Now available in Trends Open:
How do expectations shape actions?
I introduce the ExSA framework, integrating perspectives from motor control, decision-making, predictive processing, and clinical neuroscience
Read here: www.cell.com/trends-open/...
#Psychology #MotorControl #PredictiveProcessing
How do expectations shape actions?
I introduce the ExSA framework, integrating perspectives from motor control, decision-making, predictive processing, and clinical neuroscience
Read here: www.cell.com/trends-open/...
#Psychology #MotorControl #PredictiveProcessing
July 26, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Now available in Trends Open:
How do expectations shape actions?
I introduce the ExSA framework, integrating perspectives from motor control, decision-making, predictive processing, and clinical neuroscience
Read here: www.cell.com/trends-open/...
#Psychology #MotorControl #PredictiveProcessing
How do expectations shape actions?
I introduce the ExSA framework, integrating perspectives from motor control, decision-making, predictive processing, and clinical neuroscience
Read here: www.cell.com/trends-open/...
#Psychology #MotorControl #PredictiveProcessing
What do individual human neurons do when a sound violates expectations?
In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients.
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#MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing
In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
#MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing
July 1, 2026 at 12:14 PM
What do individual human neurons do when a sound violates expectations?
In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
#MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing
In our new EJN paper, we characterize single- and multi-unit responses to several auditory deviants using microwire recordings from 13 patients.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
#MMN #iEEG #PredictiveProcessing
Have a look: bit.ly/4ekg4Jd #contemplativescience #meditation #activeinference #predictiveprocessing #cogsci #philosophy #neuroskyence #academicsky #psychscisky #affectivescience
OSF
bit.ly
June 3, 2026 at 9:31 AM
🎉New paper!
Expectations bias conscious visual experience more at the fovea than in the periphery. (Who knew vision could teach us a little Zen?)
👉https://tinyurl.com/yfw93tsw
With Tim Gastrell, Matt Oxner and David Carmel
@lsp-ens.bsky.social
#Consciousness #VisionScience #PredictiveProcessing
Expectations bias conscious visual experience more at the fovea than in the periphery. (Who knew vision could teach us a little Zen?)
👉https://tinyurl.com/yfw93tsw
With Tim Gastrell, Matt Oxner and David Carmel
@lsp-ens.bsky.social
#Consciousness #VisionScience #PredictiveProcessing
June 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
🎉New paper!
Expectations bias conscious visual experience more at the fovea than in the periphery. (Who knew vision could teach us a little Zen?)
👉https://tinyurl.com/yfw93tsw
With Tim Gastrell, Matt Oxner and David Carmel
@lsp-ens.bsky.social
#Consciousness #VisionScience #PredictiveProcessing
Expectations bias conscious visual experience more at the fovea than in the periphery. (Who knew vision could teach us a little Zen?)
👉https://tinyurl.com/yfw93tsw
With Tim Gastrell, Matt Oxner and David Carmel
@lsp-ens.bsky.social
#Consciousness #VisionScience #PredictiveProcessing
Did you ever wonder how your brain 🧠 predicts the future ✨? 🤔
Catch the recording of @sweetneuron.bsky.social's brilliant (and gentle!) intro to Predictive Processing & Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle. 🎥 cogsci.univie.ac.at/futurethinki...
#CognitiveScience #PredictiveProcessing #Neuroscience
Catch the recording of @sweetneuron.bsky.social's brilliant (and gentle!) intro to Predictive Processing & Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle. 🎥 cogsci.univie.ac.at/futurethinki...
#CognitiveScience #PredictiveProcessing #Neuroscience
October 30, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Did you ever wonder how your brain 🧠 predicts the future ✨? 🤔
Catch the recording of @sweetneuron.bsky.social's brilliant (and gentle!) intro to Predictive Processing & Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle. 🎥 cogsci.univie.ac.at/futurethinki...
#CognitiveScience #PredictiveProcessing #Neuroscience
Catch the recording of @sweetneuron.bsky.social's brilliant (and gentle!) intro to Predictive Processing & Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle. 🎥 cogsci.univie.ac.at/futurethinki...
#CognitiveScience #PredictiveProcessing #Neuroscience
Interesting piece on the #PredictiveProcessing
commonalities between delusions and #beliefs, involving cues and pattern matching with #priors
Also different delusions may have different threshold points for belief evaluation
#PsychSciSky #CogPsych
commonalities between delusions and #beliefs, involving cues and pattern matching with #priors
Also different delusions may have different threshold points for belief evaluation
#PsychSciSky #CogPsych
What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief arstechnica.com/science/2024...
