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Talk on "Insights from cognitive neuroscience – statistical models to understand behavior"
"Insights from cognitive neuroscience – statistical models to understand behavior" is the title of Prof. Dr. Christoph Kayser talk, which is being organised by the "Zentrum of Statistik" at Bielefeld University. It will take place on Tuesday, 13 May 2025 from 12:00 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr in W9-109.
In this talk I will present studies on how we (and our brain) combine multisensory signals to guide behavior. The talk will focus on examples such as spatial ventriloquism and multisensory perceptual decision making, but also speak more broadly about how well we can explain behavior in typical laboratory tasks. The goal of the presentation is to illustrate the different types of statistical models employed in these studies, including Bayesian approaches and drift-diffusion (random walk) models and how they can be used to understand behavior, but also how we can link them to neural processes in the brain.