This review paper offers an overview of the history and future of active inference—a unifying
perspective on action and perception. Active inference is based upon the idea that sentient …

Robotics is increasingly seen as a useful test bed for computational models of the brain
functional architecture underlying animal behavior. We provide an overview of past and …

The idea that our perceptions in the here and now are influenced by prior events and
experiences has recently received substantial support and attention from the proponents of …

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

In recent years, the family of algorithms collected under the term “deep learning” has
revolutionized artificial intelligence, enabling machines to reach human-like performances in …

Recent theoretical work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are
predisposed to align their mental states with those of other individuals. One way this …

How do intelligent agents spawn and exploit integrated processing regimes spanning brain,
body, and world? The answer may lie in the ability of the biological brain to select actions …

Researchers have indicated that integrating augmented reality into robot-assisted language
learning modules could visually represent the students' learning needs and extend their …

Niche construction denotes the alteration, destruction, or creation of environmental features
through the activities of an organism, modifying the relation between organism and …

Abstract Language models based on artificial neural networks increasingly capture key
aspects of how humans process sentences. Most notably, model-based surprisals predict …