Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis biorxiv.org/content/10.1... With @daniellametti.com and David Green

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671634v1

Preprint time: “Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness” osf.io/preprints/ps... On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work. Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience

Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️ direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr... ☎️ DM me for more details.

Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today 📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science 💶 They take time and money to collect ⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️‍🩹. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Speech markers of psychedelic-induced psychological change https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649217v1

You feel closer to AI when it exhibits psychological traits similar to your own. 👏🥂

“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/lan... #philsky #langsky #consky

The neurobiology of language is an altered state of consciousness. 🗣️🧠🍄👾 iai.tv/articles/lan...

Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/ We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/

Goodbye T. Robbins, you transformed me. 🐐👍 A cherished moment was receiving this message after I wrote you the absurd: '...that I mostly wear only bejeweled pink flip-flops can be tied by some tendril back to your writing. Your characters have often served as my role models...' 💎 Namo Amitabha 🪷

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👋 We show that #wellbeing, like other high-level constructs, e.g., ‘language’, is fundamentally a dynamic, whole brain process, with big-ol' individual differences, supported by distinct networks. 🧠 🗣️ 🫀 Amazing work from the formidable @yumengma.bsky.social. 🥂 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐ Do you have experience with #psychedelics 🍄 or #meditation 🪷? ⭐ 🆘 Please help us understand how these practices shape the experience of emotions in our bodies. 🔬 Contribute to science by taking part in a quick, 20-min anonymous online experiment. 🖱️ Click here to participate: bit.ly/3DYMEkb

A psychedelic drug, DMT, is being tested as a novel way to reduce problematic alcohol consumption, in an ongoing study led by Prof Ravi Das and Prof Jeremy Skipper @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social. Article by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Psychedelic drug DMT trialled on patients to treat alcohol addiction

Please share this @theguardian.com article about our work (@theunityproject.bsky.social) using the #psychedelic compound 'DMT' to help heavy drinkers drink less: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The neurobiology of language does not operate in a vat. An important perspective from the @thelablab.bsky.social and colleagues: "Language is widely distributed throughout the brain" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thanks for engaging with our (w/ @slsmall.bsky.social & @thelablab.bsky.social ) critique, here is a link to the original and PDF for those interested (link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...; pdf: pure.mpg.de/pubman/item/...)

Memories of co-speech hand movements are tied to the speech they are learned with. From @daniellametti.com and friends 🤲 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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🎉 Our paper "Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness" is now out in eLife! 🎉 TL;DR: Both simulations and empirical data show that you should not post-hoc sort neural data based on subjective measures of consciousness. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

I’ve been dreaming about today for a long time… And it was AMAZING!!!! 👩🏻‍🎓🤩

Context is everything, isn't it? 👁️👂🫀🧠 Nice commentary on the below. elifesciences.org/digests/9152...

Naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain @viktorkewenig.bsky.social shows that, while concepts generally encode habitual experiences, the underlying neurobiological organisation is not fixed but depends dynamically on available contextual information. 👏🍾🐐 elifesciences.org/articles/91522

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"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8

Who ChatGPT 4o thinks we are.

looking for boozers in London, which seems highly feasible..

We now publish rich fMRI data in Scientific Data where participants viewed magic trick videos. Curiosity, memory, and reward manipulation are available: www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a result of incredible effort by Stef Meliss (first author). Congrats!!

The age of spiritual machines: Language quietus induces synthetic altered states of consciousness in AI 🍄🧘🤖🧠 Shifting CLIP or FLAVA's attention away from language simulates ego-loss and unitive and minimal phenomenal states via semantic category blurring. arxiv.org/abs/2410.00257

Had so much fun presenting my research at SNL (Society for the Neurobiology of Language) today! 🤬🎞️🧠😁

The activating and push-pull relationship between the neurobiology of language and the amygdala at SNL2023 Poster by Nati Beltrán and Winnie Yeh. 👏🍾

1. Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place there? 🧪

Just published: Hyper-core decomposition to investigate the interplay of node membership and group size in hypergraphs & hypercoreness centrality to understand and seed higher-order processes. 👇 Check it out! With Marco Mancastroppa, @lordgrilo.bsky.social & Alain Barrat

🗣️📶🟰🧠: Language regions are hubs that aren't fixed. They are spatiotemporally dynamic, connecting with 44% of peripheral brain regions at any moment. These are averaged and thresholded away, leaving 'the language network' ONLY in the aggregate over time: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On how the ways research & general discussions surrounding aphantasia are problematic. I like the low vision vs blindness analogy & agree about the issues with how some variants of VVIQ are predisposed to mislead: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #VisionScience

Re posting this informative thread by Ed Lalor on a paper by Andy Anderson, Ed & me :) - but not sure how threads work here 😕🤷‍♂️

New preprint focused on how the hippocampus interacts with cortical representations to support memory, by an amazing grad student in our lab, Shenyang Huang. Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory osf.io/nkd4h/