We distinguish between three philosophical views on the neuroscience of predictive models: predictive coding (associated with internal Bayesian models and prediction error minimization), predictive processing (associated with radical connectionism and ‘simple’ embodiment) and predictive engagement (associated with enactivist approaches to cognition). We examine the concept of active inference u...

The role that consciousness plays in cognition is one of the most central and long-standing issues in experimental psychology. Differences between conscious and unconscious processing have indeed been explored in many different fields, such as memory (e.g., Jacoby, 1991; see also Kinoshita, 2001), perception (Reingold & Merikle, 1988), conditioning (Clark & Squire, 1998; Lieberman, Sunnucks, & ...

En el presente artículo se tratarán aspectos relevantes relacionados con la lectoescritura como capacidad cognitiva. La competencia lectora es de las personas poner en práctica su comprensión una manera eficaz. habilidad poder entender lo que nos dice un texto escrito objetiva. Para esto deben desarrollar distintas habilidades necesarias reconocimiento palabras escritas y lectora, tener cuenta ...

Cultural workers are affected more than many other working populations by the pandemic COVID-19. Especially, live music as an antidote to crisis highlights benefits of performing art in times isolation; a practice that risks normalizing idea musicians for free. This article discusses intersection with social and cultural issues, focusing on Vienna’s popular scene. I begin my inquiry insight int...

neuroimaging. I laid out the critical prediction derived from load theory, namely that visual cortex responses to distractor stimuli should depend on the level of load in the attended task, in the same manner as I had shown in my behavioural studies. About a year later, following a departmental seminar, Chris introduced me to his PhD student saying: “Geraint, this is Nilli: we will be testing t...

It is now 27 years since the publication of the first article testing whether children with autism have a theory of mind (in 1985). The original study by my colleagues Alan Leslie and Uta Frith and I found that some 80% of children with autism failed this test that most typical children of 4 years old could pass. It concluded that this could not be attributed to general developmental delay or l...

Autism is diagnosed when a child or adult has abnormalities in a triad of behavioral domains: social development, communication, and repetitive behavior/obsessive interests (American Psychological Association [APA], 1994; World Health Organization [WHO], 1994). In the 1960s and 1970s, many of the children with autism who were studied by cognitive developmentalists also had comorbid learning dif...

Substantial evidence in social psychology documents that traits predict behavior. Research in behavioral economics establishes prior behavioral information—the actual behavior of another person in the past—influences future decision making, suggestive of the role of traits in guiding future behavior, but agnostic to the specific psychological mechanism. Yet the entire generalization process fro...