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A Conversation with Kati Devaney

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Temporal Parietal Junction in the Brain

When a prediction needs to be updated, there's several signals that happen at several levels of the processing hierarchy. The temporal parietal junction sits in this hub-like location between all these different cortical networks. When you have a prediction update signal, the TPJ comes online and you get theta phase reset in the hippocampus. And I think what we're doing there is training ourselves to put aside the whole predictive apparatus rather than our top up information.

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