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Such symmetric feedback connections support visual processing of noisy stimuli in computational models. However, neurophysiological studies have yielded evidence of asymmetric cortical feedback connections. We investigated the contribution of neural feedback in visual processing for computing grasp parameters, by utilizing convolutional neural network models that had been augmented with predictive feedback and were trained to compute grasp positions for real-world objects. After establishing an ameliorative effect of symmetric feedback on grasp detection performance when evaluated on noisy stimuli, we characterized the performance effects of asymmetric feedback, similar to that observed in the cortex. Specifically, we tested model variants extended with\n                    <jats:italic>short<\/jats:italic>\n                    -,\n                    <jats:italic>medium<\/jats:italic>\n                    -,\n                    <jats:italic>long<\/jats:italic>\n                    - and\n                    <jats:italic>longer<\/jats:italic>\n                    -range feedback connections (i) originating at the same source layer or (ii) terminating at the same target layer. We found that the performance-enhancing effect of predictive coding under adverse conditions was optimal for\n                    <jats:italic>medium<\/jats:italic>\n                    -range asymmetric feedback. Moreover, this effect was most prominent when\n                    <jats:italic>medium<\/jats:italic>\n                    -range feedback originated at a level of representational abstraction that was proximal to the input layer, in contrast to more distal layers. 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