Cerebral hierarchies: Predictive processing, precision and the pulvinar

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1668, 2015, Pages

  Kanai, Ryota ^a,b   Komura, Yutaka ^a,b,c   Shipp, Stewart ^d   Friston, Karl ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Neuromodulation; Neuronal computational; Precision; Predictive coding; Pulvinar

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULVINAR;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PULVINAR;

EID: 84926171282     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0169     Document Type: Article

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