Happy to share our new work, "Heartbeat-locked auditory deviations slow down cardiac activity", led by @matthieukoroma.bsky.social and w/ @knguyen.bsky.social, together with our precious collaborators #MarciaDeLucia #AndriaPelentritou @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social | @universitedeliege.bsky.social

Matthieu Koroma@matthieukoroma.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨New preprint What happens to your 🫀 when a different sound or a silence is played when hearing your heartbeat ? It slows down! But why? This is what we investigated! Please read our new preprint to find out & this thread for discovering our key results👇. 1/8 doi.org/10.64898/202...

So sad to be missing @assc2026.bsky.social this year due to family reasons. But our lab will be there, be attentive especially on July 3!

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · last mo.

Our lab participates at @assc2026.bsky.social!

What a feeling, just got promoted to Maître de Recherches 🤩 Thank you #FNRS @universitedeliege.bsky.social @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social

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Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis@parboulakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Blank, and you might miss it. Our chapter, “Spontaneous Thoughts and Experiences across Wakefulness and Sleep,” for the upcoming book The Scientific Study of Consciousness: Experimental & Theoretical Approaches, is now available at www.horizon-minds.com.

Together with Tobias Schlicht, we are happy to share the Call for Papers for our Special Issue "Spontaneous Thought and Consciousness" hosted by @nconsc.bsky.social. ⌛ Deadline: November 30 2026 🔗 More at bit.ly/4x7hHBu

Our new study on #MindBlanking quantified how often we report such an experience. @parboulakis.bsky.social performed meta-analysis & offers a way to calculate sample sizes when adding MB in our studies. We hope it will be useful for those studying #MindWandering & spontaneous thinking at large!

Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis@parboulakis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Preprint alert🚨. Ever wondered how often people blank? Then check our new paper “How often do we blank? A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of mind blanking report rates during experience-sampling” (osf.io/preprints/ps...). A 🧵 thread ...

How great to host relatable and meaningful research @nconsc.bsky.social !

Thomas Andrillon@thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Big fan of the @newyorker.com here! It was a pleasure and honour to contribute to this piece: www.newyorker.com/culture/anna... Featuring @karenkonkoly.bsky.social and @paller.bsky.social's paper on lucid dreaming, TMR and problem solving published in @nconsc.bsky.social!

Thank you, #ValerieGOFFAUX for the invitation! I loved the questions, they made me reflect quite some. For the full interview, see here: lnkd.in/d27ZEBnG

We are hiring! Please, share with your network.

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 We are hiring! Looking for a postdoc researcher with experience with MREG signals. HOW TO APPLY: Send the following to a.demertzi@uliege.be by 29 May including “PHYCOG-01” in the subject line: - 1 page motivation letter - CV in English (max 2 pages) - 2 recommendation letters More info👇

It's a great honour to participate in the Session on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, organized by the @academiemedecine.bsky.social, this Saturday 28 March. Looking forward to meeting wonderful colleagues, thank you once again for the invitation 🙏

It is a great honour to participate at the celebratory event of the School of Philosophy of the #AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki (AUTH) for the 100th anniversary since its foundation.

Here we go

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Acquisition day, launching EEG-fMRI to try predict Mind Blanking episodes from brain activity alone. With @agusaragon.bsky.social on the wheel.

🎉 Very happy that this worked out! From the FNRS: "The AMG supports original, bold and creative medical or biomedical research projects that are unable to find support through traditional funding channels due to a lack of preliminary data, the absence of previous work or an unusual methodology."

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One of the Audacious Medical Grant-Neuro this year was awarded to @ademertzi.bsky.social for the project "Mind blanking is linked to the biological mechanism of glymphatic clearance". Stay tuned for job openings!

