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Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self

Anil K. Seth
- 01 Nov 2013 - 
- Vol. 17, Iss: 11, pp 565-573
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A predictive, inferential perspective on interoception: 'interoceptive inference' conceives of subjective feeling states (emotions) as arising from actively-inferred generative (predictive) models of the causes of interoceptive afferents.
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This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1104 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Perspective (graphical) & Cognition.

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The cybernetic Bayesian brain: from interoceptive inference to sensorimotor contingencies

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