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Calculated Comparisons: Manufacturing Societal Causal Judgments by Implying Different Counterfactual Outcomes

Abstract How do people come to opposite causal judgments about societal problems, such as whether a public health policy reduced COVID-19 cases? The current research tests an understudied cognitive mechanism in which people may agree about what actually happened (e.g., that a public health policy was implemented and COVID-19 cases declined), but can be made […]

Published on February 7, 2024

Spontaneous Eye Blinks Map the Probability of Perceptual Reinterpretation During Visual and Auditory Ambiguity

Abstract Spontaneous eye blinks are modulated around perceptual events. Our previous study, using a visual ambiguous stimulus, indicated that blink probability decreases before a reported perceptual switch. In the current study, we tested our hypothesis that an absence of blinks marks a time in which perceptual switches are facilitated in- and outside the visual domain. […]

Published on February 6, 2024

Enabling uncertainty estimation in neural networks through weight perturbation for improved Alzheimer’s disease classification

BackgroundThe willingness to trust predictions formulated by automatic algorithms is key in a wide range of domains. However, a vast number of deep architectures are only able to formulate predictions without associated uncertainty.PurposeIn this study, we propose a method to convert a standard neural network into a Bayesian neural network and estimate the variability of […]

Published on February 6, 2024