A critical aspect of evolution is the layer of developmental physiology that operates between
the genotype and the anatomical phenotype. While much work has addressed the evolution …

Research in clinical neuroscience is founded on the idea that a better understanding of
brain (dys) function will improve our ability to diagnose and treat neurological and …

The active inference framework, and in particular its recent formulation as a partially
observable Markov decision process (POMDP), has gained increasing popularity in recent …

All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated
cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of subunits (organs, cells, and molecular …

The rich variety of biological forms and behaviours results from one evolutionary history on
Earth, via frozen accidents and selection in specific environments. This ubiquitous baggage …

Cognitive neuroscience aims to provide biologically relevant accounts of cognition.
Contemporary research linking spatial patterns of neural activity to psychological constructs …

Mindfulness meditation is a contemplative practice informed by Buddhism that targets the
development of present-focused awareness and non-judgment of experience. Interest in …

A defining feature of biology is the use of a multiscale architecture, ranging from molecular
networks to cells, tissues, organs, whole bodies, and swarms. Crucially however, biology is …

The recent focus on the bidirectional heart–brain interactions in psychoneurophysiological
research has led to a variety of findings suggesting vagal activity is associated with cognition …

While contemporary psychiatry seeks the mechanisms of mental disorders in neurobiology,
mental health problems clearly depend on developmental processes of learning and …