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Post doc researching the electrophysiological underpinnings of consciousness. EEG | consciousness | meta-analysis | learning | meditation | psychedelics
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@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?

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

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The Brain in the Operating Room: Understanding the Loss of Consciousness During General Anesthesia www.greymattersjournalvc.org/issue-9-arti... #neuroscience

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

Space acquires Time. Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab. “The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... From The Unbearable Slowness of Being

submitted 71 days ago • 32 comments

New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...

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Hugely exciting focussed ultrasound neuromodulation data from JeYoung Jung today - substantial behavioral, neurochemical, and even volumetric effects of theta burst sonication of anterior temporal lobe. But how do 🧠 changes cause behavioral improvement? We still don’t fully understand…

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Seems like a good idea to me

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

fascinating (and concerning)

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Saturnians do make excellent brain surgeons

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Damn, wish we got these kinds of breathtaking sceneries in psych/neuroscience

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

some cool decoding results here!

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment