Bayesian model learning in human visual perception

Gergo Orbán*, József Fiser, Richard N. Aslin, Máté Lengyel

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Humans make optimal perceptual decisions in noisy and ambiguous conditions. Computations underlying such optimal behavior have been shown to rely on probabilistic inference according to generative models whose structure is usually taken to be known a priori. We argue that Bayesian model selection is ideal for inferring similar and even more complex model structures from experience. We find in experiments that humans learn subtle statistical properties of visual scenes in a completely unsupervised manner. We show that these findings are well captured by Bayesian model learning within a class of models that seek to explain observed variables by independent hidden causes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 18 - Proceedings of the 2005 Conference
Pages1043-1050
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
Event2005 Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2005 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 5 Dec 20058 Dec 2005

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
ISSN (Print)1049-5258

Conference

Conference2005 Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2005
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period5/12/058/12/05

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