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What is the bandwidth of visual perception?
From these recordings, the researchers calculated that a guinea pig
retina transfers data at about 875 kilobits per second. Human retinas
have about ten times as many ganglion cells, giving a “...
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How is the biological error signal in predictive coding computed?
TL;DR: We don't know whether the brain really uses predictive coding or not. But neurally computing an error signal on a small scale is possible (see below).
Predictive coding is an hypothesis for a ...
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How is the biological error signal in predictive coding computed?
I provided an answer to a similar question here that limitedly deals with the role of biological prediction errors.
Here's an excerpt of that answer:
...to answer this properly, we must first make it ...
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Is it generally accepted idea that a memory associated with strong olfactory stimuli will be kept longer?
In general, the answer is no - smell does not enhance memory.
But you are onto something with the proximity of the olfactory cortex to the limbic system: You are not the first to have noticed the ...
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What is the bandwidth of visual perception?
Lets assume you cut the optic nerve and replace it by a computer. There are between 700,000 and 1,700,000 nerve fibers in the optic nerve (lets round it up to 1,000,000 for now). What the temporal ...
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How did Hermann Ebbinghaus conduct memory experiments on himself?
Ebbinghouse indeed only tested on himself, limiting the generalization of his findings.
Your question is a really good one; given the time of his writing, the now so familiar structure of a standard ...
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