ReviewConsciousness and cognition2015
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Review in Consciousness and cognition, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 141 papers.
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141 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Layers of Social Meaning: Innate, Acquired, and Deliberative Levels of Referential Signal Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Covert neural and autonomic signatures of shared perception.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
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- EMI-EDU: reframing learning and education through energy, mass and information.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Exploring interpersonal neural synchrony in coach-athlete interactions: insights from naturalistic EEG hyperscanning in competitive tennis.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2026Article
- Against (theory-neutral) method (in consciousness science).Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Interpersonal coordination in communication: effects of alignment in multiple modalities on objective and subjective task outcomes.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The fetus/infant - mother as a co-evolving dyadic system and the development of attachment styles: an active inference perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Computational spirits: a neuroscientific account of psychedelic entity encounters.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- Folie à deux as a cusp catastrophe in coupled active inference: a dynamical systems account of shared psychotic disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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- As One and Many: Relating Individual and Emergent Group-Level Generative Models in Active Inference.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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Abstract
This paper considers communication in terms of inference about the behaviour of others (and our own behaviour). It is based on the premise that our sensations are largely generated by other agents like ourselves. This means, we are trying to infer how our sensations are caused by others, while they are trying to infer our behaviour: for example, in the dialogue between two speakers. We suggest that the infinite regress induced by modelling another agent - who is modelling you - can be finessed if you both possess the same model. In other words, the sensations caused by others and oneself are generated by the same process. This leads to a view of communication based upon a narrative that is shared by agents who are exchanging sensory signals. Crucially, this narrative transcends agency - and simply involves intermittently attending to and attenuating sensory input. Attending to sensations enables the shared narrative to predict the sensations generated by another (i.e. to listen), while attenuating sensory input enables one to articulate the narrative (i.e. to speak). This produces a reciprocal exchange of sensory signals that, formally, induces a generalised synchrony between internal (neuronal) brain states generating predictions in both agents. We develop the arguments behind this perspective, using an active (Bayesian) inference framework and offer some simulations (of birdsong) as proof of principle.
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