title: Active inference and cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain.
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.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies,National Research Council,00185 Rome,Italy.giovanni.pezzulo@istc.cnr.itlaura.barca@istc.cnr.ithttp://www.istc.cnr.it/people/giovanni-pezzulohttp://www.istc.cnr.it/people/laura-barca.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pezzulo
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies,National Research Council,00185 Rome,Italy.giovanni.pezzulo@istc.cnr.itlaura.barca@istc.cnr.ithttp://www.istc.cnr.it/people/giovanni-pezzulohttp://www.istc.cnr.it/people/laura-barca.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Barca
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging,University College London,London WC1N 3BG,United Kingdom.k.friston@ucl.ac.ukhttp://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Friston/
authors.forename: Karl J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Friston
mesh_terms: D001499:Bayes Theorem; D001921:Brain; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D013850:Thinking