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Graphic describing predictive processing.
Neuroscientists often think of the brain as organized into hierarchical levels. The concept of predictive processing holds that each level makes predictions about the activity of the level below. These predictions flow down the hierarchy, and lower levels generate an error signal that indicates the difference between the predicted and actual sensory inputs. These error signals flow upward, and higher levels use them to refine their predictions. Predictions at the highest level help to create perceptions.
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Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception
Some neuroscientists think psychedelic drugs and the hallucinations they induce could help reveal how the brain generates our perceptions of the world around us — and of ourselves
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Predictive Processing, Source Monitoring, and Psychosis, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Predictive processing — the idea that perceptions are the brain’s best hypotheses for the causes of sensory inputs — provides a framework to explain hallucinations and bizarre beliefs that are the hallmark of psychosis in conditions such as schizophrenia.
www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032816-...
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The brain as a prediction machine | Free educational graphic
Graphic describing predictive processing.
Neuroscientists often think of the brain as organized into hierarchical levels. The concept of predictive processing holds that each level makes predictions about the activity of the level below. These predictions flow down the hierarchy, and lower levels generate an error signal that indicates the difference between the predicted and actual sensory inputs. These error signals flow upward, and higher levels use them to refine their predictions. Predictions at the highest level help to create perceptions.
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This graphic is available for free for in-classroom use. You must contact us to request permission for any other uses.
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Read more in Knowable Magazine
Psychedelics open a new window on the mechanisms of perception
Some neuroscientists think psychedelic drugs and the hallucinations they induce could help reveal how the brain generates our perceptions of the world around us — and of ourselves
knowablemagazine.org/article/mind/2021/psychedelics-open-...
Take a deeper dive: Selected scholarly reviews
Predictive Processing, Source Monitoring, and Psychosis, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Predictive processing — the idea that perceptions are the brain’s best hypotheses for the causes of sensory inputs — provides a framework to explain hallucinations and bizarre beliefs that are the hallmark of psychosis in conditions such as schizophrenia.
www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032816-...
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Knowable Magazine from Annual Reviews is a digital publication that seeks to make scientific knowledge accessible to all. Through compelling articles, beautiful graphics, engaging videos and more, Knowable Magazine explores the real-world impact of research through a journalistic lens. All content is rooted in deep reporting and undergoes a thorough fact-checking before publication.
The Knowable Magazine Science Graphics Library is an initiative to create freely available, accurate and engaging graphics for teachers and students. All graphics are curated from Knowable Magazine articles and are free for classroom use.
Knowable Magazine is an editorially independent initiative produced by Annual Reviews, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society.
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