Jakob Hohwy

Sep 29, 2024 | flipboard.com | Elizabeth Fisher |Ryan Smith |Kyna Conn |Andrew Corcoran |Jakob Hohwy |Claire Foldi

Psilocybin increases optimistic engagement over time: computational modelling of behaviour in ratsPsilocybin has shown promise as a novel pharmacological intervention for treatment of depression, where post-acute effects of psilocybin treatment …

Jun 25, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Andrew Corcoran |Jakob Hohwy |Thomas Andrillon

AbstractNeuroscience is beginning to uncover the role of interoceptive feedback in perception, learning, and decision-making; however, the relation between spontaneous visceral and cognitive dynamics has received surprisingly little scrutiny. Here, we investigate how subjective, physiological, and behavioural indicators of arousal and attentional state vary as a function of cardiac activity and brain-heart coupling.

Jun 17, 2024 | mdpi.com | Elizabeth Fisher |Jakob Hohwy

1. Introduction: Active Inference and Wishful ThinkingThe thoroughgoing conceptual motif in Karl Friston’s free-energy principle is self-evidencing—given the beliefs harnessed by an agent’s internal generative model, the agent selectively samples sensory data to maximise evidence for their own model. This means that agents select policies for action that they believe will reduce uncertainty given their model.