Liad Mudrik

@liadmudrik.bsky.social

Check out this thread - and please RT 🙏 Shaked and Itay argue that t-test and LMMs (and their Bayesian parallels) are not adequate for testing chance performance, and suggest alternative, more powerful tests. We hope you will find this useful, especially when studying unconscious processes

@shakedlublinsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

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)

The next Models of Consciousness Conference will take place in Copenhagen! 

 We are excited to bring #MoC7 to the University of Copenhagen on October 12–16, 2026. Call for Abstracts is now open on our website (link below!)

announcement of the models of consciousness conference 2026 at the university of copenhagen

If you or your undergrad students are interested in philosophy of mind, this excellent MSc program at U Edinburgh is open for applications until April 30. An exceptional opportunity to study with the best in the field. Please share widely! #philsci #philsky #philai study.ed.ac.uk/programmes/p...

Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition MSc - Postgraduate taught programmes

This programme provides the intellectual foundation and practical skills required for engaging in linguistics research, either by itself, or as part of cross-disciplinary research.

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🚨New paper alert!! 🚨 In this work by Nadav Amir, with Uri Maoz, we fail to find evidence for ambiguous objects emerging slower/faster to awareness, but do find support for more symmetrical stimuli enjoying preferential access academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness

Abstract. Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensor

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And don’t miss this super cool website that @ronyhirsch.bsky.social created for you to be able to explore the data yourself!

Rony@ronyhirsch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What did we find? Enough to build a website so people can explore the data! (ronyhirsch.github.io/minds-matter) To our question: despite a clear relationship between the two, consciousness doesn't seem to be perceived as necessary for moral status. And it doesn't appear to be sufficient either. 5/n

Another beautiful work from @ronyhirsch.bsky.social , now with @niccolonegro.bsky.social : they find that contrary to may philosophical stands, public views do not consider consciousness to be neither necessary nor sufficient for moral status! Find this, and many other interesting results, below 👇

Rony@ronyhirsch.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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

We delve into 37 studies that examined NCCs at the level of populations of neurons and single neurons in humans. 🤓 Most used the contrastive approach, where neural activity is compared between trials where the same stimulus is consciously perceived or not (we discuss limitations of this approach).

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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.

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