Thinking Ahead: human planning from a predictive processing perspective

Project Information

ThinkAhead

Grant agreement ID: 820213

DOI

10.3030/820213

EC signature date 25 November 2019

Start date 1 January 2020

End date 30 June 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 898 757,75

EU contribution

€ 1 898 757,00

Coordinated by

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (36)

Skilled motor control implies a low entropy of states but a high entropy of actions

Author(s): Nicola Catenacci Volpi, Martin Greaves, Dari Trendafilov, Christoph Salge, Giovanni Pezzulo, Daniel Polani
Published in: PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 2023, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010810

Bistability of somatic pattern memories: stochastic outcomes in bioelectric circuits underlying regeneration

Author(s): Giovanni Pezzulo, Joshua LaPalme, Fallon Durant, Michael Levin
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 376/1821, 2021, Page(s) 20190765, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0765

Understanding, Explanation, and Active Inference

Author(s): Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE, 2021, ISSN 1662-5137
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2021.772641

The road towards understanding embodied decisions

Author(s): Jeremy Gordon, Antonella Maselli, Gian Luca Lancia, Thomas Thiery, Paul Cisek, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS, 2021, ISSN 0149-7634
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.034

Neural representation in active inference: Using generative models to interact with—and understand—the lived world

Author(s): Giovanni Pezzulo, Leo D'Amato, Francesco Mannella, Matteo Priorelli, Toon Van de Maele, Ivilin Peev Stoianov, Karl Friston
Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Issue 1534, 2024, Page(s) 45-68, ISSN 0077-8923
Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.15118

Active inference unifies intentional and conflict-resolution imperatives of motor control

Author(s): Antonella Maselli; Pablo Lanillos; Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Plos Computational Biology, Issue 6, 2022, ISSN 1553-734X
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010095

Modelling ourselves: what the free energy principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation

Author(s): Matt Sims, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Synthese, 2021, ISSN 0039-7857
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-021-03140-5

Keep your interoceptive streams under control: An active inference perspective on anorexia nervosa

Author(s): Barca L., Pezzulo G
Published in: COGNITIVE AFFECTIVE & BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE, 2020, ISSN 1530-7026
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-020-00777-6

Humans account for cognitive costs when finding shortcuts: An information-theoretic analysis of navigation

Author(s): Gian Luca Lancia, Mattia Eluchans, Marco D’Alessandro, Hugo J. Spiers,Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: PLoS Computational Biology, 2023, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010829

An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation

Author(s): Riccardo Proietti, Giovanni Pezzulo, Alessia Tessari
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, Issue 46, 2023, Page(s) 92-118, ISSN 1571-0645
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.05.012

A framework to identify structured behavioral patterns within rodent spatial trajectories

Author(s): Donnarumma F., Prevete R., Maisto D., Fuscone A., Irvine E., van der Meer M., Kemere C., Pezzulo G.
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79744-7

Active inference through whiskers

Author(s): Francesco Mannella, Federico Maggiore, Manuel Baltieri, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Neural Networks, 2021, ISSN 0893-6080
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2021.08.037

Evidence for entropy maximisation in human free choice behaviour

Author(s): Natalie Rens, Gian Luca Lancia, Mattia Eluchans, Philipp Schwartenbeck, Ross Cunnington, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: COGNITION, 2023, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105328

World models and predictive coding for cognitive and developmental robotics: frontiers and challenges

Author(s): Tadahiro Taniguchi, Shingo Murata, Masahiro Suzuki, Dimitri Ognibene, Pablo Lanillos, Emre Ugur, Lorenzo Jamone, Tomoaki Nakamura, Alejandra Ciria, Bruno Lara, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Advanced Robotics, Issue 37, 2023, Page(s) 780-806, ISSN 0169-1864
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01691864.2023.2225232

Changes of Mind after Movement Onset Depend on the State of the Motor System

Author(s): Ignasi Cos, Giovanni Pezzulo, Paul Cisek
Published in: ENEURO, 2021, ISSN 2373-2822
Publisher: SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0174-21.2021

Haptic communication optimises joint decisions and affords implicit confidence sharing

Author(s): Giovanni Pezzulo, Lucas Roche, Ludovic Saint-Bauzel
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11/1, 2021, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80041-6

Goal-seeking compresses neural codes for space in the human hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex

Author(s): PS Muhle-Karbe; H Sheahan; G Pezzulo; H Spiers; S Chien; NW Schuck; C Summerfield
Published in: Neuron (2023) (In press)., Issue 22, 2023, ISSN 1097-4199
Publisher: cell press
DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.12.523762

Simulating homeostatic, allostatic and goal-directed forms of interoceptive control using active inference

Author(s): Alexander Tschantz, Laura Barca, Domenico Maisto, Christopher L. Buckley, Anil K. Seth, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Biological Psychology, 2022, ISSN 0301-0511
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108266

Predictive Processing in Cognitive Robotics: a Review

Author(s): Alejandra Ciria, Guido Schillaci, Giovanni Pezzulo, Verena V. Hafner, Bruno Lara
Published in: NEURAL COMPUTATION, 2021, ISSN 0899-7667
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01383

