Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

If you're interested in #habits, check out these two papers by @eikekofi.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/mu96jzdd) & @drbengardner.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/3nd4bx5p). I reread them recently & highly recommend them. Each presents a model & uses it to suggest ways to form/break habits in real-world settings.

@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?

Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread! Check it out! 🧠🧪

The Brain in the Operating Room: Understanding the Loss of Consciousness During General Anesthesia www.greymattersjournalvc.org/issue-9-arti... #neuroscience

Space acquires Time. Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab. “The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... From The Unbearable Slowness of Being

New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...

Many people argue that Registered Reports take a long time. We submitted our first preprint to PCIRR on Feb 9. It took less than a year, with some very high quality feedback from reviewers, & you can see all of it. Registered Reports save you time & increase quality.

Hugely exciting focussed ultrasound neuromodulation data from JeYoung Jung today - substantial behavioral, neurochemical, and even volumetric effects of theta burst sonication of anterior temporal lobe. But how do 🧠 changes cause behavioral improvement? We still don’t fully understand…

Seems like a good idea to me

fascinating (and concerning)

Saturnians do make excellent brain surgeons

Damn, wish we got these kinds of breathtaking sceneries in psych/neuroscience

some cool decoding results here!