Predictions in the brain
Subtitle: using our past to generate a future
By: edited by Moshe Bar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780195395518
Subjects: Brain; Evolution; Self-consciousness (Awareness); Consciousness; Research
Notes: "Originating from a theme issue published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B: biological sciences."--T.p.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Varieties of future experience / Karl K. Szpunar and Endel Tulving; title: The proactive brain / Moshe Bar; title: Simulation, situated conceptualization, and prediction / Lawrence W. Barsalou; title: Architecture of counterfactual thought in the prefrontal cortex / Aron K. Barbey, Frank Krueger, and Jordan Grafman; title: On the nature of medial temporal lobe contributions to the constructive simulation of future events / Daniel L. Schacter and Donna Rose Addis; title: The construction system of the brain / Demis Hassabis and Eleanor A. Maguire; title: Similarities in episodic future thought and remembering: the importance of contextual setting / Kathleen B. McDermott, Karl K. Szpunar, and Kathleen M. Arnold; title: Imagining predictions: mental imagery as mental emulation / Samuel T. Moulton and Stephen M. Kosslyn; title: See it with feeling: affective predictions during object perception / Lisa Feldman Barrett and Moshe Bar; title: The somatic marker hypothesis and its neural basis: using past experiences to forecast the future in decision making / Antoine Bechara; title: Envisioning the future and self-regulation / Shelley E. Taylor; title: Prediction: a construal-level theory perspective / Nira Liberman, Yaacov Trope, and SoYon Rim; title: Previews, premotions, and predictions / Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson; title: On look-ahead in language: navigating a multitude of familiar paths / Shimon Edelman; title: A look around at what lies ahead: prediction and predictability in language processing / Marta Kutas, Katherine A. DeLong, and Nathaniel J. Smith; title: Cortical and subcortical predictive dynamics and learning during perception, cognition, emotion, and action / Stephen Grossberg; title: Predictive coding: a free-energy formulation / Karl J. Friston and Stefan Kiebel; title: Sequence memory for prediction, inference, and behavior / Jeff Hawkins, Dileep George, and Jamie Niemasik; title: Prediction, sequences, and the hippocampus / John Lisman and A. David Redish; title: The neurobiology of memory-based predictions / Howard Eichenbaum and Norbert J. Fortin; title: Predicting not to predict too much: how the cellular machinery of memory anticipates the uncertain future / Yadin Dudai; title: The retina as embodying predictions about the visual world / Michael J. Berry II and Gregory Schwartz; title: Making predictions: a developmental perspective / Cristina M. Atance and Laura K. Hanson; title: Prospective decision making in animals: a potential role for intertemporal choice in the study of prospective cognition / Lucy G. Cheke, James M. Thom, and Nicola S. Clayton; title: Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind / Thomas Suddendorf, Donna Rose Addis, and Michael C. Corballis.