Editorial: Anticipation and change

My work was motivated by two main ideas that can be summarized in two sentences. The first key sentence is “anticipation is not matter of a single mechanism in a living organism it happens on many different levels”. The second pillar of my work is the fact that “anticipation happens even without voluntary control”. The combination of these two sentences is the most important point in my work an...

Anticipation may be seen as structured by images and representations, an approach that has informed recent work in science and technology studies on the sociology of expectations. But anticipation, as a capacity or characteristic, is not solelymanifested in the form of representations, evenwhere such representations of the ‘not yet’ are performative in nature. It also comprises material capacit...

The rodent head-direction (HD) system, which codes for the animal's head direction in the horizontal plane, is thought to be critically involved in spatial navigation. Electrophysiological recording studies have shown that HD cells can anticipate the animal's HD by up to 75-80 ms. The origin of this anticipation is poorly understood. In this modeling study, we provide a novel explanation for HD...

Human behaviour is generally guided by the anticipation of potential outcomes that are considered to be rewarding. Reward processing can thus be dissected into a phase of reward anticipation and a phase of reward consumption. A number of brain structures have been suggested to be involved in reward processing. However, it is unclear whether anticipation and consumption are mediated by the same ...