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ArticleFrontiers in computational neuroscience2026

How light reshapes the mind. An active inference framework for the cognitive and emotional effects of indoor lighting.

Luca M Possati

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Article in Frontiers in computational neuroscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Luca M PossatiFaculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indoor lighting influences cognition, affect, and behavioral regulation, yet these effects are typically studied as isolated empirical findings rather than as components of a unified computational process. This paper proposes an active inference account of the impact of shared indoor lighting-non-personalized illumination in environments occupied by multiple users such as offices, classrooms, and libraries. The central hypothesis is that lighting acts through three computationally distinct channels, each indexed by a metrologically separable descriptor of the light field rather than by correlated color temperature (CCT): an

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active inferencecognitionemotionfree-energy principlelight

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PMID42719068
PMCPMC13553800

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