things i have been saying for a while!

Computational Behaviour launches July 2027! 🤓 A fully remote two-week course, open to participants worldwide. ➡️ Learn more and get involved: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience #Neuromatch #ConnectedMinds @connectedminds.bsky.social

research in invertebrates may become more difficult soon. ideological abuse of science has real consequences. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper: "Introspection and Scientific Data" for the Handbook of Introspection, about the role of introspection in the production of scientific data. My view: introspection doesn't deliver a special 'subjective' kind of data and there's nothing special about studying consciousness.

Exciting news, I just gave a talk on how two heads can be better than one... even in children! 🧠👧👦 Very grateful for the kids, that are the heart of this project, the parents who believed in this research from the start, and to the teachers. Here's to the power of collaboration, at every age! 🙌

authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception

Massive study in @nature.com, converges with our past study of 750,000 people (Sea hero quest) to show u-shape curves for the impact of sleep. We studied cognition, here its disease impact: Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Introducing meta-🔼! (meta-delta) Really excited about this one. We provide a principled, performance-corrected measure of metacognitive bias, placing it on an equal methodological footing with meta-d, and showing robust test-retest reliability to boot. Check out Kevin's thread for more details! 🧠🧪

In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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"we show that [the lateral prefrontal areas] 8Av/45 encodes the color of a visual stimulus, regardless of its behavioral relevance." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exciting work by @kevingoneill.github.io to extend / rewrite the HMetad toolbox in R and STAN 🥳 We supercharge meta-d modeling within a bayesian regression framework, wrapped in a user-friendly R package with bespoke plotting tools (+ a new principled measure of metacognitive bias, meta-delta!) 🧠🧪

a while back i threatened to share this. finally online for detection tasks we often systematically estimates sensitivity wrong. we need to control for unequal variance in models, but we often don't coz it needs extra data now there's a virtually 'free' way to do it www.cell.com/iscience/pdf...

Just wrapped up our amazing CODE intermediate meeting at @bcbl.bsky.social in San Sebastián 🌊! Our PhD students shared their progress, and we got to hear incredible keynotes from Silvia Lopez-Guzman, Máté Lengyel, and Robbe Goris. So many great conversations! Excited for what’s next🚀! #MSCA

Individual differences in artificial neural networks capture individual differences in human behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.10.705061v1

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