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Active Inference

Active Inference is a theoretical framework within cognitive modeling that explains perception, action, and learning as processes by which agents minimize variational free energy through the orchestration of beliefs and behavior under the Bayesian principle of probabilistic inference.

312

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23.9K

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535

Authors

317

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2017–2026

259

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Publications

312

The theory of constructed emotion: an active inference account of interoception and categorization

Lisa Feldman Barrett · Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience · 2016 · 1.4K citations · Full text

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Active Inference: A Process Theory

Karl Friston, Thomas H. B. FitzGerald, Francesco Rigoli et al. · Neural Computation · 2016 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Active inference and epistemic value

Karl Friston, Francesco Rigoli, Dimitri Ognibene et al. · Cognitive Neuroscience · 2015 · 735 citations

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Life as we know it

Karl Friston · Journal of The Royal Society Interface · 2013 · 698 citations · Full text

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Action understanding and active inference

Karl Friston, Jérémie Mattout, James M. Kilner · Biological Cybernetics · 2011 · 668 citations

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Authors

535

  1. KF
    Karl Friston

    University College London, United Kingdom

    125 publications · 13.8K citations

    59

    h-index

  2. TP
    Thomas Parr

    University College London, United Kingdom

    37 publications · 3.2K citations

    28

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  3. GP
    Giovanni Pezzulo

    Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy

    23 publications · 3.3K citations

    21

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  4. RS
    Ryan Smith

    Laureate Institute for Brain Research, United States

    22 publications · 1.4K citations

    20

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  5. CL
    Christopher L. Buckley

    University of Sussex, United Kingdom

    18 publications · 729 citations

    15

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Institutions

317

  1. Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

    London, United Kingdom

    61 h-index

    316 publications

    39.3K citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    60 h-index

    336 publications

    38.7K citations

  3. National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

    London, United Kingdom

    25 h-index

    79 publications

    9.6K citations

  4. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

    Rome, Italy

    21 h-index

    42 publications

    4K citations

  5. Laureate Institute for Brain Research

    Tulsa, United States

    20 h-index

    50 publications

    2.8K citations

  6. National Research Council

    Rome, Italy

    19 h-index

    49 publications

    3.9K citations

  7. University of Sussex

    Brighton, United Kingdom

    17 h-index

    45 publications

    2K citations

  8. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    15 h-index

    26 publications

    1.9K citations

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Venues

  1. Frontiers in Psychology

    22 publications · 1.4K citations

    18

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  2. Neural Computation

    13 publications · 2.4K citations

    12

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  3. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

    Repository · 12 publications · 340 citations

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  4. Entropy

    11 publications · 366 citations

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  5. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 10 publications · 300 citations

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