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Ongoing Activity of the Brain: A Timing-Based Approach to Perception and Memory
No full textThe human mind is constantly engaged in predicting the future using
past experiences to anticipate what is likely to happen next. The predictive coding
approach focuses on this ongoing activity and proposes a unified mechanism that
underlies both perception and action. In this paper, we showthat some applications
of the predictive coding model to memory and perception processes often face the
ambiguity of two controversial aspects. (I) How can the brain apply similar mechanisms
to handle qualitatively different degrees of prediction (e.g. imaginative
and procedural predictions)? (II) How is it possible to reconcile the presence of
stable mental representations with the continuous dynamic change of perceptual
data? We suggest that the relation between different degrees of prediction can be
seen as analogous to the relation between a perception and its recollection, and we
argue that this relation can be better understood within a timing-based approach
that looks at the temporal architectures underlying these cognitive phenomena.
Therefore, based on the interpretation of some empirical data from the study of
auditory perception, we show how the timing-based approach we delineate can
help to clarify aspects (I) and (II)
Part “Abduction, Creative Cognition, and Discovery” of the Handbook of Abductive Cognition
No full textCome sviluppare buone collaborazioni interdisciplinari? La teoria della cognizione distribuita risponde!
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