Attention, predictions and expectations and their violation: attentional control in the human brain

• Main Author: Joy J. Geng (auth)
• Other Authors: Karl J. Friston (auth), Simone Vossel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; reward; emotions; EEG; attentional networks; trial history; TMS; predictions; neuroimaging
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the burdened scenes of everyday life, our brains must select from among many competing inputs for perceptual synthesis - so that only the most relevant receive full attention and irrelevant (distracting) information is suppressed. At the same time, we must remain responsive to salient events outs...