Mathys, Christoph

Active inference and epistemic value

Friston, K., Rigoli, F., Ognibene, D., Mathys, C., Fitzgerald, T., & Pezzulo, G. (2015) · Cognitive Neuroscience

Embodied and Extended CognitionReinforcement Learning in Robotics

Cited by 731

Pavlovian conditioning-induced hallucinations result from overweighting of perceptual priors

Powers, A. R., Mathys, C., & Corlett, P. R. (2017) · Science

Hallucinations in medical conditionsSchizophrenia research and treatment

Cited by 684

A Bayesian foundation for individual learning under uncertainty

Mathys, C. (2011) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Reinforcement Learning in RoboticsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 655

Adults with autism overestimate the volatility of the sensory environment

Lawson, R. P., Mathys, C., & Rees, G. (2017) · Nature Neuroscience

Autism Spectrum Disorder ResearchChild and Animal Learning Development

Cited by 470

Uncertainty in perception and the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter

Mathys, C. D., Lomakina, E. I., Daunizeau, J., Iglesias, S., Brodersen, K. H., Friston, K. J., & Stephan, K. E. (2014) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Embodied and Extended CognitionGaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference

Cited by 465

Allostatic Self-efficacy: A Metacognitive Theory of Dyshomeostasis-Induced Fatigue and Depression

Stephan, K. E., Manjaly, Z. M., Mathys, C. D., Weber, L. A. E., Paliwal, S., Gard, T., Tittgemeyer, M., Fleming, S. M., Haker, H., Seth, A. K., et al. (2016) · Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Psychosomatic Disorders and Their TreatmentsEmbodied and Extended Cognition

Cited by 437

Hierarchical Prediction Errors in Midbrain and Basal Forebrain during Sensory Learning

Iglesias, S., Mathys, C., Brodersen, K. H., Kasper, L., Piccirelli, M., den Ouden, H. E. M., & Stephan, K. E. (2013) · Neuron

Embodied and Extended CognitionMemory and Neural Mechanisms

Cited by 342

Computations of uncertainty mediate acute stress responses in humans

de Berker, A. O., Rutledge, R. B., Mathys, C., Marshall, L., Cross, G. F., Dolan, R. J., & Bestmann, S. (2016) · Nature Communications

Stress Responses and CortisolMemory and Neural Mechanisms

Cited by 330

Computational approaches to psychiatry

Stephan, K. E., & Mathys, C. (2014) · Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Mental Health Research TopicsFunctional Brain Connectivity Studies

Cited by 260

The dopaminergic midbrain encodes the expected certainty about desired outcomes

Schwartenbeck, P., FitzGerald, T. H. B., Mathys, C., Dolan, R., & Friston, K. (2015) · Cerebral Cortex

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Cited by 219

Inferring on the intentions of others by hierarchical Bayesian learning

Diaconescu, A. O., Mathys, C., Weber, L. A. E., Daunizeau, J., Kasper, L., Lomakina, E. I., Fehr, E., & Stephan, K. E. (2014) · PLoS Computational Biology

Child and Animal Learning DevelopmentDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Cited by 219

TAPAS: An Open-Source Software Package for Translational Neuromodeling and Computational Psychiatry

Frässle, S., Aponte, E. A., Bollmann, S., Brodersen, K. H., Do, C. T., Harrison, O. K., Harrison, S. J., Heinzle, J., Iglesias, S., Kasper, L., et al. (2021) · Frontiers in Psychiatry

Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesUndergraduate Neuroscience Education and Research

Cited by 169

Role of the medial prefrontal cortex in impaired decision making in juvenile attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Hauser, T. U., Iannaccone, R., Ball, J., Mathys, C., Brandeis, D., Walitza, S., & Brem, S. (2014) · JAMA Psychiatry

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity DisorderNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 168

Scene Construction, Visual Foraging, and Active Inference

Mirza, M. B., Adams, R. A., Mathys, C. D., & Friston, K. J. (2016) · Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Embodied and Extended CognitionVisual perception and processing mechanisms

Cited by 165

Pharmacological Fingerprints of Contextual Uncertainty

Marshall, L., Mathys, C., Ruge, D., de Berker, A. O., Dayan, P., Stephan, K. E., & Bestmann, S. (2016) · PLOS Biology

Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior

Cited by 158

Spatial attention, precision, and Bayesian inference: a study of saccadic response speed

Vossel, S., Mathys, C., Daunizeau, J., Bauer, M., Driver, J., Friston, K. J., & Stephan, K. E. (2014) · Cerebral Cortex

Visual perception and processing mechanismsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 146

Cortical coupling reflects Bayesian belief updating in the deployment of spatial attention

Vossel, S., Mathys, C., Stephan, K. E., & Friston, K. J. (2015) · The Journal of Neuroscience

Visual perception and processing mechanismsNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 99

Evidence for surprise minimization over value maximization in choice behavior

Schwartenbeck, P., FitzGerald, T. H. B., Mathys, C., Dolan, R., Kronbichler, M., & Friston, K. (2015) · Scientific Reports

Decision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

Cited by 96

Attractor-like dynamics in belief updating in schizophrenia

Adams, R. A., Napier, G., Roiser, J. P., Mathys, C., & Gilleen, J. (2018) · The Journal of Neuroscience

Schizophrenia research and treatmentMental Health and Psychiatry

Cited by 77

Modeling subjective relevance in schizophrenia and its relation to aberrant salience

Katthagen, T., Mathys, C., Deserno, L., Walter, H., Kathmann, N., Heinz, A., & Schlagenhauf, F. (2018) · PLOS Computational Biology

Schizophrenia research and treatmentNeural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Cited by 29

Computational phenotyping of aberrant belief updating in individuals with schizotypal traits and schizophrenia

Mikus, N., Lamm, C., & Mathys, C. (2025) · Biological Psychiatry

Schizophrenia research and treatmentMental Health and Psychiatry

Cited by 16

How could we get nosology from computation?

Mathys, C. (2016) · Computational Psychiatry

Mental Health and PsychiatryMental Health Research Topics

Cited by 11

Bayesian Workflow for Generative Modeling in Computational Psychiatry

Hess, A. J., Iglesias, S., Köchli, L., Marino, S., Müller-Schrader, M., Rigoux, L., Mathys, C., Harrison, O. K., Heinzle, J., Frässle, S., et al. (2025) · Computational Psychiatry

Statistical Methods and Bayesian InferenceBayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Cited by 10

Hierarchical Gaussian Filtering of Sufficient Statistic Time Series for Active Inference

Mathys, C., & Weber, L. (2020) · Communications in Computer and Information Science

Embodied and Extended CognitionGaussian Processes and Bayesian Inference

Cited by 8