Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.

Cultural affordances: scaffolding local worlds through shared intentionality and regimes of attention

Ramstead, M. J. D., Veissière, S. P. L., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2016) · Frontiers in Psychology

Embodied and Extended CognitionChild and Animal Learning Development

Cited by 422

Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation

Ramstead, M. J. D., Badcock, P. B., & Friston, K. J. (2018) · Physics of Life Reviews

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

Cited by 354

Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture

Veissière, S. P. L., Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J. D., Friston, K. J., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020) · Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Embodied and Extended CognitionChild and Animal Learning Development

Cited by 348

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

The hierarchically mechanistic mind: A free-energy formulation of the human psyche

Badcock, P. B., Friston, K. J., & Ramstead, M. J. D. (2019) · Physics of Life Reviews

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy and Theoretical Science

Cited by 217

A variational approach to niche construction

Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J. D., Veissière, S. P. L., Campbell, J. O., & Friston, K. J. (2018) · Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Philosophy of Biology and Scientific ExplanationEvolution and Genetic Dynamics

Cited by 204

Embodiment and Enactment in Cultural Psychiatry

Kirmayer, L. J., & Ramstead, M. J. D. (2017) · Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture

Mental Health and PsychiatryEmbodied and Extended Cognition

Cited by 100

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

A Multi-scale View of the Emergent Complexity of Life: A Free-Energy Proposal

Hesp, C., Ramstead, M., Constant, A., Badcock, P., Kirchhoff, M., & Friston, K. (2019) · Springer Proceedings in Complexity

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

Cited by 63

Epistemic Communities under Active Inference

Albarracin, M., Demekas, D., Ramstead, M. J. D., & Heins, C. (2022) · Entropy

Embodied and Extended CognitionMisinformation and Its Impacts

Cited by 60

Stress and its sequelae: an active inference account of the etiological pathway from allostatic overload to depression.

Arnaldo, I., Corcoran, A. W., Friston, K. J., & Ramstead, M. J. D. (2022) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Stress Responses and CortisolEmbodied and Extended Cognition

Cited by 56

Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle

Ramstead, M. J. D., Hesp, C., Tschantz, A., Smith, R., Constant, A., & Friston, K. (2021) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Embodied and Extended CognitionNeural dynamics and brain function

Cited by 43

Federated inference and belief sharing

Friston, K. J., Parr, T., Heins, C., Constant, A., Friedman, D., Isomura, T., Fields, C., Verbelen, T., Ramstead, M., Clippinger, J., et al. (2024) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Embodied and Extended CognitionLanguage and cultural evolution

Cited by 30

A Rosetta Stone hypothesis for neurophenomenology: mathematical predictions from predictive processing

Da Costa, L., Seth, A. K., Friston, K., Ramstead, M. J. D., & Sandved-Smith, L. (2026) · Neuroscience of Consciousness

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy and Theoretical Science

Cited by 3