According to the predictive processing framework, perception is geared to represent the environment in terms of embodied action opportunities as opposed to objective truth. Here …
L Möhring, J Gläscher - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Learning describes the process by which our internal expectation models of the world are updated by surprising outcomes (prediction errors [PEs]) to improve predictions of future …
Monetary value enhances visual perception and attention and boosts activity in the primary visual cortex, however, it is still unclear whether monetary value can modulate the conscious …
Auditory signals arrive at the ear as a mixture that the brain must decompose into distinct sources based to a large extent on acoustic properties of the sounds. An important question …
The phenomenon of bistable perception, in which perception alternates spontaneously despite constant sensory stimulation, has been particularly useful in probing the neural …
J Haas - Philosophical Psychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Explanation of binocular rivalry is taken as a classic illustration of hierarchical predictive coding's explanatory power. I revisit the account and show that it cannot explain the role of …
The contents of awareness can substantially change without any modification to the external world. Such effects are exemplified in binocular rivalry, where a different stimulus is …
G Wilbertz, P Sterzer - Consciousness and Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Alternating conscious visual perception of bistable stimuli is influenced by several factors. In order to understand the effect of negative valence, we tested the effect of two types of …