Three Problems for the Predictive Coding Theory of Attention

Madeleine Ransom (University of British Columbia)

Sina Fazelpour (University of British Columbia)

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Abstract

While philosophers of science and epistemologists are well acquainted with Bayesian methods of belief updating, there is a new Bayesian revolution sweeping neuroscience and perceptual psychology. First proposed by Helmholtz, predictive coding is the view that the human brain is fundamentally a hypothesis generator. Though predictive coding has most prominently offered Continue reading Three Problems for the Predictive Coding Theory of Attention