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Predictive Processing

Representative Papers

Barrett, L. F., Atzil, S., Bliss-Moreau, E., Chanes, L., Gendron, M., Hoemann, K., Katsumi, Y., Kleckner, I. R., Lindquist, K. A., Quigley, K. S., Satpute, A. B., Sennesh, E., Shaffer, C., Theriault, J. E., Tugade, M., Westlin, C. (2025). The theory of constructed emotion: More than a feeling. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 20, 392-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916251319045

Barrett, L.F., & Miller, E. K. (2025). Categorization is “baked” into the brain. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/bu4sn_v1

Katsumi, Y., Zhang, J., Chen, D., Kamona, N., Bunce, J. G., Hutchinson, J. B., Yarossi, M., Tunik, E., Dickerson, B. C., Quigley, K. S. & Barrett, L. F. (2023). Correspondence of functional connectivity gradients across human isocortex, cerebellum and hippocampus. Communications Biology, 6, 401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04796-0

Katsumi, Y., Theriault, J. E., Quigley, K.S., & Barrett, L. F. (2022). Allostasis as a core feature of hierarchical gradients in the human brain. Network Neuroscience, 6(4), 1010-1031. PMCID: PMC11117115

Theriault, J. E., Young, L., & Barrett, L. F. (2020). The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure. Physics of Life Reviews. PMID: 32008953

Hutchinson, J. B. & Barrett, L. F. (2019). The power of predictions: An emerging paradigm for psychological research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28, 280-291. PMCID: PMC6867616

Barrett, L. F. (2017). The theory of constructed emotion: An active inference account of interoception and categorization. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1-23. PMCID: PMC5390700

Chanes, L., & Barrett, L. F. (2016). Redefining the role of limbic areas in cortical processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 96-106. PMCID: PMC4780414

Barrett, L. F., & Simmons, W. K. (2015). Interoceptive predictions in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 16, 419-429. PMCID: PMC4731102