Local minimization of prediction errors drives learning of invariant object representations in a generative network model of visual perception.

"Conflict of interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest."

"The authors would like to thank Shirin Dora and Kwangjun Lee for constructive discussions. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under the Specific Grant Agreement No. 945539 (Human Brain Project SGA3; to CP and SB). We acknowledge the use of Fenix Infrastructure resources, which are partially funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program through the ICEI project under the grant agreement No. 800858. A previous version of this manuscript (Brucklacher et al., 2022) can be found as a preprint at https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.18.500392v3."