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Alain de Cheveigné
Predictive coding is an influential concept in sensory and cognitive neuroscience. It is often understood as involving top-down prediction of bottom-up sensory patterns, but the term also applies to feed-forward predictive mechanisms, for example in the retina. Here, I discuss a recent model of low-level predictive…
Alain de Cheveigné
Predictive coding is an influential concept in sensory and cognitive neuroscience. It is often understood as involving top-down prediction of bottom-up sensory patterns, but the term also applies to feed-forward predictive mechanisms, for example in the retina. Here, I discuss a recent model of low-level predictive…
Abdullahi Ali, Nasir Ahmad, Elgar de Groot, Marcel A. J. van Gerven + 1 more
Predictive coding represents a promising framework for understanding brain function. It postulates that the brain continuously inhibits predictable sensory input, ensuring a preferential processing of surprising elements. A central aspect of this view is its hierarchical connectivity, involving recurrent message…
Hinze Hogendoorn, Anthony N Burkitt
Hierarchical predictive coding is an influential model of cortical organization, in which sequential hierarchical layers are connected by feedback connections carrying predictions, as well as feedforward connections carrying prediction errors. To date, however, predictive coding models have neglected to take into…
Qingqing Zhang, Sverre Grødem, Alexa Gracias, Kristian K. Lensjø + 3 more
Predictive coding is a theoretical framework that can explain how animals build internal models of their sensory environments by predicting sensory inputs. Predictive coding may capture either spatial or temporal relationships between sensory objects. While the original theory by Rao and Ballard, 1999 described spatial…
Beren Millidge, Mufeng Tang, Mahyar Osanlouy, Nicol S. Harper + 1 more
One of the key problems the brain faces is inferring the state of the world from a sequence of dynamically changing stimuli, and it is not yet clear how the sensory system achieves this task. A well-established computational framework for describing perceptual processes in the brain is provided by the theory of…
Matthew Chalk, Olivier Marre, Gašper Tkačik
A central goal in theoretical neuroscience is to predict the response properties of sensory neurons from first principles. Several theories have been proposed to this end. “Efficient coding” posits that neural circuits maximise information encoded about their inputs. “Sparse coding” posits that individual neurons…
Mingfang(Lucy) Zhang, Sander M. Bohte
Predictive coding is a prominent theoretical framework for understanding the hierarchical sensory processing in the brain, yet how it could be implemented in networks of cortical neurons is still unclear. While most existing works have taken a hand-wiring approach to creating microcircuits that match experimental…
Bin Wang, Nicholas J Audette, David M Schneider, Johnatan Aljadeff
Neural circuits construct internal ‘world-models’ to guide behavior. The predictive processing framework posits that neural activity signaling sensory predictions and concurrently computing prediction-errors is a signature of those internal models. Here, to understand how the brain generates predictions for complex…
Amber Marijn Brands, Paulo Ortiz, Iris Isabelle Anna Groen
Predictive coding is a leading theory of cortical function which posits that the brain continually makes predictions of incoming sensory stimuli using a hierarchical network of top-down and bottom-up connections. This theory is supported by prior work showing that PredNet, a deep learning network designed according to…
Srihita Rudraraju, Michael E. Turvey, Bradley H. Theilman, Timothy Q. Gentner
Predictive coding posits that sensory signals are compared to internal models, with resulting prediction-error carried in the spiking responses of single neurons. Despite its proposal as a general cortical mechanism, including for speech processing, whether or how predictive coding functions in single-neuron responses…
Jaime Gomez-Ramirez, Tommaso Costa
Here, we investigate whether systems that minimize prediction error e.g. predictive coding, can also show creativity, or on the contrary, prediction error minimization unqualifies for the design of systems that respond in creative ways to non recurrent problems. We argue that there is a key ingredient that has been…
Thomas Hueber, Eric Tatulli, Laurent Girin, Jean-luc Schwartz
Sensory processing is increasingly conceived in a predictive framework in which neurons would constantly process the error signal resulting from the comparison of expected and observed stimuli. Surprisingly, few data exist on the amount of predictions that can be computed in real sensory scenes. Here, we focus on the…
Antonino Greco, Clara Rastelli, Leonardo Bonetti, Christoph Braun + 1 more
A longstanding question in cognitive science is whether the human brain learns sensory regularities that are irrelevant to ongoing behavior, a phenomenon known as incidental associative learning. Here, we provide evidence at the single subject level that humans indeed acquired such incidental associations and reveal…
J. P. Fiorenza, L. Le Donne, C. Schmidt-Samoa, E.-C. Heide + 7 more
Predictive-coding like theories agree in describing top-down communication through the cortical hierarchy as a transmission of predictions generated by internal models of the inputs. With respect to the bottom-up connections, however, these theories differ in the neural processing strategies suggested for updating the…