Spotify Technology, the world’s dominant music-streaming service, rescinded a three-week-old policy to remove the music of artists accused of bad behavior from its influential playlists.
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What Explains Perception in the Brain? – Debate
May 8th, 2018
Does Hierarchical Predictive Coding Explain Perception?
Speakers:
Andy Clark (Philosophy, University of Edinburgh)
David Heeger (Center for Neural Science, NYU)
Lucia Melloni (Neurology, Max Planck Institute / NYU)
Michael Rescorla (Philosophy, UCLA)
Predictive models of perception propose that perception works by making predictions about sensory inputs and minimizing prediction error. Hierarchical predictive coding models say that at each layer in the visual hierarchy, predictions are made about the layer below. Any differences between predicted input and actual input are propagated up the visual hierarchy by the mechanism of predictive coding, altering the system to reduce prediction errors in the future. According to some theorists, this approach portrays perception as “controlled hallucination”. This event will bring two neuroscientists and two philosophers together to debate how well this approach can explain perception.
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Facebook Is Pulling the Plug on Its Trending Feature
Next week, Facebook is pulling the plug on its Trending feature, which it introduced in January 2014. In a Newsroom post announcing the move, head of news products Alex Hardiman revealed that Trending was only available in five countries–the U.S., U.K., Canada, India and Australia–and it accounted for fewer than 1.5 percent of clicks to…
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Q&A: Measuring attitudes toward Muslims and Jews in Western Europe
Neha Sahgal, a lead author of our survey of Christians in Western Europe, discusses how the survey team constructed its questions and analyzed results.
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Video: Poo-Pourri and Tushy Created a ‘Poop-Up’ Pop-Up Shop—Yes, You Read That Right
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3 Predictions for Adobe’s Acquisition of Magento
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