Heins, R. C.; Millidge, B.; Da Costa, L.; Mann, R. P.; Friston, K. J.; Couzin, I. D.: Collective behavior from surprise minimization. PNAS 121 (17), e2320239121 (2024)
Couzin, I. D.; Heins, R. C.: Emerging technologies for behavioral research in changing environments. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 38 (4), pp. 346 - 354 (2023)
Friston, K.; Da Costa, L.; Sajid, N.; Heins, R. C.; Ueltzhoffer, K.; Pavliotis, G. A.; Parr, T.: The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple. Physics Reports: Review Section of Physics Letters 1024, pp. 1 - 29 (2023)
Friston, K.; Da Costa, L.; Sakthivadivel, D. A. R.; Heins, R. C.; Pavliotis, G. A.; Ramstead, M.; Parr, T.: Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things. Physics of Life Reviews 47, pp. 35 - 62 (2023)
Ramstead, M. J. D.; Sakthivadivel, D. A. R.; Heins, R. C.; Koudahl, M.; Millidge, B.; Da Costa, L.; Klein, B.; Friston, K. J.: On Bayesian mechanics: a physics of and by beliefs. Interface Focus 13 (3), 20220029 (2023)
Aguilera, M.; Poc-López, A.; Heins, R. C.; Buckley, C. L.: Knitting a Markov blanket is hard when you are out-of-equilibrium: Two examples in canonical nonequilibrium models. 3rd International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI), Grenoble, France, pp. 65 - 74 (2022)
Heins, R. C.: Particular flows and attracting sets: A comment on "How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?" by Aguilera, Millidge, Tschantz and Buckley. Physics of Life Reviews 42, pp. 43 - 48 (2022)
Heins, R. C.; Da Costa, L.: Sparse coupling and Markov blankets: A comment on "How particular is the physics of the Free Energy Principle?" by Aguilera, Millidge, Tschantz and Buckley. Physics of Life Reviews 42, pp. 33 - 39 (2022)
Heins, R. C.; Klein, B.; Demekas, D.; Aguilera, M.; Buckley, C. L.: Spin glass systems as collective active inference. 3rd International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI), Grenoble, France (1721), pp. 75 - 98 (2022)
Da Costa, L.; Friston, K.; Heins, R. C.; Pavliotis, G. A.: Bayesian mechanics for stationary processes. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 477 (2256), 20210518 (2021)
Golden, S. A.; Jin, M.; Heins, R. C.; Venniro, M.; Michaelides, M.; Shaham, Y.: Nucleus accumbens Drd1-expressing neurons control aggression self-administration and aggression seeking in mice. The Journal of Neuroscience 39 (13), pp. 2482 - 2496 (2019)
Juneau, B. A.; Stonemetz, J. M.; Toma, R. F.; Possidente, D. R.; Heins, R. C.; Vecsey, C. G.: Optogenetic activation of short neuropeptide F (sNPF) neurons induces sleep in Drosophila melanogaster. Physiology & Behavior 206, pp. 143 - 156 (2019)
Sikos, L.; Tomlinson, S. B.; Heins, R. C.; Grodner, D. J.: What do you know? ERP evidence for immediate use of common ground during online reference resolution. Cognition 182, pp. 275 - 285 (2019)
Venniro, M.; Zhang, M.; Caprioli, D.; Hoots, J. K.; Golden, S. A.; Heins, R. C.; Morales, M.; Epstein, D. H.; Shaham, Y.: Volitional social interaction prevents drug addiction in rat models. Nature Neuroscience 21, pp. 1520 - 1529 (2018)
Golden, S. A.; Aleyasin, H.; Heins, R. C.; Flanigan, M.; Heshmati, M.; Takahashi, A.; Russo, S. J.; Shaham, Y.: Persistent conditioned place preference to aggression experience in adult male sexually‐experienced CD‐1 mice. Genes, Brain and Behavior 16, pp. 44 - 55 (2017)
Golden, S. A.; Heins, R. C.; Venniro, M.; Caprioli, D.; Zhang, M.; Epstein, D. H.; Shaham, Y.: Compulsive addiction-like aggressive behavior in mice. Biological Psychiatry 82 (4), pp. 239 - 248 (2017)
Marchant, N. J.; Campbell, E. J.; Whitaker, L. R.; Harvey, B. K.; Kaganovsky, K.; Adhikary, S.; Hope, B. T.; Heins, R. C.; Prisinzano, T. E.; Vardy, E.et al.; Bonci, A.; Bossert, J. M.; Shaham, Y.: Role of ventral subiculum in context-induced relapse to alcohol seeking after punishment-imposed abstinence. The Journal of Neuroscience 36 (11), pp. 3281 - 3294 (2016)
Aguilera, M.; Poc-Lopez, A.; Heins, R. C.; Buckley, C. L.: Knitting a Markov blanket is hard when you are out-of-equilibrium: two examples in canonical nonequilibrium models. In: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1721, pp. 65 - 74 (2022)
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Spin glass systems as collective active inference (3rd International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI), 1721). 3rd International Workshop on Active Inference (IWAI), Grenoble, FRANCE, 2022. (2022), 75-98 pp.
Peter, S.; Kirschbaum, E.; Both, M.; Campbell, L. A.; Harvey, B. K.; Heins, R. C.; Durstewitz, D.; Diego, F.; Hamprecht, F. A.: Sparse convolutional coding for neuronal assembly detection. In: 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017), pp. 3675 - 3685. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Long Beach, CA, USA, December 04, 2017 - December 09, 2017. (2018)
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