New paper! Investigating the role of sensorimotor spatial dependencies in shaping conscious access to virtual 3D objects, w/ Paweł Moytka, DavidSchwartzman, me, and @ksks.bsky.social. Link below. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ever wonder why a ventriloquist's dummy seems to talk, or why a rubber hand can feel like your own? 🤔 Our brains perform an amazing trick, merging what we see, hear, and feel into a single reality. But this process isn't always stable. A new theory on why. 🧵 1/7

🎉 Paper Published! 🎉 Our paper, "The Japanese version of the Phenomenological Control Scale," has been published in Neuroscience of Consciousness! If you're interested in individual differences in phenomenological control, please check it out!

御茶ノ水女子大学の今泉修さん との論文「現象学的制御尺度（Phenomenological Control Scale）の日本語版開発」がNeuroscience of Consciousness誌に掲載されました！ 現象学的制御の個人差にご興味のある方はぜひご覧ください! DOI: doi.org/10.1093/nc/n... (スレッドで解説します👇) #心理学 #現象学的制御

Global coordination of brain activity by the breathing cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Emergence of Goal-Directed Behaviors via Active Inference with Self-Prior arxiv.org/abs/2504.11075

Consider joining us at the ASSC Satellite Event on Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness 🏖️🕶️ 📣https://www.aliusresearch.org/qualius-retreat.html with @aliusresearch.org @qualiari.bsky.social @georgefejer.bsky.social @ksks.bsky.social

I'm involved in organising the upcoming ASSC Satellite Event on Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness. Applications are now open! www.aliusresearch.org/qualius-retr...

Can vagus nerve stimulation change body perception? 🧠⚡️ A new study suggests that transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) makes people less susceptible to bodily illusions, enhancing real body awareness. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 👇🧵

【1/8】📢 Communications Psychology has published our new paper yesterday! Haruki et al., (2025) "Attentional bias towards smartphone stimuli is associated with decreased interoceptive awareness and increased physiological reactivity" rdcu.be/edYM8

【1/7】📢 Communications Psychologyに、新しい論文がでました！Haruki et al., (2025) "Attentional bias towards smartphonestimuli is associated with decreasedinteroceptive awareness and increasedphysiological reactivity" rdcu.be/edYM8

A new paper was out today. The Vagus Nerve as a Gateway to Body Ownership: taVNS Reduces Susceptibility to a Virtual Version of the Cardiac and Tactile Rubber Hand Illusion onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The snow is melting little by little. It feels like spring is on its way!

A view from our building in Hokkaido University

Just welcomed a new postdoc, Alesandoro — making three in total in the lab now! One of them is funded by the JSPS Fellowship (www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-fe...). Interested in applying for this scheme to join us? Please feel free to get in touch!

Two papers are accepted!

Thank you to my dear friend Keisuke Suzuki @ksks.bsky.social for hosting me in snowy Sapporo for a Japanese Winter School. We were junior postdocs together, and now I get to visit him in his amazing lab ✌️

日本バーチャルリアリティ学会誌2024年29 巻2号に、「能動的推論ー心、脳、行動の自由エネルギー原理（ミネルヴァ書房）」の書評を書かせていただきました。 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jvrs...

My talk at the recent "Aware & Alive" ASSC27 satellite symposium is now online... thanks @ksks.bsky.social & Katsunori Miyahara for hosting us in Sapporo ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9W...

We are delighted to announce a symposium delving into alternative approaches to consciousness, as a satellite event of ASSC27 (assc27.net). Explore more at sites.google.com/view/awarean... #AwareAndAlive

Rip Akira Toriyama

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀: 𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 by W.C. Wimsatt One of coolest figures in a philosophy paper... And one of most spectacular papers ever! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #philosophy

The paper on the computational phenomenology of different types of visual hallucination (with Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social and David Schwartzman) was finally out on Frontiers in Human Neuroscience www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... Short explainer thread below:

The fullmoon on the Shibuya sky

人工知能学会(2024/5/28-31)で、「OS：大規模・高品質な生成AI時代における人工生命と人工意識」を開催します。人工生命や意識研究に興味のある方はぜひ!! www.ai-gakkai.or.jp/jsai2024/os#...

motarasu.jp/recommend/sh...　新日本・三大奇書が多いw

シンポジウム「自己の科学は可能か：心身脳問題として考える」 sites.google.com/view/mndbdyb... 日時：2024年1月20日（土）13:00–18:00 会場：お茶の水女子大学・国際交流留学生プラザ多目的ホール ＊オンサイト・オンラインのハイブリッド開催 ＊同名タイトルの書籍の刊行記念を兼ねたシンポジウム （書籍情報 www.shin-yo-sha.co.jp/book/b636528... ＊参加登録は以下からお願いします forms.gle/Wk77ksAbvHsy...

A SENSE OF SELF Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings www.science.org/content/arti...

From Text to Motion: Grounding GPT-4 in a Humanoid Robot "Alter3" arxiv.org/abs/2312.06571

第37回 CHAIN Seminar 坂本大介「Enabling a Better Life with Better Interaction Designs」 日時 2023年12月22日（金）16:30-18:00 場所 北海道大学 人文・社会科学総合教育研究棟 W201 言語 日本語 開催方法 ハイブリッド（オンラインのみ要登録） www.chain.hokudai.ac.jp/events/3636/

I will give a talk at CiNet next Monday. The talk will be in English and held in a hybrid style. Everybody is welcome. cinet.jp/japanese/eve... 11th December 2023, 16:00-17:30 (JST)

Sussex Symposium On Stroboscopic Light, organised by David Schwartzman, Feb 8th-9th 2024.

CPSY TOKYO 2024 - Computational Psychiatry Lecture Series sites.google.com/view/cpsytok...

recurrent training programme in CHAIN www.chain.hokudai.ac.jp/recurrent/

Integration of 3D-printed cerebral cortical tissue into an ex vivo lesioned brain slice www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How Disney Packed Big Emotion Into a Little Robot Melding animation and reinforcement learning for free-ranging emotive performances　spectrum.ieee.org/disney-robot

The talks recorded in ALIFE2023 conference are now available. www.youtube.com/@Alife2023

Do language models have an internal world model? A sense of time? At multiple spatiotemporal scales? In a new paper Wes Gurnee and Max Tegmark provide evidence that they do by finding a literal map of the world inside the activations of Llama-2! arxiv.org/abs/2310.02207

A fantastic new Element in Philosophy of Mind is just out: Affective Bodily Awareness by Frédérique de Vignemont. It's open access, so don't miss it! www.cambridge.org/core/element...