ADAM LINSON
RESEARCH
This website includes information about my activities in research, doing formal modelling in the life sciences and related philosophy.
Academic bio
Adam Linson is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computing & Communications at the Open University (UK). He develops neurobehavioural models of how perceptual uncertainty is resolved under stress and time pressure, in relation to impaired or enhanced cognitive flexibility. His research focus is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which he studies using multiple methods that connect theoretical neurobiology, psychiatry, evolutionary ecology, and the history and philosophy of science. His work also links to other fields including cognitive science and music psychology. He was previously an Anniversary Fellow in Computing and Philosophy at the University of Stirling, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and the UCL Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging. He is also Co-Director of the Innogen Institute (connecting life science innovation and policymaking), based jointly at the Open University and the University of Edinburgh. His publications include research articles in Behavioural Brain Research, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Biology & Philosophy, and Computer Music Journal.
Recent publications
- Linson, A., T. Parr, and K. Friston (2020), Active inference, stressors, and psychological trauma: A neuroethological model of (mal)adaptive explore-exploit dynamics in ecological context, Behavioural Brain Research 380: 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112421
- Linson, A., and P. Calvo (2020), Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield, Biology and Philosophy 35(49) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-020-09766-y
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Contact
Email: adam [at] percent [dash] s [dot] comSocial: twitter.com/AdamLinson, mstdn.jp/@AdamLinson