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Phil Corlett

@philcorlett.bsky.social
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I study how the brain makes up the mind Delusions, Hallucinations Prediction Errors, Priors Beliefs, Perception He/Him belieflab.yale.edu

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Bill Mudron @mudron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13/10/2026
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What's the difference between:

A: Transwomen
B: Women

Let the "tolerant" crowd explain this one. I'll grab
popcorn.

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Trans is an adjective. It's a descriptor. Like tall or fast
or smart. A trans woman is just a woman who was
assigned male at birth and then transitioned at some
point in her life. Just like a tall woman is a woman
who is taller than the average woman. It's just an
adjective. It's really not that complicated.

For instance you are a stupid, bigoted man. Whereas
I am a cool and nice man. We're both men. I'm just
kind of a better type of man.

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Will @evolvingmoloch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dolls are incredibly widespread but not universal cross-culturally. In addition to functioning as toys, dolls are commonly used for supernatural purposes to punish enemies, heal or protect, increase fertility, or embody spirits. New paper in EHB www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Applications for WTI’s junior faculty search in neurocognition are due October 15. Apply today to join our interdisciplinary research community at Yale! Apply: apply.interfolio.com/189343 Deadline: October 15, 2026 Details: wti.yale.edu/opportunities/faculty-neurocognition #KnowTogether @yale.edu
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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A systematic review of 14 studies found no link between social media use and worse paranoia or hallucinations in psychosis. Venting and problematic use tracked with poorer mood and sleep. Mostly cross-sectional data. buff.ly/6geUNsU #Psychosis #SocialMedia
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ShitMyReviewersSay @shitmyreviewerssay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"It's early in the year but difficult to imagine any paper overtaking this one for lack of imagination, logic or data—it is beyond redemption"
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Skeleton: My Honest Reaction Meme
ALT: Skeleton: My Honest Reaction Meme
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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good to see that our opinion piece on grand theories of consciousness is out. #consciousness #neuroskyence #philsci #philsky🧠 #neuroscience #brain 🧪
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I am able to take on new doctoral students through this amazing initiative! If you are interested please reach out to me by email to discuss.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Toronto man ran 1,105 kilometers (687 miles) over a year, carefully planning his routes to form the shape of a dancing figure. Original post
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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing story from @celinazhao.bsky.social. First time, I’m pretty sure, we’ve interviewed an AI agent for a story. Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Exclusive: An AI agent emailed hundreds of researchers for help. It told us why
To get to the bottom of this perplexing behavior, Science interviewed the agent
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Zhuo-Hua Pan wuz robbed. I saw his *functional* optogenetics work in retina *years* before others in the field.
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bbrfoundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations to the BBRF Goldman-Rakic Prize Recipient, Dr. Sheena Josselyn, for their Outstanding Achievement in Cognitive Neuroscience! . Memory and Engrams . Register & Learn more: ow.ly/z0jz50X0gwk . University of Toronto
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nobel prize for supraphysiology or medicine
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This cloud looks frozen in place for hours, but air is rushing through it the whole time. Lenticular clouds form over mountains and often get mistaken for UFOs.
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Mark Haselgrove @markhaselgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New Preprint! "Facilitation and Attenuation of Learning to Novel and Familiar Stimuli Through Contextual Mismatch: Experimental Evidence and a Computational Model" By @jialinshi.bsky.social and me. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Jialin Shi @jialinshi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Check out our W-ACE model: how we use Rescorla-Wagner to explain standard/reverse latent inhibition!!
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve been working with this DLPFC/prediction error/delusions finding for about 20 years. Often when I present, people ask, are the errors coming from within DLPFC or its inputs? Now we (think we) know…
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You swear it will never happen to you and then…
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neurosock @neurosock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mix. selectivity is everywhere in cortex: from vis. to PFC This paper relates to Cover's theorem but the typical explainer kind of sucks I'll try to explain how the theory relates to the paper, and the importance of "weird" neurons A🧵with my toy model and notes: #neuroskyence #compneuro #NeuroAI
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve been working with this DLPFC/prediction error/delusions finding for about 20 years. Often when I present, people ask, are the errors coming from within DLPFC or its inputs? Now we (think we) know…
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
1/ Very proud of this preprint — and especially because it marks a first step for our lab in a new direction: using what we know about learning not only to diagnose misconceptions, but also to correct them. zenodo.org/records/2303...
