Anil K Seth
Biographic Data
| ID | 6626871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anil K Seth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anil K |
| FAMILY NAME | Seth |
| SIGNATURE | SETH A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1421-6051 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects
Theories of consciousness
From Generative Models to Generative Passages
This paper presents a version of neurophenomenology based on generative modelling techniques developed in computational neuroscience and biology. Our approach can be described as computational phenomenology because it applies methods originally developed in computational modelling to provide a formal model of the descriptions of lived experience in the phenomenological tradition of philosophy (e.g., the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Pon…
I overthink—Therefore I am not
This paper considers the phenomenology of depersonalisation disorder, in relation to predictive processing and its associated pathophysiology. To do this, we first establish a few mechanistic tenets of predictive processing that are necessary to talk about phenomenal transparency, mental action, and self as subject. We briefly review the important role of 'predicting precision' and how this affords mental action and the loss of phenomenal transpa…
Individual differences in the tendency to see the expected
A Bayesian Account of the Sensory-Motor Interactions Underlying Symptoms of Tourette Syndrome
Tourette syndrome is a hyperkinetic movement disorder. Characteristic features include tics, recurrent movements that are experienced as compulsive and "unwilled"; uncomfortable premonitory sensations that resolve through tic release; and often, the ability to suppress tics temporarily. We demonstrate how these symptoms and features can be understood in terms of aberrant predictive (Bayesian) processing in hierarchical neural systems, explaining …
From Unconscious Inference to the Beholder’s Share
Science and art have long recognized that perceptual experience depends on the involvement of the experiencer. In art history, this idea is captured by Ernst Gombrich’s ‘beholder’s share’. In neuroscience, it traces to Helmholtz’s concept of ‘perception as inference’, which is enjoying renewed prominence in the guise of ‘prediction error minimization’ (PEM) or the ‘Bayesian brain’. The shared idea is that our perceptual experience – whether of th…
Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness
Response to Ruby et al
Does disruption of prefrontal cortical activity using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) impair visual metacognition? An initial study supporting this idea (Rounis, Maniscalco, Rothwell, Passingham, & Lau, 2010) motivated an attempted replication and extension (Bor, Schwartzman, Barrett, & Seth, 2017). Bor et al. failed to replicate the initial study, concluding that there was not good evidence that TMS to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impa…
Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain
We review a recent shift in conceptions of interoception and its relationship to hierarchical inference in the brain. The notion of interoceptive inference means that bodily states are regulated by autonomic reflexes that are enslaved by descending predictions from deep generative models of our internal and external milieu. This re-conceptualization illuminates several issues in cognitive and clinical neuroscience with implications for experience…
Knowing your own heart
Interoception refers to the sensing of internal bodily changes. Interoception interacts with cognition and emotion, making measurement of individual differences in interoceptive ability broadly relevant to neuropsychology. However, inconsistency in how interoception is defined and quantified led to a three-dimensional model. Here, we provide empirical support for dissociation between dimensions of: (1) interoceptive accuracy (performance on objec…
Prior expectations facilitate metacognition for perceptual decision
Cross-modal prediction changes the timing of conscious access during the motion-induced blindness
The felt presence of other minds
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self
The concept of the brain as a prediction machine has enjoyed a resurgence in the context of the Bayesian brain and predictive coding approaches within cognitive science. To date, this perspective has been applied primarily to exteroceptive perception (e.g., vision, audition), and action. Here, I describe a predictive, inferential perspective on interoception: 'interoceptive inference' conceives of subjective feeling states (emotions) as arising f…
An Interoceptive Predictive Coding Model of Conscious Presence
We describe a theoretical model of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying conscious presence and its disturbances. The model is based on interoceptive prediction error and is informed by predictive models of agency, general models of hierarchical predictive coding and dopaminergic signaling in cortex, the role of the anterior insular cortex (AIC) in interoception and emotion, and cognitive neuroscience evidence from studies of virtual reality a…
Detecting conscious awareness from involuntary autonomic responses
Subjective measures of implicit knowledge that go beyond confidence
Gambling on the unconscious
Measuring any conscious content versus measuring the relevant conscious content
Theories and measures of consciousness develop together
Post-decision wagering measures metacognitive content, not sensory consciousness
Identifying hallmarks of consciousness in non-mammalian species
Neural Darwinism and consciousness
Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals
Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness
From Unconscious Inference to the Beholder’s Share
