Episode 24: Perception as Inference with Dr. Hadi Vafaii
Can probability theory help explain how the mind works? This is the topic of this episode with Dr. Hadi Vafaii, a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley’s Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, working in Jacob Yates’s lab. Hadi builds intuition step by step, using simple, relatable examples. He explains a mathematical perspective on how the brain processes information by inferring the unobserved causes behind what we see and hear, combining context with new evidence.
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