Humans and animals have the ability to continually acquire, fine-tune, and transfer
knowledge and skills throughout their lifespan. This ability, referred to as lifelong learning, is …

Research on predictive processing models has focused largely on two specific algorithmic
theories: Predictive Coding for perception and Active Inference for decision-making. While …

Respiratory rhythms sustain biological life, governing the homeostatic exchange of oxygen
and carbon dioxide. Until recently, however, the influence of breathing on the brain has …

Networks of “conscious agents”(CAs) as defined by Hoffman and Prakash (2014) are shown
to provide a robust and intuitive representation of perceptual and cognitive processes in the …

Conceptual and mathematical models of neurons have lagged behind empirical
understanding for decades. Here we extend previous work in modeling biological systems …

The mainstream science of consciousness offers a few predominate views of how the brain
gives rise to awareness. Chief among these are the Higher-Order Thought Theory, Global …

We discuss a new framework for understanding the structure of motor control. Our approach
integrates existing models of motor control with the reality of hierarchical cortical processing …

This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges
the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic …

Chris Fields• Independent Scholar• fieldsres/at/gmail. com Donald D. Hoffman• University of
California, Irvine, USA• ddhoff/at/uci. edu Chetan Prakash• California State University, USA• …

Introduction The tactile sense plays a crucial role in the development and maintenance of a
functional bodily self. The ability to differentiate between self-and nonself-generated touch …