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Gal Chen

@galchen.bsky.social
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PhD student at Hebrew University. Consciousness & attention, speech perception, M/EEG, stats & data enthusiast. Unsure at which order.

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 18/08/2026
A new research Article in the journal by Gal R. Chen and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @galchen.bsky.social @deouell.bsky.social
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High-level prediction of continuous speech during mind-wandering - Communications Psychology
This study examines how spontaneous drifts in listening relate to EEG responses to continuous speech, using encoding models of semantic and contextual representations. It finds that neural markers of ...
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Gal Chen @galchen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
New study in @commspsychol.nature.com! Encoding models show neural activity can align with deep neural networks (DNNs) that represent and predict langauge. Is this brain-DNN alignment also reflective of subjective experience and comprehension of contents? www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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High-level prediction of continuous speech during mind-wandering - Communications Psychology
This study examines how spontaneous drifts in listening relate to EEG responses to continuous speech, using encoding models of semantic and contextual representations. It finds that neural markers of ...
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Research conducted by @galchen.bsky.social and colleagues from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers insight into how the brain determines which information enters conscious awareness and which remains outside it.
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Our Brains May Be Automatically Filtering Out Negative Words
A new study offers insight into how the brain determines which information enters conscious awareness and which remains outside it.
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Gal Chen @galchen.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
New in Psychological Science! We've been studying visual non-conscious prioritization processes for decades, but not a lot is known about non-conscious speech processing. Does it conform to the same principles, despite the very different way it functions? #consciousness #psychscisky #PsychSky
Results of exp 2 (lower awareness rate for negative words)
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Gal Chen @galchen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
An extraordinary experience!! Huge thanks to all mentors and organizers.
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Gal Chen @galchen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
First paper is now out in Cortex! We find behavioral and neural evidence for non-conscious speech processing, using a new dual-task paradigm that creates repetitive occurrences of in attentional deafness without masking or degrading stimuli. @deouell.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Neural markers of speech processing during inattentional deafness☆
Cognitive scientists have long debated the capabilities of non-conscious perception, defined as the level of processing of external stimuli that peopl…
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
1/3) This may be a very important paper, it suggests that there are no prediction error encoding neurons in sensory areas of cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... I personally am a big fan of the idea that cortical regions (allo and neo) are doing sequence prediction. But... 🧠📈 🧪
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Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors
Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...
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Gal Chen @galchen.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
When we listen to speech, we do it while constantly predicting upcoming contents. Is this prediction associated with the subjective experience of engaged, conscious listening? What happens when we fail to listen? Come take a look at my poster (P116) tomorrow at @assc28.bsky.social 16:30
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Gal Chen @galchen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Opening a new window into auditory awareness with two new preprints! Conscious Detection of Spoken Words Depends on Their Valence osf.io/preprints/ps... Neural Markers of Speech Processing During Inattentional Deafness osf.io/preprints/ps...
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