Beauty and Uncertainty as Transformative Factors: A Free Energy Principle Account of Aesthetic Diagnosis and Intervention in Gestalt Psychotherapy

Does Amount of Information Support Aesthetic Values?

(2022) Norberto M. Grzywacz et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Preferred music listening is associated with perceptual learning enhancement at the expense of self-focused attention

(2022) Pietro Sarasso et al.   PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW

Positive allosteric modulation of the mu-opioid receptor produces analgesia with reduced side effects

(2021) Ram Kandasamy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling ourselves: what the free energy principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation

(2021) Matt Sims et al.   SYNTHESE

Dealing with uncertainty: A high-density EEG investigation on how intolerance of uncertainty affects emotional predictions

(2021) Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi et al.   PLoS One

Gestalts at threshold could reveal Gestalts as predictions

(2021) Thiago Leiros Costa et al.   Scientific Reports

Visual affects: Linking curiosity, Aha-Erlebnis, and memory through information gain

(2021) Sander Van de Cruys et al.   COGNITION

Dissociating embodiment and emotional reactivity in motor responses to artworks

(2021) Alessandra Finisguerra et al.   COGNITION

Beauty, the feeling

(2021) Aenne A. Brielmann et al.   ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA

Affect-Logic, Embodiment, Synergetics, and the Free Energy Principle: New Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia

(2021) Luc Ciompi et al.   Entropy

Human Synchronization Maps—The Hybrid Consciousness of the Embodied Mind

(2021) Franco Orsucci   Entropy

Nice and easy: Mismatch negativity responses reveal a significant correlation between aesthetic appreciation and perceptual learning.

(2021) Pietro Sarasso et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL

The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-Being

(2021) Mark Miller et al.   Emotion Review

The Dark Room Problem

(2020) Zekun Sun et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Is the Free-Energy Principle a Formal Theory of Semantics? From Variational Density Dynamics to Neural and Phenotypic Representations

(2020) Maxwell J. D. Ramstead et al.   Entropy

Recent advances in the application of predictive coding and active inference models within clinical neuroscience

(2020) Ryan Smith et al.   PSYCHIATRY AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCES

Curious Inferences: Reply to Sun and Firestone on the Dark Room Problem

(2020) Anil K. Seth et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Controlled Optimism: Reply to Sun and Firestone on the Dark Room Problem

(2020) Sander Van de Cruys et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

The seductive lure of curiosity: information as a motivationally salient reward

(2020) Lily FitzGibbon et al.   Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Deeply Felt Affect: The Emergence of Valence in Deep Active Inference

(2020) Casper Hesp et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

State anxiety biases estimates of uncertainty and impairs reward learning in volatile environments

(2020) Thomas P. Hein et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Parallel cortical-brainstem pathways to attentional analgesia

(2020) Valeria Oliva et al.   NEUROIMAGE

A mu-opioid feedback model of human social behavior

(2020) Isabell M. Meier et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

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

(2019) Paul Benjamin Badcock et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

Dopamine modulates the reward experiences elicited by music

(2019) Laura Ferreri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atonal Music: Can Uncertainty Lead to Pleasure?

(2019) Iris Mencke et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

What are aesthetic emotions?

(2019) Winfried Menninghaus et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Musical reward prediction errors engage the nucleus accumbens and motivate learning

(2019) Benjamin P. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of opioid receptor stimulation and blockade on touch pleasantness: a double-blind randomised trial

(2019) Guro E Løseth et al.   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Computational mechanisms of curiosity and goal-directed exploration

(2019) Philipp Schwartenbeck et al.   eLife

Predictability and Uncertainty in the Pleasure of Music: A Reward for Learning?

(2019) Benjamin P. Gold et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Uncertainty and Surprise Jointly Predict Musical Pleasure and Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Auditory Cortex Activity

(2019) Vincent K.M. Cheung et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Beauty in mind: Aesthetic appreciation correlates with perceptual facilitation and attentional amplification

(2019) P. Sarasso et al.   NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA

Unconscious emotions of human learning

(2019) Leonid Perlovsky et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

Aesthetic appreciation of musical intervals enhances behavioural and neurophysiological indexes of attentional engagement and motor inhibition

(2019) P. Sarasso et al.   Scientific Reports

The neurobiology of interoception in health and disease

(2018) Lisa Quadt et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Different responses of the right superior temporal sulcus to visual movement feedback during self-generated vs. externally generated hand movements

(2018) Jakub Limanowski et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation

(2018) Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

Scientific productivity: An exploratory study of metrics and incentives

(2018) Mark D. Lindner et al.   PLoS One

Human visual exploration reduces uncertainty about the sensed world

(2018) M. Berk Mirza et al.   PLoS One

What is mood? A computational perspective

(2018) James E Clark et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

The neural encoding of information prediction errors during non-instrumental information seeking

(2018) Maja Brydevall et al.   Scientific Reports

Everything is illuminated: Prismatic adaptation lowers visual detection threshold in normal subjects.

