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Active Inference, homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control

Pezzulo, G; Rigoli, F; Friston, K; (2015) Active Inference, homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control. Progress in Neurobiology , 134 pp. 17-35. 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.09.001. Green open access

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Abstract

We review a theory of homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control within the Active Inference framework. Our aim is to connect two research streams that are usually considered independently; namely, Active Inference and associative learning theories of animal behaviour. The former uses a probabilistic (Bayesian) formulation of perception and action, while the latter calls on multiple (Pavlovian, habitual, goal-directed) processes for homeostatic and behavioural control. We offer a synthesis these classical processes and cast them as successive hierarchical contextualisations of sensorimotor constructs, using the generative models that underpin Active Inference. This dissolves any apparent mechanistic distinction between the optimization processes that mediate classical control or learning. Furthermore, we generalize the scope of Active Inference by emphasizing interoceptive inference and homeostatic regulation. The ensuing homeostatic (or allostatic) perspective provides an intuitive explanation for how priors act as drives or goals to enslave action, and emphasises the embodied nature of inference.

Type: Article
Title: Active Inference, homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.09.001
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2015.09.001
Additional information: © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: Active Inference, Adaptive control, Homeostatic regulation, Model-based control, Model-free control, Pavlovian control
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475385
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