So, that's the proposed pattern: "The Humorous Hill" (obvious nod to a certain valley). things are funny when they match an overall pattern or template but get the details wrong, and learning systems tend to get the overall pattern before the details

These findings suggest that implicit evaluations may be largely or entirely inaccessible to conscious awareness: benedekkurdi.com/files/Kurdi_.... Many open questions remain, including most importantly whether this is a weird case, or whether these non-introspective processes operate more generally.

Congratulations to Zoltan Dienes for being elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Among his many accomplishments, he's leading ETHOS Experiment 3. Read more here. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...

Zoltán Dienes FBA

Zoltán Dienes' research interests are scientific reform in publishing, and in how to obtain evidence that an effect does not exist; and consciousness science, especially how people can construct subje...

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New registered report out in #Cortex, after exceptional handling from @pci-regreports.bsky.social! We introduce an instrumental conditioning (IC) task based on artificial grammars, and find nonconscious contributions to IC @andrei-preda.bsky.social @linaskora.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Online Now: In defense of a distinction

1/11 New preprint! Can we register eye contact before we consciously see gaze direction? We flashed faces for just 1–5 ms and found that direct gaze facilitates face detection before explicit gaze awareness. 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... Work with: @axc.bsky.social & @arvidguterstam.bsky.social

Conscious and unconscious eye contact at the limits of vision

Eye contact is one of the most potent social signals, but it remains unclear how little visual input is sufficient to register direct gaze, and whether such registration requires conscious awareness. ...

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Autistics on early autism interventions, review, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autistics "recalled mindless, repetitive, extensive training that was not enjoyable & felt like a punishment" "mentioned how the experience of being trained to comply negatively affected their life later" etc

The Views of Autistic Adults on Early Autism Interventions: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Literature Review - Elizaveta Nosova, Alexandra Sturrock, Neil Humphrey, Kathy Leadbitter, 2026

For many years, early autism interventions were developed without the involvement of autistic people. This review explores the views and experiences of autistic...

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(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing

Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t

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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

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

In a large in-lab study, conducted over 6 semesters, we tried to independently replicate this finding and obtained the opposite pattern — abrupt implicit and piecemeal explicit evaluation change. In a modified (methodologically improved) paradigm, both types of evaluation shifted abruptly.

I am biased, yet I encourage you to have a look there. Congrats particularly to @alexandradia.bsky.social who wonderfully conducted this piece of work last year! This study highlights that within-session alpha modulation by EEG-neurofeedback may rely on non-specific, time-dependent mechanisms.

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jacob Maaz, Arnaud Rey, et al: Non-specific increase in alpha power during a neurofeedback session targeting its downregulation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Happy to present this at the APS Annual Convention @psychscience.bsky.social On how complexity measures (repetitions, algorithmic complexity) predict awareness in implicit statistical learning, beyond any effect they may have on first-order accuracy #APS2026BCN #APS2026 #consci #cogsci

Happy to present this at the APS Annual Convention @psychscience.bsky.social On how complexity measures (repetitions, algorithmic complexity) predict awareness in implicit statistical learning, beyond any effect they may have on first-order accuracy #APS2026BCN #APS2026 #consci #cogsci

Mind wandering enhances the brain’s ability to learn hidden patterns, new study suggests

Mind wandering enhances the brain’s ability to learn hidden patterns, new study suggests

Daydreaming is often viewed as a failure of attention, but new research suggests it serves a hidden purpose. Scientists have discovered that the temporary drop in self-control during mind wandering actually boosts the brain’s ability to unconsciously learn complex environmental patterns.

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A new view of depression as decisional reference point pathology: "Elevation of the reference point would lead a person to experience once pleasurable activities as negative" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... When 🙂becomes 🙁 because your reference point is stuck at 😁

Absolutely - every layer of a feedforward neural network is (disregarding the stuff you mentioned) linearly related to the previous layer. However, multiple stacked linear layers can together perform nonlinear functions. So I'm saying that a "module" is a stack which does nonlinear stuff...

