title: Convergent evidence for top-down effects from the "predictive brain".
abstract: Modern conceptions of brain function consider the brain as a "predictive organ," where learned regularities about the world are utilised to facilitate perception of incoming sensory input. Critically, this process hinges on a role for cognitive penetrability. We review a mechanism to explain this process and expand our previous proposals of cognitive penetrability in visual recognition to social vision and visual hallucinations.
authors.affiliation: Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute,University of Cambridge,Cambridge CB2 3EB,United Kingdom.co365@cam.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Callaghan
authors.affiliation: Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging,Massachusetts General Hospital,Harvard Medical School,Boston,MA 02129.kestas@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Kestutis
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kveraga
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology,Stanford University,Stanford,CA 94305.macshine@stanford.edu.
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Shine
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology,The Pennsylvania State University,University Park,PA 16801.radams@psu.edu.
authors.forename: Reginald B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.affiliation: Gonda Center for Brain Research,Bar-Ilan University,Ramat Gan 5290002,Israel.moshe.bar@biu.ac.il.
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bar
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain; D006212:Hallucinations; D007858:Learning; D012919:Social Behavior; D014796:Visual Perception