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    "pk": 28467,
    "title": "Generating normative predictions with a variable-length rate code",
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    "abstract": "Cognitive science is an archipelago of concepts and models,with cross-pollination between topics of interest often prohib-ited by incompatible approaches. Despite this, behavioral per-formance universally depends on information transmission be-tween brain regions and is limited by physical and biologicalconstraints. These constraints can be formalized as informa-tion theoretic constraints on transmission, which provide nor-mative predictions across a surprising range of cognitive do-mains. To illustrate this, we describe a simple variable-lengthrate coding model built with Poisson processes, Bayesian in-ference, and an entropy-based decision threshold. This modelreplicates features of human task performance and provides aprincipled connection between a high-level normative frame-work and neural rate codes. We thereby integrate several dis-joint ideas in cognitive science by translating plausible con-straints into information theoretic terms. Such efforts to trans-late concepts, paradigms and models into common theoreti-cal languages are essential for synthesizing our rich but frag-mented understanding of cognitive systems.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "information theory; bayesian inference; rate cod-ing; response time; learning"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentations",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7v919486",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "S. Thomas",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Christie",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Minnesota",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Paul",
            "middle_name": "R.",
            "last_name": "Schrater",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Minnesota",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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