Karl Friston
University College London
H-index: 269
Europe-United Kingdom
Description
Karl Friston, With an exceptional h-index of 269 and a recent h-index of 161 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University College London, specializes in the field of Neuroscience.
His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:
Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference
Measurement of the Mapping between Intracranial EEG and fMRI Recordings in the Human Brain
Computational modeling and autonomic control
‘Snakes and Ladders’ in Paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago
PREDICTIVE CODING
Collective behavior from surprise minimization
Modelling cortical network dynamics
Cerebellar state estimation enables resilient coupling across behavioural domains
Professor Information
University | University College London |
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Position | ___ |
Citations(all) | 338726 |
Citations(since 2020) | 115020 |
Cited By | 273122 |
hIndex(all) | 269 |
hIndex(since 2020) | 161 |
i10Index(all) | 1156 |
i10Index(since 2020) | 954 |
University Profile Page | University College London |
Research & Interests List
Neuroscience
Top articles of Karl Friston
Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference
In this paper, we unite concepts from Husserlian phenomenology, the active inference framework in theoretical biology, and category theory in mathematics to develop a comprehensive framework for understanding social action premised on shared goals. We begin with an overview of Husserlian phenomenology, focusing on aspects of inner time-consciousness, namely, retention, primal impression, and protention. We then review active inference as a formal approach to modeling agent behavior based on variational (approximate Bayesian) inference. Expanding upon Husserl’s model of time consciousness, we consider collective goal-directed behavior, emphasizing shared protentions among agents and their connection to the shared generative models of active inference. This integrated framework aims to formalize shared goals in terms of shared protentions, and thereby shed light on the emergence of group …
Authors
Mahault Albarracin,Riddhi J Pitliya,Toby St. Clere Smithe,Daniel Ari Friedman,Karl Friston,Maxwell JD Ramstead
Journal
Entropy
Published Date
2024/3/29
Measurement of the Mapping between Intracranial EEG and fMRI Recordings in the Human Brain
There are considerable gaps in our understanding of the relationship between human brain activity measured at different temporal and spatial scales. Here, electrocorticography (ECoG) measures were used to predict functional MRI changes in the sensorimotor cortex in two brain states: at rest and during motor performance. The specificity of this relationship to spatial co-localisation of the two signals was also investigated. We acquired simultaneous ECoG-fMRI in the sensorimotor cortex of three patients with epilepsy. During motor activity, high gamma power was the only frequency band where the electrophysiological response was co-localised with fMRI measures across all subjects. The best model of fMRI changes across states was its principal components, a parsimonious description of the entire ECoG spectrogram. This model performed much better than any others that were based either on the classical frequency bands or on summary measures of cross-spectral changes. The region-specific fMRI signal is reflected in spatially and spectrally distributed EEG activity.
Authors
David W Carmichael,Serge Vulliemoz,Teresa Murta,Umair Chaudhary,Suejen Perani,Roman Rodionov,Maria Joao Rosa,Karl J Friston,Louis Lemieux
Journal
Bioengineering
Published Date
2024/2/27
Computational modeling and autonomic control
Humans and other animals regulate internal bodily states within a range conducive to survival, using both autonomic reflexes and overt behaviors. However, the brain's role in coordinating these regulatory processes across bodily systems and timescales appears to be complex, given that autonomic needs are interdependent, and the utility of regulatory commands vary with time and context. Emerging theoretical approaches and associated computational models of autonomic control can address these complex functions – namely, Reinforcement Learning, Active Inference, and Allostatic Path-Integral Control. Computational modeling approaches offer particular advantages in expressing and testing brain-body disease mechanisms in physical and mental health disorders.
Authors
Chatrin Suksasilp,Karl Friston,Sarah Garfinkel
Published Date
2024/1/1
‘Snakes and Ladders’ in Paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago
A paradigmatic account may suffice to explain behavioral evolution in early Homo. We propose a parsimonious account that (1) could explain a particular, frequently-encountered, archeological outcome of behavior in early Homo — namely, the fashioning of a Paleolithic stone ‘handaxe’ — from a biological theoretic perspective informed by the free energy principle (FEP); and that (2) regards instances of the outcome as postdictive or retrodictive, circumstantial corroboration. Our proposal considers humankind evolving as a self-organizing biological ecosystem at a geological time-scale. We offer a narrative treatment of this self-organization in terms of the FEP. Specifically, we indicate how ‘cognitive surprises’ could underwrite an evolving propensity in early Homo to express sporadic unorthodox or anomalous behavior. This co-evolutionary propensity has left us a legacy of Paleolithic artifacts that is reminiscent of a …
Authors
Héctor Marín Manrique,Karl John Friston,Michael John Walker
Published Date
2024/1/21
PREDICTIVE CODING
This chapter describes predictive coders. It starts with the mean squared error solution, continues to online adaptive predictors, like LPC coders, the Least Mean Squares (LMS) adaptation, and the effect of quantization in predictive coding with Python examples. Then it describes prediction for lossless coders with Python implementations. As an extension the Weighted Cascaded LMS (WCLMS) coder is shown.
