Autism spectrum disorder currently lacks an explanation that bridges cognitive,
computational, and neural domains. In the past 5 years, progress has been sought in this …

A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a
hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions …

An exciting theory in neuroscience is that the brain is an organ for prediction error
minimization (PEM). This theory is rapidly gaining influence and is set to dominate the …

The goal of this short chapter, aimed at philosophers, is to provide an overview and brief
explanation of some central concepts involved in predictive processing (PP). Even those …

We use the hierarchical nature of Bayesian perceptual inference to explain a fundamental
aspect of the temporality of experience, namely the phenomenology of temporal flow. The …

The free energy principle says that organisms act to maintain themselves in their expected
states and that they achieve this by minimizing their free energy. This corresponds to the …

The world of perception is multisensory. Even a simple task such as judging the position of a
light in a dark room depends not only on vision but also on sensory signals about the …

In Experienced Wholeness, Wanja Wiese tackles philosophical and empirical issues
surrounding the “unified” nature of consciousness. He first provides an exhaustive summary …

A tickle is a complex sensation: it occurs in response to touch but not unequivocally so, and
makes us laugh albeit not when we self-tickle. We quantified human ticklishness by means …

Major depression is a prevalent mental disorder that leads to persistent negative mood and
tremendous suffering in affected individuals. However, the biological realization of this …