Matt Davis

@drmattdavis.bsky.social

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Cognitive Neuroscientist studying Speech and Hearing, at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University. Co-director of @camlangsci.bsky.social. London-based parent of twins. Cyclist. Sailor. Nerd.

Cover art from the book Interstellar Cinderella by Deborah Underwood. The covet depicts the titular character - a girl with red hair using her tools to fix a space ship accompanied by her robot mouse

Photo of the candidate and her two examiners in the common room at the CBU

Diagram showing a speaker and listener interacting with each other.

The speaker predicts they will say "head", but actually produces "had". The resulting sensory prediction error is minimised by active inference - changing speech movements to correct for this error.

The listener predicts they will hear "head" but hears "had" and performs perceptual inference to minimise their sensory prediction error - updating their predictions during perception.