Tarryn Balsdon
@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
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Researcher in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in perception, metacognition, and decision-making
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OUT NOW in Nat Comms:
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We know feelings of confidence in our decisions help us to learn and communicate. Here we show evidence that confidence helps us make better decisions. With Marios Philiastides
@ccniuofg.bsky.social
and LSP_ENS A short summary (1/5)
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Confidence control for efficient behaviour in dynamic environments
Nature Communications - Feelings of confidence may have a functional role in decision-making. Here, the authors develop a neurobiologically plausible framework featuring confidence as an active...
https://rdcu.be/dXEbw
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I canāt help but think of this childhood song with news from the US right now⦠we all know frogs go ladidadidaā¦
youtu.be/GHzTuZuUBUc?...
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Der Glumph Da Gloomf Dar Glumf Play School
YouTube video by Benjamin Lang
https://youtu.be/GHzTuZuUBUc?si=LRiGGlYTiKF4x3Ck
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Gabriel Weindel
13 days ago
Will you be at
#ICON2025
in Porto? Then drop at our symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" (SY23, Thursday at 13.45) with
@redmondoconnell.bsky.social
@nunezanalyzed.bsky.social
@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
@hcp4715.bsky.social
organized by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst
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Scientific American
16 days ago
In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality
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Your Brain Is HallucinatingāAnd Thatās How Itās Supposed to Work
In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality
https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/daniel-yon-explains-why-your-brain-is-a-brilliant-illusionist/
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Laura Helmuth
17 days ago
Would you like some good news? A new vaccine has just been approved for protecting koalas from chlamydia, which is one of their leading causes of death.
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Australia approves first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia
A vaccine to protect Australia's koalas against chlamydia has been approved for the first time, a development that scientists believe could stop the spread of the deadly disease that has ravaged populations of the beloved endangered animal.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/australia-approves-first-vaccine-save-koalas-chlamydia-2025-09-10/?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=5fbdb3cb01-nature-briefing-daily-20250910&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-49683920
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Thérèse Collins
about 1 month ago
As
#ECVP2025
wraps up, Iām delighted that
#ECVP2028
in Paris was accepted at the Business Meeting! ECVP will meet again before but the Parisian organizing committee is already planning an unforgettable 50th anniversary!
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Australians have learnt how to protest! >100,000 people!
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about 2 months ago
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LSP-ENS
3 months ago
@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
and
@nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social
had a great time at
#ASSC28
. Thank you organizers
@assc28.bsky.social
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Gabriel Weindel
3 months ago
Very pleased to say that we are (almost) ready for the 1.0.0 of our HMP
#Python
package to decompose
#EEG
into single-trial task related events:
github.com/GWeindel/hmp
There's now a nice documentation:
hmp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/we...
We just need some beta testers, thus RT appreciated!
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Welcome ā hmp 1.0.0-b.1 documentation
https://hmp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/welcome.html
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Gabriel Weindel
3 months ago
Good time to announce that there will be a symposium on "Decision Signal(s) In The Electro-encephalogram" at
#ICON
Chaired by Leendert van Maanen and Jelmer Borst. With
@redmondoconnell.bsky.social
,
@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
,
@nunezanalyzed.bsky.social
,
@hcp4715.bsky.social
and myself as speakers
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noam chompers
4 months ago
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The Exit Manual: How to Leave the Free Energy Cult and Still Get Tenure
PDF | This manual is not a plea. It is a jailbreak from a cultāthe Free Energy Principle, a theoretical metastasis that began in computational... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391807467_The_Exit_Manual_How_to_Leave_the_Free_Energy_Cult_and_Still_Get_Tenure
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Michael Pereira
4 months ago
New āversion of recordā in
@elife.bsky.social
! ⬠We recorded neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus of humans and found both sensory- and perception-selective neurons with two distinct latencies! 7-year project with
@nfaivre.bsky.social
+
@foscobernasconi.bsky.social
. A short thread š
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Subcortical correlates of consciousness with human single neuron recordings
Subcortical brain structures contain neurons encoding subjective reports of stimulus detection in human participants, suggesting a role for conscious perception.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/95272
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Pascal Mamassian
5 months ago
If you work with perceptual confidence judgments, you may be interested in our CNCB model of confidence ratings. Joint work with Vincent de Gardelle. Uncorrected proofs here:
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
(š§µ 1/4)
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LSP-ENS
5 months ago
Thank you Karl Gegenfurtner and Doris Braun for two fantastic talks last week in our department!
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George Takei
8 months ago
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.
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8 months ago
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (
bambschool.org
) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more!
#BAMB2025
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BAMB!
Course philosophy Our goal isā to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...
http://bambschool.org
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Jean-Baptiste AndrƩ
9 months ago
š¢ Come study cognitive science in Paris! The Masterās program in Cognitive Science at @ENS_ULM, @psl_univ, and @EHESS_fr is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. š Deadline: March 13, 2025 š» Apply here:
master-cognitive-science.ens.psl.eu/en/applicati...
