[HTML][HTML] An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of consciousness: combining integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories with the free …

A Safron - Frontiers in artificial intelligence, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework (FEP-AI) begins with the
understanding that thermodynamically-open systems must regulate environmental …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding neural flexibility from a multifaceted definition

D Yin, M Kaiser - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexibility is a hallmark of human intelligence. Emerging studies have proposed several
flexibility measurements at the level of individual regions, to produce a brain map of neural …

A robust core architecture of functional brain networks supports topological resilience and cognitive performance in middle-and old-aged adults

WC Stanford, PJ Mucha… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Aging is associated with gradual changes in cognition, yet some individuals exhibit
protection against age-related cognitive decline. The topological characteristics of brain …

The inner screen model of consciousness: Applying the free energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience

MJD Ramstead, M Albarracin, A Kiefer, B Klein… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper presents a model of consciousness that follows directly from the free-energy
principle (FEP). We first rehearse the classical and quantum formulations of the FEP. In …

Unraveling the functional attributes of the language connectome: crucial subnetworks, flexibility and variability

E Roger, LR De Almeida, H Loevenbruck… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Language processing is a highly integrative function, intertwining linguistic
operations (processing the language code intentionally used for communication) and extra …

The radically embodied conscious cybernetic Bayesian brain: from free energy to free will and back again

A Safron - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drawing from both enactivist and cognitivist perspectives on mind, I propose that explaining
teleological phenomena may require reappraising both “Cartesian theaters” and mental …

K-core robustness in ecological and financial networks

K Burleson-Lesser, F Morone, MS Tomassone… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
In many real-world networks, the ability to withstand targeted or global attacks; extinctions; or
shocks is vital to the survival of the network itself, and of dependent structures such as …

Hierarchical Cycle-Tree Packing Model for Optimal K-Core Attack

J Zhou, HJ Zhou - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2023 - Springer
The K-core of a graph is the unique maximum subgraph within which each vertex connects
to K or more other vertices. The optimal K-core attack problem asks to delete the minimum …

Core language brain network for fMRI language task used in clinical applications

Q Li, GD Ferraro, L Pasquini, KK Peck… - Network …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is widely used in clinical applications to
highlight brain areas involved in specific cognitive processes. Brain impairments, such as …

Longitudinal evaluation of brain plasticity in low-grade gliomas: fMRI and graph-theory provide insights on language reorganization

L Pasquini, KK Peck, A Tao, G Del Ferraro, DD Correa… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary This longitudinal study demonstrates the development of language
plasticity in right-handed patients undergoing surgery for left-hemispheric low-grade glioma …