Today we had the launch event for our Centre for Brain & Behaviour! Lots of cool research from our PIs and contributions from companies, charities, and publishers. Great fruitful discussion and exchanges. Watch this space!

At our launching event "Mind, Tech, and Wellbeing" for our new Research Centre for Brain and Behaviour at QMUL! Follow us on here @queenmarycbb.bsky.social to hear more about our research @qmul.bsky.social @larschittka.bsky.social

Studying the dreaming brain is challenging due to the small sample size of sleep lab studies. @valdasnoreika.bsky.social co-authored a database paper of 20 EEG datasets with 2643 awakenings, offering an Open Access resource for sleep and consciousness researchers: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 We are hiring! 📢 For our @wellcometrust.bsky.social grant on information gathering biases in #OCD and #Schizophrenia, we are looking for a Postdoc in Computational Modelling, supervised by Peter Dayan and myself. Interested? See all the details in the job advert here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Curious about the mechanisms behind biased reasoning and metacognition? 🤔 📍 Come see our poster at #CCN2025, Aug 12, 1:30–4:30pm We show how a biased drift-diffusion model can explain choice, RT and confidence in a base-rate neglect task, revealing why more deliberation doesn’t always fix bias.

Still time to register for our Metacognitive Science satellite at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social on 11th August! metacognitivescience.org We have an exciting lineup covering computational, neural and AI approaches to metacognition, plus keynotes from Uta Noppeney and @ingmarposner.bsky.social 🥳

Super excited to kickstart our Metacognitive science satellite meeting, just before the CCN conference in Amsterdam! Organised with @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @stvemillertime.bsky.social

The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that Brian Maniscalco & Lucie Charles have been honored with the 2025 Best Article Award for PB&R. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Read the paper here: bit.ly/4otSo8A #psynomPBR @LucieCharlesCog @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social

Congratulations to Abhilash Dwarakanath who won this year's William James Prize for his brilliant work on the b istability of prefrontal states gating access to consciousness. You can read his paper here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Jiaqiu Vince Sun, NYU, "More than attention: brief practice of focus-attention mindfulness suppresses automatic word meaning processing" (tied)

3rd place: Mathis Bassler, University of Amsterdam, "State- And Hemifield-Dependent Modulation Of Orientation-Tuned Responses During Binocular Conflict In Mouse Visual Cortex" and ...

... and the 2nd place went to Luna Leonardy, Ghent University, for the poster "Investigating the restructuration processes in “Aha! moments”

Congratulations to the winners of the #ASSC2025 poster prize: The 1st place went to Cristina Poliziani, Chapman University for "A meta-analysis of the influence of conscious deliberate and arbitrary choices on the readiness potential and its impact on the free-will debate"

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Time flies! We would like to thank everyone who came to the #ASSC2025 - the brilliant organising team, especially the chairs Athena Demertzi, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Eleni Vasilaki, the ASSC committees, the executive Director Lucie Charles, the administrator Florence Lourdes for their hard work!

A big thank you again to Athena Demertzi and Emmanuel Stamatakis for organising a wonderful ASSC conference @assc28.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social! See you all in Chile next year @assc2026.bsky.social !

Abhilash Dwarakanath, winner of this year's William James Prize, paying homage to his mother at the end of his talk. Congratulations on a wonderful achievement and fantastic paper! www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

The logo this year is damn cool @assc28.bsky.social #assc28.

Congrats to the winners of the @assc28.bsky.social poster competition! *1st Place* Cristina Poliziani, Chapman University, "A meta-analysis of the influence of conscious deliberate and arbitrary choices on the readiness potential and its impact on the free-will debate"

Full auditorium at #ASSC28

Next year's ASSC keynotes, in Santiago de Chile June 30th to July 3rd 2026!

Dreamy conference dinner at @assc28.bsky.social 😍

Nice summer vibes at the @assc28.bsky.social lunch 😎

The volunteers team of the University of Crete is an essential ingredient for the #ASSC28. Thank you for all your efforts!

Super clear and convincing keynote by Catherine Tallon Baudry at @assc28.bsky.social : your brain is literally listening to your guts!

Fantastic talk by Nicola Clayton at @assc28.bsky.social testing magic tricks on birds! Looks like having opposable thumbs is a necessary condition to be tricked by some but not others 🙃👍

The full programme is ready and online! assc2025.gr/programme

For an easier navigation during the #ASSC28 conference, download the app here 👇

The ASSC28 @assc28.bsky.social in Crete has started!

Happy to have @nfaivre.bsky.social give a talk at the Postdoc festival of the School of Biology and Behavioural Sciences at QM organised by my postdoc @keijiota.bsky.social !

Excited to participate in the Granada Consciousness conference organised by Martijn Wokke and colleagues. Best view to the Alhambra! sites.google.com/view/granada-c…

Very excited to organise the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting in Amsterdam just before the @cogcompneuro.bsky.social conference, on Monday 11th Aug 2025. More information to come soon but please save the date!

So looking forward to having Dr Lucie Charles as our next speaker at the BBK School of Psychological Sciences seminar! 19th of March 1 PM Join in person (MAL 612) or in Teams (email me for the link pls: [email protected]) @queenmarycbb.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social

Thank you for the fascinating presentation “Time as a Fundamental Aspect of Consciousness” by Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social at the #Consciousness Club seminar series. Knowing about Unwelt and how different organisms perceive time was especially interesting. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

Announcing this week's Consciousness Club with Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social on "Time as a fundamental aspect of consciousness" Wednesday 12th March, usual time of 11am-1230pm UK time All welcome! For details on how to join please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Nice to visit old @unicog.bsky.social friends to give a talk at the @crnlpam.bsky.social in Lyon - @annekosem.bsky.social