Emergence of sensory attenuation based upon the free-energy principle [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The brain attenuates its responses to self-produced exteroceptions (e.g., we cannot tickle ourselves). Is this phenomenon, known as sensory attenuation, enabled innately, or acquired through learning?
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Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Explained by the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 According to the free energy principle, all sentient beings strive to minimize surprise or, in other words, an information-theoretical quantity called variational free energy. Consequently, psychosocial “stress” can be redefined as a state of “heightened
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An Investigation of the Free Energy Principle for Emotion Recognition [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2020 This paper offers a prospectus of what might be achievable in the development of emotional recognition devices. It provides a conceptual overview of the free energy principle; including Markov blankets, active inference, and—in particular—a discussion of
Daphne Demekas +2 more
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Bayesian Mechanics of Synaptic Learning Under the Free-Energy Principle [PDF]
EntropyThe brain is a biological system comprising nerve cells and orchestrates its embodied agent’s perception, behavior, and learning in dynamic environments.
Chang Sub Kim
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Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Scientific interest in the brain and body interactions has been surging in recent years. One fundamental yet underexplored aspect of brain and body interactions is the link between the respiratory and the nervous systems.
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Emotional valence and the free-energy principle. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2013 The free-energy principle has recently been proposed as a unified Bayesian account of perception, learning and action. Despite the inextricable link between emotion and cognition, emotion has not yet been formulated under this framework.
Mateus Joffily, Giorgio Coricelli
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Is the Free-Energy Principle a Formal Theory of Semantics? From Variational Density Dynamics to Neural and Phenotypic Representations [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to assess whether the construct of neural representations plays an explanatory role under the variational free-energy principle and its corollary process theory, active inference; and (2) if so, to assess which ...
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead +2 more
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Cognitive fatigue from schema rigidity and entropy externalization: a free energy principle perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCognitive fatigue is typically described as a psychobiological state that arises from intensive and/or prolonged cognitive performance and is experienced as a subjective feeling of exhaustion and lack of energy.
Souhir Ezzedini
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Unifying treatments for Depression: An application of the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Major Depressive Disorder is a debilitating and increasingly prevalent psychiatric condition(1,2). At present, its primary treatments are antidepressant medications and psychotherapy.
Adam Mourad Chekroud +1 more
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Kinetic Energy and the Free Energy Principle in the Birth of Human Life
Reproductive MedicineThe retrospective noninterventional study investigated the kinetic energy of video images of 18 fertilized eggs (7 were normal and 11 were abnormal) recorded by a time-lapse device leading up to the beginning of the first cleavage.
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