Redefining the Role of Limbic Areas in Cortical Processing

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 96-106

  Chanes, Lorena ^a,b   Barrett, Lisa Feldman ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Active inference; Consciousness; Cortical processing; Intrinsic networks; Limbic cortices; Predictive coding; Structural model

Indexed keywords

LAMINATING;

ACTIVE INFERENCE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORTICAL PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTICES; PREDICTIVE CODING; STRUCTURAL MODELING;

FORECASTING;

CONSCIOUSNESS; DIFFERENTIATION; ERROR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIMBIC CORTEX; MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE TRACT; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 84959081779     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: 1879307X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.11.005     Document Type: Review

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