The proactive brain and the fate of dead hypotheses

A substantial portion of information flow in the brain is directed top-down, from high processing areas downwards. Signals of this sort are regarded as conveying prior expectations, biasing the processing and eventual perception of incoming stimuli. In this perspective we describe a framework of top...

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Main Authors: Amir eTal, Moshe eBar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00138/full