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The self-prior is functionally analogous to the body schema: it captures cross-modal associations and directly guides action planning toward multisensory mismatch reduction

Theoretical interpretation linking the self-prior to the established body schema concept

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Active Inference with a Self-Prior in the Mirror-Mark Task

(2026) · Dongmin Kim · Hoshinori Kanazawa · Yasuo Kuniyoshi

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Findings (1)

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Visual self-appearance can be recovered from proprioception alone via cross-modal sampling through the self-prior
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Demonstrates the self-prior captures visual-proprioceptive associations, functioning as a probabilistic body schema

Concepts (1)

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Body Schema
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Sensorimotor representation of the body for action planning; the self-prior is argued to be functionally analogous to it

Claims (1)

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The model constitutes a computational implementation of the inductive theory of mirror self-recognition, implementing kinesthetic-visual matching and implicit mirror correspondence learning
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Claims the model satisfies the core requirements of Mitchell's inductive theory

Methods (1)

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Cross-Modal Sampling
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Technique used to demonstrate that the self-prior captures visual–proprioceptive associations by recovering visual appearance from proprioception alone

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Load-bearing summary of the paper's central contribution
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Forward-looking prediction based on Chinn et al.'s finding that tactile experience promotes earlier MSR in infants
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The key novel contribution: an internal model that learns the density of familiar multisensory experiences and drives mark-removal behavior through mismatch with the free energy principle
Such priors suppress the inherent contextuality of the boundary.claim0.768
Explains why the boundary appears fixed: the prior hides its context-dependent nature.
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