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Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦Feb 11

Your brain time-travels every time you approach your favourite coffee shop. That anticipatory lift you feel?

Scientists at McGill just watched neurons literally shift backward in time—from the reward to the cue.

This isn't a metaphor. It's measurable, visible biology.

🎧 https://www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/episodes/18657278

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#Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #BrainResearch #Memory #Psychology #Science #Academia #NeurosciencePodcast #PredictiveCoding #Hippocampus

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE Feb 11

Recent findings show that hippocampal neurons shift their activity backward in time as learning occurs, enabling anticipation of rewards before they happen. Using calcium imaging in mice performing a delayed nonmatching-to-location task, the study tracked the same neurons over weeks and observed a backpropagation of tuning from reward delivery to earlier moments, including the moment of correct touchscreen choice. The results portray the hippocampus as a dynamic predictive map that reorganizes with experience to guide future behavior.

This work is of interest to psychology because it provides concrete neural evidence for predictive coding and memory-based anticipation, illustrating how learning reshapes mental representations to forecast future events. It links memory, prediction, and action in a measurable neural framework.

Article Title: Hippocampal neurons shift their activity backward in time to anticipate rewards

Link to PsyPost Article: ift dot tt/fVBpnxF

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#Hippocampus #PredictiveCoding #NeuralPlasticity #CalciumImaging #RewardLearning

Jeroen van Rooij Feb 11

Hypnose flauwekul? Echt niet ;-)

#hypnose #hypnotherapie #predictivecoding

HackerNoon Dec 23

Predictive coding explains how the brain keeps us trapped in existing frameworks. https://hackernoon.com/discomfort-as-human-technology-a-brain-function-beyond-predictive-coding #predictivecoding

Discomfort as Human Technology: A Brain Function Beyond Predictive Coding | HackerNoon

Predictive coding explains how the brain keeps us trapped in existing frameworks.

Fabrizio Musacchio Sep 23

🧠 Rao & Ballard’s (1999) spatial #PredictiveCoding theory gets strong support: Zhang et al. (2025) show in mouse #VisualCortex that predictive coding is primarily spatial, not temporal. #2P #imaging of ~20,000 neurons found mismatch responses only when new spatial landmarks appeared, but not when sequences were reordered:

🌍 https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.17.676794

#Neuroscience