"Circular Inference in schizophrenia...and all of us"

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• Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris
• Monday 15 May 2017, 16:30-18:00
• The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

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Schizophrenia is a complex and heterogeneous mental disorder, whose neuropathology started being understood only recently. However, since the time of Kraepelin and Bleuler, much information has been accumulated on behavioural abnormalities usually encountered in schizophrenia patients. Despite recent progress, how the latter is caused by the former still remains debated. Here we argue that Circular Inference, a computational framework proposed as a potential explanation for various schizophrenia symptoms, could help closing this gap. Based on Marr’s three levels of analysis, we discuss how impairments in local and more global neural circuits could generate aberrant beliefs, with far-ranging consequences from probabilistic decision making to high-level visual perception in conditions of ambiguity. Interestingly, the Circular Inference Framework appears compatible with a variety of pathophysiological theories of schizophrenia while being able to simulate behavioral symptoms.

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