Attention reshapes thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning dynamics (sEEG)

• Prediction errors (PEs) drive perceptual learning by updating internal models of the sensory environment.¹
• Researchers recorded intracranial stereoelectroencephalography (sEEG) from 17 patients during a roving auditory oddball task.¹
• Participants performed the oddball task under both attended and unattended conditions.¹
• PE encoding was quantified with mutual information and co-information to capture redundant and synergistic representations.¹
• Attention reshapes how prediction errors are represented across distributed thalamocortical circuits.¹
• The work maps information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning under varying attentional states, with implications for invasive BCIs that decode attention or learning state.^{1 1}

Footnotes

1. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.10.737794v1?rss=1 ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