ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Predictions and Actions shape sensory plasticity
The ease with which children acquire new skills is progressively lost with age. Several mechanisms make the adult brain resistant to change, especially for low-level sensory processing, the hardest barrier for strategies aimed at recovering plasticity. PredActive will use vision as a test case to develop a new understanding of plasticity and its limits, through an emerging theory of brain function termed predictive coding. This theory asserts that not all incoming information is encoded directly, but only deviations from a priori predictions are represented. It follows that keeping predictions updated and calibrated to the sensory input is crucial for accurate processing. I propose that…
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