We are really happy to be able to share a lot of our team work in #ASSC29! 4 talks and 2 posters... details below! 1. Starting tomorrow (1/07) with @leamoncoucy.bsky.social during the CONCURRENT SESSION 4, (14h-15h), a talk on the "Dimensions of the phenomenal space and dynamics of its structure" ⬇️

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

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My first article has just been published for Affective Science's special issue "The Nature of Valence: Pluses, Minuses, Progress" with @springernature.com! Thank you to my supervisor @axc.bsky.social and my team mates from the @erc-xp.bsky.social project 🧠✨ Read it here: rdcu.be/fq9sV

Our team is excited to be at #ESCAN2026! Where to find us: - S4-1: Valence, value and consciousness Friday 05/06. 10h30 - 12h, Location: Room5 - O2-2: Social cognition - Asymmetries in Basic Valence Friday, 05/06. 14h-15h30 Location: Room 9A - P3: Poster session - Nb 697 Saturday 06/06: 13h-15h. 👾

The symposium Valence, value and consciousness (S4-1) will happen on June, 5th, from 10h30 to 12h. Location: Room 5. Check the abstract www.conftool.org/escan2026/in.... We look forward to see you there!

ERC EXPERIENCE@erc-xp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🎉The XP team is so glad to present a symposium at #ESCAN2026 in Roma on the need to consider affect to understand the function of consciousness! Inès Mentec and Gabriel Brandolini will be joined by @ashenhav.bsky.social and Benedetto De Martino. 😁See you there!😁https://escan2026.eu/

Thanks for the CONNEX team, this talk will be available online! For people outside of Brussels, find the link below ⬇️

CONNEX Seminars@connexseminars.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Coming tomorrow, March 18 at 16:00 (CEST), we are happy to host Richard Prum from Yale University! Come join us in-person or online! For more details and the Teams link visit: crcn.ulb.ac.be/connex/conne... @crcnulb.bsky.social #crcn #connex #ulb

✨What is the relationship between aesthetic preferences and consciousness?✨ We are so very excited to welcome Richard Prum to discuss this question with us in Brussels. Do not miss this event! 📅 18 of March, 2026 🕒 16h-18h 📍 Brussels, ULB campus Solbosch, Solvay

🎉The XP team is so glad to present a symposium at #ESCAN2026 in Roma on the need to consider affect to understand the function of consciousness! Inès Mentec and Gabriel Brandolini will be joined by @ashenhav.bsky.social and Benedetto De Martino. 😁See you there!😁https://escan2026.eu/

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ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

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👾 Our team is expanding! 👾 We are very glad to welcome Dr.Gabriel Brandolini as our second postdoctoral researcher. His work on valence dimensionality will complement Dr. Medha Shekhar’s computational approach, further advancing our investigation of the functional role of phenomenal experience. 🧩

1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself. 👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... ⬇️ Summary below:

The value of consciousness: experiences worth having | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

DC. Dennett (2020,personal communication) asked: ‘How do we go from doing things for reasons to having reasons for doing things?’. This question targets a fundamental shift in nature: while all organi...

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✨We are glad to announce that Inès Mentec, Ivan Ivanchei and Axel Cleeremans’ paper “Exploring the Role of Micro-Valence in the Phenomenal Space: Insights from Similarity Judgments and Deep Learning Models” has been accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness! 👇Check the feed for highlights

🚨09/07, 16h30 at #ASSC28: check out posters 389 and 373. Inès Mentec will present her EEG study, with a strong claim: Neutrality doesn’t exist! 🤯 And @leamoncoucy.bsky.social’s experimental phil. studies is show that Unfelt Pains are Felt anyways.. 🤕 See you there!🧠 (Please bring them fresh water…)

Activities of our team of #ASSC28 Starting with the poster n.13 for Anastassia Loukianov on conflict adaptation. 😵 Tomorrow join us for Lena Lange’s talk at the Concurrent Session 15! She will present her work on the role of perceptual awareness in motivation.💪 And later, watch out for a pirate… ☠️

🚨 Do not miss this event! 🧠 Our workshop is filling up fast—registration closes tomorrow at midnight! ⏳ Grab one of the last spots by filling out the form here: survey2.ulb.be/index.php/41... We’re also thrilled to announce two new speakers: Johan Wagemans and Martin Skov @mskov01.bsky.social ! 🎤

ERC EXPERIENCE@erc-xp.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are excited to announce our 2nd workshop, “Value, Valence, and Consciousness”! 📌 Where? Brussels, Belgium 📆 When? April 7–8, 2025 📢Call for abstracts? until Feb. 26 💸 Registration? Free but mandatory, until Mar. 12 More infos ⬇️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2025/01/20/t... Looking forward to see you there! 🤩

🚨ALERT🚨 Do not miss the deadline for abstract submission, on the 26th of February! Looking forward to meet you at our event in Brussels 🧠

ERC EXPERIENCE@erc-xp.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are excited to announce our 2nd workshop, “Value, Valence, and Consciousness”! 📌 Where? Brussels, Belgium 📆 When? April 7–8, 2025 📢Call for abstracts? until Feb. 26 💸 Registration? Free but mandatory, until Mar. 12 More infos ⬇️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2025/01/20/t... Looking forward to see you there! 🤩

🚨ALERT🚨 Do not miss the deadline for abstract submission, on the 26th of February! Looking forward to meet you at our event in Brussels 🧠

ERC EXPERIENCE@erc-xp.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are excited to announce our 2nd workshop, “Value, Valence, and Consciousness”! 📌 Where? Brussels, Belgium 📆 When? April 7–8, 2025 📢Call for abstracts? until Feb. 26 💸 Registration? Free but mandatory, until Mar. 12 More infos ⬇️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2025/01/20/t... Looking forward to see you there! 🤩

We are excited to announce our 2nd workshop, “Value, Valence, and Consciousness”! 📌 Where? Brussels, Belgium 📆 When? April 7–8, 2025 📢Call for abstracts? until Feb. 26 💸 Registration? Free but mandatory, until Mar. 12 More infos ⬇️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2025/01/20/t... Looking forward to see you there! 🤩

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