Predictive Processes and the Peculiar Case of Music

Music provides a remarkable ‘epistemic offering’: it continuously satisfies our need to resolve uncertainty, thereby underwriting its rewarding nature. Within the predictive coding framework, there are (first-order) predictions of perceptual content and (second-order) predictions of the precision (i.e., confidence or certainty) that are ascribed to first-order predictions. The capacity to update beliefs about precision endows us with the ability...