Excited to share our new paper in PLOS Biology! We asked a simple question: when we perceive an odor as weak or strong, does oscillations in the human olfactory system represent the physical concentration of the odor, or our subjective perception of its intensity? 🧵👇

Where, exactly, does learning happen in the brain? Out today in @nature.com, we identify a synaptic locus of birdsong learning and show that the circuit can be tuned to make birds learn faster - but at a cost. Read on👇 #neuroskyence 🧪 #prattle 💬 #bioacoustics Shareable link: rdcu.be/fiyrS

May the 4th post: a public introduction to Hilbert space, quantum field theory, and the idea that 3D space itself may emerge from quantum entanglement. The Force as it actually is: written for everyone who never got to take Physics 113A. Link: open.substack.com/pub/drkev/p/... #physics 🔭⚛️

⚠️ 2-year Postdoc – Experimental Psychology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 🇸🇪 Join @matsjolsson.bsky.social lab 🦠 & study human behavioral defenses using experiments, fMRI & biological markers 🧠🧪 PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related field 🎓 More info --> ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our lab is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for an interdisciplinary project focused on early-onset psychosis. The project integrates multimodal neuroimaging data and machine-learning approaches to identify early neural markers and individual risk trajectories. ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

This paper is a wild ride. Enjoyable!

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Electric fields influences propagate nearly instantaneously, enabling large-scale organization. This mechanism is critical for guiding morphogenesis. Also for organizing thought. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #neuroscience