Attention in the predictive mind.
Consciousness and cognition January 1, 2017 Madeleine Ransom, Sina Fazelpour, Christopher Mole 38 citations
A prominent theory holds that cognition works by minimizing prediction errors through Bayesian inference, with attention understood as optimizing the precision of those error signals. While this account explains many attention-related phenomena, it fails to accommodate certain forms of voluntary attention. The authors argue that advocates of Bayesian prediction error minimization have overreached by claiming it is all the brain ever does, and that the theory's tools, though powerful, are insufficient for a complete explanation of attention.