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Investigating predictive coding as a principle of function in sensory systems

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According to the theory of predictive coding, the brain does not generate sensations simply by ’sponging up’ bottom-up information arriving from the senses. Instead, cortical circuits are fundamentally wired to actively make predictions on the basis of experience, communicate these in a top-down fashion to areas with access to less global information, and prop- agate the residual errors that ensue when predictions are compared with reality (Friston, 2005). As these error signals feed forwa...

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MSD
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Clinical Neurosciences
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0000-0001-9787-3307
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http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269
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Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Programme in Neuroscience


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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford

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