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Max Levinson@maxlevinson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW PAPER🚨👀 in Science Advances with a wonderful transatlantic team. (incl @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @katduecker.bsky.social) Using human MEG, we found lower-order and higher-order neural processes that underlie illusory transitions in conscious visual perception. 🧵👇

Somewhat overstated, but yet again we see humans quicker to grant rights to rivers, mountains, ecosystems, or forests than to other animals. The river gets rights against being polluted by industrial chicken farming, the chickens themselves get ignored. Dispiriting.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo ago

River Wye formally recognised as living ecosystem with intrinsic rights

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

NEW PAPER🚨👀 in Science Advances with a wonderful transatlantic team. (incl @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @katduecker.bsky.social) Using human MEG, we found lower-order and higher-order neural processes that underlie illusory transitions in conscious visual perception. 🧵👇

Hierarchical brain dynamics supporting visual perceptual transitions

Illusory transitions in conscious visual perception involve both early visual cortex and higher-order motor cortices.

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I tried to do what we call, if I may be so bold, a "conceptual scoop"!! Pls read my story on the most overlooked form of extreme confinement of farmed animals—the routine caging of millions of dairy calves in tiny crates less than 1/10 the size of a parking spot. It's not about veal! (🧵)

Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?

NEW PAPER 👁️🚨 w/ @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social If you keep your eyes very still, the visual world oddly appears to "fill-in", or blend across boundaries. Filling-in over stronger boundaries requires even longer staring. Is this because involuntary microsaccades more effectively delay filling-in? (1/3)

Sensorimotor control meets visual consciousness. Our new Journal of Vision paper led by @maxlevinson.bsky.social shows that microsaccades reset visual processing & delay perceptual illusions (here, filling-in). www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org/news/zl2erl3... 🧵

How Tiny Eye Movements Reveal the Fragility of Visual Perception — Baillet Lab [ neuroSPEED ]

Our latest study, led by grad student Max Levinson and published in the Journal of Vision , explores why our conscious perception often does not match the physical world accessible to our senses. Usi...

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

1/ "A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" is out now! it was a joy to coauthor this commentary with Àlex Gómez-Marin @behaviOrganisms for @NatureNeuro, in which we try find some positive lessons in the clash over IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to report the publication of our new paper with @biyuhe.bsky.social in @plosbiology.org. In the study, we find that oscillatory and non-oscillatory neural signals likely influence conscious visual perception independently. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Spontaneous slow cortical potentials and brain oscillations independently influence conscious visual perception

Conscious perception is influenced by brain oscillations and slow cortical potentials within the brain, but it is not clear if they influence perception via shared mechanisms. This study shows that os...

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I made this tool that I think is pretty useful if you are running online experiments and using the OSF. It's free. And open source. And you can use other free tools with it to run an online experiment for free. pipe.jspsych.org

Is IIT a “psuedoscientific” theory? The moment I’ve always hoped for, to plug this piece w/ Clare Press and Cecilia Heyes. The 7 questions psychologists and neuroscientists can ask ourselves if we want to build better theories and interrogate our own… www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroskyence