There is increasing evidence that imagination relies on similar neural mechanisms as
externally triggered perception. This overlap presents a challenge for perceptual reality …

Reports of expectation suppression have shaped the development of influential predictive
coding-based theories of visual perception. However recent work has highlighted …

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The ability to sample sensory information with our hands is crucial for smooth and efficient
interactions with the world. Despite this important role of touch, tactile sensations on a …

Background Sequential effects of environmental stimuli are ubiquitous in most behavioral
tasks involving magnitude estimation, memory, decision making, and emotion. The human …

Humans and other animals can learn and exploit repeating patterns that occur within their
environments. These learned patterns can be used to form expectations about future …

The ability to represent and respond to uncertainty is fundamental to human cognition and
decision-making. Noradrenaline (NA) is hypothesized to play a key role in coordinating the …

For decades, classic theories of action control and action awareness have been built around
the idea that the brain predictively 'cancels' expected action outcomes from perception …

Prior knowledge changes how the brain processes sensory input. Whether knowledge
influences initial sensory processing upstream of the brain, in the spinal cord, is unknown …

The characterization of the relationship between predictions and one-shot episodic
encoding poses an important challenge for memory research. On the one hand, events that …