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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Psychiatry

Background:

  • Predictive processing (PP) theory posits that the brain minimizes prediction errors to understand the world.
  • Affect-biased attention describes how emotionally salient stimuli gain prioritized attention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate whether predictive processing (PP) theory can adequately explain affect-biased attention.
  • To assess recent PP-internal attempts to integrate affective influences.

Main Methods:

  • Critical review of PP theory's capacity to account for affect-biased attention.
  • Analysis of three specific PP extensions: embodied inference, interoceptive inference, and rate of change of free energy.

Main Results:

  • PP theory, focused on precision expectations, fails to explain why affectively salient stimuli capture attention even with low precision.
  • Reviewed PP extensions (embodied inference, interoceptive inference, rate of change of free energy) do not resolve the challenge posed by affect-biased attention.

Conclusions:

  • Prediction error minimization is insufficient as a sole explanation for all mental phenomena, challenging the claim of PP as a unified theory.
  • Further empirical research on the interplay between affective salience and precision expectations is recommended to delineate PP theory's limits and guide Bayesian perception applications.