Dr Reuben Rideaux, UK : "Exploring and explaining biological motion processing with neural networks"
Speaker:
Dr Reuben Rideaux
University of Cambridge, UK
Title: "Exploring and explaining biological motion processing with neural networks"
Abstract:
Seeing movement drives survival. It results from an uncertain interplay between evolution and experience, making it hard to isolate the drivers of computational architectures found in brains. In this presentation, I will show how artificial neural networks can be used to derive, and test, understanding of motion (mis)perception at the computational-, neural-, and perceptual-levels. I will demonstrate how diverse motion characteristics are largely explained by the statistical structure of natural images, rather than motion per se. Further, I will describe how causal inference can be solved using the activity of multisensory neurons to produce separate estimates of self- and object-motion while navigating through the environment. More broadly, I will demonstrate the conceptual value of marrying artificial systems with biological characterisation, moving beyond ‘black box’ reproduction of an architecture to advance understanding of complex systems like the brain.
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