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Attention, Uncertainty, and Free-Energy
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We suggested recently that attention can be understood as inferring the level of uncertainty or precision during hierarchical perception. In this paper, we try to substantiate this claim using neuronal simulations of directed spatial attention and biased competition. These simulations assume that neuronal activity encodes a probabilistic representation of the world that optimizes free-energy in a Bayesian fashion. Because free-energy bounds surprise or the (negative) log-evidence for internal models of the world, this optimization can be regarded as evidence accumulation or (generalized) predictive coding. Crucially, both predictions about the state of the world generating sensory data and the precision of those data have to be optimized. Here, we show that if the precision depends on the states, one can explain many aspects of attention. We illustrate this in the context of the Posner paradigm, using the simulations to generate both psychophysical and electrophysiological responses. These simulated responses are consistent with attentional bias or gating, competition for attentional resources, attentional capture and associated speed-accuracy trade-offs. Furthermore, if we present both attended and non-attended stimuli simultaneously, biased competition for neuronal representation emerges as a principled and straightforward property of Bayes-optimal perception.
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“We have proposed that this dependency mediates attention and action selection in hierarchical processing (Feldman and Friston, 2010; Friston et al., 2012)”
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“In PP, stimulus salience and attention are considered emergent properties of this precision‐weighting mechanism. 9 , 28”
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“Resistance to devaluation and habitisation also illustrates how, in Active Inference, attention modulates the relative precision of the different levels of the hierarchy (Feldman and Friston, 2010).”
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“I further hypothesize that the salience network tunes the internal model by predicting which prediction errors to pay attention to [i.e. those errors that are likely to be allostatically relevant and therefore worth the cost of encoding and consolidation; called precision signals (Feldman and Friston, 2010; Clark, 2013a,b; Moran et al., 2013; Shipp et al., 2013)].”
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“MMN is widely considered to be a robust marker of psychosis15, thought to reflect an attempt to minimize this prediction error and capture its disruption16–19.”
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“in predictive coding, attention is mediated by increasing the gain of populations encoding prediction error (Spratling, 2008; Feldman and Friston, 2010).”
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“posterior beliefs about states of the world can direct attention to sensory features by top-down modulation of sensory precision.”
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“the top-down control of sensory precision has been shown to explain several psychophysical and physiological aspects of attention (Feldman and Friston, 2010); thereby providing a formal link between precision and attention.”
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“This precision is thought to be encoded by post-synaptic gain of neuronal populations reporting prediction errors – the principal or pyramidal cells of superficial cortical layers (Mumford, 1992; Feldman and Friston, 2010).”
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“This is the essence of recurrent message passing between hierarchical levels to optimize free energy or suppress prediction error: see Friston and Kiebel (2009b) and Feldman and Friston (2010)”
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“From the perspectives of the AIM model and predictive coding, cholinergic modulation may play an important role in modulating and gating prediction errors signals – a role that has been associated with the deployment of attention in waking (Feldman and Friston, 2010) and the neurochemical modulation of hierarchical cortical processing during sleep (Hobson and Friston, 2012).”
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“The influence of prior predictions or of PEs during inference is weighted by their respective precision.”
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“Transposed (in ways we are about to explore) to the neural domain, this makes prediction error into a kind of proxy (Feldman & Friston 2010) for sensory information itself.”
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“It is in this sense that the residual errors are able, as it is sometimes said (Feldman & Friston 2010) to stand in for the forward fl ow of sensory information itself.”
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“This represents a subtle but ubiquitous problem for the brain, where the solution rests on modulating the gain or excitability of neuronal populations reporting prediction error [21,40,41].”
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“According to some more recent formulations of predictive coding [111,112], the propagated error is weighted by the sensory reliability or precision.”
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“When sensory precision is low, prediction errors are downweighted and observers will rely more on predictions.Conversely, when it is high, prediction errors are up-weighted and observers will rely more strongly on their input.”
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“This means precision has to be estimated and deployed (at each level of the hierarchy): a process that is equated with attention”
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“From the perspective of predictive coding, this means that we also have to infer the deployment of precision which, in a hierarchical setting, starts to look like attention”
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“Precision is thought to be encoded by the post-synaptic gain of neurons that report prediction errors and has been used to explain both the psychophysical and electrophysiological correlates of attention, so that sensory processing channels that convey precise information are selectively enabled by an increase in their precision (Friston, 2008, Feldman and Friston, 2010, Bastos et al., 2012).”
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“Top-down attenuation of sensory precision accounts for psychophysical and physiological aspects of attention (4)”
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“providing a hierarchically and biologically plausible account of the”
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“It transpires that—under predictive coding—this uncertainty or relative confidence in sensory (and extrasensory) information can be succinctly encoded by the gain of certain neuronal populations that pass information from one hierarchal cortical level to the next [2,3].”
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“This gain control corresponds to a (Bayes-optimal) encoding of precision in terms of the excitability of neuronal populations reporting prediction errors [2,19].”
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“However, this form of attention is distinct from simply boosting sensory precision (the precision of sensory prediction errors) as in simulations of the Posner paradigm or biased competition [2].”
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“The dynamic and context-sensitive control of precision has been associated with attentional gain control in sensory processing [2,31] and has been discussed in terms of affordance and action selection [32–34].”
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“Furthermore, it is closely related to notions of communication through coherence (see below) and may reflect an important mechanism for precision engineering in attention [2].”
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“Our findings also accord with a theoretical Bayesian scheme in which uncertainty, or precision, is an inherent property of the neural code29-31.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Feldman, H., & Friston, K. J.
- Affiliations
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Friston, Karl J.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2010
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- 4
- Pages
- 215-215
- ISSN
- 1662-5161 (ISSN-L)
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- PMC3001758
- OpenAlex
- W2096962395
- Semantic Scholar
- 3b08af33a7646a88f393f384c24d95627dfe9bfd
- Cited by
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- FWCI
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- Wellcome Trust (088130)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- free energy principle, Bayesian inference, uncertainty, predictive coding, evidence accumulation, biased competition, Posner paradigm, attentional capture, speed-accuracy trade-off, attentional gating, hierarchical perception, neural simulation
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