Jakob Hohwy
Biographic Data
| ID | 460287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jakob Hohwy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jakob |
| FAMILY NAME | Hohwy |
| SIGNATURE | HOHWY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3906-3060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Refining the Observed Mindfulness Measure to Create and Validate the Observed Mindful Behaviours Scale
Solving the relevance problem with predictive processing
The frame or relevance problem is a classic problem in cognitive science and philosophy. We attempt to resolve this problem by appealing to predictive processing, a growing theory of cognition. As such, it ought to explain one of the central processes of cognition, that is, how an agent context-sensitively determines relevance. Our solution begins by appealing to Bayesian prior probabilities, which intuitively reflect relevance for a predictive a…
Dignity Is Distinct From Respect
Dignity is prominently endorsed in health care, organizations, and law. However, humanities research casts doubt over the utility of this concept, disputing that “dignity” captures any unique ethical value distinguishable from “respect”. Here, we test a recent proposal that dignity entails special regard for humiliation. We created a set of vignettes describing a “perpetrator” making offensive remarks or gestures to a “victim”, and asked lay part…
Dignity is distinctively concerned with non-humiliation and social equality
Appeals to the value of treating people with dignity are commonplace in certain community settings, especially in health, disability, and aged care. In contrast, dignity has been relatively neglected by philosophers, not receiving the careful scrutiny most other moral concepts have been afforded. This has recently changed, with a spate of new philosophical books and articles about the meaning and value of dignity. No consensus has emerged about w…
A metaphysics for predictive processing
For predictive processing, perception is tied to the upshot of probabilistic inference, which makes perception internal, affording only indirect access to the world external to the perceiver. The metaphysical implications of predictive processing however remain unresolved, which is a significant gap given the major influence of this framework across philosophy and other fields of research. Here, I present what I believe is a consistent metaphysic…
Negative performance evaluation in the imposter phenomenon
Foraging for the self
Sometimes agents choose to occupy environments that are neither traditionally rewarding nor worth exploring, but which rather promise to help minimise uncertainty related to what they can control. Selecting environments that afford inferences about agency seems a foundational aspect of environment selection dynamics – if an agent can’t form reliable beliefs about what they can and can’t control, then they can’t act efficiently to achieve rewards.…
Incentivising accuracy reduces bias in the imposter phenomenon
Combining novel trait and neurocognitive frameworks to parse heterogeneity in borderline personality disorder
OBJECTIVE: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis comprises several constellations of trait, neurocognitive, and psychosocial alterations. Dimensional models of psychopathology provide new opportunities to parse heterogeneity and create a stronger interface between individual characterization and psychosocial outcomes. However, dimensional models have focused on either traits or neurocognitive features, lacking integration to capture the…
Episodic future thinking and compassion reduce non-compliance urges regarding public health guidelines
We conclude that episodic future thinking exercises and compassion training may be used to decrease non-compliance urges of individuals who are an acute public health risk for the community, such as those in voluntary isolation
Expected Experiences
Conscious Self-Evidencing
The Intermediate Scope of Consciousness in the Predictive Mind
Latent classes of maladaptive personality traits exhibit differences in social processing
OBJECTIVE: Social processing (SP) deficits manifest across numerous mental disorders. However, this research has been plagued by heterogeneity and a piecemeal approach whereby skills are examined in isolation rather than as part of an integrated cognitive system. Here, we combined two dimensional frameworks of psychopathology to address these limitations. METHOD: We utilized the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) to distill trait-…
How selves differ within and across cognitive domains
Our results suggest that selves can differ considerably, along different cognitive dimensions. Further, our results show that self-cognition may be a promising feature to include in future dimensional characterisations of psychiatric conditions, but care should be taken to choose relevant self-cognitive domains
Risk perception, illusory superiority and personal responsibility during Covid‐19
Little is known about how different government communication strategies may systematically affect people’s attitudes to staying home or going out during the COVID‐19 pandemic, nor how people perceive and process the risk of viral transmission in different scenarios. In this study, we report results from two experiments that examine the degree to which people’s attitudes regarding the permissibility of leaving one’s home are (1) sensitive to diffe…
Be still my heart
The effect of uncertainty on prediction error in the action perception loop
Among all their sensations, agents need to distinguish between those caused by themselves and those caused by external causes. The ability to infer agency is particularly challenging under conditions of uncertainty. Within the predictive processing framework, this should happen through active control of prediction error that closes the action-perception loop. Here we use a novel, temporally-sensitive, behavioural proxy for prediction error to sho…
Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle
New directions in predictive processing
Predictive processing (PP) is now a prominent theoretical framework in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. This review focuses on PP research with a relatively philosophical focus, taking stock of the framework and discussing new directions. The review contains an introduction that describes the full PP toolbox; an exploration of areas where PP has advanced understanding of perceptual and cognitive phenomena; a discussion of PP's impact…
How are attention, learning, and social cognition related on the non-clinical autistic spectrum
Bayes, time perception, and relativity
The Predictive Processing Hypothesis
Prediction may be a central concept for understanding perceptual and cognitive processing. Contemporary theoretical neuroscience formalizes the role of prediction in terms of probabilistic inference. Perception, action, attention, and learning may then be unified as aspects of predictive processing in the brain. This chapter first explains the sense in which predictive processing is inferential and representational. Then follows an exploration of…
Content and misrepresentation in hierarchical generative models
