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Abstract
Predictive processing theories, which model the brain as a "prediction machine", explain a wide range of cognitive functions, including learning, perception and action. Furthermore, it is increasingly accepted that aberrant prediction tendencies play a crucial role in psychiatric disorders. Given this explanatory value for clinical psychiatry, prediction tendencies are often implicitly conceptualized as individual traits or as tendencies that generalize across situations. As this has not yet explicitly been shown, in the current study, we quantify to what extent the individual tendency to anticipate sensory features of high probability generalizes across modalities. Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we recorded brain activity while participants were presented with a sequence of four different (either visual or auditory) stimuli, which changed according to predefined transitional probabilities of two entropy levels: ordered vs. random. Our results show that, on a group-level, under conditions of low entropy, stimulus features of high probability are preactivated in the auditory but not in the visual modality. Crucially, the magnitude of the individual tendency to predict sensory events seems not to correlate between the two modalities. Furthermore, reliability statistics indicate poor internal consistency, suggesting that the measures from the different modalities are unlikely to reflect a single, common cognitive process. In sum, our findings suggest that quantification and interpretation of individual prediction tendencies cannot be generalized across modalities.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e14435 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Psychophysiology |
Volume | 61 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 10 Sept 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 The Authors. Psychophysiology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Psychophysiological Research.
Keywords
- auditory processing
- inter- individual differences
- magnetoencephalography
- predictive processing
- visual processing
Fields of Science and Technology Classification 2012
- 501 Psychology
Projects
- 3 Finished
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Impact of face masks on speech comprehension
Weisz, N. (Principal Investigator)
1/11/20 → 30/04/24
Project: Research
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Doktoratskolleg Imaging the Mind: Connectivity and Higher Cognitive Function
Schabus, M. (Principal Investigator), Wilhelm, F. (Co-Investigator), Blechert, J. (Co-Investigator), Hödlmoser, K. (Co-Investigator), Hutzler, F. (Co-Investigator), Jonas, E. (Co-Investigator), Perner, J. (Co-Investigator), Weisz, N. (Co-Investigator), Pletzer, B. A. (Co-Investigator) & Kronbichler, M. (Co-Investigator)
1/03/19 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
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Speech-related neural entrainment in deaf individuals and implications for speech rehabilitation following CI
Weisz, N. (Principal Investigator)
1/07/18 → 30/06/23
Project: Research
Research output
- 1 Preprint
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Individual prediction tendencies do not generalise across modalities
Schubert, J., Süß, N. & Weisz, N., 24 Jun 2023, bioRxiv, 24 p.Research output: Working paper/Preprint › Preprint