Here\, I propo
 se that metacognitive computations\, and the subjective feelings that go a
 long with them\, give us a solid starting point for understanding subject
 ive experience in general. Specifically\, perceptual metacognition possess
 es ontological and practical properties that provide a powerful and uniqu
 e opportunity for studying the studying the neural and computational corre
 lates of subjective experience using established tools of computational a
 nd cognitive neuroscience.  By capitalizing on decades of developments in
  formal computational model comparisons as applied to the specific proper
 ties of perceptual metacognition\, we are now in a privileged position to 
 reveal new and exciting insights about how the brain constructs our subje
 ctive conscious experiences.
LOCATION:Online\, ISTA
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SUMMARY:Megan Peters: Can subjective experience be quantified? Critically e
 xamining computational cognitive neuroscience approaches
URL:https://talks-calendar.ista.ac.at/events/2890
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