Phil Corlett
@philcorlett.bsky.social
I study how the brain makes up the mind Delusions, Hallucinations Prediction Errors, Priors Beliefs, Perception He/Him belieflab.yale.edu
The amazing neural precision of learning from feedback (in the songbird brain) - "3.2 ms temporal precision. Learned changes in firing rate are not observed in uncorrelated neighboring neurons" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... This is super interesting, an illustration of what brains are capable of
Very excited to share this preprint from me, @emmatempleton.bsky.social, @lindseytepfer.bsky.social & @thaliawheatley.bsky.social! "Friends and strangers engage in distinct regimes of body motion synchrony during conversation" osf.io/preprints/ps...
I recently supervised a great student to conduct a small qualitative study on how autistic people perceive the items of a potential psychosis screener.
What does psychedelic science have to learn from social sciences and humanities? We were concerned about reinventing the wheel, but now also about importing historical baggage through outdated theories and under-validated measures. Book event Wednesday in Washington, DC + Zoom
oh no the Blue Sox are trading Jackston Fuxley for Hjonwald Mendoza!!!! this is what you sound like
39 years ago, on August 3, 1987, Def Leppard released the album "Hysteria". Which track is your favorite?
No idea of source or if attribution is correct, but simply can’t can’t resist “I heard Bill Gates & Elon Musk joined forces to create a male enhancement pill... they're calling iit ELON-GATES bahaha It cures...well... Micro-Soft Ryan McMillan Maplewood”
When you grow a foot and can’t wait to use it… A baby bivalve in timelapse. #marineplankton 🦑
A Rube Goldberg machine masterpiece [📹 Hiratoshi Kubota / pitagora.maker] Original post
🧠 Compulsion has a wiring diagram Flip one circuit between cortex and hypothalamus in a mouse and it stops caring about anything but nice food. In people, that same connection tracks body weight and binge eating. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... 🧪 #Neuroscience #SciComm
A cortical-hypothalamic neural circuit for compulsive eating in mice
Leow et al. identify a prefrontal-hypothalamic circuit that drives compulsive eating despite negative consequences. In mice, binge eating reshapes prefrontal neural dynamics into persistent food-seeki...
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Contemporary Helsinki land artist Jonna Pohjalainen turns fallen aspen trees into giant coloured pencils sculptures #womensart
One of the best 80's teen horror movies opened 39yrs ago today. THE LOST BOYS (1987)
"Wow" A surprised shore-stone full of Goniatite fossils.😲 County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours
New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Nearly a decade after starting the project, the first major results from our comparative connectomics work is online! Comparing the head direction circuits of the central complex in bees, ants and flies, recapitulating >300million years of evolution.
Finally out in @natneuro.nature.com! A forgotten memory isn't always gone. We show that forgotten memories persist as silent memory traces, can be recovered by reminders, and can even be reconstructed into false memories. Excited to finally share this work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Creating true and false memories from forgotten information in Drosophila - Nature Neuroscience
Forgotten memories in Drosophila persist as silent memory traces and can be recovered by reminder cues. Manipulating reminders can create false memories, showing that memory reconstruction flexibly in...
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How does the brain represent the value of knowledge? In our paper--out now at Nature Neuroscience--we identify a representation of intrinsic information value within neural population structures in the orbitofrontal cortex in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02377-y #neuroskyence 🧠🧪 (1/8)
Representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience
Mice are motivated to seek information of no extrinsic value. Recording neural activity in orbitofrontal cortex reveals a representation of the value of information that is distinct from the value of ...
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Paper rejection the day before vacation, the perfect opportunity to practice loving kindness 🤣
🎉 *extremely* excited to share our human single neuron + movie dataset is out in #ScientificData! 📄 Human neuron activity during an 83-minute movie from 2,286 neurons and 29 patients 🔗https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-026-07955-0 1st public dataset from @humansingleneuron.bsky.social!🧵
Can an AI tell its own words from yours? This is "reality monitoring." In humans, failing at it is linked to hallucinations and delusions. In this work we investigated reality monitoring in 6 LLMs of different sizes in collaboration with @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social.
Check out the new preprint from the amazing @adamjcurtis.bsky.social! Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪
Adam Curtis@adamjcurtis.bsky.social · 7d ago📢 New preprint with @aidanhorner.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social investigating how schematic violations shape memory for sequences of events. Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation osf.io/preprints/ps...
Experience Alone Can Generate Human Face Specialization: Evidence From Deep Learning Models
Experience Alone Can Generate Human Face Specialization: Evidence From Deep Learning Models
Abstract. The specialization of human face recognition for upright own-race faces is well-established. While experience is thought to play a key role in face specialization, establishing its direct…
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No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments
No Evidence of Experimenter Demand Effects in Three Online Psychology Experiments
Abstract. Experimenter demand effects occur when participants alter their behavior to align with perceived study hypotheses, threatening internal validity. Concern about demand effects is pervasive…
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This is such a cool article. It says sharks are also older than Saturn's rings and the North Star www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...
Sharks Are Older Than Trees, Which Seems Wrong
They were around before everything from Saturn’s rings to flowering plants to the literal North Star.
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