(2018) Irene Ronga et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE

Predictive Processes and the Peculiar Case of Music

(2018) Stefan Koelsch et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Advances in Achieving Opioid Analgesia Without Side Effects

(2018) Halina Machelska et al.   Frontiers in Pharmacology

Neurobiological Aspects of Mindfulness in Pain Autoregulation: Unexpected Results from a Randomized-Controlled Trial and Possible Implications for Meditation Research

(2017) Tobias Esch et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight

(2017) Karl J. Friston et al.   NEURAL COMPUTATION

Great Expectations: Is there Evidence for Predictive Coding in Auditory Cortex?

(2017) Micha Heilbron et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Move me, astonish me… delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top-down and bottom-up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates

(2017) Matthew Pelowski et al.   Physics of Life Reviews

Embodiment and Schizophrenia: A Review of Implications and Applications

(2017) Wolfgang Tschacher et al.   SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN

The feeling of grip: novelty, error dynamics, and the predictive brain

(2017) Julian Kiverstein et al.   SYNTHESE

The Depressed Brain: An Evolutionary Systems Theory

(2017) Paul B. Badcock et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Anhedonia to music and mu-opioids: Evidence from the administration of naltrexone

(2017) Adiel Mallik et al.   Scientific Reports

Allostatic Self-efficacy: A Metacognitive Theory of Dyshomeostasis-Induced Fatigue and Depression

(2016) Klaas E. Stephan et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Neural substrates of shared attention as social memory: A hyperscanning functional magnetic resonance imaging study

(2016) Takahiko Koike et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Neural signals encoding shifts in beliefs

(2016) Philipp Schwartenbeck et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Shaping and reshaping the aesthetic brain: Emerging perspectives on the neurobiology of embodied aesthetics

(2016) Louise P. Kirsch et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain

(2016) Anil K. Seth et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An active inference theory of allostasis and interoception in depression

(2016) Lisa Feldman Barrett et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2016) Lisa Feldman Barrett   Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Active inference, enactivism and the hermeneutics of social cognition

(2016) Shaun Gallagher et al.   SYNTHESE

Attentional Enhancement of Auditory Mismatch Responses: a DCM/MEG Study

(2015) Ryszard Auksztulewicz et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Open your eyes for prediction errors

(2015) Senne Braem et al.   COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

Active inference, communication and hermeneutics

(2015) Karl J. Friston et al.   CORTEX

From beauty to knowledge: a new frame for the neuropsychological approach to aesthetics

(2015) Gianluca Consoli   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Pleasure Systems in the Brain

(2015) Kent C. Berridge et al.   NEURON

Towards a Psychological Construct of Being Moved

(2015) Winfried Menninghaus et al.   PLoS One

Placebo analgesia and its opioidergic regulation suggest that empathy for pain is grounded in self pain

(2015) Markus Rütgen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why empathy has a beneficial impact on others in medicine: unifying theories

(2015) Jean Decety et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Self-organization, free energy minimization, and optimal grip on a field of affordances

(2014) Jelle Bruineberg et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Enhancing aesthetic appreciation by priming canvases with actions that match the artist's painting style

(2014) Luca F. Ticini et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

The Neural Network Underlying Incentive-Based Learning: Implications for Interpreting Circuit Disruptions in Psychiatric Disorders

(2014) Suzanne N. Haber et al.   NEURON

Lifelong opioidergic vulnerability through early life separation: A recent extension of the false suffocation alarm theory of panic disorder

(2014) Maurice Preter et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

The mirror mechanism: recent findings and perspectives

(2014) G. Rizzolatti et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neuroaesthetics

(2014) Anjan Chatterjee et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

(2013)   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Minimal self-models and the free energy principle

(2013) Jakub Limanowski et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Life as we know it

