We have come to recognize the brain as a predictive organ, anticipating attributes of the
incoming sensory stimulation to guide perception and action in the service of adaptive …

Predictive coding is possibly one of the most influential, comprehensive, and controversial
theories of neural function. While proponents praise its explanatory potential, critics object …

Perception can be described as a process of inference, integrating bottom-up sensory inputs
and top-down expectations. However, it is unclear how this process is neurally implemented …

Attention is a hypothetical mechanism in the service of perception that facilitates the
processing of relevant information and inhibits the processing of irrelevant information …

Sensory processing is strongly influenced by prior expectations. Valid expectations have
been shown to lead to improvements in perception as well as in the quality of sensory …

Prediction provides key advantages for survival, and cognitive studies have demonstrated
that the brain computes multilevel predictions. Evidence for predictions remains elusive at …

Successful perception depends on combining sensory input with prior knowledge. However,
the underlying mechanism by which these two sources of information are combined is …

A number studies have shown that the auditory N1 event-related potential (ERP) is
attenuated when elicited by self-induced or self-generated sounds. Because N1 is a …

When the brain is 'at rest', spatiotemporal activity patterns emerge spontaneously, that is, in
the absence of an overt task. However, what these patterns reveal about cortical function …

The mismatch negativity (MMN) is a pre-attentive auditory event-related potential (ERP)
component that is elicited by a change in a repetitive acoustic pattern. It is obtained by …