scholarly journals Predictive Processing and Some Disillusions about Illusions

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Gallagher ◽  
Daniel Hutto ◽  
Inês Hipólito
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive System ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Perceptual Illusions ◽  
Structural Resistance ◽  
Statistical Regularities ◽  
Alien Hand ◽  
General Statistical

AbstractA number of perceptual (exteroceptive and proprioceptive) illusions present problems for predictive processing accounts. In this chapter we’ll review explanations of the Müller-Lyer Illusion (MLI), the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) and the Alien Hand Illusion (AHI) based on the idea of Prediction Error Minimization (PEM), and show why they fail. In spite of the relatively open communicative processes which, on many accounts, are posited between hierarchical levels of the cognitive system in order to facilitate the minimization of prediction errors, perceptual illusions seemingly allow prediction errors to rule. Even if, at the top, we have reliable and secure knowledge that the lines in the MLI are equal, or that the rubber hand in the RHI is not our hand, the system seems unable to correct for sensory errors that form the illusion. We argue that the standard PEM explanation based on a short-circuiting principle doesn’t work. This is the idea that where there are general statistical regularities in the environment there is a kind of short circuiting such that relevant priors are relegated to lower-level processing so that information from higher levels is not exchanged (Ogilvie and Carruthers, Review of Philosophy and Psychology 7:721–742, 2016), or is not as precise as it should be (Hohwy, The Predictive Mind, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013). Such solutions (without convincing explanation) violate the idea of open communication and/or they over-discount the reliable and secure knowledge that is in the system. We propose an alternative, 4E (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) solution. We argue that PEM fails to take into account the ‘structural resistance’ introduced by material and cultural factors in the broader cognitive system.

scholarly journals Active strategies for multisensory conflict suppression in the virtual hand illusion

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Lanillos ◽  
Sae Franklin ◽  
Antonella Maselli ◽  
David W. Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Information ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Energy Principle ◽  
Free Energy Principle ◽  
Virtual Hand ◽  
Model Predictions ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Perception Action

AbstractThe perception of our body in space is flexible and manipulable. The predictive brain hypothesis explains this malleability as a consequence of the interplay between incoming sensory information and our body expectations. However, given the interaction between perception and action, we might also expect that actions would arise due to prediction errors, especially in conflicting situations. Here we describe a computational model, based on the free-energy principle, that forecasts involuntary movements in sensorimotor conflicts. We experimentally confirm those predictions in humans using a virtual reality rubber-hand illusion. Participants generated movements (forces) towards the virtual hand, regardless of its location with respect to the real arm, with little to no forces produced when the virtual hand overlaid their physical hand. The congruency of our model predictions and human observations indicates that the brain-body is generating actions to reduce the prediction error between the expected arm location and the new visual arm. This observed unconscious mechanism is an empirical validation of the perception–action duality in body adaptation to uncertain situations and evidence of the active component of predictive processing.

The Embodiment of Concepts

2018 ◽  
pp. 640-660
Author(s):  
Michiel Van Elk ◽  
Harold Bekkering
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Error ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Conceptual Representation ◽  
Recurrent Processing ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Prior Models ◽  
Processing Framework

We characterize theories of conceptual representation as embodied, disembodied, or hybrid according to their stance on a number of different dimensions: the nature of concepts, the relation between language and concepts, the function of concepts, the acquisition of concepts, the representation of concepts, and the role of context. We propose to extend an embodied view of concepts, by taking into account the importance of multimodal associations and predictive processing. We argue that concepts are dynamically acquired and updated, based on recurrent processing of prediction error signals in a hierarchically structured network. Concepts are thus used as prior models to generate multimodal expectations, thereby reducing surprise and enabling greater precision in the perception of exemplars. This view places embodied theories of concepts in a novel predictive processing framework, by highlighting the importance of concepts for prediction, learning and shaping categories on the basis of prediction errors.

scholarly journals Young Infants Process Prediction Errors at the Theta Rhythm

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Köster ◽  
Miriam Langeloh ◽  
Christine Michel ◽  
Stefanie Hoehl
Keyword(s):  
Theta Rhythm ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Unexpected Events ◽  
Young Infants ◽  
Human Brain Development ◽  
Social Events ◽  
Infant Brain ◽  
Process Prediction

AbstractExamining how young infants respond to unexpected events is key to our understanding of their emerging concepts about the world around them. From a predictive processing perspective, it is intriguing to investigate how the infant brain responds to unexpected events (i.e., prediction errors), because they require infants to refine their predictive models about the environment. Here, to better understand prediction error processes in the infant brain, we presented 9-month-olds (N = 36) a variety of physical and social events with unexpected versus expected outcomes, while recording their electroencephalogram. We found a pronounced response in the ongoing 4 – 5 Hz theta rhythm for the processing of unexpected (in contrast to expected) events, for a prolonged time window (2 s) and across all scalp-recorded electrodes. The condition difference in the theta rhythm was not related to the condition difference in infants’ event-related activity on the negative central (Nc) component (.4 – .6 s), which has been described in former studies. These findings constitute critical evidence that the theta rhythm is involved in the processing of prediction errors from very early in human brain development, which may support infants’ refinement of basic concepts about the physical and social environment.

