Abstract An exciting theory in neuroscience is that the brain an organ for prediction error minimization (PEM). This rapidly gaining influence and set to dominate science of mind years come. PEM has extreme explanatory ambition, profound philosophical implications. Here, I assume theory, briefly explain it, then argue implies essentially self‐evidencing . means it imperative identify evidentiary boundary between its environment. defines mind‐world relation, opens door skepticism, makes...

Conscious perception and attention are difficult to study, partly because their relation each other is not fully understood. Rather than conceiving studying them in isolation from it may be useful locate an independently motivated, general framework, which a principled account of how they relate can then emerge. Accordingly, these mental phenomena here reviewed through the prism increasingly influential predictive coding framework. On this conscious seen as upshot prediction error...

Predictive processing (PP) is now a prominent theoretical framework in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. This review focuses on PP research with relatively philosophical focus, taking stock discussing new directions. The contains an introduction that describes full toolbox; exploration areas where has advanced understanding perceptual phenomena; discussion PP's impact foundational issues science; consideration science PP. overall picture fruitful framework, exciting directions...

In rubber hand illusions and full body illusions, touch sensations are projected to non-body objects such as hands, dolls or virtual bodies. The robustness, limits further perceptual consequences of not yet fully explored understood. A number experiments reported that test the a variant illusion.A illusion is explored, in which real foreign hands aligned personal space. presence ascertained with participants' scores temperature changes arm. This generates basic Participants presented...

Abstract Perceptual awareness depends upon the way in which we engage with our sensorium. This notion is central to active inference, a theoretical framework that treats perception and action as inferential processes. variational perspective on cognition formalizes of hypothesis testing actions experiments are designed (in part) gather evidence for or against alternative hypotheses. The common treatment affords useful interpretation certain perceptual phenomena whose component often not...

The search for the neural correlates of consciousness is in need a systematic, principled foundation that can endow putative with greater predictive and explanatory value. Here, we propose processing framework brain function as promising candidate providing this systematic foundation. proposal motivated by framework’s ability to address three general challenges identifying consciousness, satisfy two constraints common many theories consciousness. Implementing through lens delivers strong...

Recent predictive processing accounts of perception and action point towards a key challenge for the nervous system in dynamically optimizing balance between incoming sensory information existing expectations regarding state environment. Here, we report differences influence preceding context on motor function, varying with respect to both clinical subclinical features autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Reach-to-grasp movements were recorded subsequent an inactive period which illusory...

There is a growing understanding that both top-down and bottom-up signals underlie perception. But it not known how these integrate with each other this depends on the perceived stimuli’s predictability. ‘Predictive coding’ theories describe integration in terms of well predictions fit sensory input. Identifying neural markers for such signal therefore essential study perception predictive coding theories. To achieve this, we combined EEG methods preferentially tag different levels visual...

Perception likely results from the interplay between sensory information and top-down signals. In this electroencephalography (EEG) study, we utilised hierarchical frequency tagging (HFT) method to examine how such integration is modulated by expectation attention. Using intermodulation (IM) components as a measure of nonlinear signal integration, show in three different experiments that both attention enhance bottom-up Based on multispectral phase coherence (MSPC) measure, present two...