Attention in the predictive mind |
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Institution: | 1. Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS; Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, UMR 8242), Paris, France;2. Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, National Taiwan Normal University, 10610 Taipei, Taiwan;1. Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Brain & Cognition, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;2. Leuven Autism Research (LAuRes), KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium;3. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UPC KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium |
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Abstract: | It has recently become popular to suggest that cognition can be explained as a process of Bayesian prediction error minimization. Some advocates of this view propose that attention should be understood as the optimization of expected precisions in the prediction-error signal (Clark, 2013, 2016; Feldman & Friston, 2010; Hohwy, 2012, 2013). This proposal successfully accounts for several attention-related phenomena. We claim that it cannot account for all of them, since there are certain forms of voluntary attention that it cannot accommodate. We therefore suggest that, although the theory of Bayesian prediction error minimization introduces some powerful tools for the explanation of mental phenomena, its advocates have been wrong to claim that Bayesian prediction error minimization is ‘all the brain ever does’. |
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Keywords: | Prediction-error coding Attention Voluntary attention Philosophy of perception Hohwy |
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