Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain

• Published in: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences Vol. 371; no. 1708; p. 20160007
• Main Authors: Seth, Anil K., Friston, Karl J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society 19.11.2016
• Subjects: Autistic Disorder - physiopathology; Bayes Theorem; Brain - physiology; Brain - physiopathology; Cognition; Consciousness; Cybernetics; Depression - physiopathology; Emotion; Emotions; Humans; Interoception; Models, Neurological; Neuromodulation; Predictive Coding; Review; Self; neuromodulation; self; emotion; interoception; cybernetics; predictive coding

We review a recent shift in conceptions of interoception and its relationship to hierarchical inference in the brain. The notion of interoceptive inference means that bodily states are regulated by autonomic reflexes that are enslaved by descending predictions from deep generative models of our inte...