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Brendan Hutchinson

@bman1285.bsky.social
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Post doc researching the electrophysiological underpinnings of consciousness. EEG | consciousness | meta-analysis | learning | meditation | psychedelics

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Thanks Matthias I am curious to know - what was the process for vetting/deciding on who "gets" to sign (and who does not)? Is this information available (or is this process laid out transparently) anywhere? Apologies if it has and I have missed it (it's been a little while)
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Do you know if there is a preprint or freely accessible version anywhere? I do not currently have access
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I am v curious as to why this shows up in some studies and not others
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
keen to give this a read!
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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you're interested in #habits, check out these two papers by @eikekofi.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/mu96jzdd) & @drbengardner.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/3nd4bx5p). I reread them recently & highly recommend them. Each presents a model & uses it to suggest ways to form/break habits in real-world settings.
The title page of Buabang, Donegan, Rafei, & Gillan (2025) Trends in Cognitive Sciences article, "Leveraging cognitive neuroscience for making and breaking real-world habits"

DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.10.00The title page of the Gardner, Rebar, de Wit, & Lally (2024) Social and Personality Psychology Compass article, titled "What is habit and how can it be used to change real-word behavior? Narrowing the theory-reality gap."

https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12975
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
nice work! ~160ms is quite early indeed but may not necessarily be incompatible with later theories. Did you look at scalp maps? Also by looks of fig in the link, you found sig decoding of orientation of unseen stimuli- Is that right? Sadly no access to the paper
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Kristin Andrews 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @kristinandrews.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?
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Evaluating animal consciousness
An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread! Check it out! 🧠🧪
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The Brain in the Operating Room: Understanding the Loss of Consciousness During General Anesthesia www.greymattersjournalvc.org/issue-9-arti... #neuroscience
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The Brain in the Operating Room: Understanding the Loss of Consciousness During General Anesthesia — Grey Matters at Vassar College
Katerina Hristova Illustrations by Anna Bishop & Iris Li
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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Space acquires Time. Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab. “The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy - Nature Communications
Common organizational principles of spatial and temporal information processing are not fully understood. This study shows that the duration coding of brief visual events transforms along the human co...
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... From The Unbearable Slowness of Being
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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications
Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...
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Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
But should a theory be labelled as pseudoscientific if we have to wait e.g., 100 years to properly test it? In the case of string theory, my understanding is that a hadron collider the size of the solar system is necessary to properly test it. I can see why that would simply be unacceptable for some
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
'indicator' seems to be the key word there - when to call a theory pseudoscientific seems mostly a judgment call. I feel similar of string theory as you, mainly that we have to give some theories time to properly be tested due to e.g., limits in our tech/engineering.
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
1. What is your definition of ‘directly measured’? 2. To say consciousness is fundamental is an assumption.
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Gilad Feldman @giladfeldman.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Many people argue that Registered Reports take a long time. We submitted our first preprint to PCIRR on Feb 9. It took less than a year, with some very high quality feedback from reviewers, & you can see all of it. Registered Reports save you time & increase quality.
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Camilla Nord @camillanord.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Hugely exciting focussed ultrasound neuromodulation data from JeYoung Jung today - substantial behavioral, neurochemical, and even volumetric effects of theta burst sonication of anterior temporal lobe. But how do 🧠 changes cause behavioral improvement? We still don’t fully understand…
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Seems like a good idea to me
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
V interested to give this a read but currently no access - does any1 happen to have a copy they’d be willing to send across?
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Hi Christos, could you please add me too? Thankyou!
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Hi Rich! Any chance to be added to this? Thankyou!
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
decade+ long arguments make for the best stories/narratives (so long as their published/publicly available and we're not talking about private bickerings) that generate curiosity and inspiration to follow up generations of students!
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
fascinating (and concerning)
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Saturnians do make excellent brain surgeons
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
if only it were - looks amazing!
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Damn, wish we got these kinds of breathtaking sceneries in psych/neuroscience
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
some cool decoding results here!
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Can you add me pls Thomas! Thankyou!!
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Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
this is exactly me and my partner right now!
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