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  1. Modeling Motor Control in Continuous Time Active Inference: A Survey

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, April 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  2. The online metacognitive control of decisions

    Article • Communications Psychology, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Douglas Lee, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  3. Neural representation in active inference: Using generative models to interact with—and understand—the lived world

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, March 2024, Wiley

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  4. Active inference as a theory of sentient behavior

    Article • Biological Psychology, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  5. cpp-AIF: A multi-core C++ implementation of Active Inference for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

    Article • Neurocomputing, February 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  6. Information-theoretical analysis of the neural code for decoupled face representation

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2024, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  7. Interoceptive technologies for psychiatric interventions: From diagnosis to clinical applications

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  8. Information foraging with an oracle

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2023, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  9. Limb apraxia and active inference in the visuomotor pathways

    Article • December 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  10. Risky decisions are influenced by individual attributes as a function of risk preference

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, December 2023, Elsevier

    Douglas Lee, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  11. From particles to collectives

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  12. Learning to segment self-generated from externally caused optic flow through sensorimotor mismatch circuits

    Article • November 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

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

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, November 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  14. False Cardiac Feedback and Pain Perception

    Article • September 2023, eLife

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  15. Exposure to false cardiac feedback alters pain perception and anticipatory cardiac frequency

    Article • September 2023, eLife

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  16. Active Vision in Binocular Depth Estimation: A Top-Down Perspective

    Article • Biomimetics, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  17. Active vision in binocular depth estimation: a top-down perspective

    Article • July 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  18. Beyond simple laboratory studies: developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  19. Beyond simple laboratory studies: developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior

    Article • June 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  20. Exposure to false cardiac feedback alters pain perception and anticipatory cardiac frequency

    Article • June 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  21. Emotional distress and affective knowledge representation one year after the Covid-19 outbreak

    Article • June 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  22. Generating Meaning: Active Inference and the Scope and Limits of Passive AI

    Article • June 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  23. An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, June 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  24. Adaptive planning depth in human problem solving

    Article • May 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  25. Generative models for sequential dynamics in active inference

    Article • Cognitive Neurodynamics, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  26. Humans account for cognitive costs when finding shortcuts: An information-theoretic analysis of navigation

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2023, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  27. Skilled motor control of an inverted pendulum implies low entropy of states but high entropy of actions

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, January 2023, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  28. The online metacognitive control of decisions

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Douglas Lee, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  29. Interactive Inference: A Multi-Agent Model of Cooperative Joint Actions

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems, January 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  30. Modeling and controlling the body in maladaptive ways: an active inference perspective on non-suicidal self-injury behaviors

    Article • Neuroscience of Consciousness, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  31. Mapping the mental space of emotional concepts through kinematic measures of decision uncertainty

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  32. Humans account for cognitive costs when finding shortcuts: An information-theoretic analysis of navigation

    Article • August 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  33. Active inference, morphogenesis, and computational psychiatry

    Article • July 2022, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  34. Changes in Preferences Reported After Choices Are Informative, Not Merely Statistical Artifacts

    Article • June 2022, Center for Open Science

    Douglas Lee, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  35. Active inference unifies intentional and conflict-resolution imperatives of motor control

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, June 2022, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  36. Simulating homeostatic, allostatic and goal-directed forms of interoceptive control using active inference

    Article • Biological Psychology, March 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  37. Evidence Accumulates for Individual Attributes in Risky Choice

    Article • February 2022, Center for Open Science

    Douglas Lee, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  38. The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2021, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Professor Karl John Friston

  39. Active inference unifies intentional and conflict-resolution imperatives of motor control

    Article • December 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  40. An active inference model of hierarchical action understanding, learning and imitation

    Article • December 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  41. Mapping the mental space of emotional concepts through kinematic measures of decision uncertainty

    Article • December 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  42. Active inference through whiskers

    Article • Neural Networks, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  43. The road towards understanding embodied decisions

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  44. SHARED POPULATION-LEVEL DYNAMICS IN MONKEY PREMOTOR CORTEX DURING SOLO ACTION, JOINT ACTION AND ACTION OBSERVATION

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  45. Changes of Mind after movement onset depend on the state of the motor system

    Article • eNeuro, November 2021, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  46. The secret life of predictive brains: what’s spontaneous activity for?

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, September 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  47. Perception and misperception of bodily symptoms from an active inference perspective: Modelling the case of panic disorder.

