Parr, Thomas

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

Parr, T., Pezzulo, G., & Friston, K. J. (2022) · The MIT Press eBooks

Embodied and Extended CognitionFree Will and Agency

Cited by 651

The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle

Kirchhoff, M., Parr, T., Palacios, E., Friston, K., & Kiverstein, J. (2018) · Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

Cited by 473

The graphical brain: Belief propagation and active inference

Friston, K. J., Parr, T., & de Vries, B. (2017) · Network Neuroscience

Embodied and Extended CognitionBayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Cited by 415

Uncertainty, epistemics and active inference

Parr, T., & Friston, K. J. (2017) · Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Embodied and Extended CognitionVisual perception and processing mechanisms

Cited by 252

Deeply Felt Affect: The Emergence of Valence in Deep Active Inference

Hesp, C., Smith, R., Parr, T., Allen, M., Friston, K. J., & Ramstead, M. J. D. (2021) · Neural Computation

Embodied and Extended CognitionCognitive Science and Education Research

Cited by 246

Generalised free energy and active inference

Parr, T., & Friston, K. J. (2019) · Biological Cybernetics

Embodied and Extended CognitionReinforcement Learning in Robotics

Cited by 236

Active inference on discrete state-spaces: A synthesis

Da Costa, L., Parr, T., Sajid, N., Veselic, S., Neacsu, V., & Friston, K. (2020) · Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Embodied and Extended CognitionCognitive Science and Education Research

Cited by 226

In the body's eye: the computational anatomy of interoceptive inference

Allen, M., Levy, A., Parr, T., & Friston, K. J. (2022) · PLOS Computational Biology

Embodied and Extended CognitionPsychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Cited by 185

The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple

Friston, K., Da Costa, L., Sajid, N., Heins, C., Ueltzhöffer, K., Pavliotis, G. A., & Parr, T. (2023) · Physics Reports

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

Cited by 163

Markov blankets, information geometry and stochastic thermodynamics

Parr, T., Da Costa, L., & Friston, K. (2020) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical MechanicsEmbodied and Extended Cognition

Cited by 141

Neuronal message passing using mean-field, bethe, and marginal approximations

Parr, T., Markovic, D., Kiebel, S. J., & Friston, K. J. (2019) · Scientific Reports

Bayesian Modeling and Causal InferenceNeural dynamics and brain function

Cited by 128

Deep temporal models and active inference

Friston, K. J., Rosch, R., Parr, T., Price, C., & Bowman, H. (2018) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Embodied and Extended CognitionNeural dynamics and brain function

Cited by 119

On markov blankets and hierarchical self-organisation

Palacios, E. R., Razi, A., Parr, T., Kirchhoff, M., & Friston, K. (2020) · Journal of Theoretical Biology

Complex Systems and DynamicsEmbodied and Extended Cognition

Cited by 115

Active inference as a theory of sentient behavior

Pezzulo, G., Parr, T., & Friston, K. (2024) · Biological Psychology

Embodied and Extended CognitionAction Observation and Synchronization

Cited by 109

Perceptual awareness and active inference

Parr, T., Corcoran, A. W., Friston, K. J., & Hohwy, J. (2019) · Neuroscience of Consciousness

Embodied and Extended CognitionVisual perception and processing mechanisms

Cited by 91

Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying emotional awareness: Insights afforded by deep active inference and their potential clinical relevance

Smith, R., Lane, R. D., Parr, T., & Friston, K. J. (2019) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Embodied and Extended CognitionPsychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

Cited by 89

Searching for an anchor in an unpredictable world: A computational model of obsessive-compulsive disorder

Fradkin, I., Adams, R. A., Parr, T., Roiser, J. P., & Huppert, J. D. (2020) · Psychological Review

Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum DisordersAnxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

Cited by 89

Precision and False Perceptual Inference

Parr, T., Benrimoh, D. A., Vincent, P., & Friston, K. J. (2018) · Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Visual perception and processing mechanismsEmbodied and Extended Cognition

Cited by 87

Introducing a Bayesian model of selective attention based on active inference

Mirza, M. B., Adams, R. A., Friston, K., & Parr, T. (2019) · Scientific Reports

Embodied and Extended CognitionVisual Attention and Saliency Detection

Cited by 83

Understanding visual hallucinations: A new synthesis

Collerton, D., Barnes, J., Diederich, N. J., Dudley, R., ffytche, D., Friston, K., Goetz, C. G., Goldman, J. G., Jardri, R., Kulisevsky, J., et al. (2023) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Hallucinations in medical conditionsVisual perception and processing mechanisms

Cited by 83

Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI

Pezzulo, G., Parr, T., Cisek, P., Clark, A., & Friston, K. (2024) · Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy and Theoretical Science

Cited by 80

Markov blankets in the brain

Hipólito, I., Ramstead, M. J. D., Convertino, L., Bhat, A., Friston, K., & Parr, T. (2021) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Functional Brain Connectivity StudiesNeural dynamics and brain function

Cited by 79

Degeneracy and Redundancy in Active Inference

Sajid, N., Parr, T., Hope, T. M., Price, C. J., & Friston, K. J. (2020) · Cerebral Cortex

Embodied and Extended CognitionBayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

Cited by 49

Generative models for active vision

Parr, T., Sajid, N., Da Costa, L., Mirza, M. B., & Friston, K. J. (2021) · Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Embodied and Extended CognitionVisual perception and processing mechanisms

Cited by 46