This review paper on visual mismatch negativity (MMN), an event-related brain potential
component, provides arguments in favor of its theoretical importance in visual cognitive
sciences. We propose that (a) previous visual MMN findings can be regarded as ample
evidence for the existence of unintentional prediction about the next state of a visual object
in the immediate future on the basis of its temporal context ('unintentional temporal-context-
based prediction in vision');(b) such predictive processes may be qualitatively similar to …