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anikokusztor.bsky.social
Research fellow at Monash University, Australia; interested in consciousness & open science Website: https://www.aniko-kusztor.hu
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Check this out and share it widely!! #neuroskyence #Consciousness

[Trailer] Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU... produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...

Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread! Check it out! 🧠🧪

🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really amazing work from the wonderful @bethfisher.bsky.social et al !!

Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias! @monash-m3cs.bsky.social

Ohh i have my fun fact tor the day! 😎

New preprint! ⬇️🤩 We find a reduced self-other distinction in psychosis 😶‍🌫️, including increased neural activity during self-touch 🧠, reduced latency differences already at the *spinal cord* level 😲, and diminished interoceptive accuracy 🫀. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

It’s so great to see Ariel giving this talk at the Royal Institution! He’s put so much thought and effort into writing his book and now it’s getting out there. Incredibly cool stuff

Full PhD scholarship + stipend (for an Australian or international student) to join our group and study the nonlinear dynamics of sleep (or related topics in time-series analysis of complex dynamical systems). Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

I understand there’s been a surge in Russian bot activity on Bluesky. A telltale sign of Russian bots is that they ignore the punchline of joke posts and write an earnest response to the joke setup. Please block anyone you see doing this on sight

It really was a pleasure to work with Will on this. Fascinating stuff, and I can only hope it keeps developing! So many more questions yet to be answered, and the ones we touched on here can surely be improved further. Can't wait to see where it leads 😊 Happy new year!

📌 and @thomasandrillon.bsky.social

Research on infraslow oscillations during NREM sleep is definitely a hot topic ! 🔥 New paper making the link between norepinephrine oscillations and glymphatic clearance 🧠🚿 @cellcellpress.bsky.social @nataliehauglund.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

My first Christmas Paper 🎄😅 doi.org/10.1093/nc/n...

📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Human cortical pyramidal neurons are larger, with more elaborate branching, and distinct nonlinear biophysical properties compared to rat cortical pyramidal neurons. Are they more functionally complex? Could that boost the human brain’s computational power? and is that what makes us human? (1/11)

I co-edited a special issue on dreaming and mind wandering for @phimisci.bsky.social The first papers are now online. Check them out! And don't hesitate to follow/read this amazing, free & open access journal! 🔬🧠💤💭

Salon article on my new book about brain preservation for life extension, including pushback from some neuroscientists/philosophers. Touches on the necessity of ongoing neural dynamics for survival, panpsychism, definitions of self, and more www.salon.com/2024/12/16/s...

A Timeline in Whole Brain Modelling: John Griffiths, Sorenza Bastiaens & Neda Kaboodvand link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Just published🔈 "Structurally informed models of directed brain connectivity" Read: rdcu.be/d3dC4 We review how structural connectivity constrains directed connectivity models 🧠 Lead by @matthewdgreaves.bsky.social w/ @novelli-leo.bsky.social, @sinamansourl.bsky.social and Andrew Zalesky

Friends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated! Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you? #DataVisualization github.com/cxli233/Frie...

Sample sizes in most studies are at least in part based on resource constraints, and this should be acknowledged. The next step is to evaluate the informational value, given resource constraints. Will we learn enough? The answer sometimes should be 'no'. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

🎉 Our paper "Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness" is now out in eLife! 🎉 TL;DR: Both simulations and empirical data show that you should not post-hoc sort neural data based on subjective measures of consciousness. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

A new experimentally-supported theoretical framework to analyze individual variability in biological and artificial systems performing flexible decision-making tasks A fresh Nature paper from the Brody lab 🍾 #neuroskyence #neuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I really enjoyed reading this world view in Nature about the importance of exploratory research in the social sciences by @balazsaczel.bsky.social and am wondering what people think. Do you generally agree with his point? 🧪@natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

@christopherjwhyte.bsky.social 👇

Amazing work from Brendan! Congrats @bendfulcher.bsky.social et al

This is fun. More of this please!

Inspired by @mariaa.bsky.social's custom feed for NLP papers, I created a custom feed for philosophy papers posted on BlueSky. It's not perfect, but it works decently well: bsky.app/profile/did:...

A very nice write up of our study on PsyPost!

now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece, "Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience" #neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...

All of these to my reading list 🤓

Honored to coauthor this fMRI study on cardiac #interoception in FND. Disrupted insula, ACC activity during interoceptive attention underscores the neural basis of altered body-brain signaling in FND, bringing the field one step toward targeted interventions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39558709/

A potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication New paper from Halassa lab in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@joemelling.bsky.social et al has discovered a new illusion! How cool is that? 😁 check this out:

And we just hit the 100-member mark with the addition of @clarepress.bsky.social! You can be the 151st! Just let me know and don't hesitate to share this with your consciousness contacts!

Helpful general purpose feeds! 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... 1/2

I have created a starter pack for #dream research 🧠🧪💤 go.bsky.app/DCNDUtJ I don't have a lot of contacts yet so let me know if you want to join or if I should add someone in particular!

Very cool work from Lars Sandved-Smith!

Absolutely thrilled to share my postdoc work in the Axel lab. We found odor-evoked representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex and showed that mice desire knowledge as its own reward. Now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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