Predictions in the brain : using our past to generate a future / edited by Moshe Bar.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011], ©2011.

xiv, 383 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

"Originating from a theme issue published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society B: biological sciences."--T.p.

Varieties of future experience / Karl K. Szpunar and Endel Tulving -- The proactive brain / Moshe Bar -- Simulation, situated conceptualization, and prediction / Lawrence W. Barsalou -- Architecture of counterfactual thought in the prefrontal cortex / Aron K. Barbey, Frank Krueger, and Jordan Grafman -- On the nature of medial temporal lobe contributions to the constructive simulation of future events / Daniel L. Schacter and Donna Rose Addis -- The construction system of the brain / Demis Hassabis and Eleanor A. Maguire -- Similarities in episodic future thought and remembering: the importance of contextual setting / Kathleen B. McDermott, Karl K. Szpunar, and Kathleen M. Arnold -- Imagining predictions: mental imagery as mental emulation / Samuel T. Moulton and Stephen M. Kosslyn -- See it with feeling: affective predictions during object perception / Lisa Feldman Barrett and Moshe Bar -- The somatic marker hypothesis and its neural basis: using past experiences to forecast the future in decision making / Antoine Bechara -- Envisioning the future and self-regulation / Shelley E. Taylor -- Prediction: a construal-level theory perspective / Nira Liberman, Yaacov Trope, and SoYon Rim -- Previews, premotions, and predictions / Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson -- On look-ahead in language: navigating a multitude of familiar paths / Shimon Edelman -- A look around at what lies ahead: prediction and predictability in language processing / Marta Kutas, Katherine A. DeLong, and Nathaniel J. Smith -- Cortical and subcortical predictive dynamics and learning during perception, cognition, emotion, and action / Stephen Grossberg -- Predictive coding: a free-energy formulation / Karl J. Friston and Stefan Kiebel -- Sequence memory for prediction, inference, and behavior / Jeff Hawkins, Dileep George, and Jamie Niemasik -- Prediction, sequences, and the hippocampus / John Lisman and A. David Redish -- The neurobiology of memory-based predictions / Howard Eichenbaum and Norbert J. Fortin -- Predicting not to predict too much: how the cellular machinery of memory anticipates the uncertain future / Yadin Dudai -- The retina as embodying predictions about the visual world / Michael J. Berry II and Gregory Schwartz -- Making predictions: a developmental perspective / Cristina M. Atance and Laura K. Hanson -- Prospective decision making in animals: a potential role for intertemporal choice in the study of prospective cognition / Lucy G. Cheke, James M. Thom, and Nicola S. Clayton -- Mental time travel and the shaping of the human mind / Thomas Suddendorf, Donna Rose Addis, and Michael C. Corballis.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.