Jakob Hohwy
@hohwy.bsky.social
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philosopher: consciousness, rationality, self-evidencing, contemplation
https://www.monash.edu/m3cs
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Peter Kok
18 days ago
@dotproduct.bsky.social
's first first author paper is finally out in
@sfnjournals.bsky.social
! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With
@jhaarsma.bsky.social
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Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/10/15/JNEUROSCI.0474-25.2025.abstract
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Andrew Corcoran
2 months ago
The first major output of the
@templetonworld.bsky.social
@arc-intrepid.bsky.social
adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
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Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review
As neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences -- as well as their predictive and explanatory power -- becomes ever more pr...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
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Shawn Prest
4 days ago
If attending
@iscr.bsky.social
, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow. I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with
@kevinberryman.bsky.social
,
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
,
@matthewsacchet.bsky.social
, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.
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Anil Seth
9 days ago
1/🧵 Out today in
@frontiersin.bsky.social
: “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By
@axc.bsky.social
@liadmudrik.bsky.social
, & me (a CIFAR &
@erc.europa.eu
production 🧠).
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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Advancing consciousness science
Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/science/article-hubs/advancing-consciousness-science
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Andrew Corcoran
13 days ago
completely agree; indeed our recent paper on mind-wandering & mind-blanking confirms task-disengagement / internally-oriented cognition does not simply correspond to increased interoceptive processing
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Thomas Andrillon
23 days ago
I was once told: "never try EEG+fMRI!" It was sound advice... but we did it anyway! Thrilled to share our first preprint, where we explore the neural signatures of mind blanking, linking the sleep-like slow waves seen in
#EEG
to patterns of hyperconnectivity in
#fMRI
. 🧠🧪💤
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James Kirby
24 days ago
Absolutely thrilled to announce that My Three Circles is now available for download on Apple! Track your emotions over time using the Three Circles, central in Compassion Focused Therapy. Also a range of audio guided exercises
apps.apple.com/au/app/my-th...
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Liad Mudrik
about 1 month ago
It was a true pleasure to work on this piece with
@niccolonegro.bsky.social
. I learned A LOT about possible justifications for inferring consciousness in other systems/organisms. I hope you will enjoy it too!
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Michelle Liu
about 2 months ago
My department is advertising a permanent T&R position in non-Western Philosophy. I genuinely think I have the best job in the world. Do apply if you want to be in a fantastic department! Also Australia is great. Happy to answer any questions.
philjobs.org/job/show/29770
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University - PhilJobs:JFP Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Philosophy, Monash University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
https://philjobs.org/job/show/29770
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Anil Seth
about 2 months ago
New paper! Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition, out now in
@pnas.org
- led by
@frosas.bsky.social
, Pedro Mediano, & Adam Barrett, w/
@andrealuppi.bsky.social
@robincarhartharris.bsky.social
, me, & Dan Bor.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2423297122
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Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now!
#philosophy
#neuroskyence
#philsky
sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...
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ASPP 2025 Melbourne
Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2025 Conference Melbourne, November 24th - 25th, 2025
https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/aspp-2025-melbourne/
about 2 months ago
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2 months ago
New paper with @ManuKirberg 💭 Is “unconscious mental imagery” real? The evidence is weaker than it seems. We explain why—and how to move the debate forward. 🔗
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Aphantasia and the unconscious imagery hypothesis
Until recently, mental imagery has largely been regarded as an exclusively conscious phenomenon. However, recent empirical results suggest that mental…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810025001175#s0030
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Claire O'Callaghan
2 months ago
Free access link
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Uta Frith
2 months ago
A review just in time for our 59th Wedding Anniversary on 1st September Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews -
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Scenes from a Marriage: How We Found Our Way from Experimental Psychology to Social Neuroscience | Annual Reviews
Looking back on our life and work, we reflect on the changes in our thinking due to three scientific and technological revolutions. These are information processing, computers, and brain imaging, and ...
https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-psych-012425-033822?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_source=socialnetwork
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3 months ago
New paper with Azenet Lopez in C&C:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#PhilMind
#PhilConsc
#Consciousness
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Building blocks for theories of consciousness
Consciousness science is brimming with theories attempting to explain what consciousness is and how it can be identified in natural and artificial sys…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810025001126?dgcid=author
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Juan Diego Bogotá
3 months ago
I'm back from the dead to announce a paper that was published a couple of days ago and that I worked on. We're all very proud of this one. We elaborate on Varela’s neurophenomenology, proposing Bayesian mechanics as a generative passage between phenomenology and neurobiology.
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Tim Bayne
3 months ago
Great to work with
@franciscorr25.bsky.social
and the Transmitter folks on this piece about markers of consciousness
www.thetransmitter.org/consciousnes...
