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Active inference and cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Giovanni Pezzulo ,
Laura Barca  and
Karl J. Friston
Giovanni Pezzulo
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy. giovanni.pezzulo@istc.cnr.it laura.barca@istc.cnr.it http://www.istc.cnr.it/people/giovanni-pezzulo http://www.istc.cnr.it/people/laura-barca
Laura Barca
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy. giovanni.pezzulo@istc.cnr.it laura.barca@istc.cnr.it http://www.istc.cnr.it/people/giovanni-pezzulo http://www.istc.cnr.it/people/laura-barca
Karl J. Friston
Affiliation:
Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1N 3BG, United Kingdom. k.friston@ucl.ac.uk http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Friston/
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Abstract

All organisms must integrate cognition, emotion, and motivation to guide action toward valuable (goal) states, as described by active inference. Within this framework, cognition, emotion, and motivation interact through the (Bayesian) fusion of exteroceptive, proprioceptive, and interoceptive signals, the precision-weighting of prediction errors, and the “affective tuning” of neuronal representations. Crucially, misregulation of these processes may have profound psychopathological consequences.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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