We suggest that music perception is an active act of listening, providing an irresistible
epistemic offering. When listening to music we constantly generate plausible hypotheses …

In natural behaviour, animals actively interrogate their environments using endogenously
generated 'question-and-answer'strategies. However, in laboratory settings participants …

This paper revisits the dynamic causal modelling of fMRI timeseries by replacing the usual
(Taylor) approximation to neuronal dynamics with a neural mass model of the canonical …

The cognitive system has the capacity to learn and make use of environmental regularities–
known as statistical learning (SL), including for the implicit guidance of attention. For …

Belief updating is a relatively nascent field of research that examines how people adjust
their beliefs in light of new evidence. So far, belief updating has been investigated in partly …

We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective
Consciousness Model (PCM), which is based on the hypothesis that the spatial field of …

The central and autonomic nervous systems can be defined by their anatomical, functional
and neurochemical characteristics, but neither functions in isolation. For example …

Neuroimaging increasingly exploits machine learning techniques in an attempt to achieve
clinically relevant single-subject predictions. An alternative to machine learning, which tries …

Predictive coding (PC) posits that the brain uses a generative model to infer the
environmental causes of its sensory data and uses precision-weighted prediction errors …

Diagnosis and individualized treatment of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) represent major
problems for contemporary psychiatry. Tackling these problems requires guidance by a …