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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-11-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00138/full |