Weak priors versus overfitting of predictions in autism: Reply to Pellicano and Burr (TICS, 2012)

i-Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-97

  Van de Cruys, Sander ^a   de Wit, Lee ^a   Evers, Kris ^a   Boets, Bart ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autism; Bayes; Perception; Predictive coding; Priors; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875784812     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0580ic     Document Type: Note

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