“Mesmer’s Error: Beliefs Reverse the Rubber Hand Illusion (Registered Report)” w/@zoltandienes.bsky.social. Suggestion can reverse classic body ownership illusion effects (greater effect for async control). Multisensory synchrony is neither necessary nor sufficient for the illusion. bit.ly/4wvHeUy

Happy to present this at the APS Annual Convention @psychscience.bsky.social On how complexity measures (repetitions, algorithmic complexity) predict awareness in implicit statistical learning, beyond any effect they may have on first-order accuracy #APS2026BCN

New Registered report (preprint)!📜 Showing that unconscious structures support instrumental conditioning, but only when enabling conscious judgments osf.io/preprints/ps... W/ Andrei Preda, Andrei Costea, and Lina Skora @linaskora.bsky.social W/ support from @cos.io, @templetonworld.bsky.social

Want to do a funded PhD in Spain at a state-of-the-art research center? We’re recruiting in • Cognitive Neuroscience • Cognitive Psychology • Health Psychology Join an international team and work with cutting-edge methods. More info: gccognitive.es

Gran Canaria Cognitive Research Center

The Gran Canaria Cognitive Research Center was established in 2024 as the first research institute in Gran Canaria dedicated to the study of the brain and cognition.

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Awareness as the heart of working memory www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Awareness as the heart of working memory

The assumption that attention and short-term memory combine to play a crucial role in cognition continues to influence cognitive modeling. We trace the development of the multicomponent model of worki...

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A classic painting from the Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo. Try rotating the image upside-down if you don't see anything strange at first.

My review on the "Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making" is now published. I think that this will be useful to both experts and newcomers to the field. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Doby Rahnev@dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New preprint: Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making. A review I was supposed to write 3 years ago for my VSS Young Investigator Award. Better late than never 😅 I tried to organize the literature and explore the likely mechanisms. Feedback welcome! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Each year, people speak 338 less words per day (on average). These effects accumulate. In 2019, people were speaking 28% less words each day than in 2005 (!). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

!!!! Last couple weeks before we run interviews for this! Please share around if you know people wanting to do multidisciplinary research at the intersection between interoception and addiction.

Mateo Leganes-Fonteneau@mateoleganes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Hiring! Please share! 1st round of hires for the BodyCrave project: 1 clinically oriented PhD on EMA, network analysis and interoception in tobacco and alcohol use disorder jobrxiv.org/job/uc-louva... 1 Post-doc or PhD on experimental tobacco research and interoception. jobrxiv.org/job/uc-louva...

Interested in implicit learning, implicit cognition, and non-conscious processes? Join us at the 12th Implicit Learning Seminar on May 7, 2026 at the University of Sussex, near Brighton. sites.google.com/view/implici...

implicit workshop

Thursday May 7th (preceded by socialising evening May 6th) No registration needed. Lunch and coffee provided. Venue: Meeting House, University of Sussex. The campus can be accessed via Falmer railway ...

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My course on consciousness is now online: six 90´ lectures featuring both history and recent experimental results on ignition, P3b, working memory, neural manifolds… unpublished results too. I speak in French (College de France oblige) but slides and subtitles are in English tinyurl.com/cz9yb4z3

Collège de France@college-de-france.fr · 5mo ago

#Science #Psychologie 🧠 « Qu’est-ce que la conscience, et quels sont ses mécanismes cérébraux ? » 📌 Le cours du Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale, est terminé... mais toutes les vidéos sont à revoir sur notre site ! 👉 https://tinyurl.com/cz9yb4z3

Online Now: The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought

The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought

Cognitive diversity, reflected in variations of language, perspective, and reasoning, is essential to creativity and collective intelligence. This diversity is rich and grounded in culture, history, and individual experience. Yet, as large language models (LLMs) become deeply embedded in people’s lives, they risk standardizing language and reasoning. We synthesize evidence across linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science to show how LLMs reflect and reinforce dominant styles while marginalizing alternative voices and reasoning strategies. We examine how their design and widespread use contribute to this effect by mirroring patterns in their training data and amplifying convergence as all people increasingly rely on the same models across contexts. Unchecked, this homogenization risks flattening the cognitive landscapes that drive collective intelligence and adaptability.

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