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SUMMARY:Predictive Processing and its Role in Explaining Cognition
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LOCATION:Ben-Gurion University and the Hebrew University\, Be'er Sheba and Jerusalem\, Israel
DESCRIPTION:<p>Predictive processing has become one of the most influential explanatory frameworks in philosophy of mind\, neuroscience\, and the cognitive sciences. Following&nbsp\;the tracks laid by&nbsp\;the revisionist ideas&nbsp\;of von Helmholtz (1821&ndash\;1894)\, the brain is&nbsp\;taken&nbsp\;as&nbsp\;being&nbsp\;a prediction machine&nbsp\;first and foremost.&nbsp\;The&nbsp\;brain&nbsp\;generates&nbsp\;memory-based predictions that are adjusted&nbsp\;on the fly. If the need arises\, according&nbsp\;to concurrent&nbsp\;sensory&nbsp\;sampling\, the brain minimises&nbsp\;a specific type of error\,&nbsp\;resulting&nbsp\;from a mismatch between&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;expected sensory input&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;actual information impinging on the senses. Under this perspective\,&nbsp\;top-down predictions&nbsp\;in fact establish&nbsp\;perception\, action and learning\, whereas bottom-up&nbsp\;sensory input assumes the&nbsp\;secondary&nbsp\;role of providing feedback&nbsp\;to correct and fine-tune predictions as needed. Theories of predictive processing offer a unifying framework for understanding the full range of behavioural and cognitive phenomena\, which are seen as falling under the umbrella&nbsp\;of minimising prediction error. As such\, the predictive processing framework has become central to psychological and neuroscientific investigations\, and has generated a vast amount of empirical research. The philosophical implications of this framework are currently being hotly debated\, including the idea of bottom-up formation of representation\, the free will problem and the enactive/extended/embedded/embodied approach to studying mind and cognition.&nbsp\;</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Nir Fresco;CN=Yakir Levin;CN=Itzhak Aharon;CN=Michael Gilead:
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