BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T235102Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Gaza:20190630T050000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Gaza:20190701T130000 SUMMARY:Predictive Processing and its Role in Explaining Cognition UID:20240329T235102Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Asia/Gaza LOCATION:Ben-Gurion University and the Hebrew University\, Be'er Sheba and Jerusalem\, Israel DESCRIPTION:
Predictive processing has become one of the most influential explanatory frameworks in philosophy of mind\, neuroscience\, and the cognitive sciences. Following \;the tracks laid by \;the revisionist ideas \;of von Helmholtz (1821&ndash\;1894)\, the brain is \;taken \;as \;being \;a prediction machine \;first and foremost. \;The \;brain \;generates \;memory-based predictions that are adjusted \;on the fly. If the need arises\, according \;to concurrent \;sensory \;sampling\, the brain minimises \;a specific type of error\, \;resulting \;from a mismatch between \;the \;expected sensory input \;and \;actual information impinging on the senses. Under this perspective\, \;top-down predictions \;in fact establish \;perception\, action and learning\, whereas bottom-up \;sensory input assumes the \;secondary \;role of providing feedback \;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 \;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. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Nir Fresco;CN=Yakir Levin;CN=Itzhak Aharon;CN=Michael Gilead: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR