Predicting theunpredictable: Critical analysis and practical implications of predictive anticipatory activity

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2014, Pages

  Mossbridge, Julia A ^a   Tressoldi, Patrizio ^b   Utts, Jessica ^c   Ives, John A ^d   Radin, Dean ^e   Jonas, Wayne B ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d SAMUELI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Institute of Noetic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticipatory activity; Neural prediction; Predictive coding; Presentiment; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONSCIOUSNESS; CRITICAL THINKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE ANTICIPATORY ACTIVITY; PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION; QUANTUM THEORY; REVIEW; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84896983362     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00146     Document Type: Review

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