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The environmental sculpting of perception and action: Hierarchical inference dynamics drive environment-induced wellbeing

2026-08-10

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<p>Natural environments are known to produce positive effects on wellbeing, yet explicit mechanistic proposals for the changes underlying such effects are limited. This paper investigates how environments influence perceptual processing and action selection dynamics. Using the active inference framework, I argue that environmental structure can alter hierarchical inference, shaping agentic behaviour toward either...

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Literature Corpus work: 105cd668-7fe2-589e-ab73-c586af287b8d
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/mtx8d_v1

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