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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020

A World Unto Itself: Human Communication as Active Inference.

Jared Vasil, Paul B Badcock, Axel Constant, Karl Friston, Maxwell J D Ramstead

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

45 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Game of Self: Identity and Experience as Active Inference.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026
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  17. Federated inference and belief sharing.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jared VasilDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Paul B BadcockCentre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Axel ConstantCharles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia.
Karl FristonWellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Maxwell J D RamsteadCulture, Mind, and Brain Program, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent theoretical work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are predisposed to align their mental states with those of other individuals. One way this manifests is in

Indexed as

active inferenceadaptive priorcircular causalitycooperative communicationdevelopmentevolutionfree energymental state alignment

Identifiers

PMID32269536
PMCPMC7109408

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