Re-entrant/recurrent processing occurs in sensory systems that are highly interconnected, with feed-forward and feedback connections. ... Predictive Processing (Predictive Coding) Theories.

We’ve known for some time that our expectations can profoundly influence the experience of our world, even our physiology. 1 This, after all, is what the placebo effect is all about. But we hadn ...

Pierzchajlo et al.'s study exposes how weak human olfaction is by elucidating how our sense of smell relies on predictive cues and cross-sensory processing. Moving forward, these findings pave the way ...

This is a valuable study on how past sensory experiences shape perception across multiple time scales. Using a behavioural task and reanalysed EEG data, the authors identify two unifying mechanisms ...

Thus, rather than being explained away prediction errors remain in fact accessible at final processing stages forming perception. Previous theories of predictive coding need therefore to be ...

The study provides compelling insights into the predictive nature of the sense of smell and its interaction with other sensory modalities. The intricate interplay between our senses shapes our ...

Predictive processing may seem at first like a counterintuitively complex mechanism for perception, but there is a long history of scientists turning to it because other explanations seemed wanting.