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Babies, bees, and bots: On the hunt for markers of consciousness
To truly understand consciousness, we need new methods to measure it and detect it in other intelligent systems.
https://www.thetransmitter.org/consciousness/babies-bees-and-bots-on-the-hunt-for-markers-of-consciousness/
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Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness
3 months ago
🚨 New article in
#NCONSC
! Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
A Bayesian computational framework to bridge first-person experience and brain activity
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Deep computational neurophenomenology: a methodological framework for investigating the how of experience
Abstract. The context for our paper comes from the neurophenomenology (NPh) research programme initiated by Francisco Varela at the end of the 1990s. Varel
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2025/1/niaf016/8222537
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Thomas Andrillon
3 months ago
When you mind goes blank! 🧠🧪 Our review on mind blanking featured in Live Science! With the fantastic
@ademertzi.bsky.social
!
www.livescience.com/health/neuro...
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Why does your mind goes 'blank'? New brain scans reveal the surprising answer
Neuroscientists think moments of "mind blanking" could be a way for the brain to protect itself.
https://www.livescience.com/health/neuroscience/when-your-mind-goes-blank-your-brain-activity-resembles-deep-sleep-scans-reveal
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Vismay Agrawal
3 months ago
Does meditation just happen to address multiple types of suffering, or does its broad effectiveness hint at something deeper about the mechanisms of suffering or well-being itself? We address this in our new preprint!
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Tim Crane
4 months ago
My paper 'On the Explanation of Intentionality' has just been published in the Australasian Philosophical Review
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On the Explanation of Intentionality
It is a widespread assumption in contemporary philosophy of mind that a naturalistic explanation of intentionality must answer to what I will call the ‘question of aboutness’: what makes it the cas...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24740500.2024.2485164#abstract
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Keisuke Suzuki
4 months ago
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
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Borjan (Boki) Milinković
4 months ago
📜🪇[PUBLISHED]: NEW PREPRINT!🪇📜 I am incredibly excited to announce that we have published our paper on how "Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics"
[email protected]
@anilseth.bsky.social
Barnett, Carter Strap in! 1/n
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Dynamical independence reveals anaesthetic specific fragmentation of emergent structure in neural dynamics
Conscious experience depends on the coordinated activity of neural processes that span multiple scales--from synapses to whole-brain dynamics. A recently introduced measure, dynamical independence, id...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.664881v1
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Thomas Andrillon
4 months ago
Contribute to
#NCONSC
, the journal of the
@theassc.bsky.social
, by becoming a reviewer! Our topic is wide (wider than the sky) so knowing all of you is impossible. To make things simpler, fill in this quick form to register your interest in reviewing for
#NCONSC
!
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Philipp Kanske
5 months ago
Interested in
#compassion
based interventions? Learn all about their effects on
#brain
Big congrats & thx to
@annimekelburg.bsky.social
@katfoerster.bsky.social
@laramaliske.bsky.social
@jameskirby.bsky.social
@biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social
@sansmeeting.bsky.social
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Peter Kok
5 months ago
New MEG paper by
@jhaarsma.bsky.social
and
@dotproduct.bsky.social
! Same design and behavioural results as our 7T layer fMRI study (
www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...
), but now shedding light on the temporal dynamics of the sensory signals underlying false percepts.
#neuroskyence
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Shared and diverging neural dynamics underlying false and veridical perception
We often mistake visual noise for meaningful images, which sometimes appear as convincing as veridical percepts. This suggests considerable overlap between the mechanisms that underlie false and verid...
https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2025/06/04/JNEUROSCI.1479-24.2025
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Christopher Whyte
5 months ago
New preprint modelling suppression depth in binocular rivalry and continuous flash suppression with Hugh Wilson,
@macshine.bsky.social
, & David Alais
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Minds Matter Podcast
5 months ago
New Episode! What is addiction, and how does it show up in everyday habits? Dr. Keanan Joyner (
@keananjoyner.bsky.social
) joins Ava & Beth to talk dopamine, disinhibition, and why addiction isn't just about choice. Plus: EEG bias, screen use & science with compassion. 🎧 Links below!
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Peter Kok
6 months ago
Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦
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Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex
High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads4970
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6 months ago
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Michelle Liu
6 months ago
My new article 'Polysemy and Philosophy' is out in Philosophy Compass. It explores the signicance of polysemy in four strands of discussion in philosophy
dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3...
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Polysemy and Philosophy
Polysemy is the linguistic phenomenon where a word has more than one sense. Polysemy is important to philosophy. This article considers four related strands of discussion in philosophy in which polys....
