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  1. Predictive coding in agency detection
    Author: Andersen, Marc
    Published: [2019]

    Agency detection is a central concept in the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Experimental studies, however, have so far failed to lend support to some of the most common predictions that follow from current theories on agency detection. In this... more

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    Agency detection is a central concept in the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Experimental studies, however, have so far failed to lend support to some of the most common predictions that follow from current theories on agency detection. In this article, I argue that predictive coding, a highly promising new framework for understanding perception and action, may solve pending theoretical inconsistencies in agency detection research, account for the puzzling experimental findings mentioned above, and provide hypotheses for future experimental testing. Predictive coding explains how the brain, unbeknownst to consciousness, engages in sophisticated Bayesian statistics in an effort to constantly predict the hidden causes of sensory input. My fundamental argument is that most false positives in agency detection can be seen as the result of top-down interference in a Bayesian system generating high prior probabilities in the face of unreliable stimuli, and that such a system can better account for the experimental evidence than previous accounts of a dedicated agency detection system. Finally, I argue that adopting predictive coding as a theoretical framework has radical implications for the effects of culture on the detection of supernatural agency and a range of other religious and spiritual perceptual phenomena.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
    Format: Online
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Religion, brain & behavior; London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2011; 9(2019), 1, Seite 65-84; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Agency detection; HADD; cognitive science of religion; epidemiology; perception; predictive coding; religion; supernatural agents
  2. Parallelisms and deviations: two fundamentals of an aesthetics of poetic diction
    Author: Menninghaus, Winfried; Wagner, Valentin; Schindler, Ines; Knoop, Christine Angela; Blohm, Stefan; Frieler, Klaus; Scharinger, Mathias
    Published: 2023
    Publisher:  Royal Society, London ; Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim

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    Media type: Book
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    Parent title: In: London : Royal Society, (2023)
    In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 379.2023, 1895, 20220424
    Subjects: Parallelismus; Ästhetik; Dichtersprache; Abweichung; Kognitive Linguistik; Lyrik / Lyrik; Sprichwort; Couplet
    Other subjects: poetic language; aesthetics; parallelism; deviation; predictive coding; poetic diction; cognitive processing; aesthetic evaluation
    Scope: Online-Ressource