Predictive Processing

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Paper2013

Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science

Andy Clark

Argues perception, action and cognition are all instances of one predictive-processing mechanism minimising prediction error, and surveys the objections raised against that unification by peer commentators.

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Neuroscience · Cognitive Neuroscience

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Paper1999

Predictive Coding in the Visual Cortex: A Functional Interpretation of Some Extra-Classical Receptive-Field Effects

Rajesh Rao & Dana Ballard

Models the visual cortex as predicting its own input and forwarding only the error, showing this single principle reproduces extra-classical receptive-field effects that had no other explanation.

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Reading on Predictive Processing

Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science

Predictive Coding in the Visual Cortex: A Functional Interpretation of Some Extra-Classical Receptive-Field Effects

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