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Arts Engagement, Active Inference, and Allostatic Regulation: A Neurobiological Framework for Understanding the Health Effects of Aesthetic Experience

2026-04-07

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<p>A growing body of evidence indicates that arts engagement produces measurable effects on mental and physical health, yet a mechanistic account linking aesthetic experience to physiological regulation remains lacking. This review proposes a neurobiological framework grounded in two convergent theoretical traditions: the active inference formulation of brain function and the allostatic model of physiological regu...

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10.31234/osf.io/fmqwa_v1
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