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  "title": "Predictive Processing Interpretation of the Mirror Test and Implications of a Reflection Prediction for Human Cognition",
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  "publication_date": "2022-11-29",
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  "creators": [
    {
      "name": "Sean O'Connor",
      "affiliation": "Independent Researcher",
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    {
      "name": "Daniel Ari Friedman",
      "affiliation": "Active Inference Institute",
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  "description": "The "mirror test" has been used as a behavioral measure of mirror self-recognition for a variety of species. In this article we apply a predictive processing interpretation to the results of the mirror test in order to offer a novel perspective with which to understand mirror self-recognition and self-directed behavior. Furthermore, we hypothesize that a “reflection prediction”, upon which our predictive processing interpretation of the mirror test is built, may also offer a novel perspective to understand how humans locate themselves relative to a mirror, imitate others, and are self-aware from a social perspective. As we show that a reflection prediction may help to explain how these traits may emerge in human cognition, we also point out that atypical reflection predictions or atypical use of a reflection prediction may help to explain instances where these traits are atypical in certain individuals.",
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    "Mirror self-recognition",
    "Mirror test",
    "Self-directed behavior",
    "Active inference",
    "Predictive processing",
    "Sensory attenuation",
    "Mirror neuron",
    "Body Image",
    "Psycopathology",
    "Autism",
    "Depersonalization Disorder",
    "Schizophrenia",
    "Body integrity identity disorder",
    "Imitation",
    "Self-Awareness",
    "Theory of mind",
    "George Herbert Mead"
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  "checked_at": "2026-06-30T23:24:58Z",
  "domain": "Art & Synergetics",
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  "methods": [
    {
      "name": "Visual and symbolic analysis",
      "description": "Applied visual and symbolic analysis approach"
    },
    {
      "name": "Cross-domain pattern mapping",
      "description": "Applied cross-domain pattern mapping approach"
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    "The "mirror test" has been used as a behavioral measure of mirror self-recognition for a variety of species..",
    "In this article we apply a predictive processing interpretation to the results of the mirror test in order to offer a novel perspective with which to understand mirror self-recognition and self-directed behavior..",
    "Furthermore, we hypothesize that a “reflection prediction”, upon which our predictive processing interpretation of the mirror test is built, may also offer a novel perspective to understand how humans locate themselves relative to a mirror, imitate others, and are self-aware from a socia"
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    "2018_PPPiP",
    "2023_BlakeFuller",
    "2024_CurioCards"
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