Priors in perception
Content and misrepresentation in hierarchical generative models
Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle
Bayesian approaches to autism
Autism spectrum disorder currently lacks an explanation that bridges cognitive, computational, and neural domains. In the past 5 years, progress has been sought in this area by drawing on Bayesian probability theory to describe both social and nonsocial aspects of autism in terms of systematic differences in the processing of sensory information in the brain. The present article begins by synthesizing the existing literature in this regard, inclu…
Functional integration and the mind
Expected Experiences
The Search for Neural Correlates of Consciousness
The science of consciousness begins with the search for the neural correlates of consciousness. I explain this notion and give examples of research in the field. I then discuss how differentconceptionsof consciousness may influence the search for the neural correlates. This includes the distinctions between access and phenomenal consciousness, and between conscious states and unified conscious fields, as well as phenomenological conceptions. Fina…
Being Reduced
Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? 'Being Reduced' attempts to understand these questions
Quietism and Cognitive Command
Crispin Wright has sought to establish the possibility of ‘significant metaphysics’ in the shape of a common metric with which to measure the realism or robustness of various discourses. One means by which to place discourses in the metric is via the ‘cognitive command constraint’. Importantly, this constraint must be a priori. Richard Rorty has argued against this, that, given content is a function of standards of representationality, the a prio…
Functional integration and the mind
The Search for Neural Correlates of Consciousness
The science of consciousness begins with the search for the neural correlates of consciousness. I explain this notion and give examples of research in the field. I then discuss how differentconceptionsof consciousness may influence the search for the neural correlates. This includes the distinctions between access and phenomenal consciousness, and between conscious states and unified conscious fields, as well as phenomenological conceptions. Fina…
Being Reduced
Is the mind nothing but neural firings in the brain? Are we just a bunch of neurons? If the mind is just the brain, then how can we act as genuine, responsible agents in the world? 'Being Reduced' attempts to understand these questions
The neural correlates of consciousness
Neural correlates and causal mechanisms
The Predictive Mind
A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive theory because powerful theoretical arguments support it, and yet it is at heart stunningly simple. Jakob Hohwy explains and explores this theory from the perspective of cognitive science and phi…
Can you tickle yourself if you swap bodies with someone else
Attenuated self-tickle sensation even under trajectory perturbation
The felt presence of other minds
Priors in perception
Bayesian approaches to autism
Autism spectrum disorder currently lacks an explanation that bridges cognitive, computational, and neural domains. In the past 5 years, progress has been sought in this area by drawing on Bayesian probability theory to describe both social and nonsocial aspects of autism in terms of systematic differences in the processing of sensory information in the brain. The present article begins by synthesizing the existing literature in this regard, inclu…
The Predictive Processing Hypothesis
Prediction may be a central concept for understanding perceptual and cognitive processing. Contemporary theoretical neuroscience formalizes the role of prediction in terms of probabilistic inference. Perception, action, attention, and learning may then be unified as aspects of predictive processing in the brain. This chapter first explains the sense in which predictive processing is inferential and representational. Then follows an exploration of…
Content and misrepresentation in hierarchical generative models
Bayes, time perception, and relativity
New directions in predictive processing
Predictive processing (PP) is now a prominent theoretical framework in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. This review focuses on PP research with a relatively philosophical focus, taking stock of the framework and discussing new directions. The review contains an introduction that describes the full PP toolbox; an exploration of areas where PP has advanced understanding of perceptual and cognitive phenomena; a discussion of PP's impact…
How are attention, learning, and social cognition related on the non-clinical autistic spectrum
Be still my heart
The effect of uncertainty on prediction error in the action perception loop
Among all their sensations, agents need to distinguish between those caused by themselves and those caused by external causes. The ability to infer agency is particularly challenging under conditions of uncertainty. Within the predictive processing framework, this should happen through active control of prediction error that closes the action-perception loop. Here we use a novel, temporally-sensitive, behavioural proxy for prediction error to sho…
Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle
Conscious Self-Evidencing
The Intermediate Scope of Consciousness in the Predictive Mind
Latent classes of maladaptive personality traits exhibit differences in social processing
OBJECTIVE: Social processing (SP) deficits manifest across numerous mental disorders. However, this research has been plagued by heterogeneity and a piecemeal approach whereby skills are examined in isolation rather than as part of an integrated cognitive system. Here, we combined two dimensional frameworks of psychopathology to address these limitations. METHOD: We utilized the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders (AMPD) to distill trait-…
How selves differ within and across cognitive domains
Our results suggest that selves can differ considerably, along different cognitive dimensions. Further, our results show that self-cognition may be a promising feature to include in future dimensional characterisations of psychiatric conditions, but care should be taken to choose relevant self-cognitive domains
Risk perception, illusory superiority and personal responsibility during Covid‐19
Little is known about how different government communication strategies may systematically affect people’s attitudes to staying home or going out during the COVID‐19 pandemic, nor how people perceive and process the risk of viral transmission in different scenarios. In this study, we report results from two experiments that examine the degree to which people’s attitudes regarding the permissibility of leaving one’s home are (1) sensitive to diffe…
Psychology (29 works) · Cognitive psychology (22 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Cognition (14 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Cognitive science (12 works) · Neuroscience (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Artificial Intelligence (10 works)