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Abstract

• In a constantly changing world, animals must account for environmental volatility when making decisions. To appropriately discount older, irrelevant information, they need to learn the rate at which the environment changes. We develop an ideal observer model capable of inferring the present state of the environment along with its rate of change. Key to this computation is an update of the posterior probability of all possible change point counts. This computation can be challenging, as the number of possibilities grows rapidly with time. However, we show how the computations can be simplified in the continuum limit by a moment closure approximation. The resulting low-dimensional system can be used to infer the environmental state and change rate with accuracy comparable to the ideal observer. The approximate computations can be performed by a neural network model via a rate-correlation-based plasticity rule. We thus show how optimal observers accumulate evidence in changing environments and map this computation to reduced models that perform inference using plausible neural mechanisms.

Creator

• Josić, Krešimir
• Radillo, Adrian E
• Kilpatrick, Zachary P
• Veliz-Cuba, Alan

Date Issued

• 2017-06-01

Academic Affiliation

• Applied Mathematics

Journal Title

• Neural Computation

Journal Issue/Number

• 6

Journal Volume

• 29

File Extent

• 1561-1610

最新修改

• 2019-12-05

Identifier

• PubMed ID: 28333591

Resource Type

• Article

权利声明

• In Copyright

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.1162/NECO_a_00957

ISSN

• 1530-888X

Language

• English [eng]

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