#  Bayesian brains? 

 





November 17, 2006

 

 

**Amy Perfors**

[Andrew Gelman](http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2006/11/is_the_brain_do.html) has link to a study that just came out in *Nature Neuroscience* whose author, Alex Pouget at the University of Rochester, suggests that "the cortex appears wired at its foundation to run Bayesian computations as efficiently as can be possible." I haven't read the paper yet, so I don't have much in the way of intelligent commentary, but I'll try to take a look at it soon. In the meantime, here is a [link](http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2683) to the press release so you can read something about it even if you don't have access to *Nature Neuroscience*. From the blurb, it sounds pretty neat, especially if you (like me) are at all interested in the psychological plausibility of Bayesian models as applied to human cognition.

Posted by [Amy Perfors](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/author/amy-perfors/) at November 17, 2006 11:40 AM



 

 

 



 

 

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