Laura Barca
Senior Researcher in Cognitive Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR).
Coordinator of the Language, Cognition, Emotion and mental health (LaCE) lab @IST-CNR
Selected publications
Barca, L., Maisto, D., Pezzulo, G. (2023). Modeling and controlling the body in maladaptive ways: an Active Inference perspective on non-suicidal self-injuries behaviors. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023 (1), https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niad025
Tschantz, A., Barca, L., Maisto, D., Buckley, C.L., Seth, A.K., Pezzulo, G. (2022). Simulating homeostatic, allostatic and goal-directed forms of interoceptive control using Active Inference. Biological Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2022.108266
Maisto, D., Barca, L., Van den Bergh, O., Pezzulo, G., (2021). Perception and misperception of bodily symptoms from an Active Inference perspective: Modelling the case of panic disorder. Psychological Review, 128(4), 690–710. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000290
Barca, L., Pezzulo, G., (2020). Keep your interoceptive streams under control: an active inference perspective on Anorexia Nervosa. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 20, 427-440.
Iodice, P., Porciello, G., Barca, L., Bufalari, I., Pezzulo, G. (2019). An interoceptive illusion of effort. PNAS, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821032116