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- Title
Neural signatures of perceptual inference.
- Authors
Sedley, William; Gander, Phillip E.; Kumar, Sukhbinder; Kovach, Christopher K.; Hiroyuki Oya; Hiroto Kawasaki; Howard III, Matthew A.; Griffiths, Timothy D.
- Abstract
Generative models, such as predictive coding, posit that perception results from a combination of sensory input and prior prediction, each weighted by its precision (inverse variance), with incongruence between these termed prediction error (deviation from prediction) or surprise (negative log probability of the sensory input). However, direct evidence for such a system, and the physiological basis of its computations, is lacking. Using an auditory stimulus whose pitch value changed according to specific rules, we controlled and separated the three key computational variables underlying perception, and discovered, using direct recordings from human auditory cortex, that surprise due to prediction violations is encoded by local field potential oscillations in the gamma band (>30 Hz), changes to predictions in the beta band (12-30 Hz), and that the precision of predictions appears to quantitatively relate to alpha band oscillations (8-12 Hz). These results confirm oscillatory codes for critical aspects of generative models of perception.
- Subjects
SENSORY perception; THOUGHT &; thinking; PERCEIVED discrimination; PERCEPTUAL disorders; STIMULUS synthesis
- Publication
eLife, 2016, p1
- ISSN
2050-084X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7554/eLife.11476