Functional neurological disorder reflects impairments in brain networks leading to
distressing motor, sensory and/or cognitive symptoms that demonstrate positive clinical …

This review considers computational psychiatry from a particular viewpoint: namely, a
commitment to explaining psychopathology in terms of pathophysiology. It rests on the …

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 …

'Nobody bewitched by these mysteries can afford to ignore the solution proposed by Mark
Solms'-Oliver Burkeman, Guardian'A remarkable book. It changes everything'-Brian Eno …

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 …

We review a recent shift in conceptions of interoception and its relationship to hierarchical
inference in the brain. The notion of interoceptive inference means that bodily states are …

Interoception is the sensing of internal bodily sensations. Interoception is an umbrella term
that encompasses (1) the afferent (body‐to‐brain) signaling through distinct neural and …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

Active inference is a normative principle underwriting perception, action, planning, decision-
making and learning in biological or artificial agents. From its inception, its associated …

Modern psychology has long focused on the body as the basis of the self. Recently,
predictive processing accounts of interoception (perception of the body 'from within') have …