I discuss top-down modulation of perception in terms of a variable Bayesian learning rate,
revealing a wide range of prior hierarchical expectations that can modulate perception. I …

Sharing numerous characteristics with suppression in the other senses, tactile suppression
is a reliable phenomenon that accompanies movement. By investigating the simplest of …

The goal of this short chapter, aimed at philosophers, is to provide an overview and brief
explanation of some central concepts involved in predictive processing (PP). Even those …

The search for the neural correlates of consciousness is in need of a systematic, principled
foundation that can endow putative neural correlates with greater predictive and explanatory …

Differentiation between self-produced tactile stimuli and touch by others is necessary for
social interactions and for a coherent concept of “self.” The mechanisms underlying this …

We use the hierarchical nature of Bayesian perceptual inference to explain a fundamental
aspect of the temporality of experience, namely the phenomenology of temporal flow. The …

According to active inference (which subsumes the framework of predictive processing),
action is enabled by a top-down modulation of sensory signals. Computational models of …

We predict how our actions will influence the world around us. Prevailing models in the
action control literature propose that we use these predictions to suppress or “cancel” …

A tickle is a complex sensation: it occurs in response to touch but not unequivocally so, and
makes us laugh albeit not when we self-tickle. We quantified human ticklishness by means …

Major depression is a prevalent mental disorder that leads to persistent negative mood and
tremendous suffering in affected individuals. However, the biological realization of this …