Active inference and cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pezzulo, Giovanni; Barca, Laura; Friston, Karl J.
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 38(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X14001009
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

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.