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

👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂 now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol... Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Computational modelling shows evidence in support of both sensory and frontal theories of consciousness academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... #consciousness 🧠🧪

Thrilled to share my very first publication, in Translational Psychiatry! 🧠🧪 We used invasive brain mapping to identify personalized neuromodulation targets for treatment-refractory OCD. Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #OCD #DBS #Neuroscience #Research

Brace yourself: neural and computational insights into the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓

📜 New preprint 📜 As a follow-up of our article on domain-general metacognition in aging (Meunier-Duperray et al., 2025), we investigated these 2 components in relation with cognitive reserve in a short new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... - led by Lucile Meunier-Duperray.

New #neurojob #psychiatryjob #jobalert. www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/current-vaca.... Focus is on clinical trials for mood disorders, with close links to @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social and @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?” www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

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...

"How disconfirmatory evidence shapes confidence in decision-making"! Now out in @commspsychol.nature.com w @annikaboldt.bsky.social & Yishu Sun Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Thread ↓↓↓ #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence #Metacognition #Confidence

@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. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

Our #sEEG study is now published in Nature Communications: rdcu.be/eIkoG! 🧠 Key finding: We discovered neural evidence accumulation for visual perception that's independent of report preparation—recorded from >3000 channels across 3 experiments! #Neuroscience #Consciousness #OpenAccess

Please RT! 🙏🙏🙏 1/3 How do you correct for multiple comparisons? Do you take into account *all* comparisons that can render the paper publishable? Most of us don’t. In this NHB piece, Yoav Benjamini, Yoav Zeevi and I argue that it’s time to change our practices >> www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

#preprint 📢 Effort usually boosts performance - but not always. We discuss 4 domain-general factors that modulate effort-performance (de)coupling: osf.io/preprints/ps... TL;DR: A framework on when and why effort-performance links appear to change across domains, timescales & measures. 🧵

Everything you always wanted to know about intracranial correlates of #consciousness (but were afraid to ask): arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736 With @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @meaperei.bsky.social and many great clinicians too busy for bsky! #iEEG

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Very happy to share our latest work on metacognition with M. Rouault, A. McWilliams, F. Chartier, @kndiaye.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social where we identify contributors to self-performance estimates across memory and perception domains 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

Mild stresses on the body, like fasting or cold exposure, can delay ageing. But how? A new Insight Article explores how oxygen-sensing neurons in C. elegans trigger body-wide stress signals that boost resilience and extend lifespan. buff.ly/wJIQKfm

Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

CW: depression, ideation (& the brain) Case study: stimulation of the sustantia nigra produces acute, intense depression that dissipates as soon as stimulation stops. Wow. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17561432/ (FYI: In follow-up, the individual had no mood issues 5 yrs out; whew!).

New #job alert! Clinical research fellow / postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry at the @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social / @uclqsion.bsky.social and UCL psychiatry. We will aim to understand the computations engaged by serotonin in the treatment of depression. Please re-sky. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Ahem. Mental imagery (& imagery-critical) researchers should read this: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Common neural choice signals reflect accumulated evidence, not confidence! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social w @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social @pierreledenmat.bsky.social @yfvisser.bsky.social @denizerdil.bsky.social a.o. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u... Thread ↓↓↓

Warning: this is *not* fake news! New preprint out w/ S. Kunkle & @kobedesender.bsky.social on how confidence-driven information seeking is suboptimal in the context of fake news 📰🔍🧵 (1/6): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Can we use confidence-driven information-seeking as a tool to combat fake news!? Really cool study by really cool @helenevanmarcke.bsky.social ↓↓↓

Super excited to kickstart our Metacognitive science satellite meeting, just before the CCN conference in Amsterdam! Organised with @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @stvemillertime.bsky.social

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested! More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

And with that, #ASSC28 is over! Thank you all for the wonderful discussions, and shared time. See you next year! 🧠✌️

A big thank you again to Athena Demertzi and Emmanuel Stamatakis for organising a wonderful ASSC conference @assc28.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social! See you all in Chile next year @assc2026.bsky.social !

