Why the Brain Doesn’t Perceive Reality (According to Neuroscience) - Dualistic Unity Neuroscience shows that the brain doesn’t perceive reality directly—it predicts it. This article explores predictive processing, internal models, and why perception is inference rather than objective truth.

Why does what feels real depend so much on prediction and interpretation? dualisticunity.com/why-the-brai... #PredictiveProcessing #MindAndWorld

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(PDF) Two Cognitive Representations of Templates Arise within “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” - The Complete Clarification of Mental Imagery, Predictive Coding, Predictive Processing and Motor Seque... PDF | Motor sequence learning is a core cognitive process essential for skill acquisition, long studied within the cognitive and neurosciences. However,... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #templates #imagery #predictivecoding #predictiveprocessing
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Intracranial EEG shows expectancy modulations in the prefrontal cortex:
🧠 OFC earlier
🧠 LPFC later
(This was measured via high-frequency activity, a marker of local brain activity)

Connectivity analyses reveal bidirectional exchange, with the first lead by OFC.

#iEEG #PredictiveProcessing #HFA

In an auditory local–global deviance detection task, we found that the brain tracks sound regularities to anticipate when a rare deviant sequence will occur.
⚡ Participants detected deviants faster when they were expected.

#PredictiveProcessing

Inhibiting the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex selectively enhances unsupervised statistical learning The brain must balance the automatic extraction of environmental regularities with top-down cognitive control, yet the causal neural mechanisms governing this interplay are debated. In particular, the...

New preprint!

Inhibiting the right or both dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with rTMS boosts unsupervised statistical learning.
Likely by shifting toward a more exploratory processing style.
#PsychSciSky
#StatsSky
#neuroskyence
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#neuroscience #predictiveprocessing

#ActiveInference #Meditation #ComputationalPhenomenology #Mindfulness #Consciousness #Neuroscience #ContemplativeScience #PredictiveProcessing #MentalHealth #ComputationalPsychiatry

🎉New paper!

Expectations bias conscious visual experience more at the fovea than in the periphery. (Who knew vision could teach us a little Zen?)

👉https://tinyurl.com/yfw93tsw

With Tim Gastrell, Matt Oxner and David Carmel
@lsp-ens.bsky.social
#Consciousness #VisionScience #PredictiveProcessing

A Wandering Mind Improves Inferential Learning Leverage the power of the spontaneously wandering mind to enhance learning, problem-solving, and creativity.

Our recent study on mind wandering and local sleep has received additional media coverage.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...

#predictiveprocessing #Neuroscience #statisticallearning #cognition

Our new MEG preprint on Building&Updating Predictive Models in auditory sequences 🧠🔊
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception

with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience

Executive Resources Shape the Effects of Language Predictability Across the Adult Lifespan Humans predict upcoming language effortlessly, but the cognitive costs of these predictions remain debated. In this study, we demonstrate that limiting executive resources through a concurrent task re...

Co-authored with Merle Schuckart, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social, and @jonasobleser.bsky.social. Find the preprint with all the really cool methods (n = 175 + replication!) and insights here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PredictiveProcessing #Aging #LanguagePredictions

Constructing Experience Cambridge Core - Biological Psychology - Constructing Experience

Exciting news! My book, Constructing Experience: Expectation and Attention in Perception, is now out with Cambridge University Press! For the next four weeks, you can download it for free: 🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Constructing Experience Cambridge Core - Biological Psychology - Constructing Experience

@artificial.bsky.social🚀 How does predictive processing shape both human perception and AI systems?

My book Constructing Experience explores how expectation and attention shape perception, a process AI is now trying to model.

📖 Free for 4 weeks 👉 doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Great points! Good to see an exteroceptive 5 Senses #mindfulness practice in the article. I'll add that creating a personal space boundary (not a wall or avoidance) can help ground us in the present, bringing clarity so it’s easier to determine next steps

#PredictiveProcessing #Anxiety #Grounding

What a phenomenal panel! It was a who’s who in Philosophy, Buddhism, and Cognitive Science! More of these types of interdisciplinary collaborations are dearly needed. Kudos to Princeton CCSR @PrincetonCCSR @annaciaunica.bsky.social #agency #predictiveprocessing #senseofself #phenomenology

Matteo Colombo is skeptical about explaining #psychedelic #therapy in #PredictiveProcessing terms. He sketches an alternative account within the #ReinforcementLearning framework. doi.org/10.33735/phi...

Tobias Schlicht and Krzysztof Dolega argue that #PredictiveProcessing might not be a suitable candidate as a theory of #consciousness or as a framework for the #neuroscience of consciousness. Read their contribution to the #NCC special issue: doi.org/10.33735/phi...

A predictive model for understanding the role of emotion for the formation of presence in virtual reality Users’ emotions may influence the formation of presence in virtual reality (VR). Users’ expectations, state of arousal and personality may also moderate the relationship between emotions and presence....

Very interesting article >> #PredictiveProcessing #Emotion and #Presence in #VirtualReality . “users’ expectations of the emotions they will experience in a VR application can be of crucial importance in the creation of presence”

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Interesting piece on the #PredictiveProcessing
commonalities between delusions and #beliefs, involving cues and pattern matching with #priors

Also different delusions may have different threshold points for belief evaluation

#PsychSciSky #CogPsych

#neurolinguistics #languagecomprehension #predictiveprocessing #magnetoencephalography

Did you ever wonder how your brain 🧠 predicts the future ✨? 🤔
Catch the recording of @sweetneuron.bsky.social's brilliant (and gentle!) intro to Predictive Processing & Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle. 🎥 cogsci.univie.ac.at/futurethinki...
#CognitiveScience #PredictiveProcessing #Neuroscience

“So you can use the prediction task to bootstrap your way to the grammar, which you then use in the prediction task in the future.” —Andy Clark (2011) #PredictiveProcessing #GenerativeAI #LLMs

#PredictiveProcessing and/or #ActiveInference.

It suggests that David Hume's idea that all knowledge comes from the outside world has had way too long a half-life in biology.

#Neuroscience #Philosophy

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https://fediscience.org/@DrYohanJohn/109388707100157784 (2/2)

⁦Interesting new paper from @BecketTodd ⁦@evantthompson⁩ et al suggesting that #PredictiveProcessing cannot explain affect-biased attention. Evidence that maybe #FreeEnergy can’t explain everything. 🤷‍♂️🧠 https://dir.lat/ouzmdR

Philosophy and #PredictiveProcessing: #openaccess collection of publications on the mind, brain, and consciousness http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/701_ENG_HTML.php

Philosophy and #PredictiveProcessing: #OpenAccess-Sammlung zu Geist, Gehirn und Bewusstsein veröffentlicht http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/701_DEU_HTML.php