Predictions in the Brain Using Our Past to Generate a Future
by Bar, MosheFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2011-05-10
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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"Originating from a theme issue published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B: biological sciences."--T.p.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. xi |
| Varieties of Future Experience | p. 3 |
| The Proactive Brain | p. 13 |
| Simulation, Situated Conceptualization, and Prediction | p. 27 |
| Architecture of Counterfactual Thought in the Prefrontal Cortex | p. 40 |
| On the Nature of Medial Temporal Lobe Contributions to the Constructive Simulation of Future Events | p. 58 |
| The Construction System of the Brain | p. 70 |
| Similarities in Episodic Future Thought and Remembering: The Importance of Contextual Setting | p. 83 |
| Imagining Predictions: Mental Imagery as Mental Emulation | p. 95 |
| See It with Feeling: Affective Predictions during Object Perception | p. 107 |
| The Somatic Marker Hypothesis and Its Neural Basis: Using Past Experiences to Forecast the Future in Decision Making | p. 122 |
| Envisioning the Future and Self-Regulation | p. 134 |
| Prediction: A Construal-Level Theory Perspective | p. 144 |
| Previews, Premotions, and Predictions | p. 159 |
| On Look-Ahead in Language: Navigating a Multitude of Familiar Paths | p. 170 |
| A Look around at What Lies Ahead: Prediction and Predictability in Language Processing | p. 190 |
| Cortical and Subcortical Predictive Dynamics and Learning during Perception, Cognition, Emotion, and Action | p. 208 |
| Predictive Coding: A Free-Energy Formulation | p. 231 |
| Sequence Memory for Prediction, Inference, and Behavior | p. 247 |
| Prediction, Sequences, and the Hippocampus | p. 258 |
| The Neurobiology of Memory-Based Predictions | p. 271 |
| Predicting Not to Predict Too Much: How the Cellular Machinery of Memory Anticipates the Uncertain Future | p. 283 |
| The Retina as Embodying Predictions about the Visual World | p. 295 |
| Making Predictions: A Developmental Perspective | p. 311 |
| Prospective Decision Making in Animals: A Potential Role for Intertemporal Choice in the Study of Prospective Cognition | p. 325 |
| Mental Time Travel and the Shaping of the Human Mind | p. 344 |
| Author Index | p. 355 |
| Subject Index | p. 373 |
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