    Article • Psychological Review, July 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  48. Evidence or Confidence: What Really Accumulates During a Decision?

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Douglas Lee, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  49. Hippocampal place cells encode global location but not connectivity in a complex space

    Article • Current Biology, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  50. Simulating homeostatic, allostatic and goal-directed forms of interoceptive control using Active Inference

    Article • February 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  51. Changes of mind after movement onset: a motor-state dependent decision-making process

    Article • February 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  52. Haptic communication optimises joint decisions and affords implicit confidence sharing

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  53. A framework to identify structured behavioral patterns within rodent spatial trajectories

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  54. Moral decisions in the age of COVID-19: Your choices really matter

    Article • Social Sciences & Humanities Open, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  55. Evidence for entropy maximisation in human free choice behaviour

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  56. Shared population-level dynamics in monkey premotor cortex during solo action, joint action and action observation

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  57. The secret life of predictive brains: what's spontaneous activity for?

    Article • November 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  58. Hippocampal place cells encode global location but not changes in environmental connectivity in a 4-room navigation task

    Article • October 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  59. The epistemic value of conformity

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  60. Disorders of morphogenesis as disorders of inference

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  61. From allostatic agents to counterfactual cognisers: active inference, biological regulation, and the origins of cognition

    Article • Biology & Philosophy, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  62. Author Correction: Differential neural dynamics underlying pragmatic and semantic affordance processing in macaque ventral premotor cortex

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  63. A framework to identify structured behavioral patterns within rodent spatial trajectories

    Article • March 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  64. Keep your interoceptive streams under control: An active inference perspective on anorexia nervosa

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  65. Bodily Information and Top-Down Affective Priming Jointly Affect the Processing of Fearful Faces

    Article • January 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  66. The hippocampal formation as a hierarchical generative model supporting generative replay and continual learning

    Article • January 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  67. Social epistemic actions

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  68. Symptom Perception From a Predictive Processing Perspective

    Article • Clinical Psychology in Europe, December 2019, Leibniz-Institute of Psychology Information (ZPID)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  69. Perception and misperception of bodily symptoms from an Active Inference perspective: Modelling the case of panic disorder.

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  70. From Allostatic Agents to Counterfactual Cognisers: Active Inference, Biological Regulation, and The Origins of Cognition

    Article • November 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  71. Planning at decision time and in the background during spatial navigation

    Article • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  72. Caching mechanisms for habit formation in Active Inference

    Article • Neurocomputing, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  73. Differential neural dynamics underlying pragmatic and semantic affordance processing in macaque ventral premotor cortex

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  74. Words as social tools: Flexibility, situatedness, language and sociality in abstract concepts

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  75. An interoceptive illusion of effort induced by false heart-rate feedback

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  76. Tracking the Time Course of Bayesian Inference With Event-Related Potentials:A Study Using the Central Cue Posner Paradigm

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  77. The future of sensorimotor communication research

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  78. Analysis of Group ICA functional connectivity of task-driven fMRI: application to language processes in adults with auditory deprivation

    Article • April 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  79. Making the Environment an Informative Place: A Conceptual Analysis of Epistemic Policies and Sensorimotor Coordination

    Article • Entropy, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  80. An information-theoretic perspective on the costs of cognition

    Article • Neuropsychologia, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  81. The value of uncertainty: An active inference perspective

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  82. Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  83. Local high-frequency vibration therapy following eccentric exercises reduces muscle soreness perception and posture alterations in elite athletes

    Article • European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  84. Model-based spatial navigation in the hippocampus-ventral striatum circuit: A computational analysis

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, September 2018, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  85. Commentary: The Problem of Mental Action: Predictive Control Without Sensory Sheets

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  86. Commentary: Respiration-Entrained Brain Rhythms Are Global but Often Overlooked

    Article • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, June 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  87. The body talks: Sensorimotor communication and its brain and kinematic signatures

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, June 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  88. Hierarchical Active Inference: A Theory of Motivated Control

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, April 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Professor Karl John Friston

  89. Feel the Time. Time Perception as a Function of Interoceptive Processing

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, March 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Dr. Pietro Cipresso

  90. Evidence for sparse synergies in grasping actions

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Nature

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  91. Increased heart rate after exercise facilitates the processing of fearful but not disgusted faces

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2018, Nature

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  92. Realigning Models of Habitual and Goal-Directed Decision-Making

    Article • January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  93. Embodying Markov blankets

