Karl J. Friston

Karl Friston
Born
Karl John Friston

(1959-07-12) 12 July 1959 (age 65)[3]
York, England
NationalityBritish
EducationGonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, 1980)
Known forStatistical parametric mapping, voxel-based morphometry, dynamic causal modelling, free energy principle, active inference
SpouseAnn Elisabeth Leonard[3]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience, Mathematical and theoretical biology, Variational Bayesian methods
InstitutionsUniversity College London[2]
Websitewww.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl

Karl John Friston FRS FMedSci FRSB (born 12 July 1959) is a British neuroscientist and theoretician at University College London. He is an authority on brain imaging and theoretical neuroscience, especially the use of physics-inspired statistical methods to model neuroimaging data and other random dynamical systems.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Friston is a key architect of the free energy principle and active inference. In imaging neuroscience he is best known for statistical parametric mapping and dynamic causal modelling. Friston also acts as a scientific advisor to numerous groups in industry.

Friston is one of the most highly cited living scientists[11] and in 2016 was ranked No. 1 by Semantic Scholar in the list of top 10 most influential neuroscientists.[12]

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  2. ^ a b Karl J. Friston publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ^ a b "FRISTON, Prof. Karl John". Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
  4. ^ Friston, K (2003). "Learning and inference in the brain". Neural Networks. 16 (9): 1325–52. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.160.2313. doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2003.06.005. PMID 14622888. S2CID 17163442.
  5. ^ Friston, K (2002). "Functional integration and inference in the brain". Progress in Neurobiology. 68 (2): 113–43. doi:10.1016/s0301-0082(02)00076-x. PMID 12450490. S2CID 7203119.
  6. ^ Friston, K (2005). "A theory of cortical responses". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 360 (1456): 815–36. doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1622. PMC 1569488. PMID 15937014.
  7. ^ Karl J. Friston's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Penny, W; Ghahramani, Z; Friston, K (2005). "Bilinear dynamical systems". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 360 (1457): 983–93. doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1642. PMC 1854926. PMID 16087442. Open access icon
  9. ^ Harrison, L. M.; David, O; Friston, K. J. (2005). "Stochastic models of neuronal dynamics". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 360 (1457): 1075–91. doi:10.1098/rstb.2005.1648. PMC 1854931. PMID 16087449.
  10. ^ David, O; Harrison, L; Friston, K. J. (2005). "Modelling event-related responses in the brain". NeuroImage. 25 (3): 756–70. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2004.12.030. PMID 15808977. S2CID 11725486.
  11. ^ "Highly Cited Researchers (h>100) according to their Google Scholar Citations public profiles". Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  12. ^ Bohannon, John (11 November 2016). "A computer program just ranked the most influential brain scientists of the modern era". sciencemag.org. Retrieved 5 January 2017.