What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief
Delusions can sometimes turn into strongly held beliefs.
arstechnica.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Interesting piece on the #PredictiveProcessing
commonalities between delusions and #beliefs, involving cues and pattern matching with #priors
Also different delusions may have different threshold points for belief evaluation
#PsychSciSky #CogPsych
commonalities between delusions and #beliefs, involving cues and pattern matching with #priors
Also different delusions may have different threshold points for belief evaluation
#PsychSciSky #CogPsych
Our recent study on mind wandering and local sleep has received additional media coverage.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
#predictiveprocessing #Neuroscience #statisticallearning #cognition
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
#predictiveprocessing #Neuroscience #statisticallearning #cognition
A Wandering Mind Improves Inferential Learning
Leverage the power of the spontaneously wandering mind to enhance learning, problem-solving, and creativity.
www.psychologytoday.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our recent study on mind wandering and local sleep has received additional media coverage.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
#predictiveprocessing #Neuroscience #statisticallearning #cognition
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/expe...
#predictiveprocessing #Neuroscience #statisticallearning #cognition
What a phenomenal panel! It was a who’s who in Philosophy, Buddhism, and Cognitive Science! More of these types of interdisciplinary collaborations are dearly needed. Kudos to Princeton CCSR @PrincetonCCSR @annaciaunica.bsky.social #agency #predictiveprocessing #senseofself #phenomenology
January 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What a phenomenal panel! It was a who’s who in Philosophy, Buddhism, and Cognitive Science! More of these types of interdisciplinary collaborations are dearly needed. Kudos to Princeton CCSR @PrincetonCCSR @annaciaunica.bsky.social #agency #predictiveprocessing #senseofself #phenomenology
New preprint!
Inhibiting the right or both dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with rTMS boosts unsupervised statistical learning.
Likely by shifting toward a more exploratory processing style.
#PsychSciSky
#StatsSky
#neuroskyence
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroscience #predictiveprocessing
Inhibiting the right or both dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with rTMS boosts unsupervised statistical learning.
Likely by shifting toward a more exploratory processing style.
#PsychSciSky
#StatsSky
#neuroskyence
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroscience #predictiveprocessing
Inhibiting the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex selectively enhances unsupervised statistical learning
The brain must balance the automatic extraction of environmental regularities with top-down cognitive control, yet the causal neural mechanisms governing this interplay are debated. In particular, the...
biorxiv.org
August 9, 2025 at 10:37 AM
New preprint!
Inhibiting the right or both dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with rTMS boosts unsupervised statistical learning.
Likely by shifting toward a more exploratory processing style.
#PsychSciSky
#StatsSky
#neuroskyence
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroscience #predictiveprocessing
Inhibiting the right or both dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with rTMS boosts unsupervised statistical learning.
Likely by shifting toward a more exploratory processing style.
#PsychSciSky
#StatsSky
#neuroskyence
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroscience #predictiveprocessing
Toward a Unified Language of Experience, Prediction, and Reality Rendering
#Chronoaesthesis #PredictiveProcessing #ConsciousnessStudies #Neuroscience #Perception #Reality #CognitiveScience #Metaphysics #SystemsThinking #ObserverEffect #Interdisciplinary #EmergentThought
#Chronoaesthesis #PredictiveProcessing #ConsciousnessStudies #Neuroscience #Perception #Reality #CognitiveScience #Metaphysics #SystemsThinking #ObserverEffect #Interdisciplinary #EmergentThought
Chronoaesthesis and the Latency of Perception
Toward a Unified Language of Experience, Prediction, and Reality Rendering
open.substack.com
March 24, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Toward a Unified Language of Experience, Prediction, and Reality Rendering
#Chronoaesthesis #PredictiveProcessing #ConsciousnessStudies #Neuroscience #Perception #Reality #CognitiveScience #Metaphysics #SystemsThinking #ObserverEffect #Interdisciplinary #EmergentThought
#Chronoaesthesis #PredictiveProcessing #ConsciousnessStudies #Neuroscience #Perception #Reality #CognitiveScience #Metaphysics #SystemsThinking #ObserverEffect #Interdisciplinary #EmergentThought
Great points! Good to see an exteroceptive 5 Senses #mindfulness practice in the article. I'll add that creating a personal space boundary (not a wall or avoidance) can help ground us in the present, bringing clarity so it’s easier to determine next steps
#PredictiveProcessing #Anxiety #Grounding
#PredictiveProcessing #Anxiety #Grounding
Timely piece on how to cope with anticipatory anxiety:
✔️ Limit news consumption
✔️ Sit with anxiety until it subsides (don’t suppress)
✔️ Exercise
✔️ Make an action plan for frightening scenarios
✔️ A good cry
(I added the last one 😰) www.apa.org/monitor/2025...
