In previous episodes of this long-running series looking at the world of high-quality audio, at every point we’ve stayed in the real world of physical audio hardware. From the human ear to the ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. In this manuscript, the authors aim to elucidate the mechanisms ...

PyHGF is a Python library for creating and manipulating dynamic probabilistic networks for predictive coding. These networks approximate Bayesian inference by optimizing beliefs through the diffusion ...

Department of Neuroscience, Imaging and Clinical Sciences, “G. D’Annunzio” University, Chieti, Italy With this article, we aim to propose an interpretation of the influence of urbanicity through the ...

Humans possess an innate understanding of physics, expecting objects to behave predictably without abrupt changes in position, shape, or color. This fundamental cognition is observed in infants, ...

Ed O’Brien writes: I’m not getting the most out of watching movies on my Sony A95L with a Panasonic DP-UB820 4K Blu-ray player. With cable or streaming, I am blown away by the picture quality, while ...

This study presents important observations about how the human brain uses long-term priors (acquired during our lifetime of listening) to make predictions about expected sounds - an open question in ...

Large language models can act as predictive models. Here's an example for misinformation detection—and an introduction to savings curves. Not all business problems are best addressed with generative ...