How does surprise influence cognition and behavior?

Project Information

SURPRISE

Grant agreement ID: 101000942

DOI

10.3030/101000942

EC signature date 14 April 2021

Start date 1 August 2021

End date 31 July 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Higher-level spatial prediction in natural vision across mouse visual cortex

Author(s): Micha Heilbron, Floris P. de Lange
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 22, 2026, Page(s) e1013136, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013136

Where learning paths meet: Convergence and divergence of statistical and reinforcement learning

Author(s): Ambra Ferrari, Floris P. de Lange, Athena Akrami
Published in: Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Issue 98, 2026, Page(s) 103181, ISSN 0959-4388
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2026.103181

Forward and backward prediction in learning and perception

Author(s): Floris P. de Lange, Clare Press
Published in: Current Opinion in Neurobiology, Issue 96, 2026, Page(s) 103144, ISSN 0959-4388
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.103144

High-level visual prediction errors in early visual cortex

Author(s): David Richter, Tim C. Kietzmann, Floris P. de Lange
Published in: PLOS Biology, Issue 22, 2024, Page(s) e3002829, ISSN 1545-7885
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002829

Successor-like representation guides the prediction of future events in human visual cortex and hippocampus

Author(s): Matthias Ekman, Sarah Kusch, Floris P. de Lange
Published in: eLife, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.23.485480

Predictive processing of scenes and objects

Author(s): Marius Peelen; Eva Berlot; Floris de Lange
Published in: Nature Reviews Psychology, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2731-0574
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nuf59

Feature-specific predictive processing: What’s in a prediction error?

Author(s): David Richter, Cem Uran, Martin Vinck, Floris P. de Lange
Published in: Imaging Neuroscience, Issue 3, 2025, ISSN 2837-6056
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/imag.a.1061

Cortical activity during naturalistic music listening reflects short-range predictions based on long-term experience

Author(s): Kern, P.; Heilbron, M.; de Lange, F.P.; de Lange, F.P.; Spaak, E.
Published in: eLife, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.08.495241

Spatial Predictive Context Speeds Up Visual Search by Biasing Local Attentional Competition

Author(s): Floortje G. Bouwkamp, Floris P. de Lange, Eelke Spaak
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 37, 2024, Page(s) 28-42, ISSN 0898-929X
Publisher: Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_02254

Updating contextual sensory expectations for adaptive behaviour

Author(s): Ferrari, A.; Richter, D.; de Lange, F.P.; de Lange, F.P.
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1529-2401
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1101/2022.06.08.495309

Narrative context shifts gaze from visual to semantic salience

Author(s): Eva Berlot, Lea-Maria Schmitt, Christoph Huber-Huber, Marius V. Peelen, Floris P. de Lange
Published in: Communications Psychology, Issue 4, 2026, ISSN 2731-9121
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s44271-026-00426-7

Conference proceedings (1)

I See! How Narrative Meaning Influences Gaze Behaviour

Author(s): Eva Berlot, Lea-Maria Schmitt, Christoph Huber-Huber, Marius Peelen, Floris de Lange
Published in: 2023 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2023
Publisher: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
DOI: 10.32470/ccn.2023.1481-0