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  94. Fatigue increases the perception of future effort during decision making

    Article • Psychology of Sport and Exercise, November 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  95. An information-theoretic perspective on the costs of cognition

    Article • October 2017, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  96. Active Inference, Curiosity and Insight

    Article • Neural Computation, October 2017, The MIT Press

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  97. Dynamic lexical decisions in French: Evidence for a feedback inconsistency effect

    Article • Acta Psychologica, October 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  98. Endogenous Bioelectric Signaling Networks: Exploiting Voltage Gradients for Control of Growth and Form

    Article • Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, June 2017, Annual Reviews

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  99. Model-Based Approaches to Active Perception and Control

    Article • Entropy, June 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  100. Internally generated hippocampal sequences as a vantage point to probe future-oriented cognition

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 2017, Wiley

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  101. Fatigue modulates dopamine availability and promotes flexible choice reversals during decision making

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2017, Nature

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  102. Action perception as hypothesis testing

    Article • Cortex, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Professor Karl John Friston

  103. A Goal-Directed Bayesian Framework for Categorization

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, March 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  104. You cannot speak and listen at the same time: a probabilistic model of turn-taking

    Article • Biological Cybernetics, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  105. Sensorimotor Coarticulation in the Execution and Recognition of Intentional Actions

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  106. Avoiding Accidents at the Champagne Reception

    Article • Psychological Science, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  107. Active Inference: A Process Theory

    Article • Neural Computation, January 2017, The MIT Press

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  108. The influence of communication mode on written language processing and beyond

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  109. Sensorimotor communication for humans and robots: improving interactive skills by sending coordination signals

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, January 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  110. Top-down models in biology: explanation and control of complex living systems above the molecular level

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, November 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Dr Michael Levin

  111. Differential effects of visual uncertainty and contextual guidance on perceptual decisions: Evidence from eye and mouse tracking in visual search

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2016, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  112. Active inference and learning

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  113. Active inference and robot control: a case study

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, September 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Professor Karl John Friston

  114. The Mechanisms and Benefits of a Future-Oriented Brain

    Article • July 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  115. Active Inference, epistemic value, and vicarious trial and error

    Article • Learning & Memory, June 2016, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  116. Navigating the Affordance Landscape: Feedback Control as a Process Model of Behavior and Cognition

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, June 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  117. Predictive Technologies: Can Smart Tools Augment the Brain's Predictive Abilities?

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, April 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Professor Andrea Gaggioli

  118. Problem Solving as Probabilistic Inference with Subgoaling: Explaining Human Successes and Pitfalls in the Tower of Hanoi

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, April 2016, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  119. The Contribution of Pragmatic Skills to Cognition and Its Development

    Article • March 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  120. Nonparametric Problem-Space Clustering: Learning Efficient Codes for Cognitive Control Tasks

    Article • Entropy, February 2016, MDPI AG

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  121. Consensus Paper: Towards a Systems-Level View of Cerebellar Function: the Interplay Between Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Cortex

    Article • The Cerebellum, February 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Rick Helmich

  122. Prefrontal Goal Codes Emerge as Latent States in Probabilistic Value Learning

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, January 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  123. Prospective and Pavlovian mechanisms in aversive behaviour

    Article • Cognition, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  124. Tracking and simulating dynamics of implicit stereotypes: A situated social cognition perspective.

    Article • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  125. Toward mechanistic models of action-oriented and detached cognition

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  126. The status of the simulative method in cognitive science: current debates and future prospects

    Article • PARADIGMI, January 2016, Franco Angeli

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  127. Active Inference, homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  128. Learning programs is better than learning dynamics: A programmable neural network hierarchical architecture in a multi-task scenario

    Article • Adaptive Behavior, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  129. The effects of phonological similarity on the semantic categorisation of pictorial and lexical stimuli: evidence from continuous behavioural measures

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Psychology, October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  130. Analysis of hand kinematics reveals inter-individual differences in intertemporal decision dynamics

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  131. Interactional leader–follower sensorimotor communication strategies during repetitive joint actions

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, September 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  132. A Programmer–Interpreter Neural Network Architecture for Prefrontal Cognitive Control

    Article • International Journal of Neural Systems, September 2015, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  133. Multiple timescales of body schema reorganization due to plastic surgery

    Article • Human Movement Science, August 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  134. Combined effects of expectations and visual uncertainty upon detection and identification of a target in the fog

