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Prediction, inference, and the homunculus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1998

Horace B. Barlow
Horace B. Barlow
Affiliation:
Physiological Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EG, [email protected]
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Abstract

Prediction, like filling-in, is an example of pattern completion and both are likely to involve processes of statistical inference. Furthermore, there is no incompatibility between inference and neural filling-in, for the neural processes may be mediating the inferential processes. The usefulness of the “bridge locus” is defended, and it is also suggested that the interpersonal level needs to be included when considering subjective experience.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 1998 , pp. 750 - 751
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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