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View larger image | Though they don’t yet have a clear idea of how the brain does the calculations needed to compute probabilities based on built-in assumptions, scientists do have some sense of the steps involved in encoding and decoding an environmental stimulus.
Credit: A.R. Girshick et al/Nature Neuroscience 2011
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