The problem of meaning: The free energy principle and artificial agency

J Kiverstein, MD Kirchhoff, T Froese - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Biological agents can act in ways that express a sensitivity to context-dependent relevance.
So far it has proven difficult to engineer this capacity for context-dependent sensitivity to …

Modules or mean-fields?

T Parr, N Sajid, KJ Friston - Entropy, 2020 - mdpi.com
The segregation of neural processing into distinct streams has been interpreted by some as
evidence in favour of a modular view of brain function. This implies a set of specialised …

Investigation of the sense of agency in social cognition, based on frameworks of predictive coding and active inference: A simulation study on multimodal imitative …

W Ohata, J Tani - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
When agents interact socially with different intentions (or wills), conflicts are difficult to avoid.
Although the means by which social agents can resolve such problems autonomously has …

[HTML][HTML] Active Inference in Psychology and Psychiatry: Progress to Date?

PB Badcock, CG Davey - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
The free energy principle is a formal theory of adaptive self-organising systems that
emerged from statistical thermodynamics, machine learning and theoretical neuroscience …

Challenges to the modularity thesis under the Bayesian brain models

N George, MM Sunny - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Modularity assumption is central to most theoretical and empirical approaches in cognitive
science. The Bayesian Brain (BB) models are a class of neuro-computational models that …

Double dissociation of visuomotor interaction mediated by visual feedback during continuous de novo motor learning

J Kim, S Park, K Yoo, S Kim - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
While the sensorimotor cortices are central neural substrates for motor control and learning,
how the interaction between their subregions with visual cortices contributes to acquiring de …