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Cody Cushing

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cognitive neuroscience of consciousness/mental health

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Ali Moharramipour @alimoharramipour.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
When reading a line like "the glow of the flame briefly illuminated his face", most readers tend to build an image in their mind. 🧠 People with aphantasia, however, report that they do not. We wanted to know: Does this change how they physically read stories? (1/5)
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
are better-performing face recognition models more human-like? turns out: NO in terms of how we see/treat different faces as similar/different to each other, there seems to be tradeoff: better models are LESS human-like so they already work in some 'alien' ways... osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈🧠🤖🧠💻
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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 24/11/2025
Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation effects begin in early sensory stages of processing. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses - Communications Biology
Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation ef...
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
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Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
More evidence of continuous flash suppression / binocular rivalry under anesthesia (in mice): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Continuous Flash Suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects
We investigated whether binocularly conflicting stimuli adapted from primate binocular rivalry studies could induce binocular response suppression in mouse visual cortex. We presented binocularly conf...
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Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Our work showing human-like individual differences in perceptual decisions emerge from random weight initializations in deep neural networks has been accepted in two NeurIPS workshops! 🎉 Awesome job by my student @herrickfung.bsky.social in collaboration with the amazing @apurvaratan.bsky.social.
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Michał Klincewicz @michalk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social
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Adversarial collaborations: all theories must be subject to critical evaluation | Nature
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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The brilliant @rastokke.bsky.social showing how shoddy evidence can spread like wildfire and how this has serious consequences #rEDTO25
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Is vision modular or not? The debate continues. doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
How can we resolve ambiguous visual input? To answer this question, Mooney images meets THINGS and large scale behavior! Amazing effort by an amazing crew in Granada, and happy to play a small part in it!
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel. buff.ly/ypISrtx
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
who says that science doesn't generate profit?
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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 🧵
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Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author 🧠📈
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
check out our METACOGNITIVE SCIENCE MEETING!! in collaboration with @cogcompneuro.bsky.social !! come one come all to Amsterdam in August!
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT. inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina... so long, folks. the world is going nuts. pls take care. 🧠📈
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finale: reply to Gomez-Marin & Seth about the scientific status of IIT
here i respond to a commentary written by Alex Gomez-Marin and Anil Seth, on a paper explaining why IIT is unscientific . the latter articl...
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Remember the controversy about IIT last year - I have great sympathy to the critical side? Well if you want to think a bit about what pseudosciences are and whether we can distinguish science and paeudoscience here is a new short book ffeee download. t.co/6YvZ1kwLti
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
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Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Me
I am one of the co-signers of the letter labeling IIT as “pseudoscience” for numerous reasons. These include a definition of…
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Cody Cushing @codycush.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Now longer and in nature neuroscience. Why I (and 60+ of my closest friends) think IIT is pseudoscience. Has no empirical evidence. Has no hope of future empirical evidence. Open and closed case in my view.
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Analog computing with waves. It's a thing. It's powerful and way more energy efficient than digital computing. The brain doesn’t just discard those useful waves. Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #neuroscience
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Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network
Analog machine learning computations are performed passively by propagating light and sound waves through programmed materials.
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MIT Kids Brains @kidsbrains.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu). Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993). Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025. Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Why hypothesis testing is not the way forward to understand brains: medium.com/@kording/hyp...
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Hypotheses No Longer Cut It
For decades, hypothesis-driven research has been the cornerstone of inquiry — from health and neuroscience to political science, economics…
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Serge Dumoulin @sergedumoulin.net · 14/02/2025
Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Psilocybin alters visual contextual computations
Psilocybin alters perception and brain dynamics. Contextual computations are ubiquitous in the brain. Here, we investigate the effects of psilocybin using psychophysics, ultra-high field functional MR...
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to julia_marshall1@brown.edu by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!
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Dr. Sarah Sperry @drsarahsperry.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I am hiring a full time study coordinator for our EBI-BD study which uses EEG, cognitive testing, EMA, and wearables to study emotion-based impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Excellent position for someone who is interested in grad school! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
informal announcement: we'll be doing a *cluster* hire of faculty in theoretical/computational neuroscience in the coming year(s). a senior/mid-career person could be selected to bring in 2-3 more ppl of their choosing (subject to committee approval), or we could otherwise hire together a group 1/
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Worth also pointing out that there are many "tests so easy no AI system can pass them". Moravec's paradox remains. E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390
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BLINK: Multimodal Large Language Models Can See but Not Perceive
We introduce Blink, a new benchmark for multimodal language models (LLMs) that focuses on core visual perception abilities not found in other evaluations. Most of the Blink tasks can be solved by huma...
