In The Atlantic, the neuroscientist Nancy Andreason discusses her research on the neural underpinnings of creativity. At Aesthetics for Birds, Bence Nanay discusses the role of attention in aesthetic perception. (h/t Leiter Reports) An article in Nature discusses a new push to fund neuroscience research in California. (h/t David Rosenthal) And on a lighter note, here’s …
This is really cool. Doesn’t strike me as an illusion, though, but rather as an illustration of the cognitive penetrability of of auditory perception. (h/t Richard Brown and others on Facebook) A new exhibition in London’s National Gallery explores how the “color-blind” see art. (h/t the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience …
Here is a call for papers for a consciousness research topic in “Frontiers in Psychology” that I thought might be of interest to some readers: https://www.frontiersin.org/Consciousness_Research/researchtopics/ Awareness_of_intentional_proce/2762
Shaun Gallagher has an interesting paper in Frontiers in Psychology on “the phenomenology and psychology of solitary confinement” (h/t John Protevi and István Aranyosi on Facebook) At Philos.tv, Genoveva Marti and Edouard Machery discuss the experimental philosophy of reference (h/t Edouard on Facebook) And here is a CFP for a conference on dance and …
The prediction error minimization theory (PEM) says that the brain continually seeks to minimize its prediction error – minimize the difference between its predictions about the sensory input and the actual sensory input. It is an extremely simple idea but from it arises a surprisingly resourceful conception of brain processing. …
Apologies for a few weeks of vacation-induced silence. Thanks to Philipp et al. for an excellent symposium, and Kristina and Jakob for what promise to be a very stimulating couple of weeks. I’ll continue posting links periodically through the summer. – JS The unanimous selection for the Philosophical Explorations Essay Prize 2014 is …
It is a great pleasure to write a few posts here on Brains. In this first post I will talk a little about the kind of work I like to do. Then the plan for post 2 is to ask if prediction error minimization is all there is to the …
