Keller Lab

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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2019

Circuit elements of the cortical circuit for predictive processing

One promising theoretical framework to explain the function of cortex is predictive processing. It postulates that cortex functions by maintaining an internal model, or internal representation, of the world through a comparison of predictions based on this internal model with incoming sensory information. Implementing predictive processing in a cortical circuit would require a set of distinct functional cell types. These would include neurons that compute a difference between top-down predictions and bottom-up input, referred to as prediction error neurons, and a separate population of neurons that integrate the output of prediction error neurons to maintain an internal representation of…

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