This is so sad news 😢 Jonny was leading the fied of spontaneous thinking. And what a wonderful music maker. Truly will be missed, may he rest in peace.. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood

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Nothing more exciting than running the first pilot of a new study. It's on @agusaragon.bsky.social 👌

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧪 Our new study on decoding #MindBlanking events started yesterday. The pilot was successful, and we now fine-tune the details. Led by @agusaragon.bsky.social, with the precious assistance of #NikosSimos and @b-marion.bsky.social

In the line of good news, our lab's magician @parboulakis.bsky.social is presenting our latest work with @thomasandrillon.bsky.social @anikokusztor.bsky.social and #TsuchiyaNao. We combined fMRI and EEG & found that #MindBlanking has different neural signatures depending on perceived vigilance 😍. 🧵👇

Paradeisios Alexandros Boulakis@parboulakis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨Preprint alert 🚨. Our work “Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences” is available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵A thread ...

She is unstoppable, @agusaragon.bsky.social 🤩

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 10mo ago

And she got it! 🥳 Bravo Agus, it is a great video!

Good luck, @agusaragon.bsky.social! We are so proud of you ☺️

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our @agusaragon.bsky.social is a finalists at the #MindScienceFoundation Pitch Competition! And tonight she is also up for the audience choice award. Good luck, Agus! @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social

So happy for @agusaragon.bsky.social for this distinction, bravo! 🥳

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🏆 AWARD: Our PhD trainee @agusaragon.bsky.social is a finalist of the Mind Science Foundation BrainStorm Neuroscience Pitch Competition 🥳 Good luck for getting the Audience Choice Award, Oct 15 San Antonio TX🤞 Her presentation on how to decode #MindBlanking events👇 mindscience.org/brainstorm/

Accessible for students and not only 😊👇

Thomas Andrillon@thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🧠 New preprint! 🧠 As part of a forthcoming book on consciousness, we wrote a chapter on: Spontaneous thoughts and experiences across wakefulness and sleep osf.io/preprints/ps... with @parboulakis.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social and @jdsitt.bsky.social A brief 🧵!

I am in Sheffield upcoming Wed-Fri for our @escop.bsky.social symposium "The role of the body in cognition and emotion". 🙏 Grateful to @evdbussc.bsky.social & #GethinHughes for bringing together such an interesting panel to address how the body impacts emotions and thoughts. Connect if you attend!

Physiology of Cognition Lab@physiocognition.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dr. Demertzi participates in the Symposium "The role of the body in cognition and emotion", at the 2025 @escop.bsky.social in Sheffield, UK. 💬 "Mind blanking reports are mediated by altered arousal levels" ⏱️ When: Thu Sept 4, 16h10 (SYM-25) 📍 Where: Diamond LT6 🌐 www.escop2025.com

One month is left for the Pure Awareness Prize!

Heleen Slagter@haslagter.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The deadline for submissions for the 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize (€20k) is soon: Sept 30th. For the best contribution to neuroscience that substantially advances our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the experience of pure awareness. For details, see screenshot!

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

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Someone from the #ASSC28 sneaked in the airplane and plans to get bigger. My best reminder of this event 😊

The Belgian mission of the #ASSC28 is heading back home. PS, @axc.bsky.social how.is it possible you are elegant ALL the time?

axel cleeremans@axc.bsky.social · last yr.

With a relieved @ademertzi.bsky.social and her live olive tree on the way back from the incredibly successful #ASSC28 🙏

🥳 Thank you for the nomination @belgianneuro.bsky.social, I'm so humbled! Fingers crossed for a positive outcome 🤞 And big congratulations to #SenneBraem of course! 👏👏👏

It was the night when Lionel Naccache paraphrased King Louis "It's good to be the President" #ASSC28 w/ @estamatakis.bsky.social

Tell us how we did! What do we need to improve? Any changes we should make to the conference? Fill out our survey to express your opinion on the ASSC conference.

theASSC@theassc.bsky.social · last yr.

Please fill out the feedback survey for #ASSC2025 if you attended and haven't done so yet www.surveymonkey.com/r/HGNLBJW

Great post #ASSC28 INTREPID workshop featuring in-depth meta science discussions of the state of affairs in consciousness science and of the value of adversarial collaborations

It was our pleasure!

@luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social · last yr.

A big thank you again to Athena Demertzi and Emmanuel Stamatakis for organising a wonderful ASSC conference @assc28.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social! See you all in Chile next year @assc2026.bsky.social !