According to the predictive coding (PC) theory, the brain is constantly engaged in predicting
its upcoming states and refining these predictions through error signals. Despite extensive …

With a growing body of research devoted to uncovering regions of the brain implicated in
action observation following various action-related experiences, including sport, we ask …

Humans adaptively perform actions to achieve their goals. This flexible behaviour requires
two core abilities: the ability to anticipate the outcomes of candidate actions and the ability to …

Episodic memories can be modified, a process that is potentially driven by mnemonic
prediction errors. In the present study, we used modified cues to induce prediction errors of …

Intuitively, we assume that we remember episodes better when we actively participated in
them and were not mere observers. Independently of this, we can recall episodes from either …

Even though actions we observe in everyday life seem to unfold in a continuous manner,
they are automatically divided into meaningful chunks, that are single actions or segments …

When we observe an action, we recognize meaningful action steps that help us to predict
probable upcoming action steps. This segmentation of observed actions, or more generally …

How susceptible a memory is to later modification might depend on how stable the episode
has been encoded. This stability was proposed to increase when retrieving information more …

The perception of everyday events is thought to imply the segmentation into discrete sub-
events. Involvement of dopaminergic networks in this process could relate to particular …

The present fMRI study investigated whether human observers spontaneously exploit the
statistical structure underlying continuous action sequences. In particular, we tested whether …