The great @neuromorphicboki.bsky.social on micro-to-macro neural dynamic relationships across sleep stages. #ASSC28 @assc28.bsky.social

Lucky for you, lazy people at #RLDM2025, two of the best posters have apparently been put side-by-side: go check @maevalhotellier.bsky.social and @constancedestais.bsky.social posters!

We have a PhD position for an upcoming project in metacognition research in Potsdam / Berlin. A great opportunity for those interested in cognitive modeling of confidence and EEG. More information at coconeuro.github.io/phd2025 Kindly share this opportunity with potential candidates - Thanks!

New “version of record” in @elife.bsky.social! ‬ We recorded neurons in the thalamus and subthalamic nucleus of humans and found both sensory- and perception-selective neurons with two distinct latencies! 7-year project with @nfaivre.bsky.social + @foscobernasconi.bsky.social. A short thread 👇

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

Our symposium "How uncertainty in variant designs can inform neuro-cognitive function" just happened during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences #BAPS2025 and was not bad at all, given the diversity of the talks. Always fun around @axc.bsky.social 😊

Led by postdoc Doyeon Lee and grad student Joseph Pruitt, our lab has a new Perspectives piece in PNAS Nexus: "Metacognitive sensitivity: The key to calibrating trust and optimal decision-making with AI" academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... With co-authors Tianyu Zhou and Eric Du 1/

NeuroImage Shared subcortical arousal systems across sensory modalities during transient modulation of attention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.nature.com/articles/s41... Excited to see this out in @natcomms.nature.com today! This paper builds on the lab's work on self-regulation of arousal through pupil-based biofeedback. We assessed several markers of cortical and cardiac arousal in a pure self-regulation and dual task setting.

Quite a moment! HUGE thanks to all the outstanding Cogitate people who have been working on this so intensely for the last seven (!!) years. And a very big thanks also to the consciousness community; we couldn’t have done it without the support - and the criticism - we received. >>

A very long journey indeed - thank you, Shaked and Tamara for your incredible work, and @nfaivre.bsky.social for the pleasure to collaborate with you, as always. We demonstrate the limits of unconscious integration, here of two object images. Hope you will find it interesting!

It's #MentalHealthAwareness week - time for facts: OCD is not about being tidy. It’s a serious mental health condition rooted in brain processes — and we’re studying it. Learn more on OCD & the Brain: ocdandthebrain.com @ocdaction.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

#OCD is a understudied disorder, meaning that we know way too little about the underlying (brain) processes. We have thus built the Brain Explorer app www.brainexplorer.net where everyone can easily contribute to understanding OCD. #MentalHealthAwareness @tueneurocampus.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Postdoctoral opening in my lab thanks to @erc.europa.eu SyG Chronology w/ wonderful @bathellierlab.bsky.social S. Ostojic & M. Jazayeri Interested in characterizing temporal cognitive maps in the human brain? 👇 brainthemind.com/wp-content/u... @unicog.bsky.social @cea-joliot.bsky.social

We are working intensely this week to announce the results for oral and poster presentations for the #ASSC28 #ASSC2025. Soon!

Another published article this week by our team! In Neuroscience of Consciousness: Metacognition across the lifespan in episodic and semantic decision-making using two types of judgment: confidence and feeling-of-knowing. Led by Lucile Meunier-Duperray. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

"Survey measures of metacognitive monitoring are often false" - N = 273 study examines self-reported metacognition scales vs task based measures and finds a negative correlation at best. Interoception research really needs to realise this... link.springer.com/article/10.3... #psychscisky

📃Interested in domain-general metacognition across the lifespan? Check out our new article now published in Cognition: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Led by Lucile Meunier-Duperray with Céline Souchay, @smfleming.bsky.social , Christine Bastin, Chris Moulin, & Lucie Angel

Next Wednesday, we are happy to host @nfaivre.bsky.social ! 🤩 He will talk about the relationship between phenomenal, access and perceptual consciousness 👀 More information & abstract on the following link: bit.ly/4ipD2y7 👈 Join us (on site only), @crcnulb.bsky.social in Brussels!