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Convergent evidence for top-down effects from the “predictive brain”1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Claire O'Callaghan ,
Kestutis Kveraga ,
James M. Shine ,
Reginald B. Adams Jr.  and
Moshe Bar
Claire O'Callaghan
Affiliation:
Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdom. co365@cam.ac.uk
Kestutis Kveraga
Affiliation:
Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129. kestas@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
James M. Shine
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. macshine@stanford.edu
Reginald B. Adams Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16801. radams@psu.edu
Moshe Bar
Affiliation:
Gonda Center for Brain Research, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel. moshe.bar@biu.ac.il
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Abstract

Modern conceptions of brain function consider the brain as a “predictive organ,” where learned regularities about the world are utilised to facilitate perception of incoming sensory input. Critically, this process hinges on a role for cognitive penetrability. We review a mechanism to explain this process and expand our previous proposals of cognitive penetrability in visual recognition to social vision and visual hallucinations.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e254
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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Footnotes

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Claire O'Callaghan and Kestutis Kveraga are co-first authors of this commentary.

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