TAP reading note: Allostasis: a model of predictive regulation
Sterling argues that efficient regulation anticipates demand, coordinates resource allocation and learns from previous errors. Physiological adjustment and anticipatory behavior both contribute to this account.
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What the study found
Sterling argues that efficient regulation anticipates demand, coordinates resource allocation and learns from previous errors. Physiological adjustment and anticipatory behavior both contribute to this account.
Scope & limitations
Theory-led review drawing on physiological and behavioral examples; no single trial sample.
The critique of homeostasis is the author’s theoretical position. This review does not establish that all feedback regulation is obsolete, validate a universal resilience score, or test TAP’s synthesis.
Population & sample
Theoretical synthesis; no single trial sample
Exposure or intervention
Prediction, coordinated physiological effectors, behavior and learning.
Outcomes
An explanatory account of regulation; illustrative mechanisms and examples, not pooled effect estimates.
Time frame
Not applicable to a conceptual model
Research funding
No dedicated funding statement was identified in the consulted published copy; acknowledgments are not treated as proof of no support.
Research conflicts of interest
No dedicated competing-interest statement was identified in the consulted copy; absence of a statement is not a finding of no conflicts.
Reading scope
PubMed bibliographic record and author-uploaded published full text, especially sections 3–4 on prediction and coordination. Figures are discussed conceptually and are not reproduced.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0006 · v0.2 · English
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