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Thomas Parr

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Open access Aug 2026

Why Speech Motor Blocks Emerge in a Communicative Context: An Active Inference Model of Stuttering

Adults who stutter can speak fluently when speech is not addressed to another person, but stuttering emerges when they aim to convey information to a listener. The value of the information being conveyed to the listener also affects the likelihood of stuttering. Why should the mere absence of a listener neutralise a pr...

Birtan Demirel, Thomas Parr, Y. Saleh et al. · bioRxiv · 0 citations

Review Open access Sep 2026

The phantastic organ: predictive processing in the brain

Neuroscience has witnessed a curious inversion over the past decades, with a switch from views of the brain as abstracting information from sensory input to a view of the brain as a constructive organ, actively generating explanations for – and sampling – the sensorium. Perhaps this inversion is not strange, but a reve...

K. Friston, Thomas Parr · Frontiers in Psychology · 0 citations