Science and art have long recognized that perceptual experience depends on the involvement of the experiencer. In art history, this idea is captured by Ernst Gombrich’s ‘beholder’s share’. In neuroscience, it traces to Helmholtz’s concept of ‘perception as inference’, which is enjoying renewed prominence in the guise of ‘prediction error minimization’ (PEM) or the ‘Bayesian brain’. The shared idea is that our perceptual experience – whether of th…
Identifying hallmarks of consciousness in non-mammalian species
Neural Darwinism and consciousness
Criteria for consciousness in humans and other mammals
Theories and measures of consciousness develop together
Post-decision wagering measures metacognitive content, not sensory consciousness
Subjective measures of implicit knowledge that go beyond confidence
Gambling on the unconscious
Measuring any conscious content versus measuring the relevant conscious content
Detecting conscious awareness from involuntary autonomic responses
An Interoceptive Predictive Coding Model of Conscious Presence
We describe a theoretical model of the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying conscious presence and its disturbances. The model is based on interoceptive prediction error and is informed by predictive models of agency, general models of hierarchical predictive coding and dopaminergic signaling in cortex, the role of the anterior insular cortex (AIC) in interoception and emotion, and cognitive neuroscience evidence from studies of virtual reality a…
Interoceptive inference, emotion, and the embodied self
The concept of the brain as a prediction machine has enjoyed a resurgence in the context of the Bayesian brain and predictive coding approaches within cognitive science. To date, this perspective has been applied primarily to exteroceptive perception (e.g., vision, audition), and action. Here, I describe a predictive, inferential perspective on interoception: 'interoceptive inference' conceives of subjective feeling states (emotions) as arising f…
Knowing your own heart
Interoception refers to the sensing of internal bodily changes. Interoception interacts with cognition and emotion, making measurement of individual differences in interoceptive ability broadly relevant to neuropsychology. However, inconsistency in how interoception is defined and quantified led to a three-dimensional model. Here, we provide empirical support for dissociation between dimensions of: (1) interoceptive accuracy (performance on objec…
Prior expectations facilitate metacognition for perceptual decision
Cross-modal prediction changes the timing of conscious access during the motion-induced blindness
The felt presence of other minds
Active interoceptive inference and the emotional brain
We review a recent shift in conceptions of interoception and its relationship to hierarchical inference in the brain. The notion of interoceptive inference means that bodily states are regulated by autonomic reflexes that are enslaved by descending predictions from deep generative models of our internal and external milieu. This re-conceptualization illuminates several issues in cognitive and clinical neuroscience with implications for experience…
Response to Ruby et al
Does disruption of prefrontal cortical activity using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) impair visual metacognition? An initial study supporting this idea (Rounis, Maniscalco, Rothwell, Passingham, & Lau, 2010) motivated an attempted replication and extension (Bor, Schwartzman, Barrett, & Seth, 2017). Bor et al. failed to replicate the initial study, concluding that there was not good evidence that TMS to dorsolateral prefrontal cortex impa…
A Bayesian Account of the Sensory-Motor Interactions Underlying Symptoms of Tourette Syndrome
Tourette syndrome is a hyperkinetic movement disorder. Characteristic features include tics, recurrent movements that are experienced as compulsive and "unwilled"; uncomfortable premonitory sensations that resolve through tic release; and often, the ability to suppress tics temporarily. We demonstrate how these symptoms and features can be understood in terms of aberrant predictive (Bayesian) processing in hierarchical neural systems, explaining …
From Unconscious Inference to the Beholder’s Share
Science and art have long recognized that perceptual experience depends on the involvement of the experiencer. In art history, this idea is captured by Ernst Gombrich’s ‘beholder’s share’. In neuroscience, it traces to Helmholtz’s concept of ‘perception as inference’, which is enjoying renewed prominence in the guise of ‘prediction error minimization’ (PEM) or the ‘Bayesian brain’. The shared idea is that our perceptual experience – whether of th…
Opportunities and challenges for a maturing science of consciousness
Individual differences in the tendency to see the expected
Theories of consciousness
From Generative Models to Generative Passages
This paper presents a version of neurophenomenology based on generative modelling techniques developed in computational neuroscience and biology. Our approach can be described as computational phenomenology because it applies methods originally developed in computational modelling to provide a formal model of the descriptions of lived experience in the phenomenological tradition of philosophy (e.g., the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Pon…
I overthink—Therefore I am not
This paper considers the phenomenology of depersonalisation disorder, in relation to predictive processing and its associated pathophysiology. To do this, we first establish a few mechanistic tenets of predictive processing that are necessary to talk about phenomenal transparency, mental action, and self as subject. We briefly review the important role of 'predicting precision' and how this affords mental action and the loss of phenomenal transpa…
Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects
Psychology (24 works) · Cognitive psychology (21 works) · Neuroscience (18 works) · Cognitive science (12 works) · Perception (12 works) · Cognition (11 works) · Consciousness (10 works) · Neural dynamics and brain function (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works)