We’ve known for some time that our expectations can profoundly influence the experience of our world, even our physiology. 1 This, after all, is what the placebo effect is all about. But we hadn’t ...

In this post, the last of a five-part series, we will acquire an understanding of various theories that emphasize the importance of top-down signaling in shaping and enabling conscious perception.

“The beauty of the predictive processing framework [is] that it has a really large—sometimes critics might say too large—capacity to explain a lot of different phenomena in many different systems,” ...

The transition between wakefulness and states of reduced consciousness, whether pharmacologically induced via anesthesia or pathologically necessitated by ...