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Jason Samonds @jason-samonds.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New article out from the lab led by graduate student Ronan O'Shea on the V1 representation of day and night vision. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Luminance invariant encoding in mouse primary visual cortex
O’Shea et al. investigates how the transition between cone- and rod-mediated vision affects neural representations in central visual areas of the mouse. Whereas the thalamus inherits luminance-depende...
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Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Human have higher sensitivity in the lower compared to upper visual field. It turns out that macaques show the opposite pattern: www.cell.com/current-biol.... I'd hypothesize that this is evidence that neither of these effects is innate; instead, they both develop with experience. #VisionScience
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Opposite asymmetry in visual perception of humans and macaques
Human adults exhibit visual performance asymmetries as a function of polar angle. Tünçok et al. investigate whether macaque monkeys show asymmetries and how they differ from humans. Both species exhib...
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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Why does it feel good to be sure? In new work @voalan.bsky.social @andero.bsky.social and I bridge confidence and affect. In perceptual DM, we found a remarkably consistent association between both measures! ↓↓↓ link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
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Metacognitive confidence and affect – two sides of the same coin?
Decision confidence is a prototypical metacognitive representation that is thought to approximate the probability that a decision is correct. The perception of being correct has also been associate...
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
osf.io/preprints/ps... nice article, on why we may be totally wrong about aphantasia = imagery blindsight but i'm not sure i agree that for imagery representations to be perception-like, they need to be cross-decodable w/ normal perception. the brain can multiplex two sets of iconic signals 🧠📈
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroscience
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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Weak and strong memories are equally reactivated during counterfactual learning, but only weak memories are modified: osf.io/js6qd
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 11/01/2025
"Faces with neutral expression appear to bear a negatively valenced expression and appear higher in emotional arousal when lit from below—an illusion of facial expression where none really exists." Illusory facial expressions caused by lighting direction. doi.org/10.1037/xge0... #PsycSciSky
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
NOW OUT in Scientific Reports! the latest from @mehdiorouji.bsky.social, me, and many others! Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41... thread 🧵👇
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Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 19/12/2024
THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31
Adam Curtis Title Card: We Too Are Trapped In A System. Text over a background of a large office building
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Jane Han @jane-han.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🚨 New paper out with @samnastase.bsky.social and @haxbylab.bsky.social! We use representational similarity analysis to test how well behavioral, semantic, and visual models capture cortical representational geometries when viewing naturalistic action videos: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Behaviorally-relevant features of observed actions dominate cortical representational geometry in natural vision available at bioRxiv!
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHSZ4sIRv... in this short letter in TICS, @matthiasmichel.bsky.social & @jorge-morales.bsky.social argue against the episodic memory deficit interpretation of aphantasia proposed by @andreablomkvist.bsky.social. a lack of imagery awareness may be all there is 1/2
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is the part where the most obvious disanalogy is brushed away as 'beside the point'. Empirical support can't be 'beside the point' when judging whether a theory is scientific or not.
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Krys Dolega @krysdolega.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This was their second choice, the first idea was “Galileo was also persecuted for his beliefs”
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Cody Cushing @codycush.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Nothing helps beat the pseudoscience label like humbly comparing your theory with no empirical support to the theory of general relativity 😂
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 02/12/2024
Fascinating new blindsight piece from Beatrice de Gelder, Nicholas Humphrey, and my wonderful UQ colleague Alan Pegna, about their blindsight patient (TM) - who not only accurately detects colour but reports the 'experience' of colour, especially red #visionscience doi.org/10.1093/cerc...
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On the bright side of blindsight. Considerations from new observations of awareness in a blindsight patient
Abstract. Blindsight refers to the ability to make accurate visual discriminations without conscious awareness of the stimuli. In this study, we present ne
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Postdoc alert! Come work with me on an ESRC project on the role of narratives in the learning and retention of educational material. 2 year position, start date flexible but no later than 1st September. Application deadline 1st March. #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/11/2024
How outrage drives the spread of online misinformation. New work from @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social with Bluesky luminaries @klonick.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829
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Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online
We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high...
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