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Overview

Rick A. Adams is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with extensive work in cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional subfields include psychiatry and mental health, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and philosophy.

Their main topics of scholarly inquiry encompass functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research, neural dynamics and brain function, schizophrenia research and treatment, neuroscience and music perception, mental health and psychiatry, and neuroscience and neuropharmacology research.

Frequently publishing in several venues, the most common journals for their work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
  • Computational Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Rick A. Adams include the following:

  • Computational Modeling of Electroencephalography and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Paradigms Indicates a Consistent Loss of Pyramidal Cell Synaptic Gain in Schizophrenia (2021) in Biological Psychiatry
  • Everything is connected: Inference and attractors in delusions (2021) in Schizophrenia Research
  • Aberrant Salience, Information Processing, and Dopaminergic Signaling in People at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis (2020) in Biological Psychiatry
  • Searching for an anchor in an unpredictable world: A computational model of obsessive compulsive disorder (2020) in Psychological Review
  • Canonical Correlation Analysis and Partial Least Squares for Identifying Brain-Behavior Associations: A Tutorial and a Comparative Study (2022) in Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging

Rick A. Adams has collaborated frequently with a group of researchers, including:

  • Karl Friston
  • Daniel J. Hauke
  • Ágoston Mihalik
  • Dimitris A. Pinotsis
  • Konstantinos Tsirlis

Best Publications

  • Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding

    Andre M. Bastos;William Martin Usrey;Rick A. Adams;George R Mangun

  • Predictions not commands: active inference in the motor system

    Rick A. Adams;Stewart Shipp;Karl J. Friston

  • The Computational Anatomy of Psychosis

    Rick A. Adams;Klaas Enno Stephan;Klaas Enno Stephan;Harriet R. Brown;Christopher D. Frith

  • The Predictive Coding Account of Psychosis

    Philipp Sterzer;Rick A. Adams;Paul Fletcher;Chris Frith

  • A Bayesian account of 'hysteria'

    Mark J. Edwards;Rick A. Adams;Harriet Brown;Isabel Pareés

  • Perceptions as Hypotheses: Saccades as Experiments

    Karl John Friston;Rick A. Adams;Laurent U. Perrinet;Michael J. Breakspear

  • Active inference, sensory attenuation and illusions

    Harriet R. Brown;Rick A. Adams;Isabel Parees;Mark Edwards

  • Dopamine, affordance and active inference.

    Karl J. Friston;Tamara Shiner;Thomas H. B. FitzGerald;Joseph M. Galea

  • Computational Psychiatry: towards a mathematically informed understanding of mental illness

    Rick A Adams;Quentin J M Huys;Jonathan P Roiser

  • Reflections on agranular architecture: predictive coding in the motor cortex

    Stewart Shipp;Rick A. Adams;Karl J. Friston

  • Scene Construction, Visual Foraging, and Active Inference.

    M. Berk Mirza;Rick A. Adams;Christoph D. Mathys;Christoph D. Mathys;Karl J. Friston

  • Loss of sensory attenuation in patients with functional (psychogenic) movement disorders

    Isabel Pareés;Harriet Brown;Atsuo Nuruki;Atsuo Nuruki;Rick A. Adams

  • Risk Taking for Potential Reward Decreases across the Lifespan

    Robb B. Rutledge;Robb B. Rutledge;Peter Smittenaar;Peter Zeidman;Harriet R. Brown

  • Age-related changes in working memory and the ability to ignore distraction

    Fiona McNab;Peter Zeidman;Robb B. Rutledge;Robb B. Rutledge;Peter Smittenaar

  • Crowdsourcing for cognitive science--the utility of smartphones.

    Harriet R. Brown;Peter Zeidman;Peter Smittenaar;Rick A. Adams

  • Mesolimbic Dopamine Function Is Related to Salience Network Connectivity: An Integrative Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Study

    Robert Ali McCutcheon;Robert Ali McCutcheon;Robert Ali McCutcheon;Matthew Nour;Tarik Dahoun;Sameer Jauhar

  • Smooth Pursuit and Visual Occlusion: Active Inference and Oculomotor Control in Schizophrenia

    Rick A. Adams;Laurent U. Perrinet;Laurent U. Perrinet;Karl Friston

  • Aberrant Salience, Information Processing, and Dopaminergic Signaling in People at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis.

    Oliver D. Howes;Emily J. Hird;Rick A. Adams;Philip R. Corlett

  • Dopaminergic basis for signaling belief updates, but not surprise, and the link to paranoia

    Matthew M. Nour;Tarik Dahoun;Tarik Dahoun;Tarik Dahoun;Philipp Schwartenbeck;Rick A. Adams

  • Canonical Correlation Analysis and Partial Least Squares for identifying brain-behaviour associations: a tutorial and a comparative study.

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  • Losing Control Under Ketamine: Suppressed Cortico-Hippocampal Drive Following Acute Ketamine in Rats

    Rosalyn J Moran;Matthew W Jones;Anthony J Blockeel;Rick A Adams

  • Patterns of anterior cingulate activation in schizophrenia: a selective review.

    Rick Adams;Anthony S David

  • Impaired Prefrontal Synaptic Gain in People with Psychosis and Their Relatives during the Mismatch Negativity

    Siri Ranlund;Rick A. Adams;Álvaro Díez;Miguel Constante

Frequent Co-Authors

Karl J. Friston
Karl J. Friston University College London
Raymond J. Dolan
Raymond J. Dolan University College London
Elvira Bramon
Elvira Bramon University College London
Christoph Mathys
Christoph Mathys Aarhus University
Ian M. Goodyer
Ian M. Goodyer University of Cambridge
Matthew B. Wall
Matthew B. Wall Imperial College London
Klaas E. Stephan
Klaas E. Stephan University of Zurich
Alan Anticevic
Alan Anticevic Yale University
Jonathan P. Roiser
Jonathan P. Roiser University College London
Peter Fonagy
Peter Fonagy University College London

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