An increasing number of studies investigate the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) or use
the vMMN as a tool to probe various aspects of human cognition. This paper reviews the …

The visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) response is an event-related potential (ERP)
component, which is automatically elicited by events that violate predictions based on prior …

Predictive coding (PC) posits that the brain uses a generative model to infer the
environmental causes of its sensory data and uses precision-weighted prediction errors …

Detecting brief changes of facial expression is vital for social communication. Yet, how
reliably, how fast these changes are detected and how long they are processed in the …

The present research explored the effect of social empathy on processing emotional facial
expressions. Previous evidence suggested a close relationship between emotional empathy …

Our visual field contains much more information at every moment than we can attend and
consciously process. How is the multitude of unattended events processed in the brain and …

Detection of changes in facial emotional expressions is crucial to communicate and to
rapidly and automatically process possible threats in the environment. Recent studies …

In the predictive coding framework, mismatch negativity (MMN) is regarded a correlate of the
prediction error that occurs when top–down predictions conflict with bottom–up sensory …

Negative bias in face processing has been demonstrated in depression, but there are no
longitudinal investigations of negative bias in symptom reduction. We recorded event …

Unusual behaviors and brain activity to socio-emotional stimuli have been reported in
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Atypical reactivity to change and intolerance of uncertainty …