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<div style="margin:0px">This is a reminder of our seminar next Tuesday. Note that this will be the last seminar of the semester.<br>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>When: Tuesday 26th October 1 pm via Zoom</b></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Please click this URL to start or join:</b><span style="margin:0px"> </span><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/48C9C4QOPEiBZWMYLSOLPbJ?domain=macquarie.zoom.us" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px">https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/82602847795?pwd=R05IdGdEdVd0RExtMlp1aEY0ZFFwUT09</a> </div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Speaker: A/Prof David Kaplan (Macquarie University)</b></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Title: Noise as signal in neuroscience</b></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><b>Abstract: </b><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">In a well-known series of papers, Bogen and Woodward (1988; Woodward 1989, 2000) describe
the problem of detecting a phenomenon (i.e., a stable, repeatable pattern or effect) as one of detecting a signal embedded in noise. More recently, Bogen (2010) has suggested that noise can itself be treated as a signal or phenomenon to be explained. However,
this produces a tension since noise is standardly defined as random or unpredictable disturbances that are not part of a signal. In this talk, I explore the tension, and Bogen’s proposed answer to it, in the context of neuroscience where cellular, synaptic,
sensory, and motor noise are routinely treated as objects of prediction and explanation. I argue that in order to make sense of noise as a genuine phenomenon, intrinsic variability must be distinguished from noise. This requires accounting for the causal sources
of variability as well as appreciating its effects on brain structure and function. </span><span style="margin:0px"><br>
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