    Article • Cognitive Processing, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  135. The intentional stance as structure learning: a computational perspective on mindreading

    Article • Biological Cybernetics, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  136. More gain less pain: balance control learning shifts the activation patterns of leg and neck muscles and increases muscular parsimony

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  137. Embodied Choice: How Action Influences Perceptual Decision Making

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, April 2015, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  138. Knowing one's place: a free-energy approach to pattern regulation

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, March 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Michael Levin, Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  139. Interindividual Variability in Functional Connectivity as Long-Term Correlate of Temporal Discounting

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2015, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  140. Active inference and epistemic value

    Article • Cognitive Neuroscience, March 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  141. The role of synergies within generative models of action execution and recognition: A computational perspective

    Article • Physics of Life Reviews, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  142. Tracking Second Thoughts: Continuous and Discrete Revision Processes during Visual Lexical Decision

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2015, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  143. Divide et impera: subgoaling reduces the complexity of probabilistic inference and problem solving

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  144. The eye in hand: predicting others' behavior by integrating multiple sources of information

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, January 2015, American Physiological Society

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  145. Active inference and cognitive-emotional interactions in the brain

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Karl John Friston, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  146. Re-membering the body: applications of computational neuroscience to the top-down control of regeneration of limbs and other complex organs

    Article • Integrative Biology, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Michael Levin, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  147. How active perception and attractor dynamics shape perceptual categorization: A computational model

    Article • Neural Networks, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  148. Internally generated sequences in learning and executing goal-directed behavior

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  149. The sensorimotor and social sides of the architecture of speech

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  150. How do you hold your mouse? Tracking the compatibility effect between hand posture and stimulus size

    Article • Psychological Research, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Anna M. Borghi, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  151. The principles of goal-directed decision-making: from neural mechanisms to computation and robotics

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  152. The why, what, where, when and how of goal-directed choice: neuronal and computational principles

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  153. Topological Self-Organization and Prediction Learning Support Both Action and Lexical Chains in the Brain

    Article • Topics in Cognitive Science, June 2014, Wiley

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  154. The Cat is on the Mat. or is it a Dog? Dynamic Competition in Perceptual Decision Making

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems, May 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  155. Goals reconfigure cognition by modulating predictive processes in the brain

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  156. Decision and action planning signals in human posterior parietal cortex during delayed perceptual choices

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  157. Bounded Seed-AGI

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  158. Mouse Tracking Emispatial Neglect

    Article • January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  159. Why do you fear the bogeyman? An embodied predictive coding model of perceptual inference

    Article • Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  160. Action simulation in the human brain: Twelve questions

    Article • New Ideas in Psychology, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  161. The anticipatory construction of reality as a central concern for psychology and robotics

    Article • New Ideas in Psychology, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  162. The contribution of brain sub-cortical loops in the expression and acquisition of action understanding abilities

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, December 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  163. Human Sensorimotor Communication: A Theory of Signaling in Online Social Interactions

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2013, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  164. Active Bayesian perception and reinforcement learning

    Article • November 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  165. Studying mirror mechanisms within generative and predictive architectures for joint action

    Article • Cortex, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  166. Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition

    Article • The Cerebellum, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  167. The effect of model uncertainty on cooperation in sensorimotor interactions

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, August 2013, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  168. Mental imagery in the navigation domain: a computational model of sensory-motor simulation mechanisms

    Article • Adaptive Behavior, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  169. Intentional strategies that make co-actors more predictable: The case of signaling

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, June 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  170. A spiking neuron model of the cortico-basal ganglia circuits for goal-directed and habitual action learning

    Article • Neural Networks, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  171. Visual Word Recognition in Deaf Readers: Lexicality Is Modulated by Communication Mode

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Pasquale Rinaldi, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  172. Computational Grounded Cognition: a new alliance between grounded cognition and computational modeling

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Angelo Cangelosi, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  173. Shared action spaces: a basis function framework for social re-calibration of sensorimotor representations supporting joint action

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  174. Simulation and Anticipation as Tools for Coordinating with the Future

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  175. The Mixed Instrumental Controller: Using Value of Information to Combine Habitual Choice and Mental Simulation

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  176. Role of articulatory motor planning on pictures categorization: A kinematic study

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  177. Learning Epistemic Actions in Model-Free Memory-Free Reinforcement Learning: Experiments with a Neuro-robotic Model

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  178. Working memory and mental imagery in Cerebral Palsy: A single case investigation

