The road less traveled passes through some strange country, beautiful and inexplicable. My road has wound through high school records, college failures, start-up manias, experiments in isolation, snails (so many snails), college resurrections, tips-of-the-tongue, CIA sponsored nobilities, Ph.D. meanderings, motherhood(s?), and one rather astonishing bend in the road. Today, I'm a researcher at the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, where we think deep thoughts about deep thinking. Here's my personal philosophy on the subject:
Neural/cognitive systems employ representational codes derived from the multidimensional statistics of both exogenous and endogenous signals. Not surprisingly, our intuitions about the forms of these representations typically fail to capture their actual complexity. By working with information theoretic models of auditory computation I seek to analyze the role of more complex codes in human information processing.
