Can we make objective awareness tests more powerful? In our new paper (doi.org/10.1093/nc/n...; Neuroscience of Consciousness), we introduce two tests (frequentist and Bayesian) that outperform commonly used tests, based on extensive simulations and reanalyses of published datasets. (1/9)

Increasing power for detecting awareness: a new approach to test group level objective performance

Abstract. Demonstrating reliable unconscious effects is notoriously challenging, and the scope of unconscious processing remains debated. Establishing unco

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The final version of our review on intracranial EEG and consciousness is now out in @elife.bsky.social! 🥳🧠🔌@nfaivre.bsky.social @meaperei.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social

François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🥳Our review of intracranial EEG research on the neural correlates of consciousness is out in eLife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...! We think these methods offer a unique window on consciousness!🧠 A thread 👇

Classic publication using Lead-DBS: In this article by Khalaf et al., the authors tested for shared subcortical arousal systems across sensory modalities during transient attentional modulation using block... Check out the paper here 👇👇 https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1053811925002277

Two postdoc opportunities @yale.edu in human neurophysiology. One position in my lab @wutsaiyale.bsky.social focusing on human cognitive neurophysiology. Details at helfrich-lab.com/news/ Plus a possible collab with anesthesiology 👇 #NeuroTwitter #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #EEG Please share.

New preprint! with @niccolonegro.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ve6c5_v1 Consciousness seems central to moral status debates, from AI to animal welfare. But is consciousness necessary for moral status? Is it sufficient? We surveyed >1000 people to find out. 🧵 1/n

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

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🧵 I gave Claude two things: a short paper (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) and a raw behavioural dataset with 3 lines of variable descriptions. Then I asked it to fit three computational RL models described only by equations in the manuscript. No code, no toolbox, no guidance on the fitting procedure. 1/3

This looks an amazing opportunity to study consciousness with (in my opinion) the best data and in an amazing research environment! As Michael's former PhD student, I can only recommend working with him! + Grenoble is amazing 🏔️🚵🧗‍♀️⛷️☀️

Michael Pereira@meaperei.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#hiring Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness! 18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France. ⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

#hiring Come work with us to better understand the neuronal mechanism underlying perceptual consciousness! 18 months postdoctoral position at INSERM in Grenoble, France. ⌛Application deadline 10 March 2026. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/408445

Postdoctoral researcher on single neuron recordings for consciousness

Contract period: 18 monthsExpected date of employment: June 2026Proportion of work: Full timeSalary: according to INSERM scales (~2900 – 3300 € gross / month based on experience)Desired level of educa...

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Are you sure there’s no mosquito in the room? With @matanmazor.bsky.social, Chichi Dézier, @nfaivre.bsky.social & Louise Goupil, we study how we combine multiple sensory sources to be confident in presence and absence: While detection rely on one modality, confidence requires both channels to align!

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Audiovisual congruency drives confidence in presence and absence: https://osf.io/sqpmk

🥳Our review of intracranial EEG research on the neural correlates of consciousness is out in eLife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...! We think these methods offer a unique window on consciousness!🧠 A thread 👇

🎉 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🎉 Join the MESEC Winter School 2026 in Ephesus, Turkey, March 22–28. 🗓️☀️ A week of methods, ideas, and deep dives into consciousness with an international community. Apply now and share the call. 🧠 🔗 mesec.co/event/winter...

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... A short thread [1/5]👇

Thrilled to share my very first publication, in Translational Psychiatry! 🧠🧪 We used invasive brain mapping to identify personalized neuromodulation targets for treatment-refractory OCD. Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #OCD #DBS #Neuroscience #Research

Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Invasive brain mapping identifies personalized therapeutic neuromodulation targets that suppress OCD network activity

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📣 Calling experimental, computational, or theoretical researchers! WTI's Postdoc Fellowships application is now open, offering a competitive salary, structured mentorship, world-class facilities + more: wti.yale.edu/initiatives/... Apply by November 10: apply.interfolio.com/174525 #KnowTogether

Our review on intracranial research on consciousness is now out as a preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736. I believe that intracranial recordings provide one of the most exciting avenues for research on consciousness right now! If you agree, I think you will find the review interesting 🤓

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research

Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely o...

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Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask): arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736 With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky! #iEEG

Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds

In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal a temporally organize...

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New position, new social media account. After 5 fantastic years in Tuebingen, I moved to @yale.edu and the @wutsaiyale.bsky.social this summer - which means that I’ll be recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Please help me to spread the word and see current opportunities below 👇

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1/Preprint Alert🔔: Across two experiments plus a computational model, we show the visual system compresses complex scenes into summary statistics that can guide behavior without conscious access to the task-defining features. We term this the Ensemble Blindsight effect.

Two recent #sEEG studies worth checking out if you're interested in evidence accumulation, #consciousness and #metacognition: www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.nature.com/articles/s41... With @francoisstock.bsky.social, Dorian Goueytes, @meaperei.bsky.social, and many others!

Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠 Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments! #Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess

Cortical evidence accumulation for visual perception occurs irrespective of reports

Nature Communications - Perception can occur in the absence of report. Here, the authors use intracranial recordings to show that sequential sampling of sensory evidence in the ventral visual...

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François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our new sEEG study is out on BioRxiv: tinyurl.com/4afh3b9n! Using 3 face detection experiments and recording from >3000 channels, we found a neural code that reflected evidence accumulation for conscious perception and perceptual confidence! 👇

BBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our paper about contention and consensus in unconscious processing research is now out in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Check out Maor's thread! Please consider sending a comment, we are interested to continue this discussion 🤓

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you an early-career ASSC member who wants to meet peers interested in consciousness ahead of the @assc28.bsky.social conference? The @ASSC Community Building Committee has the right event for you! Join us for an online ice-breaking event on July 3. Sign up here before June 25: tally.so/r/3qMyQk

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New “version of record” in @elife.bsky.social! ‬ We recorded neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus of humans and found both sensory- and perception-selective neurons with two distinct latencies! 7-year project with @nfaivre.bsky.social + @foscobernasconi.bsky.social. A short thread 👇

Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings

Subcortical brain structures contain neurons encoding subjective reports of stimulus detection in human participants, suggesting a role for conscious perception.

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Hi Bluesky! I want to let you know about a cool new paper I had the honor of being a part of: Semantic priming modulates the strength and direction of the Kanizsa illusion rdcu.be/en0JZ

Semantic priming modulates the strength and direction of the Kanizsa illusion

Communications Psychology - This study demonstrates that semantic priming can either increase or decrease perception of the Kanizsa illusion. The results support cognitive penetrability,...

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Through thick and thin, the ultra-resilient Ramla Msheik completed the main study of her PhD, which supports leaky evidence accumulation as a computational mechanism underlying perceptual confidence and subjective duration. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Leaky evidence accumulation accounts for perceptual confidence and subjective duration

Perceptual consciousness is defined as the subjective experience associated with the processing of sensory cues from the environment. Subjective experience unfolds over time and is accompanied by a se...

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Excited to see this out 🥳 Come check out the website and explore studies of unconscious processing!

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our UnconTrust database for studies of unconscious processing is now officially launched in an interactive website here: uncontrustdb.tau.ac.il And a paper describing the process and validation is now published in “Scientific Data”: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our UnconTrust database for studies of unconscious processing is now officially launched in an interactive website here: uncontrustdb.tau.ac.il And a paper describing the process and validation is now published in “Scientific Data”: doi.org/10.1038/s415...