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Existential Priors: Top-Down Cognition in Rostral Prefrontal Cortex

2023-07-13

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<p>The human brain builds a hierarchical model of its world, with higher levels representing increasingly abstract concepts. We introduce the notion of existential computation to describe neural operations at the apex of this cognitive hierarchy. Existential computations integrate lower-level representations to form an overarching model of personal meaning and purpose. Mounting evidence indicates that the rostral...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/fye2m

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