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Ladislas Nalborczyk
9 months ago
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding
Chang etĀ al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery content could be decoded using activation patterns in the primary visual cortex, but these patterns differed from perception patterns.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(24)01652-X
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Pascal Mamassian
9 months ago
Happy to share our latest publication with Nikos Gekas on sequential effects in visual perception. Here, we manipulated the uncertainty of both the current stimulus and the previous ones, and found different repulsive and attractive effects.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
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Attractive and repulsive visual aftereffects depend on stimulus contrast | JOV | ARVO Journals
https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2802441
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Joao Barbosa
10 months ago
Created a starter pack of neuroscience in/from Paris. Let me know if you want to be added (the 'from' can include those not in Paris anymore) or just tap in if you want to know what we're talking about! Regardless, please re-tweet!
go.bsky.app/3Zs9w5w
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Tomer Ullman
10 months ago
thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion" (more examples below)
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11 months ago
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CLaE
11 months ago
Nature Neuroscience Interoceptive rhythms in the brain
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Interoceptive rhythms in the brain - Nature Neuroscience
Engelen et al. review in animals and humans how the CNS senses cardiac, respiratory and gastric rhythmic activity, and detail the range of cognitive functions impacted, from perceptual detection up to...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01425-1
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OUT NOW in Nat Comms:
rdcu.be/dXEbw
We know feelings of confidence in our decisions help us to learn and communicate. Here we show evidence that confidence helps us make better decisions. With Marios Philiastides
@ccniuofg.bsky.social
and LSP_ENS A short summary (1/5)
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Confidence control for efficient behaviour in dynamic environments
Nature Communications - Feelings of confidence may have a functional role in decision-making. Here, the authors develop a neurobiologically plausible framework featuring confidence as an active...
https://rdcu.be/dXEbw
11 months ago
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TahnƩe Engelen
12 months ago
Women in Cognitive Science Europe (WICS-E) is organising an online panel discussion on creating an inclusive and anti-racist academia. Free registration & more info here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/1027101356...
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Creating an inclusive and anti-racist academia -Ā Online panel discussion
Join our online panel to learn ways you can help create an anti-racist academia
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-an-inclusive-and-anti-racist-academia-online-panel-discussion-tickets-1027101356807?aff=eemailordconf&ref=eemailordconf&utm_campaign=order_payment_confirm&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_term=viewevent
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Renzo Lanfranco
12 months ago
In our new @NatureComms paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms:
nature.com/articles/s41...
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Minimal exposure durations reveal visual processing priorities for different stimulus attributes - Nature Communications
Minimal exposure durations required for visual processing of stimulus attributes can reveal the systemās priorities. Here, the authors show a distinct sequence of minimal exposures needed for face pro...
https://nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52778-5
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Proposalese: language/writing used to embellish research grant proposals to impress reviewers Starting to realise I should have taken a course in this, any recommendations?
#academicSky
#AcWri
#neuroskyence
12 months ago
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Laura Helmuth
about 1 year ago
"As an astronomer, I already had good reasons to worry about SpaceX." Worries like: light pollution from mega-constellations, atmospheric pollution from launches and disintegrations, and now silo-sized space junk dropping on people's farms.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/spac...
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SpaceX Dropped Space Junk on My Neighborās Farm. Hereās What Happened Next
A Saskatchewan farmerās near miss with potentially lethal debris falling from orbit highlights the skyrocketing risks and murky politics of space junk
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-dropped-space-junk-on-my-neighbors-farm-heres-what-happened-next/
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Fresh off the press:
rdcu.be/dLYz8
Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making With Andrea Pisauro and Marios Philiastides
@ccniuofg.bsky.social
Confidence is used for learning even when explicit feedback is provided
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Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making
Nature Communications - Confidence could act as an implicit learning signal when explicit feedback is unavailable. The authors show confidence can also provide a distinct value signal in the...
https://rdcu.be/dLYz8
over 1 year ago
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Pascal Mamassian
over 1 year ago
Is there a (reverse) hierarchy in perceptual metacognition? If you want to know, check this collaborative work with
@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
and V. Wyart.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
#visionscience
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Daniel Yon
over 1 year ago
Are you sure? Would you like another look? Here we find a double dissociation between the kinds of uncertainty that control information seeking & those that shape subjective feelings of confidence. w/ Georgie Edwards-Lowe, Elisa La Chiusa & Helen Olawole-Scott Link:
t.co/bC7j2bEQ83
#neuroskyence
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Micah G. Allen
over 1 year ago
New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread!
#psychology
#neuroskyence
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Valentin Riedl
almost 2 years ago
āScience Advancesā published our paper in which we asked: "Where does all the sugar go in the brain?"
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Short answer and 4 main findings in š§µ below.
#funding
: ERC_Research
#neuroskyence
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