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Prediction and postdiction: Two frameworks with the goal of delay compensation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

David M. Eagleman
David M. Eagleman
Affiliation:
Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030. eagleman@bcm.eduhttp://neuro.bcm.edu/eagleman
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Abstract

Although prediction is one of the key tasks of intelligent brains, it often proves impossible in an unpredictably changing world. Hence, brains often decide what happened retrospectively. This framework of postdiction, the opposite of prediction, stands as an alternative or complimentary framework to prediction. I further show how motor-sensory recalibration demonstrates delay compensation at the perceptual level.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 205 - 206
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Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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