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This research project investigates how surprise affects cognitive processes such as perception, learning, and motivation. By using advanced neuroimaging techniques, it aims to understand how surprise signals are generated in the brain and their role in guiding attention and curiosity.
Humans, like many other species, build models of themselves and their environment, to understand the past and predict the future.
These models are constantly evaluated and updated based on new, surprising input.
Surprise (i.e., the distance between one’s prior and current beliefs) appears an essential ingredient in various cognitive faculties such as perception, learning, motivation and action and it strongly drives brain activity in both sub-cortical and cortical networks underlying goal-direct…
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