Some people are unable to consciously picture images in their mind's eye – they have aphantasia. What have scientists learned about aphantasia over the past 10 years? This paper reviews subtypes of aphantasia, its potential functions, and ongoing debates. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

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....

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

The EdsLab adding more decoding evidence towards an item-based pointer signal – this time across visual and auditory stimuli. The coolest part to me is that the MDS of the neural similarity has dimensionality that is readily interpretable. Really great work by wunderkind Darius Suplica and the lab!

A writeup to go w/ our CogSci 2025 symposium arxiv.org/abs/2509.15560 (in print hopefully soon). We argue that it is not a coincidence that neural net breakthroughs came from training on natural language, and there are important lessons here for understanding human intelligence.

@pessoabrain.bsky.social talks to @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @aliyarumana.bsky.social and Peter Ulric Tse about the need for neuroscience’s traditional mechanistic framework to give way to a richer understanding of how brains generate behavior. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

Philosophers of mind! The University of Vienna is offering a professorship and has extended the deadline to 19 October. philjobs.org/job/show/29293

It's a privilege to be part of this new review in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness with modern neuroimaging and biophysical modeling 🧵 #eeg #consci #consciousness #neuroscience www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

1/2 Our immune system responds just by being around someone who appears to be sick. Not only that, but our peripersonal space also expands. This has been demonstrated using virtual reality, EEG, and analysis of innate lymphoid cells. (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Might focused ultrasound one day replace DBS? UK Scientists built a 256-panel focused ultrasound helmet that can precisely target deep brain regions. Using theta-burst TUS, they stimulated the LGN and found visual cortex activity with effects lasting up to 40 minutes. #neuroskyence #ultrasound

Preprint Alert!! In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task. Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New pre-print day! Distributed and drifting signals for working memory load in human cortex 🧠 (with Ed Awh & @serences.bsky.social) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Registration for the 20th NVP Dutch Society for Brain and Cognition Winter Conference is open! ✅ You can register and submit your abstract here: www.conftool.pro/nvp2025/. 📅 Early bird registration until Oct 1. ✨For more information: www.societyforbrainandcognition.nl/conference-nvp

The myth of optimality in human movement science www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Talk: Cognition is Emergent - Earl K. Miller Neuroscience and Philosophy Salon, 9-12-25 youtu.be/Sk4ehOcsDmM?...

🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Full professor complaining to an assistant professor on how hard it is to get funding nowadays

‪@benhayden.bsky.social‬ @tyrellturing.bsky.social‬ @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social‬ @pessoabrain.bsky.social I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid "x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system". But this does not follow. A thread...

New paper day! Whereas earlier studies have shown that human eye movement patterns are influenced by the physical properties of remembered stimuli, we show that they are also influenced by stimulus meaning. h/t to Ali Pexsa (not on bluesky) who led this work. tinyurl.com/4y4aev3a

#MPE #PureAwareness #StiftungBewusstseinskultur

One month is left for the Pure Awareness Prize!

The deadline for submissions for the 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize (€20k) is soon: Sept 30th. For the best contribution to neuroscience that substantially advances our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the experience of pure awareness. For details, see screenshot!

Tour de force review on “Economics of Attention” by Loewenstein just published in J Econ Lit @aeajournals.bsky.social #behavioraleconomics

The deadline for submissions for the 2025 Neuroscience of Pure Awareness Prize (€20k) is soon: Sept 30th. For the best contribution to neuroscience that substantially advances our understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the experience of pure awareness. For details, see screenshot!

If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...

Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9

Quantifying memory recall is hard! Luckily, natural language processing (incl. #LLMs) offers new, automated, and scalable ways to do that! Great new review by Fenerci & @signysheldon.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

In @elife.bsky.social: Together with @phil-johnson.bsky.social, @nielskloosterman.bsky.social, @timostein.bsky.social and @svangaal.bsky.social we respond to a critical comment on our Criterion paper by @krsandberg.bsky.social and Overgaard. Our response can be found here: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher: 👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

Attending #ECVP next week? Please seek me out if you're potentially interested in a postdoc: Thursday – 08-28-2025 - 08:30 am Out of sight, but not out of mind: How the human brain represents images that are not directly seen Chair, Rosanne Rademaker

See also @melaniemitchell.bsky.social's excellent entry on Large Language Models: oecs.mit.edu/pub/zp5n8ivs/

I wrote an entry on Transformers for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (‪@oecs-bot.bsky.social‬). I had to work with a tight word limit, but I hope it's useful as a short introduction for students and researchers who don't work on machine learning: oecs.mit.edu/pub/ppxhxe2b

Hi, we will have three NeuroAI postdoc openings (3 years each, fully funded) to work with Sebastian Musslick (@musslick.bsky.social), Pascal Nieters and myself on task-switching, replay, and visual information routing. Reach out if you are interested in any of the above, I'll be at CCN next week!

Fill out the form here to be involved in #CCN2026 tinyurl.com/ccn26committee And definitely fill out the #CCN2025 feedback form! tinyurl.com/ccn25partici...

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social #compneuro #neuroskyence www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I think this from later in the commentary might remove your worry bsky.app/profile/wiri... Here is the relevant Boden paper www.jstor.org/stable/40072... I have some work linking it with interests, but it is not all published yet

I can't quite believe it – I got a new NSF grant! 😲🤯 I'm incredibly grateful to the program officers & reviewers for their dedication and efforts to keep science going 🌟👏🏼 So, I'll be hiring! Looking for a postdoc to study competition in memory-guided attention. See flyer for details! 🎉

Preprint alert! wiringthebrain.bsky.social and I submitted a commentary on Anil Seth’s forthcoming BBS article, which claims that AI needs to be alive in order to be conscious. We argue that it needs to be a subject, instead. osf.io/preprints/ps... #philsky #neuroskyence

Can active inference model consciousness? New paper proposes it can, via a "Beautiful Loop Theory." It rests on three key conditions that create a self-evidencing system. 🧠 @KarlFristonNews #Consciousness #ActiveInference ##FEP www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New research shows a #BCI can decode a person's silent, inner speech into full sentences. Tapping into the brain's motor cortex, revolutionizing communication for those who cannot speak. #Neuroscience #BrainComputerInterface #Neurotech #Accessibility www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Cool interview with Karl Friston x.com/mlstreettalk...

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

Slowly making my way through that grad school data! Decoding memory function through naturalistic gaze patterns | PNAS share.google/vuOSbiRk9nBH...

Is it possible to manipulate a high-level visual property while holding ~all low-level visual properties constant? “No!”, you say. Allow @talboger.bsky.social to show you otherwise! Now in press @currentbiology.bsky.social 🐇🐘

We generated images using this technique (see examples). Each pair differs in real-world size but are otherwise identical* in lower-level features, because they’re the same image down to the last pixel. (*avg orientation, aspect-ratio, etc, may still vary. ask me about this!)

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

#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,

if you saw my & @smfleming.bsky.social's talks at #CCN2025 & want to learn more abt the ARC-ETHOS project, check out this blog post from @templetonworld.bsky.social. and if you missed our talks (we'll forgive you), see abstracts & recordings here! (click livestream) 2025.ccneuro.org/community-ev...