Pavlovian reward learning is driven by prediction errors (PE), but it remains unclear whether this is also the case for aversive learning, and to what extent PE are expressed in physiological indices...

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Our sensory inputs are never identical across time and contain temporal structure. Cognitive scientists have recently been fascinated by how these sensory rhythms interact with neural oscillatory rhyt...

Abstract. Despite numerous studies reporting sensory prediction errors—a key component of predictive processing theories—the nature of the surprise represented in these errors remains largely unknown....

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Abstract. The idea that the brain is a probabilistic (Bayesian) inference machine, continuously trying to figure out the hidden causes of its inputs, has become very influential in cognitive (neuro)sc...

Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...

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Predictive processing theories propose that the brain continuously generates expectations about incoming sensory information. Discrepancies between these predictions and actual inputs, sensory predict...