Authors
Gerald Schuller,Gerald Schuller
Journal
Filter Banks and Audio Coding: Compressing Audio Signals Using Python
Published Date
2020
Collective behavior from surprise minimization
Collective motion is ubiquitous in nature; groups of animals, such as fish, birds, and ungulates appear to move as a whole, exhibiting a rich behavioral repertoire that ranges from directed movement to milling to disordered swarming. Typically, such macroscopic patterns arise from decentralized, local interactions among constituent components (e.g., individual fish in a school). Preeminent models of this process describe individuals as self-propelled particles, subject to self-generated motion and `social forces' such as short-range repulsion and long-range attraction or alignment. However, organisms are not particles; they are probabilistic decision-makers. Here, we introduce an approach to modelling collective behavior based on active inference. This cognitive framework casts behavior as the consequence of a single imperative: to minimize surprise. We demonstrate that many empirically-observed collective phenomena, including cohesion, milling and directed motion, emerge naturally when considering behavior as driven by active Bayesian inference -- without explicitly building behavioral rules or goals into individual agents. Furthermore, we show that active inference can recover and generalize the classical notion of social forces as agents attempt to suppress prediction errors that conflict with their expectations. By exploring the parameter space of the belief-based model, we reveal non-trivial relationships between the individual beliefs and group properties like polarization and the tendency to visit different collective states. We also explore how individual beliefs about uncertainty determine collective decision-making accuracy. Finally, we …
Authors
Conor Heins,Beren Millidge,Lancelot Da Costa,Richard Mann,Karl Friston,Iain Couzin
Journal
arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14804
Published Date
2023/7/27
Modelling cortical network dynamics
We have investigated the theoretical constraints of the interactions between coupled cortical columns. Each cortical column consists of a set of neural populations where each population is modelled as a neural mass. The existence of semi-stable states within a cortical column is dependent on the type of interaction between the neuronal populations, i.e., the form of the synaptic kernels. Current-to-current coupling has been shown, in contrast to potential-to-current coupling, to create semi-stable states within a cortical column. The interaction between semi-stable states of the cortical columns is studied where we derive the dynamics for the collected activity. For small excitations the dynamics follow the Kuramoto model; however, in contrast to previous work we derive coupled equations between phase and amplitude dynamics with the possibility of defining connectivity as a stationary and dynamic variable. The …
Authors
Gerald Kaushallye Cooray,Richard Ewald Rosch,Karl John Friston
Journal
Discover Applied Sciences
Published Date
2024/2
Cerebellar state estimation enables resilient coupling across behavioural domains
Cerebellar computations are necessary for fine behavioural control and may rely on internal models for estimation of behaviourally relevant states. Here, we propose that the central cerebellar function is to estimate how states interact with each other, and to use these estimates to coordinates extra-cerebellar neuronal dynamics underpinning a range of interconnected behaviours. To support this claim, we describe a cerebellar model for state estimation that includes state interactions, and link this model with the neuronal architecture and dynamics observed empirically. This is formalised using the free energy principle, which provides a dual perspective on a system in terms of both the dynamics of its physical—in this case neuronal—states, and the inferential process they entail. As a demonstration of this proposal, we simulate cerebellar-dependent synchronisation of whisking and respiration, which are known to be …
Authors
Ensor Rafael Palacios,Paul Chadderton,Karl Friston,Conor Houghton
Journal
Scientific Reports
Published Date
2024/3/19
Professor FAQs
What is Karl Friston's h-index at University College London?
The h-index of Karl Friston has been 161 since 2020 and 269 in total.
What are Karl Friston's top articles?
The articles with the titles of
Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference
Measurement of the Mapping between Intracranial EEG and fMRI Recordings in the Human Brain
Computational modeling and autonomic control
‘Snakes and Ladders’ in Paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago
PREDICTIVE CODING
Collective behavior from surprise minimization
Modelling cortical network dynamics
Cerebellar state estimation enables resilient coupling across behavioural domains
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are the top articles of Karl Friston at University College London.
What are Karl Friston's research interests?
The research interests of Karl Friston are: Neuroscience
What is Karl Friston's total number of citations?
Karl Friston has 338,726 citations in total.