The Power of Predictions An Emerging Paradigm for Psychological Research

In the last two decades, neuroscience studies have suggested that various psychological phenomena are produced by predictive processes in the brain. When considered together, these studies form a coherent, neurobiologically inspired program for guiding psychological research about the mind and behav...

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Published in:Current directions in psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 280 - 291
Main Authors: Hutchinson, J. Benjamin, Barrett, Lisa Feldman
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications, Inc 01.06.2019
SAGE Publications
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:
Psychological research
memory
emotion
concepts
social cognition
predictive coding
allostasis
metabolism
active inference
energetics
perception
ISSN:0963-7214, 1467-8721
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Summary:In the last two decades, neuroscience studies have suggested that various psychological phenomena are produced by predictive processes in the brain. When considered together, these studies form a coherent, neurobiologically inspired program for guiding psychological research about the mind and behavior. In this article, we consider the common assumptions and hypotheses that unify an emerging framework and discuss the ramifications of such a framework, both for improving the replicability and robustness of psychological research and for renewing psychological theory by suggesting an alternative ontology of the human mind.
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ISSN:0963-7214
1467-8721
DOI:10.1177/0963721419831992