Predictive Novelty Detection in Songbird Auditory Cortex

In order to make sense of complicated sensory landscapes, the brain privileges the processing of novel stimuli. Detecting novelty is therefore a fundamental problem for the brain to solve. And it turns out to be complicated, as stimuli can be completely novel, or just novel relative to certain certa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Happ, Michael Liu
Other Authors: Fee, Michale S.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/152579