✔️ Limit news consumption
✔️ Sit with anxiety until it subsides (don’t suppress)
✔️ Exercise
✔️ Make an action plan for frightening scenarios
✔️ A good cry
(I added the last one 😰) www.apa.org/monitor/2025...
Are you suffering from anticipatory anxiety? Here's how to cope
Anticipatory anxiety can trigger stomach distress, hyperventilation, and other unsettling symptoms.
www.apa.org
January 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Great points! Good to see an exteroceptive 5 Senses #mindfulness practice in the article. I'll add that creating a personal space boundary (not a wall or avoidance) can help ground us in the present, bringing clarity so it’s easier to determine next steps
#PredictiveProcessing #Anxiety #Grounding
#PredictiveProcessing #Anxiety #Grounding
The goal was never certainty. Spinoza knew that.
Consciousness continually revises its models to become more adequate to the world.
Wisdom is simply what that process feels like from the inside.
#Spinoza
#PhilosophyOfMind
#Consciousness
#PredictiveProcessing
#Phenomenology
#KarlFriston
Consciousness continually revises its models to become more adequate to the world.
Wisdom is simply what that process feels like from the inside.
#Spinoza
#PhilosophyOfMind
#Consciousness
#PredictiveProcessing
#Phenomenology
#KarlFriston
July 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The goal was never certainty. Spinoza knew that.
Consciousness continually revises its models to become more adequate to the world.
Wisdom is simply what that process feels like from the inside.
#Spinoza
#PhilosophyOfMind
#Consciousness
#PredictiveProcessing
#Phenomenology
#KarlFriston
Consciousness continually revises its models to become more adequate to the world.
Wisdom is simply what that process feels like from the inside.
#Spinoza
#PhilosophyOfMind
#Consciousness
#PredictiveProcessing
#Phenomenology
#KarlFriston
Philosophy and #PredictiveProcessing: #openaccess collection of publications on the mind, brain, and consciousness http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/701_ENG_HTML.php
December 12, 2024 at 7:09 PM
Philosophy and #PredictiveProcessing: #openaccess collection of publications on the mind, brain, and consciousness http://www.uni-mainz.de/presse/aktuell/701_ENG_HTML.php
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #templates #imagery #predictivecoding #predictiveprocessing
@hugospiers.bsky.social
@uclbrainscience.bsky.social
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
@hugospiers.bsky.social
@uclbrainscience.bsky.social
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Two Cognitive Representations of Templates Arise within “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” - The Complete Clarification of Mental Imagery, Predictive Coding, Predictive Processing and Motor Seque...
PDF | Motor sequence learning is a core cognitive process essential for skill acquisition, long studied within the cognitive and neurosciences. However,... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Every worldview eventually mistakes its own success for ultimate truth. Then reality surprises it.
Every god is an overfit model awaiting the next prediction error.
#PhilosophyOfReligion
#PredictiveProcessing
#Epistemology
Every god is an overfit model awaiting the next prediction error.
#PhilosophyOfReligion
#PredictiveProcessing
#Epistemology
July 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Every worldview eventually mistakes its own success for ultimate truth. Then reality surprises it.
Every god is an overfit model awaiting the next prediction error.
#PhilosophyOfReligion
#PredictiveProcessing
#Epistemology
Every god is an overfit model awaiting the next prediction error.
#PhilosophyOfReligion
#PredictiveProcessing
#Epistemology
Our new MEG preprint on Building&Updating Predictive Models in auditory sequences 🧠🔊
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
Discovery, Interruption, and Updating of Auditory Regularities in Memory: Evidence from Low-Frequency Brain Dynamics in Human MEG https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645906v1
March 31, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Our new MEG preprint on Building&Updating Predictive Models in auditory sequences 🧠🔊
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
✅ auditory-frontal areas & #hippocampus drive adaptive perception
with Maria Chait, M Pearce, K Magami @UCL
#Neuroscience #PredictiveProcessing #StatisticalLearning #BrainResearch #AuditoryPerception #musicscience
In an auditory local–global deviance detection task, we found that the brain tracks sound regularities to anticipate when a rare deviant sequence will occur.
⚡ Participants detected deviants faster when they were expected.
#PredictiveProcessing
⚡ Participants detected deviants faster when they were expected.
#PredictiveProcessing
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
In an auditory local–global deviance detection task, we found that the brain tracks sound regularities to anticipate when a rare deviant sequence will occur.
⚡ Participants detected deviants faster when they were expected.
#PredictiveProcessing
⚡ Participants detected deviants faster when they were expected.
