Predictions in the Brain:
Using Our Past to Generate a Future

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M. Bar and A. Bubic Top-down Effects in Visual Perception. In The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. The Oxford Handbook Series, Oxford University Press (in press).

O.S. Cheung and M. Bar Visual prediction and perceptual expertise. International Journal of Psychophysiology. (in press)

C. Thomas, K. Kveraga, E. Huberle, H-O. Karnath, and M. Bar Enabling Global Processing in Simultanagnosia by psychophysical biasing of Visual Pathways. Brain. (In press)

H. Yardley, L. Perlovsky, and M. Bar (2012) Predictions and Incongruency in Object Recognition: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective. In Detection and Identification of Rare Audiovisual Cues. Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Springer Publishing.

K. Shepherd, and M. Bar (2011) Preference for Symmetry: Only on Mars? Perception, 40, 1254-1256. (view paper)

K. Kveraga, A.S. Ghuman, K.S. Kassam, E. Aminoff, M.S. Hamalainen, M. Chaumon, and M. Bar (2011) Early onset of neural synchronization in the contextual associations network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(8), 3389-3394. (view paper)

H. Leder, P.P.L. Tinio, and M. Bar (2011) Emotional valence modulates the preference for curved objects. Perception, 40, 649-655. (view paper)

M.F. Mason and M. Bar (2011) The effect of mental progression on mood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0025035. (view paper)

M. Bar (2010) Wait for the second marshmallow? Future-oriented thinking and delayed reward discounting in the brain. Neuron, 66(1), 4-5. (view paper)

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