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/phc3.70040
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Borjan (Boki) Milinković
6 months ago
🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉 We outline how to capture the
#emergent
dynamical structure in
#biophysical
neural models. coauthored with a team dear to my heart;
@thomasandrillon.bsky.social
,
@anilseth.bsky.social
, Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Simon van Baal
6 months ago
Pleased to announce that
@sdpbht.bsky.social
,
@lukaszwalasek.bsky.social
, Feiyi Wang and I published this work in
@pnas.org
last month. A particularly intricate project I'm thankful to have been part of! Going from unstructured text to an attribute repr. of decisions.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Computational analysis of 100 K choice dilemmas: Decision attributes, trade-off structures, and model-based prediction | PNAS
We present a dataset of over 100 K textual descriptions of real-life choice dilemmas, obtained from social media posts and large-scale survey data....
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2406489122
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Niccolo Negro
6 months ago
On this note, together with
@hohwy.bsky.social
,
@corcorana.bsky.social
, and
@liadmudrik.bsky.social
we wrote a chapter on some of the ways phil of science intersects with consciousness studies:
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23829/
It doesn't want to be comprehensive, there's much more to explore here
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The Philosophy of Science of Consciousness Science - PhilSci-Archive
https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23829/
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Dr Paul Liknaitzky
6 months ago
New systematic review just published from our lab, led by
@joshkugel.bsky.social
! First review on psychedelic-catalysed insight — central yet under-researched process within PAT. In addition to comprehensively collating all research on the topic, this review provides fascinating new discoveries!
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Joshua Kugel
6 months ago
The first paper from my PhD has been published! Insights on Psychedelics: A Systematic Review of Therapeutic Effects
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Insights on psychedelics: A systematic review of therapeutic effects
Insight – a sudden change in understanding or perspective that feels true or reliable – is a common occurrence during psychedelic experiences, and oft…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425001174#fig0020
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Camilla Nord
6 months ago
so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋
@saramehrhof.bsky.social
@hugofleming.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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The inimitable
@cdfrith.bsky.social
on the neural basis of consciousness
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The neural basis of consciousness | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
The neural basis of consciousness - Volume 51 Issue 4
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/neural-basis-of-consciousness/085D31681E604891E411E97077BBA766
6 months ago
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Anil Seth
7 months ago
Great piece by antipodean philosopher extraordinaire
@timbayne.bsky.social
- including lines such as "the scrotumtightening sea" (though to be fair that's a quote from Joyce)
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Earl K. Miller
7 months ago
Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115538
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Christopher Whyte
7 months ago
This paper is pretty incredible! Simultaneous invasive recordings of cortex and thalamus *in humans* during a visual awareness task strongly suggest that HO thalamus plays a gating role in awareness.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop
Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute t...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3675
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7 months ago
New paper out! 📖 "Explanation, understanding, and the methodological problem in consciousness science" 🔗
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Monash Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies (M3CS)
7 months ago
📣Free Online Event: Join us this week as
@amishijha.bsky.social
& Prof. Craig Hassed explore the science of focus & how to reclaim it. 🧠Peak Mind - The Power of Attention 📅 3 April 2025 ⏰ 12:00 - 12:50 PM (AEST) 👉 Register here:
events.humanitix.com/peak-mind-wi...
@hohwy.bsky.social
#Neuroscience
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Claudia Clopath Lab
7 months ago
How should you combine sensory inputs with your internal predictions? Well, use uncertainty directly computed by your prediction-error circuits. Cool? Check out our Nat. Com. paper with Loreen Hertäg and
@k47h4.bsky.social
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Uncertainty estimation with prediction-error circuits - Nature Communications
How the brain integrates sensory input and predictions to adapt to change is not fully understood. Here authors build a neural network model to show how prediction-error neurons compute uncertainty of...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58311-6
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Julie Charlton
8 months ago
Out today in PNAS! We asked how Bayesian inference is implemented in macaque prefrontal cortex
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Bayesian inference by visuomotor neurons in the prefrontal cortex | PNAS
Perceptual judgments of the environment emerge from the concerted activity of neural populations in decision-making areas downstream of the sensory...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420815122
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A new amazing episode of the Minds Matter podcast - built enviromenment and well-being!
#philosophy
#neuroskyence
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8 months ago
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Adeel Razi
8 months ago
🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper:
lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
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Simon van Baal
8 months ago
🚨 Out in Decision: are you interested in research on impulsivity, self-control, or time preferences, but are not quite sure how they fit together - look no further!
@lukaszwalasek.bsky.social
@hohwy.bsky.social
A. Verdejo-Garcia and I offer a conceptual analysis with empirical evidence.
#behsci
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