Theories of consciousness

AK Seth, T Bayne - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

Interoceptive rhythms in the brain

T Engelen, M Solcà, C Tallon-Baudry - Nature Neuroscience, 2023‏ - nature.com
Sensing internal bodily signals, or interoception, is fundamental to maintain life. However,
interoception should not be viewed as an isolated domain, as it interacts with exteroception …

[HTML][HTML] Anterior insula as a gatekeeper of executive control

I Molnar-Szakacs, LQ Uddin - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Executive control is a complex high-level cognitive function that relies on distributed brain
circuitry. We propose that the anterior insular cortex plays an under-appreciated role in …

Neural circuits for emotion

M Malezieux, AS Klein, N Gogolla - Annual review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Emotions are fundamental to our experience and behavior, affecting and motivating all
aspects of our lives. Scientists of various disciplines have been fascinated by emotions for …

The neurobiology of interoception and affect

MJ Feldman, E Bliss-Moreau, KA Lindquist - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024‏ - cell.com
Scholars have argued for centuries that affective states involve interoception, or
representations of the state of the body. Yet, we lack a mechanistic understanding of how …

Naturalistic stimuli in neuroscience: critically acclaimed

S Sonkusare, M Breakspear, C Guo - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019‏ - cell.com
Cognitive neuroscience has traditionally focused on simple tasks, presented sparsely and
using abstract stimuli. While this approach has yielded fundamental insights into functional …

The self in context: brain systems linking mental and physical health

L Koban, PJ Gianaros, H Kober… - Nature Reviews …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Increasing evidence suggests that mental health and physical health are linked by neural
systems that jointly regulate somatic physiology and high-level cognition. Key systems …

[HTML][HTML] Interoception and mental health: a roadmap

SS Khalsa, R Adolphs, OG Cameron… - Biological psychiatry …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Interoception refers to the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and
integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment map** …

Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things

K Friston, L Da Costa, DAR Sakthivadivel, C Heins… - Physics of Life …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper describes a path integral formulation of the free energy principle. The ensuing
account expresses the paths or trajectories that a particle takes as it evolves over time. The …

Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI

G Pezzulo, T Parr, P Cisek, A Clark, K Friston - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024‏ - cell.com
Prominent accounts of sentient behavior depict brains as generative models of organismic
interaction with the world, evincing intriguing similarities with current advances in generative …