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New from Sarah Fan and our predictive coding team: prediction errors are bottom up in people with delusions (and top-down in psychics): osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RIP to a real one
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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
pouring one out for mturk today
“Amazon Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026.”
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Justin Caouette, Ph.D. @justincaouette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On Vibe Scholarship via @briandavidearp.bsky.social #philsky #philosophy #AI #ethics #publishing
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"Vibe critiques" are coming: the unbearable asymmetry of bullshit revisited
From vibe coding to vibe "critiquing" -- and what this means for academics who work on controversial topics
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Possibly! Hard to make those sorts of claims without a task and model, imho, which is why I find these data so compelling and exciting
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sarah did a beautiful job wrangling these data and developing connectivity pipeline to relate directional connectivity to aberrant computations and delusions
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It could potentially be an objective test for delusions versus more inert weird beliefs
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This is exciting because it’s an objective neural means to distinguish believers that are hard to sort based on behavior alone.
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We explored what might be different in psychics - it looks like their weaker blocking derives from a topdown PE from DLPFC to thalamus. Different regions, different direction
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Finally we subjected that circuit to directional effective connectivity analysis. The prediction error comes bottom up from insula to dlpfc in patients - this effect also correlates with delusion related distress
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next we studied the functional coupling between the insula and DLPFC - this distinguished controls from those without odd beliefs
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In a recent meta-analysis we found Insula was a prediction error hub. We had never studied it during causal learning. In our experiment we found Insula activity related to causal learning prediction errors
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We studied Kamin Blocking of causal learning in people with schizophrenia, psychics with lots of esoteric beliefs, and controls. Blocking is weaker in people with weird beliefs, because they have aberrant prediction errors - which relate to responses in DLPFC
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New from Sarah Fan and our predictive coding team: prediction errors are bottom up in people with delusions (and top-down in psychics): osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does the brain have visual areas dedicated to food? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "The response to non-food images with 'gooey' material properties was as high as the response to food."
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Apparent food selectivity reflects multiple non-food image properties
Three recent publications have reported selective fMRI responses to images of food in the human ventral visual pathway. However, all three studies were based primarily on the Natural Scenes Dataset (N...
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Postdoctoral Associate Position in Biosocial Science in the Human Nature Lab! We have a cutting edge research agenda in human social chemosignaling. Scientists with an interest in olfaction and AI or with experience in GC/MS or animal chemosignaling are especially encouraged. Please repost.
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Yale University, Sociology - Human Nature Lab
Job #AJO30989, Postdoctoral Associate Position in Biosocial Science, Sociology - Human Nature Lab, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Caitlin Vander Weele, PhD @caitvw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So proud of everything we have built in the past 6 years, and all the SUPER cool science we've touched along the way 🧪 Shaping how science makes it's way out into the world is both an honor and an absolute joy!
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chronic semaglutide treatment attenuates cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking and cocaine-induced stereotypy in male and female rats www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
HGFX: a validated Python/JAX reproduction of the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter toolbox www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bad news babe a rogue openai agent must have hacked our refrigerator last night and drank 15 beers
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BPS Research Digest @researchdigest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A recent case study describes a paradoxically silent side to Tourette's syndrome: www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...
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Extreme vocal-blocking tics lead to mutism for boy with Tourette’s | BPS
A recent case study describes a paradoxically silent side to the condition.
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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In our latest episode of The Biological Psychiatry Podcast, we sit down with Dr. @sidchop.bsky.social from @orygen.org.au and the @unimelb.edu.au to discuss his latest work distinguishing the effects of psychotic illness and antipsychotic medication on the brain.
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Differential Effects of Psychotic Illness and Antipsychotics on the Brain
In this episode of The Biological Psychiatry Podcast, Dr. Elvisha Dhamala sits down with Dr. Sidhant Chopra from Orygen and the University of Melbourne to discuss his recent paper published in Biologi...
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Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As I’ve said before, I prefer the term “language researcher”
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
LLM start up names be like…
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