Higher-Level Cognition Under Predictive Processing: Structural Representations and Grounded Cognition
Minds and Machines March 19, 2026 Jannis Friedrich, Martin H. Fischer
Predictive processing posits that prediction-error minimization underlies all perception, action, and cognition. Yet, despite its considerable popularity and explanatory scope, it is unclear how this enables higher-level cognitive abilities, such as representing and reasoning over abstract concepts. We combine insights from predictive processing, structural representations and grounded...
DOI: 10.1007/s11023-026-09773-0 (opens in new tab)
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Generative models
Embodied cognition
Symbol grounding
Active inference
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