scholarly journals Predictive neural processing in adult zebrafish depends on shank3b

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuo‐Hua Huang ◽  
Peter Rupprecht ◽  
Michael Schebesta ◽  
Fabrizio Serluca ◽  
Kyohei Kitamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neuronal Activity ◽  
Sensory Input ◽  
Motor Behavior ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Neuronal Responses ◽  
Adult Zebrafish ◽  
Disease Phenotypes ◽  
Intelligent Behavior ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon

SummaryIntelligent behavior requires a comparison between the predicted and the actual consequences of behavioral actions. According to the theory of predictive processing, this comparison relies on a neuronal error signal that reflects the mismatch between an internal prediction and sensory input. Inappropriate error signals may generate pathological experiences in neuropsychiatric conditions. To examine the processing of sensorimotor prediction errors across different telencephalic brain areas we optically measured neuronal activity in head-fixed, adult zebrafish in a virtual reality. Brief perturbations of visuomotor feedback triggered distinct changes in swimming behavior and different neuronal responses. Neuronal activity reflecting sensorimotor mismatch, rather than sensory input or motor output alone, was prominent throughout multiple forebrain areas. This activity preceded and predicted the transition in motor behavior. Error signals were altered in specific forebrain regions by a mutation in the autism-related gene shank3b. Predictive processing is therefore a widespread phenomenon that may contribute to disease phenotypes.

scholarly journals Constructing the hierarchy of predictive auditory sequences in the marmoset brain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuwei Jiang ◽  
Misako Komatsu ◽  
Yuyan Chen ◽  
Ruoying Xie ◽  
Kaiwei Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Processing ◽  
Time Scale ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Predictive Coding ◽  
Auditory Pathway ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Short Time Scale ◽  
Prediction Errors ◽  
Surface Areas

Our brains constantly generate predictions of sensory input that are compared with actual inputs, propagate the prediction-errors through a hierarchy of brain regions, and subsequently update the internal predictions of the world. However, the essential feature of predictive coding, the notion of hierarchical depth and its neural mechanisms, remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigated the hierarchical depth of predictive auditory processing by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and high-density whole-brain electrocorticography (ECoG) in marmoset monkeys during an auditory local-global paradigm in which the temporal regularities of the stimuli were designed at two hierarchical levels. The prediction-errors and prediction updates were examined as neural responses to auditory mismatches and omissions. Using fMRI, we identified a hierarchical gradient along the auditory pathway: midbrain and sensory regions represented local, short-time-scale predictive processing followed by associative auditory regions, whereas anterior temporal and prefrontal areas represented global, long-time-scale sequence processing. The complementary ECoG recordings confirmed the activations at cortical surface areas and further differentiated the signals of prediction-error and update, which were transmitted via putatively bottom-up γ and top-down β oscillations, respectively. Furthermore, omission responses caused by absence of input, reflecting solely the two levels of prediction signals that are unique to the hierarchical predictive coding framework, demonstrated the hierarchical predictions in the auditory, temporal, and prefrontal areas. Thus, our findings support the hierarchical predictive coding framework, and outline how neural circuits and spatiotemporal dynamics are used to represent and arrange a hierarchical structure of auditory sequences in the marmoset brain.

Processes

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-52
Author(s):  
Casey O'Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Stimulation ◽  
Mcgurk Effect ◽  
Perceptual Processing ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Empirical Psychology ◽  
Perceptual Illusions ◽  
Perceptual Functioning

Crossmodal perceptual illusions such as ventriloquism, the McGurk effect, the rubber hand, and the sound-induced flash demonstrate that one sense can causally impact perceptual processing and experience that is associated with another sense. This chapter argues that such causal interactions between senses are not merely accidental. Interactions between senses are part of typical perceptual functioning. Unlike synesthesia, they reveal principled perceptual strategies for dealing with noisy, fallible sensory stimulation from multiple sources. Recalibrations resolve conflicts between senses and weight in deference to the more reliable modality. Coordination between senses thus improves the coherence and the reliability of human perceptual capacities. Therefore, some perceptual processes of the sort relevant to empirical psychology are multisensory.

scholarly journals Multisensory Integration in the Virtual Hand Illusion with Active Movement

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woong Choi ◽  
Liang Li ◽  
Satoru Satoh ◽  
Kozaburo Hachimura
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Multisensory Integration ◽  
Tactile Stimulation ◽  
Active Movement ◽  
Body Ownership ◽  
Virtual Reality Environment ◽  
Rubber Hand ◽  
Virtual Hand ◽  
Perceptual Illusions ◽  
Core Issues

Improving the sense of immersion is one of the core issues in virtual reality. Perceptual illusions of ownership can be perceived over a virtual body in a multisensory virtual reality environment. Rubber Hand and Virtual Hand Illusions showed that body ownership can be manipulated by applying suitable visual and tactile stimulation. In this study, we investigate the effects of multisensory integration in the Virtual Hand Illusion with active movement. A virtual xylophone playing system which can interactively provide synchronous visual, tactile, and auditory stimulation was constructed. We conducted two experiments regarding different movement conditions and different sensory stimulations. Our results demonstrate that multisensory integration with free active movement can improve the sense of immersion in virtual reality.

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