The neural bases of affective experience remain elusive. Early neuroscience models of
affect searched for specific brain regions that uniquely carried out the computations that …

Individuals are often confronted with events that violate their expectations, but disconfirming
evidence does not always lead to expectation change. We review seven theoretical models …

Due to their complexity and variability, placebo effects remain controversial. We suggest this
is also due to a set of problematic assumptions (dualism, reductionism, individualism …

The frame problem refers to the fact that organisms must be able to zero in on relevant
aspects of the world and intelligently ignore the vast majority of the world that is irrelevant to …

Emotional appraisal in humans is often considered a centrally mediated process by which
sensory signals, void of emotional meaning, are assessed by integrative brain structures …

The present review investigates factors that predict three processes that lead to persistence
versus change of expectations after confrontation with expectation violations, based on the …

Human body awareness is adaptive to context changes. The illusory sense of body
ownership has been studied since the publication of the rubber hand illusion, where …

Humans use socially relevant stimuli to guide perceptual processing of the surrounding
environment, with emotional stimuli receiving preferential attention due to their social …

According to the predictive processing framework, perception is geared to represent the
environment in terms of embodied action opportunities as opposed to objective truth. Here …

Predictive processing frameworks have demonstrated the central role that prediction plays in
a range of cognitive processes including bottom‐up and top‐down mechanisms of attention …