Why do you fear the bogeyman? An embodied predictive coding model of perceptual inference

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 902-911

  Pezzulo, Giovanni ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decision making; Embodied predictive coding; Interoception; Perceptual inference

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; BAYES THEOREM; FEAR; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SENSATION;

AWARENESS; BAYES THEOREM; FEAR; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSATION;

EID: 84905740662     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-013-0227-x     Document Type: Article

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