Research conducted by @galchen.bsky.social and colleagues from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers insight into how the brain determines which information enters conscious awareness and which remains outside it.

Our Brains May Be Automatically Filtering Out Negative Words

A new study offers insight into how the brain determines which information enters conscious awareness and which remains outside it.

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New in Psychological Science! We've been studying visual non-conscious prioritization processes for decades, but not a lot is known about non-conscious speech processing. Does it conform to the same principles, despite the very different way it functions? #consciousness #psychscisky #PsychSky

An extraordinary experience!! Huge thanks to all mentors and organizers.

Anil Seth@anilseth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Wonderful and inspiring opening session at the CIFAR/TWCF Winter School for the Neuroscience of Consciousness, here in beautiful wintery Montebello, in Quebec. All of the participants gave 60 second intros to themselves and their interests. What a great group of people.

First paper is now out in Cortex! We find behavioral and neural evidence for non-conscious speech processing, using a new dual-task paradigm that creates repetitive occurrences of in attentional deafness without masking or degrading stimuli. @deouell.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Neural markers of speech processing during inattentional deafness☆

Cognitive scientists have long debated the capabilities of non-conscious perception, defined as the level of processing of external stimuli that peopl…

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Gal Chen@galchen.bsky.social · last yr.

Opening a new window into auditory awareness with two new preprints! Conscious Detection of Spoken Words Depends on Their Valence osf.io/preprints/ps... Neural Markers of Speech Processing During Inattentional Deafness osf.io/preprints/ps...

1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪

Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors

Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

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When we listen to speech, we do it while constantly predicting upcoming contents. Is this prediction associated with the subjective experience of engaged, conscious listening? What happens when we fail to listen? Come take a look at my poster (P116) tomorrow at @assc28.bsky.social 16:30

Opening a new window into auditory awareness with two new preprints! Conscious Detection of Spoken Words Depends on Their Valence osf.io/preprints/ps... Neural Markers of Speech Processing During Inattentional Deafness osf.io/preprints/ps...