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Predictive coding (PC) is a general theory of cortical function. The local, gradient-based learning rules found in one kind of PC model have recently been shown to closely approximate backpropagation. This finding suggests that this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Nick Alonso , Emre Neftci

This study presents a dynamic neural network model based on the predictive coding framework for perceiving and predicting the dynamic visuo-proprioceptive patterns. In our previous study [1], we have shown that the deep dynamic neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Jungsik Hwang , Jinhyung Kim , Ahmadreza Ahmadi , Minkyu Choi , Jun Tani

Hierarchies feature prominently in anatomical accounts of cortical organisation. An open question is which computational (algorithmic) processes are implemented by these hierarchies. One renowned hypothesis is that cortical hierarchies…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-08 Andreea O. Diaconescu , Vladimir Litvak , Christoph Mathys , Lars Kasper , Karl J. Friston , Klaas E. Stephan

Predictive Coding (PC) is a theoretical framework in cognitive science suggesting that the human brain processes cognition through spatiotemporal prediction of the visual world. Existing studies have developed spatiotemporal prediction…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Kaiyuan Chen , Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming one of the key technologies of this century. The majority of results in AI thus far have been achieved using deep neural networks trained with a learning algorithm called error…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Tommaso Salvatori , Ankur Mali , Christopher L. Buckley , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Rajesh P. N. Rao , Karl Friston , Alexander Ororbia

Associative memories in the brain receive and store patterns of activity registered by the sensory neurons, and are able to retrieve them when necessary. Due to their importance in human intelligence, computational models of associative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Tommaso Salvatori , Yuhang Song , Yujian Hong , Simon Frieder , Lei Sha , Zhenghua Xu , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Interpreting computations in the visual cortex as learning and inference in a generative model of the environment has received wide support both in neuroscience and cognitive science. However, hierarchical computations, a hallmark of visual…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-02 Ferenc Csikor , Balázs Meszéna , Bence Szabó , Gergő Orbán

Individual-intelligence research, from a neurological perspective, discusses the hierarchical layers of the cortex as a structure that performs conceptual abstraction and specification. This theory has been used to explain how motor-cortex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marko A. Rodriguez

We present a multi-scale predictive coding model for future video frames prediction. Drawing inspiration on the ``Predictive Coding" theories in cognitive science, it is updated by a combination of bottom-up and top-down information flows,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chaofan Ling , Junpei Zhong , Weihua Li

Predictive coding networks (PCNs) constitute a biologically inspired framework for understanding hierarchical computation in the brain, and offer an alternative to traditional feedforward neural networks in ML. This note serves as a quick,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mikko Stenlund

Large language models based on self-attention mechanisms have achieved astonishing performances not only in natural language itself, but also in a variety of tasks of different nature. However, regarding processing language, our human brain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chan Li , Junbin Qiu , Haiping Huang

Recent years have witnessed a growing call for renewed emphasis on neuroscience-inspired approaches in artificial intelligence research, under the banner of NeuroAI. A prime example of this is predictive coding networks (PCNs), based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Björn van Zwol , Ro Jefferson , Egon L. van den Broek

How does the neocortex learn and develop the foundations of all our high-level cognitive abilities? We present a comprehensive framework spanning biological, computational, and cognitive levels, with a clear theoretical continuity between…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-15 Randall C. O'Reilly , Dean R. Wyatte , John Rohrlich

Inspired by "predictive coding" - a theory in neuroscience, we develop a bi-directional and dynamic neural network with local recurrent processing, namely predictive coding network (PCN). Unlike feedforward-only convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Kuan Han , Haiguang Wen , Yizhen Zhang , Di Fu , Eugenio Culurciello , Zhongming Liu

Predictive coding (PC) is an influential theory of information processing in the brain, providing a biologically plausible alternative to backpropagation. It is motivated in terms of Bayesian inference, as hidden states and parameters are…

Brains can process sensory information from different modalities at astonishing speed; this is surprising as the integration of inputs through the membrane of each individual neuron already causes a delayed response. Neuronal recordings…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-20 Simon Brandt , Mihai Alexandru Petrovici , Walter Senn , Katharina Anna Wilmes , Federico Benitez

Predictive coding theory suggests that the brain continuously anticipates upcoming words to optimize language processing, but the neural mechanisms remain unclear, particularly in naturalistic speech. Here, we simultaneously recorded EEG…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-11 Nikola Kölbl , Konstantin Tziridis , Andreas Maier , Thomas Kinfe , Ricardo Chavarriaga , Achim Schilling , Patrick Krauss

We propose a new neurally-inspired model that can learn to encode the global relationship context of visual events across time and space and to use the contextual information to modulate the analysis by synthesis process in a predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-17 Mingmin Zhao , Chengxu Zhuang , Yizhou Wang , Tai Sing Lee

Based on the predictive coding theory in neuroscience, we designed a bi-directional and recurrent neural net, namely deep predictive coding networks (PCN). It has feedforward, feedback, and recurrent connections. Feedback connections from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Haiguang Wen , Kuan Han , Junxing Shi , Yizhen Zhang , Eugenio Culurciello , Zhongming Liu

Deep learning has recently made remarkable progress in natural language processing. Yet, the resulting algorithms remain far from competing with the language abilities of the human brain. Predictive coding theory offers a potential…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-30 Charlotte Caucheteux , Alexandre Gramfort , Jean-Remi King