Top-down control of visual inference in sensory representations in early visual cortex (06)

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: from 2017 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 276693517

This subproject will investigate whether generative models can provide a normative account of observed top-down influences on neu-ral activity and behaviour in perceptual decision making tasks. In the upcoming funding period, we will develop computational methods that will help address this empirical challenge: Rather than hand-crafting a normative model and comparing it to behavioural and neu-ral data post-hoc, we will develop a conceptual framework – inverse normative modelling (INM) - to infer models from data.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1233: Robust Vision - Inference Principles and Neural Mechanisms
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Jakob Macke; Dr. Hendrikje Nienborg, until 12/2020; Professor Dr. Fabian Sinz; Professor Dr. Felix A. Wichmann, until 12/2020