The ability to learn about other people is crucial for human social functioning. Dopamine has
been proposed to regulate the precision of beliefs, but direct behavioural evidence of this is …

Delusions are, by popular definition, false beliefs that are held with certainty and resistant to
contradictory evidence. They seem at odds with the notion that the brain at least …

We offer an account of mental health and well-being using the predictive processing
framework (PPF). According to this framework, the difference between mental health and …

Theoretical accounts suggest heightened uncertainty about the state of the world underpin
aberrant belief updates, which in turn increase the risk of develo** a persecutory delusion …

Reward and punishment have long been recognized as potent modulators of human
behavior. Although reinforcement learning is a significant motor learning process, the exact …

Cybernetics is the study of goal-directed systems that self-regulate via feedback, a category
that includes human beings. Cybernetic Big Five Theory (CB5T) attempts to explain …

A key feature of sequential decision making under uncertainty is a need to balance between
exploiting—choosing the best action according to the current knowledge, and exploring …

Humans display astonishing skill in learning about the environment in which they operate.
They assimilate a rich set of affordances and interrelations among different elements in …

When facing an unfamiliar environment, animals need to explore to gain new knowledge
about which actions provide reward, but also put the newly acquired knowledge to use as …

Background: To interact successfully with their environment, humans need to build a model
to make sense of noisy and ambiguous inputs. An inaccurate model, as suggested to be the …