Rubén Moreno-Bote@MorenoBote

Computational Neuroscience & Natural and Artificial Intelligence Serra Hunter Professor Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

 Barcelona, Spain
sites.google.com/view/moreno…
Joined March 2019
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Our Maximum Occupancy Principle (MOP) paper is out. We provide a novel intrinsic motivation for natural behavior: occupy action-state path space. This sole objective is enough to produce goal-directed, complex, highly variable and interesting behaviors nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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What happens when agents act on beliefs? We introduce and compare belief-based versions of active inference and Maximum Occupancy Principle (MOP) 📷 Active inference tends to resolve uncertainty 📷 MOP can maintain uncertainty—leading to broader occupancy arxiv.org/abs/2609.39342
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Work with @mylo_cc
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1/14 🧠 Our paper is out in Science Advances! S. Amin Moosavi, Sai Sumedh R. Hindupur, Hideaki Shimazaki Population coding under the scale invariance of high-dimensional noise Science Advances 12, eadz9632, 2026 doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adz96… 🎨 Robin Hoshino

Population coding under the scale invariance of high-dimensional noise

High-dimensional scale-invariant neural activity is ubiquitous across brain regions and species, but its implications for information coding remain unclear. Here, we ask how stimulus information in...

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How does the brain maintain homeostasis? I propose an HMM control framework and benchmark it against leading accounts—including control-as-inference, free energy, variational inference, and the maximum occupancy principle. arxiv.org/abs/2609.07508
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Good news if this workshop sounds like your kind of thing: we’ve extended the deadline to Sept 14 (AoE)! 🌱 At #SAB2026, “Wanting What Is Needed” asks how homeostasis shape value, motivation & adaptive behaviour. Come join us in Berlin on Oct 19!! 😊 wwin-workshop.github.io/sab2…

Wanting What is Needed: From Homeostatic Control to Adaptive Behavior

A SAB 2026 workshop bringing together AI, robotics, neuroscience, physiology, ethology, biology and control theory around homeostasis, allostasis and adaptive behavior.

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🚨Big news🚨@jdrugowitsch is moving to Barcelona in Spring 2027 to join us the Center for Brain and Cognition and the Dept of Eng at UPF, Barcelona, Spain. We keep building a research group focused on theoretical and comp neuro.
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First time I see ChatGPT entering an endless loop
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In case you are in Barcelona The Science of Motivation: Drive, Curiosity and Your Brain Wednesday 13th May - 7.30pm PAU Coworking and Creative Hub Tickets: luma.com/ojiwgc14?utm_source…
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Preprint on how conscious experience might arise from the mental-simulation vs environment-coupling axis osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/hw… With @PedroNeuro I am sure we made mistakes, but it was really fun to think with Pedro about this in front of the Death Valley

Consciousness as subjective experience emerges from the dynamics of the mental-simulation versus...

Consciousness is primarily understood as a personal, subjective experience that can co-occur with various other subjective states, such as visual perception, emotions, memories, and awareness of...

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I am happy to share this new review on Intrinsically Motivated Intelligence academic.oup.com/edited-volu…
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The Graviational Reward Function. I have been working on this side project for a while, and now I am happy to share this preprint. The reward function and acceleration cost for gravitation and Coulomb classical forces is uncovered. arxiv.org/abs/2603.25444

The Reward Function and the Least Cost Principle for Gravitation...

If the universe follows a specific design, then a central question is which cost function is optimized by the observed forces. This is the problem of inverse optimal control, or inverse...

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Nice IA summary by Gist.Science here gist.science/paper/2603.2544…
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New preprint. A review on Intrinsic Motivation Theories arxiv.org/abs/2601.10276 In collaboration with a great team

How Intrinsic Motivation Underlies Embodied Open-Ended Behavior

Although most theories posit that natural behavior can be explained as maximizing some form of extrinsic reward, often called utility, some behaviors appear to be reward independent. For instance,...

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Postdoc & PhD positions in the Lab. How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents. Apply if interested sites.google.com/view/moreno…
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Relevant papers: openreview.net/forum?id=OcHr… nature.com/articles/s41467-0… openreview.net/forum?id=mZHb…
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1/2 Brain and Cognition Master at @UPFBarcelona Why to enroll here? Nuria Sebastian-Galles (language, Premio Nacional) Gustavo Deco (comp neuro) Chris Summerfield (cognition & AI) Salva Soto-Faraco (attention) Rubén Moreno-Bote (comp neuro & AI)
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2/2 Alex Hyafil (neurons & cognition) Torralba (EEG, fMRI) Klaus Wimmer (neurons & cognition) Juanma Toro (language) upf.edu/web/mbc/access-admis… You will learn all you need to do research in cognitive and computational neuroscience

Access & admission - Master in Brain and Cognition - UPF

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📷PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience and AI, Moreno-Bote Lab, Barcelona. 1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
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Relevant papers: nature.com/articles/s41467-0… openreview.net/forum?id=OcHr… openreview.net/forum?id=SzeK…

Complex behavior from intrinsic motivation to occupy future action-state path space

Nature Communications - Intelligent behavior of artificial agents and their design are usually considered as a reward maximization phenomenon, however, the reward function construction may be...

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