(2013) K. Friston   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The nature of feelings: evolutionary and neurobiological origins

(2013) Antonio Damasio et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The conditions that promote fear learning: Prediction error and Pavlovian fear conditioning

(2013) Susan Shi Yuan Li et al.   NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING AND MEMORY

Why social attachment and oxytocin protect against addiction and stress: Insights from the dynamics between ventral and dorsal corticostriatal systems

(2013) Mattie Tops et al.   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR

ERP Modulation during Observation of Abstract Paintings by Franz Kline

(2013) Beatrice Sbriscia-Fioretti et al.   PLoS One

Information-seeking, curiosity, and attention: computational and neural mechanisms

(2013) Jacqueline Gottlieb et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self

(2013) Anil K. Seth   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Reflections on agranular architecture: predictive coding in the motor cortex

(2013) Stewart Shipp et al.   TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES

Emotional Valence and the Free-Energy Principle

(2013) Mateus Joffily et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Modelling Trial-by-Trial Changes in the Mismatch Negativity

(2013) Falk Lieder et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm

(2012) Pat Bracken et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Abstract art and cortical motor activation: an EEG study

(2012) M. Alessandra Umilta' et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Image Change Detection Using Paradoxical Theory for Patient Follow-Up Quantitation and Therapy Assessment

(2012) S. David et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MEDICAL IMAGING

Neurocognitive processing of body representations in artistic and photographic images

(2012) Aline Lutz et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Psychological entropy: A framework for understanding uncertainty-related anxiety.

(2012) Jacob B. Hirsh et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Your words are my words: Effects of acting together on encoding

(2012) Terry Eskenazi et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Perception and self-organized instability

(2012) Karl Friston et al.   Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

The impact of aesthetic evaluation and physical ability on dance perception

(2011) Emily Cross   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Corticomotor Excitability during Observation and Imagination of a Work of Art

(2011) Fortunato Battaglia et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

The organization of the human cerebellum estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity

(2011) Randy L. Buckner et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROPHYSIOLOGY

Identification of a Dopamine Receptor-Mediated Opiate Reward Memory Switch in the Basolateral Amygdala-Nucleus Accumbens Circuit

(2011) A. Lintas et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

What is so special about embodied simulation?

(2011) Vittorio Gallese et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Interpersonal memory-based guidance of attention is reduced for ingroup members

(2011) Xun He et al.   EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN RESEARCH

The existence of generalized synchronization of chaotic systems in complex networks

(2010) Aihua Hu et al.   CHAOS

Attention, Uncertainty, and Free-Energy

(2010) Harriet Feldman et al.   Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Neural Mechanisms of the Mind, Aristotle, Zadeh, and fMRI

(2010) Leonid I. Perlovsky   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS

Somatosensation in social perception

(2010) Christian Keysers et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The functional role of the parieto-frontal mirror circuit: interpretations and misinterpretations

(2010) Giacomo Rizzolatti et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?

(2010) Karl Friston   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Art for reward's sake: Visual art recruits the ventral striatum

(2010) Simon Lacey et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Dopamine in Motivational Control: Rewarding, Aversive, and Alerting

(2010) Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin et al.   NEURON

Stability of the synchronization manifold in nearest neighbor nonidentical van der Pol-like oscillators

(2010) R. Yamapi et al.   NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

Controlled cross-over study in normal subjects of naloxone-preceding-lactate infusions; respiratory and subjective responses: relationship to endogenous opioid system, suffocation false alarm theory and childhood parental loss

(2010) M. Preter et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Towards a neural basis of music-evoked emotions

(2010) Stefan Koelsch   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Viewing artworks: Contributions of cognitive control and perceptual facilitation to aesthetic experience

(2009) Gerald C. Cupchik et al.   BRAIN AND COGNITION

Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning

(2009) Kent C Berridge et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY

Neuroaesthetics: neuroscientific theory and illustration from the arts

(2009) Suzanne Nalbantian   INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Of bits and wows: A Bayesian theory of surprise with applications to attention

(2009) Pierre Baldi et al.   NEURAL NETWORKS

Midbrain Dopamine Neurons Signal Preference for Advance Information about Upcoming Rewards

(2009) Ethan S. Bromberg-Martin et al.   NEURON

Predictive coding under the free-energy principle

(2009) K. Friston et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The free-energy principle: a rough guide to the brain?

(2009) Karl Friston   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES