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Adam Linson is a researcher working at the intersection of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and music, with particular expertise in embodied cognition, active inference, and human-computer interaction. His most influential contribution, "The Active Inference Approach to Ecological Perception" (2018, 94 citations), positions humans as embodied, ecologically embedded agents and applies information-theoretic frameworks to understanding natural and artificial cognition — a work that has garnered significant attention within computational neuroscience and AI communities. Alongside this theoretical work, Linson has made notable practical contributions through his development of artificial agents for collaborative musical free improvisation, a domain he argues is critically underrepresented in AI and music research. Drawing on the behaviour-based robotics tradition of Rodney Brooks, his subsumption architecture-based systems provided a novel experimental platform for probing the cognitive and interactive foundations of live improvisation, tested through case studies with expert human musicians. His doctoral research synthesized these threads, connecting real-time musical interaction with broader questions about cognition and representation. Linson's work is distinctive for bridging rigorous computational theory with creative practice, making him a compelling figure for researchers interested in embodied AI, music cognition, and the science of human-machine collaboration.