Our paper featured on the cover of Journal of Neuroscience

Humans would be overwhelmed by the amount of information from their surroundings if not for the ability to generate and test predictions on what they will sense in the immediate future. In our new paper, we investigated what happens when conflicting sensory processing models generate predictions about the surroundings. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we showed that in the case of auditory stimuli all recorded regions of the auditory sensory pathway encode prediction error with respect to a combination of the conflicting sensory processing models. The findings suggest that predictive coding exploits the non-linear architecture of the auditory pathway for the transmission of predictions. Such non-linear transmission of predictions might be crucial for the predictive coding of complex auditory signals like speech.

Tabas, A., & von Kriegstein, K. (2024). Multiple concurrent predictions inform prediction error in the human auditory pathway. Journal of Neuroscience, 44 (1) e2219222023 https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2219-22.2023