#PredictiveProcessing
“The planet does not negotiate with our saved storage. It only continues or ceases to support the conditions under which prediction organisms of our complexity can persist.”🌱
#humanity #climatechange #evolution #abstraction #predictiveprocessing
#humanity #climatechange #evolution #abstraction #predictiveprocessing
July 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
“The planet does not negotiate with our saved storage. It only continues or ceases to support the conditions under which prediction organisms of our complexity can persist.”🌱
#humanity #climatechange #evolution #abstraction #predictiveprocessing
#humanity #climatechange #evolution #abstraction #predictiveprocessing
Intracranial EEG shows expectancy modulations in the prefrontal cortex:
🧠 OFC earlier
🧠 LPFC later
(This was measured via high-frequency activity, a marker of local brain activity)
Connectivity analyses reveal bidirectional exchange, with the first lead by OFC.
#iEEG #PredictiveProcessing #HFA
🧠 OFC earlier
🧠 LPFC later
(This was measured via high-frequency activity, a marker of local brain activity)
Connectivity analyses reveal bidirectional exchange, with the first lead by OFC.
#iEEG #PredictiveProcessing #HFA
August 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Intracranial EEG shows expectancy modulations in the prefrontal cortex:
🧠 OFC earlier
🧠 LPFC later
(This was measured via high-frequency activity, a marker of local brain activity)
Connectivity analyses reveal bidirectional exchange, with the first lead by OFC.
#iEEG #PredictiveProcessing #HFA
🧠 OFC earlier
🧠 LPFC later
(This was measured via high-frequency activity, a marker of local brain activity)
Connectivity analyses reveal bidirectional exchange, with the first lead by OFC.
#iEEG #PredictiveProcessing #HFA
Tobias Schlicht and Krzysztof Dolega argue that #PredictiveProcessing might not be a suitable candidate as a theory of #consciousness or as a framework for the #neuroscience of consciousness. Read their contribution to the #NCC special issue: doi.org/10.33735/phi...
You can't always get what you want: Predictive processing and consciousness
| Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...
doi.org
December 19, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Tobias Schlicht and Krzysztof Dolega argue that #PredictiveProcessing might not be a suitable candidate as a theory of #consciousness or as a framework for the #neuroscience of consciousness. Read their contribution to the #NCC special issue: doi.org/10.33735/phi...
This is where our identity crystallizes and constrains us more and more the older we get if there is no curiosity and introspection.🌱
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/the-levels...
#abstraction #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing #cognition #evolution #humanity #mentalhealth #addiction
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/the-levels...
#abstraction #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing #cognition #evolution #humanity #mentalhealth #addiction
The Levels of Abstraction (A0-A5)
Nothing constrains perception or limits development more than what your system has already classified as settled.
athinkerinnature.substack.com
June 28, 2026 at 3:24 AM
This is where our identity crystallizes and constrains us more and more the older we get if there is no curiosity and introspection.🌱
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/the-levels...
#abstraction #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing #cognition #evolution #humanity #mentalhealth #addiction
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/the-levels...
#abstraction #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing #cognition #evolution #humanity #mentalhealth #addiction
That is one of the more subtle and ubiquitous situations in which the effects of fear on our thinking can be observed. 🌱
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/i-know-thi...
#fear #social #identity #model #self #memory #predictiveprocessing #thinking
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/i-know-thi...
#fear #social #identity #model #self #memory #predictiveprocessing #thinking
I Know This! ...I Think.
Why the harder we search for a memory, the further it slips away.
athinkerinnature.substack.com
July 18, 2026 at 1:08 AM
That is one of the more subtle and ubiquitous situations in which the effects of fear on our thinking can be observed. 🌱
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/i-know-thi...
#fear #social #identity #model #self #memory #predictiveprocessing #thinking
athinkerinnature.substack.com/p/i-know-thi...
#fear #social #identity #model #self #memory #predictiveprocessing #thinking
Co-authored with Merle Schuckart, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social, and @jonasobleser.bsky.social. Find the preprint with all the really cool methods (n = 175 + replication!) and insights here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PredictiveProcessing #Aging #LanguagePredictions
Executive Resources Shape the Effects of Language Predictability Across the Adult Lifespan
Humans predict upcoming language effortlessly, but the cognitive costs of these predictions remain debated. In this study, we demonstrate that limiting executive resources through a concurrent task re...
www.biorxiv.org
February 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Co-authored with Merle Schuckart, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social, and @jonasobleser.bsky.social. Find the preprint with all the really cool methods (n = 175 + replication!) and insights here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #PredictiveProcessing #Aging #LanguagePredictions