---
name: "PriorCognitiveArt"
description: "Use for Prior Cognitive Art, a paired GitHub and Zenodo publication with DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21316510."
tags: ["priors", "tinbergen's-four-questions", "hierarchical-bayes", "free-energy-principle", "markov-blankets", "cognitive-science", "conceptual-visualization"]
---

# Prior Cognitive Art

## Instructions

Use this skill when working with the publication **Prior Cognitive Art** or its paired release artifacts.

1. Ground citations in DOI `10.5281/zenodo.21316510`.
2. Treat the Zenodo record as the archival source and the GitHub release as the executable/source release.
3. Keep release tag `v0.1.0` and repository `docxology/prior_cognitive_art` linked when updating catalog surfaces.

## Key Concepts

- **priors**
- **Tinbergen's four questions**
- **hierarchical Bayes**
- **free energy principle**
- **Markov blankets**
- **cognitive science**
- **conceptual visualization**

## Prerequisites

- Familiarity with the source repository and Zenodo record.
- Awareness that new versions may update both GitHub and Zenodo surfaces.

## Related

- [README.md](README.md)
- [Full Bibliography](../../pages/BIBLIOGRAPHY.md)