Topic: representational similarity analyses

We live in highly structured environments where patterns often repeat. Our brain forms internal models of the world by extracting the regularities. Such models are utilised to form predictions about future events and incoming information. Predictions lead to efficient neural processing of incoming stimuli and hence facilitate perception. Although the existence of prediction signals is known, much less is known about the neural mechanisms underlying the propagation of prediction signals, especially in higher-vision. Predictive processing theories propose that in cortical hierarchies, high-leve