Predictive neural representations during vision and naturalistic listening
This talk will be held in person only. If you would like to chat with Floris on the day, please do get in touch with Jill O'Reilly at jill.oreilly@psy.ox.ac.uk.
We live in a largely predictable world. Capitalising on this statistical structure allows us to predict events and agents around us, which can result in potentially more efficient encoding, learning and recognition of input, and therefore appears a crucial skill.

In my talk, I will discuss recent work from my lab, investigating behaviour and brain activity, in which we are trying to elucidate the nature of predictive processing. I will argue that the brain represents a temporally discounted representation of future expected states. This representational format may lead to an efficient neural processing of expected input, and directs information sampling to situations of maximal uncertainty and surprise. I will illustrate this principle in the realm of visual perception, and natural language and music listening.
Date: 13 September 2022, 13:00
Venue: New Radcliffe House, Walton Street OX2 6NW
Venue Details: 2nd Floor Seminar Room
Speaker: Floris de Lange (Radboud University in Nijmegen)
Organising department: Department of Experimental Psychology
Organisers: Nima Khalighinejad (University of Oxford), Lauren Burgeno (University of Oxford)
Host: Jill O'Reilly (University of Oxford)
Part of: Behavioural and Cognitive Neuroscience (BEACON)
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Halley Cohen