Shared population-level dynamics in monkey premotor cortex during solo action, joint action and action observation

Author(s): Giovanni Pezzulo, Francesco Donnarumma, Simone Ferrari-Toniolo, Paul Cisek, Alexandra Battaglia-Mayer
Published in: Progress in Neurobiology, 2022, ISSN 0301-0082
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2021.102214

Mapping the mental space of emotional concepts through kinematic measures of decision uncertainty

Author(s): Laura Barca, Matteo Candidi , Gian Luca Lancia , Valerio Maglianella, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2023, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0367

Moral decisions in the age of COVID-19: Your choices really matter

Author(s): Francesco Donnarumma, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Social Sciences & Humanities Open, Issue 4/1, 2021, Page(s) 100149, ISSN 2590-2911
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd. - Social Sciences and Humanities open
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100149

Hippocampal place cells encode global location but not connectivity in a complex space

Author(s): Éléonore Duvelle, Roddy M. Grieves, Anyi Liu, Selim Jedidi-Ayoub, Joanna Holeniewska, Adam Harris, Nils Nyberg, Francesco Donnarumma, Julie M. Lefort, Kate J. Jeffery, Christopher Summerfield, Giovanni Pezzulo, Hugo J. Spiers
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 31/6, 2021, Page(s) 1221-1233.e9, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.005

Bodily Information and Top-Down Affective Priming Jointly Affect the Processing of Fearful Faces

Author(s): Alessandra Nicoletta Cruz Yu, Pierpaolo Iodice, Giovanni Pezzulo, Laura Barca
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 12, 2021, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.625986

Deep kinematic inference affords efficient and scalable control of bodily movements

Author(s): Matteo Priorelli; Giovanni Pezzulo; Ivilin Peev Stoianov
Published in: PNAS, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.04.539409

Active inference, morphogenesis, and computational psychiatry. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Author(s): Léo Pio-Lopez, Franz Kuchling, Angela Tung, Giovanni Pezzulo, Michael Levin
Published in: FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, 2022, ISSN 1662-5188
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2022.988977

The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference

Author(s): Giovanni Pezzul , Thomas Parr and Karl Friston
Published in: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 2022, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0531

The Half-Empty/Full Glass in Mental Health: A Reference-Dependent Computational Model of Evaluation in Psychopathology

Author(s): Francesco Rigoli, Cristina Martinelli, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 2021, ISSN 2167-7026
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.
DOI: 10.1177/2167702621998344

From Allostatic Agents to Counterfactual Cognisers: Active Inference, Biological Regulation, and The Origins of Cognition

Author(s): Corcoran A.W., Pezzulo G., Hohwy, J.
Published in: BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY, 2020, ISSN 0169-3867
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-020-09746-2

The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning

Author(s): Ivilin Stoianov, Domenico Maisto, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Progress in Neurobiology, 2022, ISSN 0301-0082
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102329

The secret life of predictive brains: what’s spontaneous activity for?

Author(s): Giovanni Pezzulo, Marco Zorzi, Maurizio Corbetta
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.05.007

Motor invariants in action execution and perception

Author(s): Francesco Torricelli, Alice Tomassini, Giovanni Pezzulo, Thierry Pozzo, Luciano Fadiga, Alessandro D'Ausilio
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, 2023, ISSN 1873-1457
Publisher: ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2022.11.003

I want to believe: delusion, motivated reasoning, and Bayesian decision theory

Author(s): Francesco Rigoli, Cristina Martinelli, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY, 2021, ISSN 1354-6805
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2021.1982686

Social epistemic actions

Author(s): Pezzulo G., Barca L., Maisto D., Donnarumma F.
Published in: BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES, 2020, ISSN 0140-525X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19002802

A reference-based theory of motivation and effort allocation

Author(s): Francesco Rigoli, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 2022, ISSN 1069-9384
Publisher: Psychonomic Society Inc.
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-022-02135-8

Perception and misperception of bodily symptoms from an active inference perspective: Modelling the case of panic disorder.

Author(s): Domenico Maisto, Laura Barca, Omer Van den Bergh, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: Psychological Review, Issue 128/4, 2021, Page(s) 690-710, ISSN 0033-295X
Publisher: American Psychological Association
DOI: 10.1037/rev0000290

Other (2)

Changes in Preferences Reported After Choices Are Informative, Not Merely StatisticalArtifacts

Author(s): Douglas G. Lee, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: 2022
Publisher: .
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/btj95

Evidence or Confidence: What Really Accumulates During a Decision?

Author(s): Douglas G. Lee, Jean Daunizeau, Giovanni Pezzulo
Published in: 2022
Publisher: .
DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.02.438275

Monographic books (2)

Active Inference The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

Author(s): Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston
Published in: 2022
Publisher: The MIT Press

Active Inference

Author(s): Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston
Published in: 2024
Publisher: The MIT Press
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12441.001.0001