No evidence of neural feature-specific pre-activation during the prediction of an upcoming stimulus
Oussama Abdoun, Dmitry Todorov, Arnaud Poublan‐Couzardot, Coumarane Tirou, Antoine Lutz A, Marine Vernet, Romain Quentin
The paper reanalyzes Demarchi et al.'s data and shows that their findings on pre-activation during prediction can be explained by sequence structure bias, concluding no evidence of anticipatory predictive perception.
Nature Communications · May 26, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience