Awareness shaping or shaped by prediction and postdiction

• Main Author: Takahiro Kawabe (auth)
• Other Authors: Yuki Yamada (auth), Makoto Miyazaki (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; audition; Consciousness; Awareness; Vision; prediction; Postdiction; action; Touch; motor control; Motion Perception
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

We intuitively believe that we are aware of the external world as it is. Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. In fact, the capacity of our sensory system is too small to veridically perceive the world. To overcome this problem, the sensory system has to spatiotemporally integrate neural signals...