Balancing Prediction and Surprise: A Role for Active Sleep at the Dawn of Consciousness?
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2021 Matthew N Van de Poll, Bruno van Swinderen 23 citations
The brain is a prediction machine. Yet the world is never entirely predictable, for any animal. Unexpected events are surprising, and this typically evokes prediction error signatures in mammalian brains. In humans such mismatched expectations are often associated with an emotional response as well, and emotional dysregulation can lead to cognitive disorders such as depression or schizophrenia....