ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2025
Priors and proprioceptive predictions.
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- Active inference and speech motor control.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Reduced prediction updating shapes serial dependence in autistic traits.BMC biology · 2026Article
- The phantastic organ: predictive processing in the brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- The active construction of past episodes.Translational neuroscience · 2026Article
- What is Balance? A Vital Mechano-Regulation Paradigm.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
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Abstract
This review presents an approach to motor control inspired by the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. The core idea is that, to realise a motor plan, one need only anticipate the proprioceptive consequences of that plan. Movement can then be executed through spinal and brainstem reflex arcs that correct for any deviations from these proprioceptive predictions. Seen in this light, motor commands are proprioceptive predictions. From a control-theoretic perspective, this implies that reflexes can be cast as closed feedback loops, the set points of which are determined by proprioceptive predictions. In what follows, we consider the key elements - in terms of active inference - that generate proprioceptive predictions. These include prior beliefs about motor trajectories, their temporal (autocorrelation) structure, and the confidence with which their sensory consequences can be predicted. For each element, we briefly review the neurobiology of the structures that might support the underlying computations. In short, we will see how corticospinal, cerebellar, and extrapyramidal systems might contribute to the prediction and realisation of a motor plan.
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