Humans and animals have the ability to continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer
knowledge and skills throughout their lifespan. This ability, referred to as lifelong learning, is …

Predictive coding offers a potentially unifying account of cortical function--postulating that the
core function of the brain is to minimize prediction errors with respect to a generative model …

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain,
cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

This article describes a process theory based on active inference and belief propagation.
Starting from the premise that all neuronal processing (and action selection) can be …

The term 'stress'–coined in 1936–has many definitions, but until now has lacked a
theoretical foundation. Here we present an information-theoretic approach–based on the …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

The positive-negative axis of emotional valence has long been recognized as fundamental
to adaptive behavior, but its origin and underlying function have largely eluded formal …

According to cognitive psychology and related disciplines, the development of complex
problem-solving behaviour in biological agents depends on hierarchical cognitive …

We consider several key aspects of prediction in language comprehension: its
computational nature, the representational level (s) at which we predict, whether we use …