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Convergent evidence for top-down effects from the "predictive brain"
Claire O'Callaghan1, Kestutis Kveraga2, James M Shine3
1Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute,University of Cambridge,Cambridge CB2 3EB,United Kingdom.co365@cam.ac.uk.
The Behavioral and Brain Sciences
|March 31, 2017
Abstract:
Modern conceptions of brain function consider the brain as a "predictive organ," where learned regularities about the world are utilised to facilitate perception of incoming sensory input. Critically, this process hinges on a role for cognitive penetrability. We review a mechanism to explain this process and expand our previous proposals of cognitive penetrability in visual recognition to social vision and visual hallucinations.