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Does anyone know about Helmholtz machines, or similar, and would be open to me asking a couple of questions?

I do experimental cognitive psychology and they're outside my expertise, and I think my questions are the type that are hard to answer through reading individual papers myself but should be simple for someone who is familiar with the higher level assumptions and norms of the field.

Thanks!

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"Autistic and nonautistic adolescents do not differ in adaptation to gaze direction" https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3118

I was reminded today that a talk I gave on this project for Neuromatch was recorded, so if you're interested in the paper but tldr, you can catch the main message in just 15 min 45 s here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0Xn_VqE8ro

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A new study reveals how music evokes distinct bodily sensations, particularly in the heart and abdomen, linking these feelings to emotional responses and aesthetic appreciation.

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My paper on adaptation after-effects in autistic and non-autistic teenagers is out in Autism Research! 🎉

"Autistic and nonautistic adolescents do not differ in adaptation to gaze direction"

These autistic teens show a large adaptation after-effect behaviourally, though we don't see the after-effects in EEG, and we try to interpret this in light of Predictive Processing accounts of autism.

https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3118

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“If so-called visual, tactile, or auditory sensory cortex is actually operating using a cascade of feedback from higher levels to actively predict the unfolding sensory signals… then we should not be surprised to find extensive multimodal and cross-modal effects… even on ‘early’ sensory response.” (Clark 2011) #perception #multisensory #CrossModalEffects #PredictiveProcessing
“To predict the next word in a sentence, it helps to know stuff about grammar (and lots more, too). But one way to learn a surprising amount about grammar is just to look for the best ways to predict the next words in sentences. So you can use the prediction task to bootstrap your way to the grammar, which you then use in the prediction task in the future.” —Andy Clark (2011) #PredictiveProcessing #GenerativeAI #LLMs