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Human brain activity during mental imagery exhibits signatures of inference in a hierarchical generative model

2018-11-05

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Humans have long wondered about the function of mental imagery and its relationship to vision. Although visual representations are utilized during imagery, the computations they subserve are unclear. Building on a theory that treats vision as inference about the causes of sensory stimulation in an internal generative model, we propose that mental imagery is inference about the sensory consequences of predicted or...

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Literature Corpus work: 7489bce6-67bd-5683-8622-6ab5745a2734
DOI: 10.1101/462226

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