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WMA Talk: Kelsey Plaghat (Monash University) on 'Self-cognition and Predictive Processing'

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Location: E2.02

Predictive processing claims that we model the world in order to minimize the distance between our expectations generated by this mental model and information we get through the senses. This explains both perception and action. In representing the world, we also must represent ourselves in order to understand our own role in causing many of our sensations. In this way, our self is one of the many inferred hidden causes of sensory input, and is subject to the same domain-general dynamic updating mechanisms. Pushing this idea further, as in Hohwy and Michael (2017), the self could be conceived of as a meta-model which tracks the performance of the internal model of the world. These computational models of the self generate many related hypotheses, including the functional role of self-stimulatory behaviour (eg. fidgeting) and the role of the self in psychiatric disorders.

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