ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Revealing the neural computations that distinguish imagination from reality
Our brain is able to turn external signals coming into our senses into a vivid and coherent experience of reality. At the same time, our brain is also able to generate sensory experience in the absence of external signals via imagination. Contrary to our intuition, our experience of reality is not an objective reflection of the external world, since the brain has no direct access to that. Instead, what we perceive as reality is an inference that the brain makes about its own activity, which is both externally driven (by sensory input) and internally driven (by imagination). Recent research has shown that imagining something leads to similar patterns of brain activity as perceiving that same…
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