𝗢𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 Excellent book on relational aspects of knowledge and world. Inspired by physics but providing a general process + relational + perspectival framework. Quite convergent with The Blind Spot by Frank, Gleiser, and Thompson.

What can DNNs tell us about how the brain learns? Our new results show that predictive local learning better captures changes in brain representations during statistical learning than supervised or contrastive approaches. Excellent work by @denisekittelmann.bsky.social and @gutlin.bsky.social

Predictive coding networks capture human neural representations missing in supervised DNNs

Neuroscientific learning theories propose that the brain acquires knowledge by constructing internal world models. Supervised learning, the dominant approach in deep neural networks (DNN), relies on e...

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When you focus on one item in working memory, beta rhythms may help “park” the other in a protected, set-aside state. Prioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus Transformations doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... #neuroscience

Prioritization in Working Memory Reduces Interference via Beta Band-Linked Stimulus Transformations

We studied the effects of prioritization in a two-step retrocuing task in which male and female humans hold two items in working memory, and the item not cued by the first cue cannot be dropped becaus...

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Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0

Reposting, in case you missed it! 8-) Reskeet appreciated!

Heleen Slagter@haslagter.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

🧵In April, I built an AI agent that could complete the Attention Network Task. The agent was task-specific and costly. I concluded that online behavioral experiments were safe from agentic infiltration. Six months later, my view has changed. Our new preprint explains why osf.io/preprints/ps...

Generalizable experiment agents threaten online behavioral experiments

Online behavioral experiments rely on the assumption that participants are human. Advances in large language models (LLMs) challenge this assumption, but previous demonstrations have largely focused o...

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How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

Our Annual Review of Vision Science paper on "Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World" with @evadeligiannis.bsky.social is officially out and available through open access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World

Vision science has demonstrated considerable success in characterizing early- and mid-level visual processes through reductionism and tightly controlled experiments. However, an understanding of high-...

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1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.

Important work showing just how easily AI agents can pass online behavioral experiments! Safeguards need to keep up if we want to continue online testing!👇

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · last wk.

How much of a risk are LLM-generated bots for online behavioral experiments? We present results of an entirely natural language prompt-generated agent, capable of absolving any of the 26 experiments we tested it on. Most tasks are passed with data that can pass as human osf.io/preprints/ps... (1/)

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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How can we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? I'm super happy that the recordings of our last workshop on exactly this question are now online! Speakers and links to talks below! 👇 #ConSci

we started out just wanting to point out that, despite its popularity, comparing hits vs misses in detection tasks is actually not a very good way to study subjective experience / consciousness. but we ended up expanding it to make it relevant for clinical stuff too led by @tomnakamura.bsky.social

hakwan lau@hakwan.bsky.social · 3w ago

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited ....

1/ Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism. A long time in the making, but the full collection is *out now* in Behavioural and Brain Sciences I deeply thank all my many commentators for their wise, broad, and deep opinions on this critical topic.I also thank them for their saintly patience. 🙏🏽

Most cortical neurons exhibit mixed selectivity rather than specializing in a single function. Our limited ability to juggle tasks may therefore reflect interference among overlapping neural representations. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty - Nature Neuroscience

Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...

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A leaf blower: a Bayesian perspective doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2018.320655

I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...

Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

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Can AI Have Conscious Experiences? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-go...

Can AI Have Conscious Experiences?

AI is the hottest game in town, but it is not new. The big question is "can it be programmed to be conscious?" That logic misunderstands both the brain and consciousness.

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Characteristically well-informed, and super interesting, by @philipcball.bsky.social The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Einstein test: what happens when AI tries to rediscover relativity?

Scientists are probing whether language models trained on historical data can reproduce creative breakthroughs.

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Sharing a big first: the first 1st-author paper from my first PhD student, Abi Wyllie. Definitely a first worth celebrating. So here's a summary, if you're interested in familiarity, memory, and attention. rdcu.be/2uSWUCg3PBia

In episode 951, I talk with Dr. Shaun Gallagher about his great book, The Self and its Disorders. #CognitiveScience #Philosophy youtu.be/Djlss-rWJEI

#951 Shaun Gallagher: The Self and its Disorders

YouTube video by The Dissenter

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It's actually real! Lovely to see it in actual print, including @catalinayang.bsky.social's beautiful cover image. Check out the digital, fully open access, version here: royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3.... #neuroskyence

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

How do we prevent memories from competing to guide attention? More distinct hippocampal representations for competing memories are linked to precise preparatory coding in visual cortex & more accurate eye movements to target locations. Thrilled to share this work by the incomparable Serra Favila!

Worth reading 👇 if only to appreciate that meditation may not be for everyone www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Dark Side of Mindfulness

A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.

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📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).

Super excited to see our review out in TiCS! Here me & @cogsci.nl present the first comprehensive framework of the mechanisms driving relationships between spontaneous pupil-size fluctuations, neural activity, and behavior 👀🧠👩🏻‍💻 Spoiler: arousal is only one of at least four 😶‍🌫️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16