Active inference: a process theory

DOI10.1162/NECO_A_00912MaRDI QIDQ5380632zbMATH OpenDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas H. B. Fitzgerald, Francesco Rigoli, Philipp Schwartenbeck, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston

Publication date 6 June 2019

Published in Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1162/NECO_A_00912

zbMATH Keywords

active inferenceBayesian modelbelief propagationneuronal processing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Memory and learning in psychology (91E40) Neural biology (92C20)

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