Sokolov’s neural model of stimuli as neuro-cybernetic approach to anticipatory perception

Abstract

We discuss the original ideas of E.N. Sokolov on the “neural model of stimuli” as an early interpretation of model-based anticipation in the context of neurophysiological and neurocybernetic research on the orienting reflex. The influence of Sokolov’s innovative ideas on the development of scientific investigations on anticipatory systems, closed-loop coding-decoding control, and visual perception as analysis by synthesis is presented as it was developed by Sokolov’s students working in Lithuania.