Happy to share our new pre-print "Attention reshapes the information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning" led by the great Juho Äijälä, Thread below👇

1/11 New preprint! Can we register eye contact before we consciously see gaze direction? We flashed faces for just 1–5 ms and found that direct gaze facilitates face detection before explicit gaze awareness. 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... Work with: @axc.bsky.social & @arvidguterstam.bsky.social

Conscious and unconscious eye contact at the limits of vision

Eye contact is one of the most potent social signals, but it remains unclear how little visual input is sufficient to register direct gaze, and whether such registration requires conscious awareness. ...

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Thrilled to share our @natcomms.nature.com article: "Broadband synergy versus oscillatory redundancy in the visual cortex", a cross-species research effort led by Louis Roberts. Thread below!

🧵1/10 New paper out! In collaboration with @brainself.bsky.social and Karin Jensen! We systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed studies testing whether the Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI), the classic body ownership illusion, reduces pain in healthy participants. Short answer: the evidence says no.

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

1. What does “pure awareness” look like neurophenomenologically? In our new study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, we combined EEG and experience tracing to study Transcendental Meditation as an empirical model of minimal phenomenal experience: awareness with minimal content.👇🏽

What makes a body feel like our own? The sense of body ownership is a core aspect of self-awareness, and it depends on the integration of multiple sensory signals. What role do visual predictions play in body ownership? Check out our new paper in Royal Society Open Science: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Disentangling visually driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership

Abstract. The sense of owning one’s body is essential for distinguishing internal from external sensations. Research using bodily illusions shows that this

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An absolutely precision-oriented read from the wider team of @canalesjohnson.bsky.social and co. on the information processing of prediction errors--an already high feat. They go further, relating it to environmental stimuli across sleep stages.

Delayed, Reduced and Redundant: Information Processing of Prediction Errors during Human Sleep

During sleep, the human brain transitions to a ‘sentinel processing mode’, enabling the continued processing of environmental stimuli despite the absence of consciousness. We employed advanced informa...

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@ademertzi.bsky.social @katrinpreller.bsky.social @canalesjohnson.bsky.social

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

I'm enjoying this piece so much!

Borjan (Boki) Milinković@neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

Happy to share our new and groundbreaking study on the relationship between conscious awareness and the sense of bodily self! With @brainself.bsky.social at @ki.se and out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Conscious awareness, sensory integration, and evidence accumulation in bodily self-perception | PNAS

Conscious awareness refers to the subjective experience of perceiving, thinking, and feeling and the ability to report these experiences. These per...

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Also, check out my popular science article about this paper in @theconversation.com - theconversation.com/why-our-phys...

Why our physical bodies may be a core part of conscious experience – new research

The brain’s sense of “this is my body” is tightly bound to conscious awareness – far more than many theories assume.

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So happy our latest study is finally published! We show that falls are a major issue across the lifespan for individuals with DCD (i.e., Dyspraxia). Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Hidden Epidemic of Falls journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal... Key findings 👇

We finish #CBUMethodsDay with EEG, MEG and Physiology, including @canalesjohnson.bsky.social's talk "Time-frequency Co-Information (TFCoI): Unraveling synergistic and redundant cross-frequency interactions using ECoG data". @mrccbu.bsky.social

Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.

Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.

I'm happy to share our preprint "Disentangling visually-driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership". We show that tactile predictions in the rubber hand illusion are as important as feeling touch on the hand to elicit the feeling of ownership. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share our new study: “Distilling the neurophenomenological signatures of pure awareness during Transcendental Meditation”, combining subjective reports with large-scale screening of neural features to investigate pure awareness. Thread below! 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📜[PUBLICATION ALERT]📜 I had the honour to be co-first author of this huge effort to advance dream science and our understanding of conscious experience during sleep. In Nature Communications rdcu.be/eAwni. @naotsuchiya.bsky.social @thomasandrillon.bsky.social #sleep #dreams #EEG

A dream EEG and mentation database

Nature Communications - The authors present a multicenter database to investigate the neural correlates of dreaming, including physiological, behavioral and experiential data. This database could...

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💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤 After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com **A dream EEG and mentation database** rdcu.be/eAwni

🗺️ Pathfinding: a neurodynamical account of intuition 📔 We #review the neuroscience of #intuition, and present it as a predictive embodied process, emergent from hippocampal replay & brain metastability 🤝 with S. Kotler, M. Mannino, K. Friston, G. Buzsáki & J.A.S Kelso 🔗 nature.com/articles/s42...

Pathfinding: a neurodynamical account of intuition - Communications Biology

This Perspective article proposes a neurodynamical model of intuition as a fast, embodied pathfinding mechanism shaped by evolution. Drawing on the free-energy principle and metastability, it explores...

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Delighted to share our new publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, entitled: “Integrated phenomenology and brain connectivity demonstrate changes in nonlinear processing in jhana advanced meditation” 🧠🧘‍♀️🔬 🧵

Very relevant work on emergence by @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social showing an elegant way of dissociating the *amount* from the *organization* of emergent brain dynamics. Much needed distinction in the field of brain complexity

Borjan (Boki) Milinković@neuromorphicboki.bsky.social · last yr.

📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜 I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics" w@thomasandrillon.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social Barnett, Carter Strap in! 1/n

The Zoo of Consciousness: from theories to "theories"; from science to nonsense and absolutely everything in between: loc.closertotruth.com/consciousnes...

Explore consciousness theories and implications

A global hub for theories of consciousness—authenticated by leading theorists, designed for professional consciousness communities, and open to all

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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 !

My best ASSC so far at *ALL* levels. I had an absolute blast. Finding all possible "scientific" reasons to return to Crete asap 😇 @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28. 🍗 🐑 🐖 ⛱️ 🌞 🧠 🍻

The one and only @svangaal.bsky.social on how fluctuations in arousal shape conscious perception. @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28

The great @satupalva.bsky.social on brain critical oscillatory dynamics and perception @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28

The great @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social on micro-to-macro neural dynamic relationships across sleep stages. #ASSC28 @assc28.bsky.social