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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint , Article 2020 SpainCenter for Open Science SSHRC, ARC | Australian Laureate Fello..., EC | XSPECTSSHRC ,ARC| Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL170100160 ,EC| XSPECTAuthors: Axel Constant; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Beren Millidge; +7 AuthorsAxel Constant; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Beren Millidge; Beren Millidge; Felipe Criado-Boado; Luis M Martinez; Johannes Müeller; Andy Clark; Andy Clark; Andy Clark;This paper presents an active inference based simulation study of visual foraging. The goal of the simulation is to show the effect of the acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles on cognitive task performance, under active inference. We show how cultural artefacts like antique vase decorations drive cognitive functions such as perception, action and learning, as well as task performance in a simple visual discrimination task. We thus describe a new active inference based research pipeline that future work may employ to inquire on deep guiding principles determining the manner in which material culture drives human thought, by building and rebuilding our patterns of attention. Researchers on this article were supported by an Australian Laureate Fellowship project A Philosophy of Medicine for the 21st Century (Ref: FL170100160) and by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowship (Ref: 752-2019-0065) (AC), by a PhD studentship from the Sackler Foundation and the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Sussex (AT); by an EPSRC PhD Studentship (BM), by a GAIN-Xunta de Galiza Groups of Excellence 2020 (FC-B), and by Horizon 2020 European Union ERC Advanced Grant XSPECT - DLV-692739 (AC). AT is grateful to the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, which supports the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu5 citations 5 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 132visibility views 132 download downloads 99 Powered bymore_vert Frontiers in Neuroro... arrow_drop_down Recolector de Ciencia Abierta, RECOLECTA; DIGITAL.CSICArticle . 2021add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Wiley SSHRC, ARC | Discovery Projects - Gran..., ARC | Australian Laureate Fello... +1 projectsSSHRC ,ARC| Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102987 ,ARC| Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL170100160 ,EC| XSPECTAuthors: Axel Constant; Andrew G. Clark; Michael D. Kirchhoff; Karl J. Friston;Axel Constant; Andrew G. Clark; Michael D. Kirchhoff; Karl J. Friston;Cognitive niche construction is construed as a form of instrumental intelligence, whereby organisms create and maintain cause–effect models of their niche as guides for fitness influencing behavior. Extended mind theory claims that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world – that function as cognitive extensions to support the performance of certain cognitive tasks. Predictive processing in cognitive science assumes that organisms (and their brains) embody predictive models of the world that are leveraged to guide adaptive behavior. On that view, standard cognitive functions – such as action, perception and learning – are geared towards the optimization of the organism’s predictive (i.e., generative) models of the world. Recent developments in predictive processing – known as active inference – suggest that niche construction is an emergent strategy for optimizing generative models. In this paper, based on the active inference formulation of niche construction, we first argue that cognitive niche construction can be studied as a cognitive function. Second, we argue that under the lens of active inference, cognitive niche construction can be viewed as a process of constructing, optimizing, and leveraging cognitive extensions; what we call extended active inference.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Preprint , Article 2020 SpainCenter for Open Science SSHRC, ARC | Australian Laureate Fello..., EC | XSPECTSSHRC ,ARC| Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL170100160 ,EC| XSPECTAuthors: Axel Constant; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Beren Millidge; +7 AuthorsAxel Constant; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz; Beren Millidge; Beren Millidge; Felipe Criado-Boado; Luis M Martinez; Johannes Müeller; Andy Clark; Andy Clark; Andy Clark;This paper presents an active inference based simulation study of visual foraging. The goal of the simulation is to show the effect of the acquisition of culturally patterned attention styles on cognitive task performance, under active inference. We show how cultural artefacts like antique vase decorations drive cognitive functions such as perception, action and learning, as well as task performance in a simple visual discrimination task. We thus describe a new active inference based research pipeline that future work may employ to inquire on deep guiding principles determining the manner in which material culture drives human thought, by building and rebuilding our patterns of attention. Researchers on this article were supported by an Australian Laureate Fellowship project A Philosophy of Medicine for the 21st Century (Ref: FL170100160) and by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowship (Ref: 752-2019-0065) (AC), by a PhD studentship from the Sackler Foundation and the School of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Sussex (AT); by an EPSRC PhD Studentship (BM), by a GAIN-Xunta de Galiza Groups of Excellence 2020 (FC-B), and by Horizon 2020 European Union ERC Advanced Grant XSPECT - DLV-692739 (AC). AT is grateful to the Mortimer and Theresa Sackler Foundation, which supports the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eu5 citations 5 popularity Top 10% influence Average impulse Average Powered by BIP!visibility 132visibility views 132 download downloads 99 Powered bymore_vert Frontiers in Neuroro... arrow_drop_down Recolector de Ciencia Abierta, RECOLECTA; DIGITAL.CSICArticle . 2021add ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2020Wiley SSHRC, ARC | Discovery Projects - Gran..., ARC | Australian Laureate Fello... +1 projectsSSHRC ,ARC| Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102987 ,ARC| Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL170100160 ,EC| XSPECTAuthors: Axel Constant; Andrew G. Clark; Michael D. Kirchhoff; Karl J. Friston;Axel Constant; Andrew G. Clark; Michael D. Kirchhoff; Karl J. Friston;Cognitive niche construction is construed as a form of instrumental intelligence, whereby organisms create and maintain cause–effect models of their niche as guides for fitness influencing behavior. Extended mind theory claims that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world – that function as cognitive extensions to support the performance of certain cognitive tasks. Predictive processing in cognitive science assumes that organisms (and their brains) embody predictive models of the world that are leveraged to guide adaptive behavior. On that view, standard cognitive functions – such as action, perception and learning – are geared towards the optimization of the organism’s predictive (i.e., generative) models of the world. Recent developments in predictive processing – known as active inference – suggest that niche construction is an emergent strategy for optimizing generative models. In this paper, based on the active inference formulation of niche construction, we first argue that cognitive niche construction can be studied as a cognitive function. Second, we argue that under the lens of active inference, cognitive niche construction can be viewed as a process of constructing, optimizing, and leveraging cognitive extensions; what we call extended active inference.
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