This is finally out in NeuroInformatics "Enhancing fMRI Decoded Neurofeedback with Co-adaptive Training: Simulation and Proof-of-principle Evidence" shorturl.at/XCwve and the updated PyDecNef repo github.com/pydecnef/Pyd... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @neuroaure.bsky.social

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A little late to the party but Preprint alert! : ) Happy to share our work on unconscious working memory! Using visual ensemble methods + 2IFC paradigm across two experiments, we address key methodological challenges in measuring awareness! @dsotob.bsky.social Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

and more results from a novel paradigm showing unconscious ensemble working memory for emotional faces in a 2IFC task osf.io/preprints/ps... great work by @nirmiteem.bsky.social

2 new papers on awareness and working memory "Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report" academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @theassc.bsky.social @matthiasmichel.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social (1)

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦

2 new papers on awareness and working memory "Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report" academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @theassc.bsky.social @matthiasmichel.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social (1)

hello - we're looking for a postdoc / staff scientist to do NHP fMRI work at the center (cnir.ibs.re.kr). pls email cv to [email protected] to learn more

@meganakpeters.bsky.social @hakwan.bsky.social

DecNef is a powerful tool for brain modulation, but it remains difficult to optimize; we built DecNefLab, a simulation framework using “virtual subjs” as ML generative models to prototype protocols before exps, & showed conditions in which DecNef fails to induce learning arxiv.org/html/2511.14...

Clever behavioural experiment exposing how confidence is formed in visual perception pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41138620/

@aliekhlasi.bsky.social has been doing some brilliant work on domain adaptation approaches to characterizing the nature of higher order representations. Please come see our work at @sfn.org this year!

Glad to see my first-year project is out! In two experiments, we manipulated multiple stimulus features in a perception task, yet their effects on confidence and accuracy fell into just two distinct behavioral patterns, offering a way to predict the effects of novel stimulus manipulations. 1/n

My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime doi.org/10.1126/scia...

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

Absolutely incredible work led by @patxelos.bsky.social and @dsotob.bsky.social - such a compelling case of unconscious perception! Privileged to have been a little part of this 🧠

Great work by the unstoppable @patxelos.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @hakwan.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social

1/Preprint Alert🔔: Across two experiments plus a computational model, we show the visual system compresses complex scenes into summary statistics that can guide behavior without conscious access to the task-defining features. We term this the Ensemble Blindsight effect.

BBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!

Unconscious perception of ensembles, assessed with a bias-discouraging 2IFC task: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Great work by @patxelos.bsky.social, @dsotob.bsky.social et al.!

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain. Intriguing new preprint by Roy & Naselaris et al for anyone interested in mental imagery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

Invariant inter-subject relational structures in high order human visual cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..." Nishida lab 🧠📈

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

Representational drift gates critical-period plasticity in mouse visual cortex www.cell.com/current-biol...

This paper is making the rounds: arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734 A tiny (27M) brain-inspired model trained just on 1000 samples outperforming o3-mini-high on reasoning tasks. #MLSky 🧠🤖

I want to thank @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, and @nfaivre.bsky.social for leading this project with me!🙏 As well as all of the amazing co-authors: @pietroamerio.bsky.social, David Carmel, @axc.bsky.social, Leon Deouell, Zoltan Dienes, Patxi Elosegi, [Continued below]

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e

🧠 NEW PREPRINT Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is now out "Domain Adaptation-enhanced searchlight: enabling classification of brain states from visual perception to mental imagery" link.springer.com/article/10.1... @meganakpeters.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT

Heading to my very first ASSC! Quite excited to present my work, supervised by @dsotob.bsky.social on unconscious working memory in the concurrent session at Studio Theatre on Wednesday at 15:30! Please come drop by! : ) @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28

Performance feedback counterintuitively _increases_ overconfidence in young children. Great Collab @dsotob.bsky.social

Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social

Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/

This study shows that communication between the visual cortex and the brain's #language system is necessary for the representation of object knowledge in the #VisualCortex and for corresponding behaviors in humans @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4k1Jkoz

there's still time to submit your abstract to the Metacognitive Science meeting in Amsterdam in August -- a satellite to @cogcompneuro.bsky.social ! sites.google.com/view/metacog...

We are delighted to see this out as a target article in BBS! Call for commentaries will be issued soon Check out Matthias’ thread below for details

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... (🧵 1/4)

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

Last day(s) to apply!

Abstract submission is now open, closes May 20th!

The CODE Network Workshop on Computational Modelling in Leuven was a fantastic opportunity to explore up-to-date ideas on metacognition🤯. We had an excellent lineup of presenters and students enriched the event with their project presentations! #MSCA

On the "great consciousness debate" - as an outsider, I was fascinated by the magnitude of the response - it's so much larger than anything I've seen for, say, data falsification in the Alzheimer's space or outrage around claims about serotonin and depression. /1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The IIT debate-debacle (also sometimes referred to as the "Consciousness Wars") continues with this letter: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Followed by a response by several IIT proponents: www.nature.com/articles/s41... And a rejoinder(?) by Gomez-Marin & Seth: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT. inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina... so long, folks. the world is going nuts. pls take care. 🧠📈

Co-adaptive training improves performance during fMRI decoded neurofeedback www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social