[HTML][HTML] The hierarchically mechanistic mind: A free-energy formulation of the human psyche

PB Badcock, KJ Friston, MJD Ramstead - Physics of life Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
This article presents a unifying theory of the embodied, situated human brain called the
Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind (HMM). The HMM describes the brain as a complex …

Neural mechanisms and temporal dynamics of performance monitoring

M Ullsperger, AG Fischer, R Nigbur… - Trends in cognitive …, 2014 - cell.com
Successful goal-directed behavior critically depends on performance monitoring, a set of
cognitive and affective functions determining whether adaptive control is needed and, if so …

A supramodal accumulation-to-bound signal that determines perceptual decisions in humans

RG O'connell, PM Dockree, SP Kelly - Nature neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
In theoretical accounts of perceptual decision-making, a decision variable integrates noisy
sensory evidence and determines action through a boundary-crossing criterion. Signals …

[HTML][HTML] Revealing neurocomputational mechanisms of reinforcement learning and decision-making with the hBayesDM package

WY Ahn, N Haines, L Zhang - … Psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.), 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Reinforcement learning and decision-making (RLDM) provide a quantitative framework and
computational theories with which we can disentangle psychiatric conditions into the basic …

Connectivity-based subdivisions of the human right “temporoparietal junction area”: evidence for different areas participating in different cortical networks

RB Mars, J Sallet, U Schüffelgen, S Jbabdi… - Cerebral …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Controversy surrounds the role of the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) area of the human
brain. Although TPJ has been implicated both in reorienting of attention and social cognition …

The classic P300 encodes a build‐to‐threshold decision variable

DM Twomey, PR Murphy, SP Kelly… - European journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The P300 component of the human event‐related potential has been the subject of intensive
experimental investigation across a five‐decade period, owing to its apparent relevance to a …

Effects of relevance and response frequency on P3b amplitudes: Review of findings and comparison of hypotheses about the process reflected by P3b

R Verleger - Psychophysiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Diverse psychological correlates have been ascribed to “P300,” the conspicuous P3b
component of event‐related potentials (ERPs) recorded in many laboratory tasks …

Prior expectation mediates neural adaptation to repeated sounds in the auditory cortex: an MEG study

A Todorovic, F van Ede, E Maris… - Journal of …, 2011 - Soc Neuroscience
Repetition suppression, the phenomenon that the second presentation of a stimulus
attenuates neural activity, is typically viewed as an automatic consequence of repeated …

Phase entrainment of human delta oscillations can mediate the effects of expectation on reaction speed

G Stefanics, B Hangya, I Hernádi, I Winkler… - Journal of …, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
The more we anticipate a response to a predictable stimulus, the faster we react. This
empirical observation has been confirmed and quantified by many investigators suggesting …

The hierarchically mechanistic mind: an evolutionary systems theory of the human brain, cognition, and behavior

PB Badcock, KJ Friston, MJD Ramstead… - Cognitive, Affective, & …, 2019 - Springer
The purpose of this review was to integrate leading paradigms in psychology and
neuroscience with a theory of the embodied, situated human brain, called the Hierarchically …