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📢 now out @natrevpsychol.nature.com In a new perspective w/ @davidnagy.bsky.social & @gergoorban.bsky.social, we reconcile a glaring problem in applying rate-distortion theory as a framework for human memory, integrating empirical findings across a host of human memory research 🧵👇

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I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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SSPP 2025: Juan Murillo Vargas on the Question-Sensitivity of Cognition Why is Cognition Question-Sensitive? Juan Murillo Vargas (MIT) Author’s note: I no longer believe most of the paper’s claims. But I find the question interesting and worth thinking about, even if I think the answer I gave for…

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New preprint modelling suppression depth in binocular rivalry and continuous flash suppression with Hugh Wilson, @macshine.bsky.social, & David Alais

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What’s in your brain when something is on your mind? open.substack.com/pub/petemand...

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Can brain injury cause the loss of visual imagination? We studied #aphantasia due to brain injury. Lesions were in many different regions but 100% were connected to the fusiform imagery node - a region active during visual mental imagery @braincircuits.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Out today!

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Yes indeed- please do consider submitting a commentary proposal!

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You can now submit a commentary on our paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... We're very much looking forward to reading your commentaries and discussing our hypothesis with you!

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hey @nature.com you should do more fact checking. those who called IIT pseudoscience are not necessarily supporters of IIT & never identified as such. also published a followup to the preprint, in Nature Neuroscience. www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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... neurons in the rodent dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) [link] sensory stimuli in the environment with aversive events, whether they were directly or indirectly associated with that experience.... by the amazing lab of @jojolab.bsky.social 🧠📈 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Paper finally published in JEP General! Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al., 2007: osf.io/preprints/os... A study cited over 500 times couldn't be replicated, even in extreme imagery... a 🧵 1/8

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Abstract submission is now open, closes May 20th!

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Conscious vision is too slow to help us react to immediate stimuli. So why do we have it? Paper by Fleming & Michel argues it may have evolved as an adaptation after water→land transition, and—with larger visual horizons—aided planning/reality checking: buff.ly/Y1FtSIG

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Today at 1 pm Eastern join me for a discussion with Jake Quilty-Dunn. And tomorrow, May 7th, I will be doing an in-person episode with Andrei Buckareff as part of the LaGuardia Undergraduate Philosophy and Social Science conference! Very exciting/exhausting! youtube.com/live/sn4gfo6...

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Lovely work — and yet another proof that perceptual integration, likely based on recurrent connections, can occur without awareness during the attentional blink. See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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In @elife.bsky.social: Perceptual and attentional impairments of conscious access involve distinct neural mechanisms despite equal task performance doi.org/10.7554/eLif... by Samuel Noorman with @timostein.bsky.social and Simon van Gaal. Well done Samuel!

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Next up on Consciousness Live! Jake Quilty-Dunn -coming ups Tuesday May 6 youtube.com/live/sn4gfo6...

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i have uploaded this preprint a while back, but hadn't promoted it directly here. in this piece i explain why i can no longer recommend trainees to participate in my former home field. The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps... but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything. 🧠📈

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Are we “strangers to ourselves”? Classic theories say people have limited insight into how they decide. Our new paper at @natcomms.nature.com challenges this view. With @rcarl.bsky.social sky.social, @hedykober.bsky.social y.social, and @mjcrockett.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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Honey, we fixed Signal Detection Theory (SDT)! In this preprint, Constantin Meyer-Grant, David Kellen, Sam Harding, and I critically evaluate the (unequal-variance) Gaussian SDT model in recognition memory and pursue the Gumbel-min model as a principled alternative: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

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Oscillatory control over representational geometry of sequence working memory in macaque frontal cortex www.cell.com/current-biol... #neuroscience

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Very excited to share this new paper, out this week. An attempt to express an idea I have been working on for more than a decade. Responses, questions, critiques, suggestions encouraged!

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If you work with perceptual confidence judgments, you may be interested in our CNCB model of confidence ratings. Joint work with Vincent de Gardelle. Uncorrected proofs here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... (🧵 1/4)

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We are delighted to see this out as a target article in BBS! Call for commentaries will be issued soon Check out Matthias’ thread below for details

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Accepted on the same day (& in the same journal) as my target article on 'conscious AI and biological naturalism' :-) This BBS target article by @matthiasmichel.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social is excellent & should provoke lively commentaries 👇

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I'm thrilled that a version of 'Conscious Artificial Intelligence and Biological Naturalism' has just been accepted as a target article in Behavioural & Brain Sciences 😀 An open-call for commentaries is coming soon www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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