Duke interdisciplinary research group led by Dr. Jorge Morales studying vision, mental imagery, consciousness, and introspection.

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Constructing novel states from experience underpins imagination and abstraction. The hippocampal formation is thought to contribute by capturing the relational structure of experiences, but it remains...

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Visual experience feels seamless and complete, yet evidence shows that a surprising amount of information regularly goes unnoticed. Three of the largest bottlenecks constraining visual processing incl...

People increasingly consult generative artificial intelligence (AI) while reasoning. As AI becomes embedded in daily thought, what becomes of human judgment? We

AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. Training a model to believe it might be a moral patient, as Anthropic’s constitution does, makes the alignment and containment challenge...

One of the most puzzling aspects of perception is postdiction: later information can change how a previous stimulus is perceived [1,2]. This indicates that perception is not a livestream of the extern...

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The podcast you listen to after you've listened to all the other podcasts on consciousness

Alt: Matrix: Not Like This, not like this

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SAVE the Bethpage skatepark!

What did our ancestors eat? Current understanding of diet in human evolution is predicated on abundant animal foods and mastery of fire, both unlikely for early hominins. Using multiple lines of evide...

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Abstract. We surveyed attendees at two leading conferences on consciousness, asking for their views on central issues concerning infant consciousness. Thes

Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49

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Abstract. This book provides a defense and an exploration of illusionism regarding phenomenal consciousness. Phenomenal consciousness supposedly encompasse

I love working with graduate students and am always happy to take on new students, however my situation is somewhat unique. I am a philosopher in the cognitive neuroscience program and so don't have a lab. Students in the M.S. program in Cognitive Neuroscience need to complete an empirical thesis which means one of a few things. The first option would be a project that re-analyzes an existing data set to answer a novel question.

Those of us who came of age in the 1980s and were young adults in the 1990s usually rest assured that the antics of our younger selves were largely undocumented. But every once in a while someone cleans out a closet, or a finds an old shoe box, or retrieves data from an old laptop and -voila!- there in the randomest place you could never imagine is a load of incriminating stuff from the 1990s.

Brown’s book is an ambitious and carefully structured contribution to the literature on higher-order theories of consciousness. Rather than arguing for hig

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My spring semester has ended and the spring semester is about to end as I finish up the spring semester and prepare for my summer teaching. No, that is not a typo! That is three different spring semesters! NYU's spring semester ended in the second week of May, the Graduate Center's spring semester ended at the end of May, and LaGuardia's spring semester ends the second week of June.

Scientists in the US have uploaded a fruit fly to a computer simulation, while an Australian lab has taught neurons on a glass chip to play a 90s video game. How long before we are all living in a sci...