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Departmental Colloquium: Philippe G. Schyns (University of Glasgow) - Information Processing Decoded from Behavioral and Brain Responses

Type: 
Colloquia
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Speaker: 
Philippe G. Schyns
Building: 
Frankel Leo ut 30-34
Room: 
G15
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 5:00pm
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Date: 
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Title:  Information Processing Decoded from Behavioral and Brain Responses

Abstract:  If the brain is a machine that processes information, then its cognitive activity can be interpreted as a set of information processing states linking stimulus to response (i.e. as a mechanism or an algorithm). The cornerstone of this research agenda is the existence of a method to translate the measurable states of behavioural and brain activity into the information processing states of a cognitive theory. Here, I contend that reverse correlation methods can provide this translation. I will illustrate, using examples from visual cognition, how this novel framework can be applied to start understanding the information processing algorithms of the brain in cognitive neuroscience.