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42
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4666
National Ranking
328

Overview

Jakob Hohwy is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and works primarily in the fields of neuroscience and psychology. Their research spans several key areas including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

Their investigations frequently address topics such as embodied and extended cognition, neural dynamics and brain function, action observation and synchronization, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, neural and behavioral psychology studies, mental health research topics, and mindfulness and compassion interventions.

Jakob Hohwy has published extensively in a variety of academic venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
  • Synthese
  • Scientific Reports
  • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

The following recent papers by Jakob Hohwy illustrate their research focus and interests:

  • "New directions in predictive processing," 2020, published in Mind & Language
  • "Predictive processing as a systematic basis for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness," 2020, published in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences
  • "Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle," 2020, published in Synthese

In collaboration, Jakob Hohwy frequently works with several co-authors, including:

  • Andrew W. Corcoran
  • Antonio Verdejo-García
  • Simon Thomas van Baal
  • Mateusz Woźniak
  • Ryan Smith

Their body of work reflects a broad engagement with the neural underpinnings of cognition and consciousness, combining interdisciplinary approaches in both psychology and neuroscience. The research contributions also explore theoretical and applied questions related to brain function and cognitive processes.

Best Publications

  • The Predictive Mind

    Jakob Hohwy

  • Predictive coding explains binocular rivalry: an epistemological review.

    Jakob Hohwy;Andreas Roepstorff;Karl Friston

  • The self-evidencing brain

    Jakob Hohwy

  • Attention and Conscious Perception in the Hypothesis Testing Brain

    Jakob Hohwy

  • Are There Levels of Consciousness

    Timothy Bayne;Timothy Bayne;Jakob Hohwy;Adrian M. Owen

  • Bayesian approaches to autism: Towards volatility, action, and behavior.

    Colin J. Palmer;Rebecca P. Lawson;Jakob Hohwy

  • New directions in predictive processing

    Jakob Hohwy

  • Explaining Away the Body: Experiences of Supernaturally Caused Touch and Touch on Non-Hand Objects within the Rubber Hand Illusion

    Jakob Hohwy;Bryan Paton

  • The neural correlates of consciousness: new experimental approaches needed?

    Jakob Hohwy

  • The Rubber Hand Illusion Reveals Proprioceptive and Sensorimotor Differences in Autism Spectrum Disorders

    Bryan Paton;Jakob Hohwy;Peter Gregory Enticott

  • The hierarchically mechanistic mind: an evolutionary systems theory of the human brain, cognition, and behavior.

    Paul B. Badcock;Karl J. Friston;Maxwell J. D. Ramstead;Maxwell J. D. Ramstead;Annemie Ploeger

  • The sense of self in the phenomenology of agency and perception

    Jakob Hohwy

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

    Andrew W. Corcoran;Giovanni Pezzulo;Jakob Hohwy

  • Priors in perception: Top-down modulation, Bayesian perceptual learning rate, and prediction error minimization.

    Jakob Hohwy

  • Functional integration and the mind

    Jakob Hohwy

  • Predictive processing as a systematic basis for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness

    Jakob Hohwy;Anil Seth

  • Distrusting the present

    Jakob Hohwy;Bryan Paton;Colin Palmer

  • Expectation and attention increase the integration of top-down and bottom-up signals in perception through different pathways.

    Noam Gordon;Naotsugu Tsuchiya;Roger Koenig-Robert;Jakob Hohwy

  • The felt presence of other minds: Predictive processing, counterfactual predictions, and mentalising in autism.

    Colin John Palmer;Anil K Seth;Jakob Hohwy

  • Content and misrepresentation in hierarchical generative models

    Alex Kiefer;Jakob Hohwy

  • ‘Subtypes’ in the Presentation of Autistic Traits in the General Adult Population

    Colin J Palmer;Bryan Paton;Peter Gregory Enticott;Jakob Hohwy

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Bayne
Tim Bayne Monash University
Peter G. Enticott
Peter G. Enticott Deakin University
Anil K. Seth
Anil K. Seth University of Sussex
Chris D. Frith
Chris D. Frith University College London
Antonio Verdejo-García
Antonio Verdejo-García Monash University
Adrian M. Owen
Adrian M. Owen University of Western Ontario
Giovanni Pezzulo
Giovanni Pezzulo National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Julie C. Stout
Julie C. Stout Monash University
Tom Drummond
Tom Drummond Monash University

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