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The article describes how visual experiences shape the brain’s feedback networks, showing that restricting early visual input in mice leads to structural and functional changes in both the primary visual cortex and its descending feedback pathways. Complex interactions between Hebbian and anti-Hebbian plasticity are proposed to explain how orientation preferences and receptive fields adapt to constrained visual statistics. The work combines in vivo imaging with computer modeling to illustrate how the brain’s wiring reflects environmental patterns.

This topic is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it illuminates how perception and brain development are shaped by experience, linking sensory input to neural circuit adaptation and predictive processing. It highlights the dynamic nature of learning within neural networks and the mechanisms by which expectations influence perception.

Article Title: visual experience physically shapes the brain’s feedback loops

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/brain-wiring-adapts-to-match-restricted-sight-in-goggle-wearing-mice/

#neuroscience #visualsystem #plasticity #Hebbian #antiHebbian #feedbackloops #corticalprocessing #predictivecoding #neuralwiring #sensorydevelopment

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 10

The article argues that psychological trauma is better understood as a disorder of prediction in the brain rather than a literal storage of trauma in body tissues. It proposes a predictive coding framework in which the brain overestimates threat after trauma, leading to reduced cognitive flexibility and metastability, and suggests flow states as a potential intervention to restore adaptability. The discussion highlights how this reframing aligns with evidence from flow research and practical interventions, while acknowledging limitations and the need for further testing.

The topic is of interest to psychology because it challenges common metaphors about trauma, integrates theoretical neurocience with practical interventions, and invites examination of how predictive processes shape emotional and behavioral responses after adverse events.

Article Title: Scientists challenge The Body Keeps the Score with a new predictive model of trauma

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/scientists-challenge-the-body-keeps-the-score-with-a-new-predictive-model-of-trauma/

#trauma #predictivecoding #flowstate #metastability #neuroscience #psychology #therapies #cognitiveflexibility #predictionerror #psychotrauma

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

📖 https://helioxpodcast.substack.com/p/your-brain-is-lying-to-you-and-thats

📻 Available for Broadcast on PRX https://exchange.prx.org/p/606992

PRX Series: The Predictive Mind https://exchange.prx.org/series/60019-the-predictive-mind-how-your-brain-cheats-reality

#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, 2025

🧠 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