We would like to announce a special issue for the journal IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

The general topic revolves around perceptual optimization processes related to attentional and predictive mechanisms. We are interested in work coming from a wide range of areas including robotics, psychology, philosophy and neuroscience. 

Themes include:

·      Attentional and gating mechanisms for action and sensory information processing

·      Context- and task-dependent perceptual optimization

·      Sensory attenuation/cancellation and sensory enhancement/facilitation

·      Interplay of predictive and attentional mechanisms for prediction error minimization

·      Multimodal integration and/or cross-modal interactions

·      State representation learning

·      Constrained innate priors that drive learning

·      Prediction in language learning and comprehension

·      Prediction error dynamics monitoring

·      Dreaming, non-conscious perception, hallucination, altered perceptual phenomena