    Article • Neurocase, August 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  179. Using hippocampal-striatal loops for spatial navigation and goal-directed decision-making

    Article • Cognitive Processing, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  180. The “Interaction Engine”: A Common Pragmatic Competence Across Linguistic and Nonlinguistic Interactions

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, June 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  181. Unfolding Visual Lexical Decision in Time

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2012, PLOS

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  182. An Active Inference view of cognitive control

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  183. Aversive Pavlovian Responses Affect Human Instrumental Motor Performance

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  184. Is visual lexical decision a dynamic and competitive process? No, if we look at reaction times. Yes, if we study how it unfolds in time

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  185. Hippocampal forward sweeps and the balance of goal-directed and habitual controllers: a Bayesian approach

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  186. Computational explorations of perceptual symbol systems theory

    Article • New Ideas in Psychology, December 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  187. Erratum to: Evolution of a predictive internal model in an embodied and situated agent

    Article • Theory in Biosciences, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  188. Shared Representations as Coordination Tools for Interaction

    Article • Review of Philosophy and Psychology, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  189. Evolution of a predictive internal model in an embodied and situated agent

    Article • Theory in Biosciences, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  190. What should I do next? Using shared representations to solve interaction problems

    Article • Experimental Brain Research, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  191. Research on cognitive robotics at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy

    Article • Cognitive Processing, April 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo, Amedeo Cesta

  192. Grounding Procedural and Declarative Knowledge in Sensorimotor Anticipation

    Article • Mind & Language, January 2011, Wiley

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  193. The Mechanics of Embodiment: A Dialog on Embodiment and Computational Modeling

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2011, Frontiers

    Professor Angelo Cangelosi, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  194. Learning to Grasp Information with Your Own Hands

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  195. The Value of Foresight: How Prospection Affects Decision-Making

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2011, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  196. How can bottom-up information shape learning of top-down attention-control skills?

    Article • August 2010, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  197. When affordances climb into your mind: Advantages of motor simulation in a memory task performed by novice and expert rock climbers

    Article • Brain and Cognition, June 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Anna M. Borghi, Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  198. Reading as active sensing: a computational model of gaze planning during word recognition

    Article • Frontiers in Neurorobotics, January 2010, Frontiers

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  199. Behavioral Implicit Communication (BIC)

    Article • International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence, January 2010, IGI Global

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  200. Emergence of an Internal Model in Evolving Robots Subjected to Sensory Deprivation

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  201. Learning to Look in Different Environments: An Active-Vision Model Which Learns and Readapts Visual Routines

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  202. DiPRA: a layered agent architecture which integrates practical reasoning and sensorimotor schemas

    Article • Connection Science, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  203. Intentional action: from anticipation to goal-directed behavior

    Article • Psychological Research, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  204. Thinking as the control of imagination: a conceptual framework for goal-directed systems

    Article • Psychological Research, April 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  205. From Sensorimotor to Higher-Level Cognitive Processes: An Introduction to Anticipatory Behavior Systems

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  206. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  207. Coordinating with the Future: The Anticipatory Nature of Representation

    Article • Minds and Machines, February 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  208. The Challenge of Anticipation

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  209. Anticipation and anticipatory behavior: II

    Article • Cognitive Processing, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  210. Anticipation and anticipatory behavior

    Article • Cognitive Processing, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  211. Designing modular architectures in the framework AKIRA

    Article • Multiagent and Grid Systems, April 2007, IOS Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  212. The symbol detachment problem

    Article • Cognitive Processing, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  213. Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems

    Article • January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  214. Contract Nets for Evaluating Agent Trustworthiness

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  215. Dynamic Computation and Context Effects in the Hybrid Architecture AKIRA

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  216. Integrating Trustfulness and Decision Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  217. Trust in information sources as a source for trust

    Article • January 2003, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  218. The role of domain information in Word Sense Disambiguation

    Article • Natural Language Engineering, December 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  219. A Study of Off-Line Uses of Anticipation

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  220. Cooperating through a belief-based trust computation

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  221. Anticipation and Future-Oriented Capabilities in Natural and Artificial Cognition

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  222. Anticipatory, Goal-Directed Behavior

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  223. Benefits of Anticipations in Cognitive Agents

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  224. Modulatory Influence of Motivations on a Schema-Based Architecture: A Simulative Study

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo

  225. Endowing Artificial Systems with Anticipatory Capabilities: Success Cases

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Giovanni Pezzulo