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Chris Chatham is a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University.
November 26, 2008
[ Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Modeling ]
Play cognitive engineer: if you were designing an intelligent system, you'd probably use the same system to detect novelty as that used to detect familiarity. After all, one is simply the inverse of the other - so novelty can be...
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November 25, 2008
To efficiently direct learning, it may be useful for the brain to attend to those items which are maximally novel - this novelty may obscure some predictive or rewarding value that has not yet been learned or exploited. This is...
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