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Predicting the visual world: silence is golden

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In predictive coding, only unexpected input features are signaled to the next stage of processing. Rao and Ballard use this approach to model extra–classical receptive field effects.

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Figure 1: A purely feedforward model10 can account for the available quantitative data on view–tuned inferotemporal cells.

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  1. Christof Koch is at the Computation and Neural Systems Program, California Institute of Technology,, Pasadena, 91125, California, USA

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  2. Tomaso Poggio is at CBCL in the Brain Sciences Department and in the AI Lab at MIT, Cambridge, 02142, Massachusetts, USA

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