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 …

The free energy principle, an influential framework in computational neuroscience and
theoretical neurobiology, starts from the assumption that living systems ensure adaptive …

The global neuronal workspace (GNW) model has inspired over two decades of hypothesis-
driven research on the neural basis of consciousness. However, recent studies have …

In ambiguous or conflicting sensory situations, perception is often 'multistable'in that it
perpetually changes at irregular intervals, shifting abruptly between distinct alternatives. The …

Eye fixation patterns during mental imagery are similar to those during perception of the
same picture, suggesting that oculomotor mechanisms play a role in mental imagery (ie, the …

The multifaceted nature of experience poses a challenge to the study of consciousness.
Traditional neuroscientific approaches often concentrate on isolated facets, such as …

It remains at best controversial to claim, non-figuratively, that plants are cognitive agents. At
the same time, it is taken as trivially true that many (if not all) animals are cognitive agents …

Adaptive agents must act in intrinsically uncertain environments with complex latent
structure. Here, we elaborate a model of visual foraging—in a hierarchical context—wherein …

When listening to music, pitch deviations are more salient and elicit stronger prediction error
responses when the melodic context is predictable and when the listener is a musician. Yet …

Studies of active vision in naturalistic scenes show the existence of two classes of eye
movements manifested in ambient and focal visual fixations. This finding seems to …