Editorial: Self-medication: whatever next?

BBS Commentary on : Andy Clark , ‘ Whatever Next ?

Although predictive coding may offer a computational principle that unifies perception and action, states with different directions of fit are involved (with indicative and imperative contents, respectively). Predictive states are adjusted to fit the world in the course of perception, but in the case of action the corresponding states act as a fixed target towards which the agent adjusts the wo...

Whatever Next ? Predictive Brains , Situated Agents , and the Future of

Brains, according to an increasingly influential cluster of research programs in cognitive computational neuroscience, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells whose evolved role is to enable the right action to occur at the right time, and one key way this is achieved by using multi-layer generative models to minimize prediction errors within a hierarchy of cortical proce...

Editorial: What Next - The Cognition of Sequences

Whatever Next ? Predictive Brains , Situated Agents , and the Future of Cognitive

Brains, it has recently been argued, are essentially prediction machines. They are bundles of cells that support perception and action by constantly attempting to match incoming sensory inputs with top-down expectations or predictions. This is achieved using a hierarchical generative model that aims to minimize prediction error within a bidirectional cascade of cortical processing. Such account...

Whatever after Next? Adaptive Predictions Based on Short- and Long-Term Memory in Visual Search

next, with relatively transient switch costs after a change (Maljkovic and Nakayama, 1994; Found and Müller, 1996). Moreover, in some cases, two parallel and competing prediction models configure behavior, for example when perceiving ambiguous figures (e.g., a bistable duck-rabbit figure; see Brugger and Brugger, 1993) – leading to constant switches between equally likely perceptual interpretat...