Thanks for the CONNEX team, this talk will be available online! For people outside of Brussels, find the link below ⬇️

✨What is the relationship between aesthetic preferences and consciousness?✨ We are so very excited to welcome Richard Prum to discuss this question with us in Brussels. Do not miss this event! 📅 18 of March, 2026 🕒 16h-18h 📍 Brussels, ULB campus Solbosch, Solvay

🎉The XP team is so glad to present a symposium at #ESCAN2026 in Roma on the need to consider affect to understand the function of consciousness! Inès Mentec and Gabriel Brandolini will be joined by @ashenhav.bsky.social and Benedetto De Martino. 😁See you there!😁https://escan2026.eu/

👾 Our team is expanding! 👾 We are very glad to welcome Dr.Gabriel Brandolini as our second postdoctoral researcher. His work on valence dimensionality will complement Dr. Medha Shekhar’s computational approach, further advancing our investigation of the functional role of phenomenal experience. 🧩

1/Paper out today in Phil Trans B @royalsocietypublishing.org alsocietypublishing.org in a Special Issue «Evolutionary functions of consciousness», by @axc.bsky.social, Catherine Tallon-Baudry, @krysdolega.bsky.social and myself. 👉Open-access at this link: doi.org/10.1098/rstb... ⬇️ Summary below:

✨We are glad to announce that Inès Mentec, Ivan Ivanchei and Axel Cleeremans’ paper “Exploring the Role of Micro-Valence in the Phenomenal Space: Insights from Similarity Judgments and Deep Learning Models” has been accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness! 👇Check the feed for highlights

🚨09/07, 16h30 at #ASSC28: check out posters 389 and 373. Inès Mentec will present her EEG study, with a strong claim: Neutrality doesn’t exist! 🤯 And @leamoncoucy.bsky.social’s experimental phil. studies is show that Unfelt Pains are Felt anyways.. 🤕 See you there!🧠 (Please bring them fresh water…)

Activities of our team of #ASSC28 Starting with the poster n.13 for Anastassia Loukianov on conflict adaptation. 😵 Tomorrow join us for Lena Lange’s talk at the Concurrent Session 15! She will present her work on the role of perceptual awareness in motivation.💪 And later, watch out for a pirate… ☠️

🚨 Do not miss this event! 🧠 Our workshop is filling up fast—registration closes tomorrow at midnight! ⏳ Grab one of the last spots by filling out the form here: survey2.ulb.be/index.php/41... We’re also thrilled to announce two new speakers: Johan Wagemans and Martin Skov @mskov01.bsky.social ! 🎤

🚨ALERT🚨 Do not miss the deadline for abstract submission, on the 26th of February! Looking forward to meet you at our event in Brussels 🧠

🚨ALERT🚨 Do not miss the deadline for abstract submission, on the 26th of February! Looking forward to meet you at our event in Brussels 🧠

We are excited to announce our 2nd workshop, “Value, Valence, and Consciousness”! 📌 Where? Brussels, Belgium 📆 When? April 7–8, 2025 📢Call for abstracts? until Feb. 26 💸 Registration? Free but mandatory, until Mar. 12 More infos ⬇️ erc-xp.ulb.be/2025/01/20/t... Looking forward to see you there! 🤩

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