Why did consciousness evolve at all? A superb special issue of @royalsocietypublishing.org brings together experts across disciplines to explore the functions of consciousness and why it emerged in some species but not others. @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Thrilled to share this work, spearheaded by the Danc lab (led by James Bonaiuto) @danclab.bsky.social, in collaboration with us, especially Matteo Maspoli @mattgmasp.bsky.social and Danila Shelepenkov @shpen.bsky.social, and other groups who share the belief that MEG still has untapped potential!

A Neural Model of Conscious Mental Imagery and Aphantasia, out in Neuropsychologia (open access) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Yes, we now have a model to study unconscious and conscious mental imagery. Looking forward to your thought!

Novel study: Emergence of Phonemic, Syntactic, and Semantic Representations in Neural Networks. Joint work with P. Diego supervision: Y. Lakretz, E. Chemla, Y. Boubenec, @jeanremiking.bsky.social We explore the emergence of 3 linguistic structures in Neural Networks. Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2601.18617

Feeling some appreciation for @lnalborczyk.bsky.social's logit dot plots (lnalborczyk.github.io/blog/2018-01...).

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

📜 Very happy to see our article on domain-general metacognition now published in Psychological Sciences ! Congrats to my co-authors @khat.bsky.social, Renate Rutiku, Michał Wierzchoń, and @krsandberg.bsky.social #skudnet journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Quick thread:

New preprint. We explored the impact of pre-experimental acclimation on the behaviour of woodlice. Previous studies suggest that acclimation is a good way to reduce stress in an organism before an experiment. This is probably a good idea, but ⤵️

We are hiring a research specialist, to start this summer! This position would be a great fit for individuals looking to get more experience in computational and cognitive neuroscience research before applying to graduate school. #neurojobs Apply here: research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/21503/r...

Think about your breakfast this morning. Can you imagine the pattern on your coffee mug? The sheen of the jam on your half-eaten toast? go.nature.com/3ZiHLtN

Passage of time in the brain, in the mind, both? Commentary on @lapate.bsky.social recent work #drift #fmri #human #time Please,👇 if we missed relevant observations in the field! w/ @vigano.bsky.social @beneuroscience.bsky.social & R. Bordas @sfnjournals.bsky.social @brainthemind.bsky.social

Check out our commentary on a recent paper arguing that neural activity in the (lateral) entorhinal cortex intrinsically drifts over a month-long period in humans. With @virginievanw.bsky.social @vigano.bsky.social and Raphaël Bordas. www.eneuro.org/content/13/1...

New work from our lab showing the human frontal lobe receives fast, low-level speech information in **parallel** with early speech areas! 🧠🗣️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Happy to be part of this new paper analyzing lesion-induced aphantasia, now accepted in Cortex. One more reason to believe that the Fusiform Imagery Node is important for the conscious experience of mental imagery. Here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....

All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend. 1/3

Preventing data leakage in neural decoding - "for autocorrelated neural time series, standard k-fold cross-validation can dramatically overstate performance." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Could we, and how to empirically study unconscious mental imagery? Open questions on both conceptual and methodological perspectives drive.google.com/file/d/1Gmu5...

Now out in iScience: Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations How does the brain store 'durations' in working memory? 👇👇👇 www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Collaborative effort between @brainthemind.bsky.social and MNE-Python/INRIA.

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

Postdoc position in Paris: come help develop new generation human brain computer interfaces ⚡🧠💻 Interested? Contact me if you have experience with machine learning (e.g. simulation-based inference, RL, generative/diffusion models) or dynamical systems. See below for + details and retweet 🙏

Reposting this as I see too many decoding papers reporting (and struggling to interpret) spurious lower-than-chance decoding accuracy that is probably due high-pass filtering...

🚨 Preprint altert 🚨 **Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed** www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!

I’m excited to share that my first peer-reviewed journal article, part of my PhD work @laboratoireddl.bsky.social, is now officially published in @jneurolang.bsky.social 🎉 A review of motor contributions to speech perception and the embodied, sensorimotor benefits for foreign language learning 🤓

New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD

Bayesian Workflow by Andrew Gelman, Aki Vehtari, @rmcelreath.bsky.social with @danpsimpson.bsky.social, @charlesm993.bsky.social, @yulingy.bsky.social, Lauren Kennedy, Jonah Gabry, @paulbuerkner.com, @modrakm.bsky.social, @vianeylb.bsky.social (in production, estimated copy-editing time 6 weeks)

Are you sure there’s no mosquito in the room? With @matanmazor.bsky.social, Chichi Dézier, @nfaivre.bsky.social & Louise Goupil, we study how we combine multiple sensory sources to be confident in presence and absence: While detection rely on one modality, confidence requires both channels to align!

