Topic: sensorimotor predictions

During behavior, sensation and action operate in closed-loop. Movements shape sensory input, and sensory inputs guide motor commands: where one looks determines what one sees. Through experience, the brain learns the reciprocal relationship between sensory inputs and movements to build internal models that accurately predict the sensory consequences of upcoming actions (sensorimotor predictions). This exchange of sensory inputs and egocentric expectations is at the core of active perception. Experimental investigation of this idea has been sparse and split between behavioral interrogation of s