Predictive coding in agency detection

Agency detection is a central concept in the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Experimental studies, however, have so far failed to lend support to some of the most common predictions that follow from current theories on agency detection. In this article, I argue that predictive coding, a highly...

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Main Author: Andersen, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge [2019]
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2019, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-84
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B The Supernatural / Plot / Recognizing / Prädiktive Codierung / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
Further subjects:B predictive coding
B HADD
B Religion
B Perception
B supernatural agents
B Agency Detection
B cognitive science of religion
B Epidemiology
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