🚀 Deux postes de Maître·sse·s de Conférences ouverts – "IA et ses applications" (IUT-2) et "Modélisation, simulation, traitement et analyse du comportement humain" (UFR SHS) – sont associés au GETALP du Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG). 📧 contactez : [email protected]

Je viens de terminer une semaine d'introduction à la modélisation statistique bayésienne en R et brms (~24h de cours niveau Master-Doctorat). #rstats #brms Comme les années précédentes, le code et les slides (en Français) sont disponibles sur le site de la formation lnalborczyk.github.io/IMSB2026/

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap. dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D... Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...

Est-ce qu’il y a des scientifiques ici qui se sont mis à faire de la « slow science » ? Qui pensent s’y mettre ? Ou qui mettent en place tout autre moyen de lutte contre le fameux « publish or perish » ? Je vais en faire une chronique sous peu, merci pour vos partages d’expérience 🙏

🥳Our review of intracranial EEG research on the neural correlates of consciousness is out in eLife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...! We think these methods offer a unique window on consciousness!🧠 A thread 👇

Time Cells in the Human Brain Support Working Memory Maintenance www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🔔 APPLICATIONS OPENING SOON 🔔 ✨ We are thrilled to announce the next MESEC workshop, centered on mental imagery ! ✨ May 30 - June 7 Ephesus Retreat, Turkey 850€ (bursaries available) Applications open next Wednesday (14/01) 20 spots 🏆 Pre-apply to be informed by email ! mesec.co/event/worksh...

ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi has open call for postdocs (DL Feb 9) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr... There are 45 PIs to choose from, and you can apply to work also with me on computational Bayesian modeling and Bayesian workflow!

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Alpha power indexes working memory load for durations www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #neuroscience

📆 updated for 2026! list of summer schools & short courses in the realm of (computational) neuroscience or data analysis of EEG / MEG / LFP: 🔗 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bichan Wu (@bichanw.bsky.social) & I wrote a tutorial paper on Reduced Rank Regression (RRR) — the statistical method underlying "communication subspaces" from Semedo et al 2019 — aimed at neuroscientists. arxiv.org/abs/2512.12467

Modeling Speed–Accuracy Trade-Offs in the Stopping Rule for Confidence Judgments! Now out in #PsychologicalReview (aka we can finally say we do comp models)! Led by @stefherregods.bsky.social @lucvermeylen.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions. Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)

Our group has been looking at beta bursts for the last 5 years, but we do it a little differently than most - we group into types them based on their waveforms. In this open access article we lay out why and what we think this might mean journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #neuroskyence

If you analyse time-resolved data (M/EEG, iEEG, pupillometry, force recordings…) and feel limited by cluster-based permutation tests (CBPTs); especially when trying to determine when an effect starts or ends; you may want to try our new R package: lnalborczyk.github.io/neurogam/ #rstats #brms #EEG

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

🎉 APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN 🎉 Join the MESEC Winter School 2026 in Ephesus, Turkey, March 22–28. 🗓️☀️ A week of methods, ideas, and deep dives into consciousness with an international community. Apply now and share the call. 🧠 🔗 mesec.co/event/winter...

📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back! Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute. 📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026. 👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...

The Groningen Spring school on Cognitive Modeling is back! Join us from March 30th-April 2nd, 2026! www.ai.rug.nl/springschool/

🚀 Job alert for ML researchers who love "impossible" problems: Detect inner speech from EEG signals. No labels. Lots of noise. Standard methods failed. We will invent something new. Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #DeepLearning #Neuroscience #AIResearch

New article published in @frontiersin.bsky.social #Psychology! We introduce fastACI, an #openaccess toolbox that enables researchers to design auditory reverse-correlation experiments and analyze the resulting data. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... @cognitionens.bsky.social @lsp-ens.bsky.social

Testing 191 proposed linguistic universals with methods that account for genealogical descent & geographical proximity: “despite vast design space of possible grammars, languages don't evolve entirely at random. Shared cognitive/communicative pressures repeatedly push towards similar solutions.“👇🧪

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n