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Representation, abstraction, and simple-minded sophisticates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 June 2020
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Bayesian decision theory provides a simple formal elucidation of some of the ways that representation and representational abstraction are involved with, and exploit, both prediction and its rather distant cousin, predictive coding. Both model-free and model-based methods are involved.
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