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Article: "Noise as a diagnostic tool: Distinguishing System/Device Effects in Multimodal Neuroimaging"

Coauthors: Erik D. Fagerholm, Hirokazu Tanaka, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico E. Turkheimer, Peter Zeidman, Milan Brazdil

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Comments on "Micah's New Law of Thermodynamics"

Presenter: Micah Blumberg

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#72 Prof. Karl Friston - The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience & Artificial Intelligence YouTube video by AWONDERJUNKIE

Interview: "The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience, and Artificial Intelligence"

Host: Ryan Anderson

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Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity This chapter is about modeling brain responses and estimating effective connectivity using functional neuroimaging techniques. It also introduces dynamic causal models. These models allow us to infer ...

Chapter: "Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity"

Coauthors: Frederik Van de Steen, Peter Zeidman, Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Guy Nagels, Daniele Marinazzo

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Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference The Computing Continuum (CC) is an emerging Internet-based computing paradigm that spans from local Internet of Things sensors and constrained edge devices to large-scale cloud data centers. Its goal ...

Article: "Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference"

Coauthors: Victor Casamayor Pujol, Boris Sedlak, Tommaso Salvatori, Schahram Dustdar

arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618

AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models Current deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains, but struggle with data efficiency compared to human learning, which leverages core priors ...

Article: "AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models"

First author: Conor Heins

arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784

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Article: "Neural mechanisms of disease pathology and cognition in young-onset Alzheimer's disease variants"

First author: Seda Sacu

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Article: "Adaptive consolidation of active inference: excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms for organizing feedforward and feedback memory systems in sleep"

Coauthors: Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu

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AMA, May 2025 - Karl Friston - "In simple terms, what is the FEP?" YouTube video by Noumenal Labs

AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social @noumenal-labs.bsky.social

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Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...

Article: "Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle"

Coauthor: @tspisak.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749

Lecture: "The Physics of Sentience"

Host: Deep RL Course

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Healing and the Nature of Self with Karl Friston YouTube video by New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove

Interview: "Healing and the Nature of Self"

Host: New Thinking Allowed

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Inaugural Monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything): May 30, 12:30pm EST

Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social for @noumenal-labs.bsky.social

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Article: "The Functional Anatomy of Nociception: Effective Connectivity in Chronic Pain and Placebo Response"

Coauthors: Sanjeev Nara, Marwan N. Baliki, Dipanjan Ray

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Article: "Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography"

First author: Amirhossein Jafarian

www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/811324...

Frontiers | A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment

Article: "A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment"

Coauthors: Melissa Reneaux, Helen Mayberg, Dimitris A. Pinotsis

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Priors and proprioceptive predictions This review presents an approach to motor control inspired by the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. The core idea is that, to realise a motor plan, one ne…

Article: "Priors and proprioceptive predictions"

Coauthors: Thomas Parr, @mjdramstead.bsky.social

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Article: "The meltdown pathway: A multidisciplinary account of autistic meltdowns"

Coauthors: Paul A. Soden, Anjali Bhat, Adam K. Anderson

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Article: "An active inference explanation of discriminatory cognition with regard to social attitudes and harmful behaviour."

Coauthors: Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker

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How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent

Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience"

Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron

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Frontiers | Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis Within a theoretical framework of enactive allostasis, we explore active inference strategies for minimizing surprise to achieve resilience in dynamic enviro...

Article: "Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis"

Coauthors: Laura A. Harrison, Antonio A. Gracias,
J. Galen Buckwalter

www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...

Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields - Journal of Computational Neuroscience Macroscopic studies of cortical tissue reveal a prevalence of oscillatory activity, that reflect a fine tuning of neural interactions. This research extends neural field theories by incorporating gene...

Article: "Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields"

Coauthors: Gerald K. Cooray, Vernon Cooray

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Karl Friston: The physics of communication. YouTube video by CUDANLab

Lecture: "The Physics of Communication"

Host: Cultural Data Analytics

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Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention This paper asks what predictive processing models of brain function can learn from the success of transformer architectures. We suggest that the reason transformer architectures have been successfu...

Article: "Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention"

Coauthors: Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo

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Frontiers | Agentic rulebooks using active inference: An artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly proposed as a solution to environmental sustainability challenges, with applications aimed at optimizing resourc...

Article: "Agentic rulebooks using active inference: An artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability"

Coauthors: Alex Constant, Mahault Albarracin, Marco Perin, Hari Thiruvengada

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Frontiers | Dynamic Causal Models in infectious disease epidemiologyan assessment of their predictive validity based on the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK 2020 to 2024 This technical report addresses the predictive validity of long-term epidemiological forecasting based upon dynamic causal modelling. It uses complementary p...

Article: "Dynamic Causal Models in infectious disease epidemiologyan assessment of their predictive validity based on the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK 2020 to 20204"

Coauthor: Cam Bowie

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Comment: "Can a single brain cell be surprised?"

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Frontiers | Renormalising generative models This paper describes a discrete state-space model-and accompanying methods-for generative modelling. This model generalises partially observed Markov decisio...

Article: "Renormalising generative models"

Coauthors: C. Heins, T. Verbelen, L. Da Costa, T. Salvatori, D. Markovic, A. Tschantz, M. Koudahl, C. Buckley, T. Parr

www.frontiersin.org/journals/net...

How The Brain Makes Predictions | Karl Friston YouTube video by Mind-Body Solution

Lecture: "How the Brain Makes Predictions"

Host: Tevin Naidu

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM3Y...