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    Beliefs and desires in the predictive brain

    Yon, Daniel and Heyes, C. and Press, Clare (2020) Beliefs and desires in the predictive brain. Nature Communications 11 (4404), ISSN 2041-1723.

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    Abstract

    Bayesian brain theories suggest that perception, action and cognition arise as animals minimise the mismatch between their expectations and reality. This principle could unify cognitive science with the broader natural sciences, but leave key elements of cognition and behaviour unexplained.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Neuroimaging, Birkbeck-UCL Centre for (BUCNI)
    Depositing User: Clare Press
    Date Deposited: 16 Sep 2020 10:53
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 18:04
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40839

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