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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1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Excited to share my first doctoral paper which was just published at Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences! doi.org/10.1111/pcn.... In this research letter, we showcase our take on the "Synthetic Image Evolution" method, in which we use genAI and evolutionary algorithms to... #neuroskyence

Synthetic image evolution for affective science

Click on the article title to read more.

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authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception

We've seen a wave of claims about consciousness in AI and animals. But what empirical evidence actually supports them? In a new Neuron paper, we discuss how basic perceptual or cognitive processes are often confounded with markers taken to index consciousness www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ethical impasse of current consciousness science

Rising media attention regarding consciousness in animals, fetuses, organoids, and AI has led to some rather strong statements. Most of these claims a…

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Marian Dawkins' book on why animal welfare considerations should not built on scientifically unanswerable questions re: consciousness open access, & so much more reasonable & rigorous than some of the popular fluff out there global.oup.com/academic/pro...

New Perspective out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We consider why neuroimaging analyses struggles to predict adolescent mental health, discuss approaches for improving prediction, and provide open-source implementations and tutorials: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Revamping neuroimaging analysis to reveal biomarkers of adolescent mental health - Nature Mental Health

Neuroscience research struggles to link neurobiological phenotypes with real-world mental health experiences, especially in youth. Here the authors challenge assumptions in functional neuroimaging stu...

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can i repost this 1000x please? learning to develop "good" research questions is so important, and so undercut by the "move fast break things" vibe coding mentality. (yes, i also vibe code... for weekend projects!) shameless plug for my recent paper on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mark Histed@markhisted.org · 5mo ago

The hardest part of science is posing the right question, not answering it.

Residents of a small Wisconsin town just passed a first-of-its-kind referendum on AI data center development. Tax incentives for future data centers will now require voter approval. Kudos to these residents for taking on Big Tech. Never doubt your power to change the system.

When reading a line like "the glow of the flame briefly illuminated his face", most readers tend to build an image in their mind. 🧠 People with aphantasia, however, report that they do not. We wanted to know: Does this change how they physically read stories? (1/5)

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion

Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

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More evidence of continuous flash suppression / binocular rivalry under anesthesia (in mice): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Continuous Flash Suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects

We investigated whether binocularly conflicting stimuli adapted from primate binocular rivalry studies could induce binocular response suppression in mouse visual cortex. We presented binocularly conf...

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does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... Perceptual Metacognition Beyond Confidence - a little commentary piece by Tomoya Nakayama & yours truly (on @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social, & @smfleming.bsky.social’s recent Neuron paper) 🧠📈

Perceptual metacognition beyond confidence

In this issue of Neuron, Dijkstra et al. showed that deciding whether a perceived stimulus is actually present or whether it is just one’s own imagination depends on specific signals in the fusiform g...

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electrical stimulation to the dlPFC can alleviate neuropathic pain, but only if we hit the exact right spot osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share our new paper in Nature Human Behaviour! nature.com/articles/s41... We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵

Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions - Nature Human Behaviour

Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.

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"... supporters of GNWT called IIT a pseudoscience. Such language has no place in a process designed to establish working relationships between competing groups" i totally agree w/ the 2nd part. but we're not part of that process, nor the said competing groups ... 🧠📈 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come

Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Tom Dupré la Tour, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, and Jack L. Gallant: The Voxelwise Encoding Model framework: A tutorial introduction to fitting encoding models to fMRI data doi.org/10.1162/imag...

#INTELLIGENCEARTIFICIELLE | 🧠 Des chercheurs ont utilisé des réseaux neuronaux artificiels pour prédire certains symptômes liés à la santé mentale. Recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.  #SantéMentale #Psychologie

Et si l’IA devenait un outil de dépistage psychologique?

Des chercheurs se sont servis de réseaux neuronaux artificiels pour prédire si des personnes présentaient des symptômes souvent observés dans la dépression, l'anxiété ou la schizophrénie.

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i have uploaded this preprint a while back, but hadn't promoted it directly here. in this piece i explain why i can no longer recommend trainees to participate in my former home field. The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps... but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything. 🧠📈

🧠 Ce que vous voyez dans une image pourrait-il trahir votre état mental? Des chercheurs ont entraîné une #IA à le deviner. Une recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin. #IntelligenceArtificielle #SantéMentale #Psychologie

Et si l’IA devenait un outil de dépistage psychologique?

Des chercheurs se sont servis de réseaux neuronaux artificiels pour prédire si des personnes présentaient des symptômes souvent observés dans la dépression, l'anxiété ou la schizophrénie.

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Here is our collaborative work with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @vincenttd.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social presented at CNS2025 on the comparison between behavioral similarity judgments on different properties, fMRI, and AI/algorithmic Representational spaces. qr.me-qr.com/es/link-list...

new preprint just dropped! Revealing higher-order neural representations with generative artificial intelligence led by @hazimi.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2503.14333 thread 👇 1/n

Revealing higher-order neural representations with generative artificial intelligence

Studies often aim to reveal how neural representations encode aspects of an observer's environment, such as its contents or structure. These are ``first-order" representations (FORs), because they're ...

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En attendant notre séance de samedi, revivez la passionnante conférence d' @axc.bsky.social (de l' @ulbruxelles.bsky.social et membre de l' #Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique), La conscience : comment et pourquoi ? #neuroskyence 🧪 youtu.be/8IVI8y8I0xo

Axel Cleeremans : La conscience : comment et pourquoi ?

YouTube video by Académie de Médecine (ARMB)

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Fetuses have the right signatures according to IIT for consciousness, especially if they're premature and male (apparently): www.nature.com/articles/s44... There are consequences of IIT in the real world. For real people. It clearly already has the juice to be a practical concern.

Sex differences in prenatal development of neural complexity in the human brain - Nature Mental Health

A magnetoencephalography study provides evidence that neural signal complexity declines with brain maturation in human fetuses and newborns and the decline occurs faster in male fetuses.

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i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT. inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina... so long, folks. the world is going nuts. pls take care. 🧠📈

LLMs have shown impressive performance in some reasoning tasks, but what internal mechanisms do they use to solve these tasks? In a new preprint, we find evidence that abstract reasoning in LLMs depends on an emergent form of symbol processing arxiv.org/abs/2502.20332 (1/N)

Emergent Symbolic Mechanisms Support Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models

Many recent studies have found evidence for emergent reasoning capabilities in large language models, but debate persists concerning the robustness of these capabilities, and the extent to which they ...

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Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...

Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Me

I am one of the co-signers of the letter labeling IIT as “pseudoscience” for numerous reasons. These include a definition of…

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New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....