How our expectations can make us hallucinate: the neural mechanisms underlying perception

Project Information

EXPECTPERCEPT

Grant agreement ID: 948548

DOI

10.3030/948548

EC signature date 3 December 2020

Start date 1 August 2021

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 484 575,00

EU contribution

€ 1 484 575,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (6)

The promise of layer-specific neuroimaging for testing predictive coding theories of psychosis

Author(s): J. Haarsma, P. Kok, M. Browning
Published in: Schizophrenia Research, Issue 245, 2025, Page(s) 68-76, ISSN 0920-9964
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2020.10.009

Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex

Author(s): Oliver Warrington, Nadine N. Graedel, Martina F. Callaghan, Peter Kok
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads4970

Shared and Diverging Neural Dynamics Underlying False and Veridical Perception

Author(s): Joost Haarsma, Dorottya Hetenyi, Peter Kok
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 45, 2025, Page(s) e1479242025, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.1479-24.2025

Contents of Visual Predictions Oscillate at Alpha Frequencies

Author(s): Dorottya Hetenyi, Joost Haarsma, Peter Kok
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 45, 2025, Page(s) e0474252025, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0474-25.2025

Expectations about presence enhance the influence of content-specific expectations on low-level orientation judgements

Author(s): Joost Haarsma, Aaron Kaltenmaier, Stephen M. Fleming, Peter Kok
Published in: Cognition, Issue 254, 2024, Page(s) 105961, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105961

Expectation Cues and False Percepts Generate Stimulus-Specific Activity in Distinct Layers of the Early Visual Cortex

Author(s): Joost Haarsma, Narin Deveci, Nadege Corbin, Martina F. Callaghan, & Peter Kok
Published in: Journal of Neuroscience, 2023, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0998-23.2023

Other (3)

Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception

Author(s): Joost Haarsma, Dorottya Hetenyi, & Peter Kok
Published in: 2023
Publisher: bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2023.11.16.567367

Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions

Author(s): Dorottya Hetenyi, Joost Haarsma, & Peter Kok
Published in: 2024
Publisher: bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.13.584593

Expectations about presence enhance the influence of content-specific expectations on low-level orientation judgements

Author(s): Joost Haarsma, Aaron Kaltenmaier, Stephen Fleming & Peter Kok
Published in: 2024
Publisher: bioRxiv
DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.22.581334

Book chapters (1)

How Layer-Specific fMRI Can Contribute to Understanding Perceptual Disturbances Across Psychiatric Disorders

Author(s): Joost Haarsma, Peter Kok
Published in: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, Perceptual Dysregulation in Psychiatric Nosology, 2026, Page(s) 41-72
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2025_595