Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1708, 2016, Pages

  Seth, Anil K ^a   Friston, Karl J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Emotion; Interoception; Neuromodulation; Predictive coding; Self

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BRAIN; COGNITION; MENTAL HEALTH; PRECISION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AUTISM; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; INTEROCEPTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 84991475039     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0007     Document Type: Review

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