The neural bases of affective experience remain elusive. Early neuroscience models of
affect searched for specific brain regions that uniquely carried out the computations that …

The frame problem refers to the fact that organisms must be able to zero in on relevant
aspects of the world and intelligently ignore the vast majority of the world that is irrelevant to …

Due to their complexity and variability, placebo effects remain controversial. We suggest this
is also due to a set of problematic assumptions (dualism, reductionism, individualism …

Individuals are often confronted with events that violate their expectations, but disconfirming
evidence does not always lead to expectation change. We review seven theoretical models …

Emotional appraisal in humans is often considered a centrally mediated process by which
sensory signals, void of emotional meaning, are assessed by integrative brain structures …

Hierarchical predictive processing provides a framework outlining how prior expectations
shape perception and cognition. Here, we highlight hierarchical predictive processing as a …

The present review investigates factors that predict three processes that lead to persistence
versus change of expectations after confrontation with expectation violations, based on the …

What is it about our current digital technologies that seemingly makes it difficult for users to
attend to what matters to them? According to the dominant narrative in the literature on the …

According to the predictive processing framework, perception is geared to represent the
environment in terms of embodied action opportunities as opposed to objective truth. Here …

Human body awareness is adaptive to context changes. The illusory sense of body
ownership has been studied since the publication of the rubber hand illusion, where …