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Chapter 1 - Talkin’ Bout a Revolution

A Paradigm Shift

from Part I - Setting the Stage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2025

Falk Huettig
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
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Summary

The beginning of the third millennium, starting in the early noughties and increasing in strength throughout the 2010s, has seen a large shift in theoretical focus in the mind sciences. In what might be called the predictive revolution or the predictive turn, many researchers in the psychological and brain sciences have come to consider the human mind a ‘predictive engine’ or ‘prediction machine.’ Like its predecessor, the cognitive revolution, more than half a century before, the predictive revolution is grand in ambition. It tries to explain all mental processes within one common framework. In this unified theory, the functioning of the mind is no longer best explained as an information processor: Minds have become prediction systems. The predictive revolution promises to reconcile cognition and behavior as the intrinsically connected two sides of the same coin serving human interactions with the environment.

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Looking Ahead
The New Science of the Predictive Mind
, pp. 3 - 11
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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  • Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
  • Falk Huettig, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
  • Book: Looking Ahead
  • Online publication: 20 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245470.003
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  • Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
  • Falk Huettig, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
  • Book: Looking Ahead
  • Online publication: 20 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245470.003
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  • Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
  • Falk Huettig, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, The Netherlands
  • Book: Looking Ahead
  • Online publication: 20 March 2025
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009245470.003
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