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Renzo Lanfranco

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Principal Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet. Interested in consciousness, visual & body perception, self, face recognition, metacognition & altered states of consciousness | https://ki.se/en/people/renzo-lanfranco

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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Oct 10

In our new @NatureComms paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms: nature.com/articles/s41... (🧵👇)

Minimal exposure durations reveal visual processing priorities for different stimulus attributes - Nature Communications

Minimal exposure durations required for visual processing of stimulus attributes can reveal the system’s priorities. Here, the authors show a distinct sequence of minimal exposures needed for face pro...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 1d

Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club - Yair Pinto (www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...) on “No easy solutions for the Hard Problem of consciousness”. Should be fun!

Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time

For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · 2d

Our new preprint on the effects of visually-driven tactile predictions on the sense of body ownership is out. Thread coming soon! 🧵👇

PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 2d

Disentangling visually-driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership: https://osf.io/jbk4x

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Adele Goldberg @adelegoldberg.bsky.social · 20d

I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · Sep 24

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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Sep 18

It's been moved to 11:45 am!

Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Sep 18

If you're attending ICON in Porto this week, come to our symposium: "Recent Developments in Bodily Self-awareness Research." We'll talk about the computational and neural mechanisms of the sense of body ownership and body representation | 📆 Friday 19th at ⏰️ 13:30.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing!
Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

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Xavier Job @xavierjob.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣 New preprint 📣

The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈

Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation

Prevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe...

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Yvonne F. Visser @yfvisser.bsky.social · Jun 11

Ever wondered if you were aware of your own biases? Us too! If you're attending #RLDM2025, stop by poster #92 on Friday to learn how we tested insight into perceptual decision biases using (hierarchical) drift diffusion modelling. Work with @kobedesender.bsky.social, Peter Murphy & Hanne Daenen.

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Oded Rechavi @odedrechavi.bsky.social · May 31

"We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments"

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Andres Canales-Johnson @canalesjohnson.bsky.social · May 30

I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...

Large-scale interactions in perception and prediction across species | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki

Andres Canales-Johnson research group

www.helsinki.fi

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Konstantina Kilteni @kkilteni.bsky.social · May 26

New article out at Science Advances!

Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab

The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience

Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.

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Andres Canales-Johnson @canalesjohnson.bsky.social · May 22

Delighted to share our latest article at #CerebralCortex: "Odorant representations indicate nonlinear processing across the olfactory system". A transatlantic effort led by Jesus Olivares, with Pato Orio, Viktor Sadilek, and Oliver Schmachtenberg. Thread below 👇
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

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Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social · May 1

New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

A group of researchers standing outside a building. At first glance they look like different people because they have distinctive hairstyles and are wearing different clothes. But their faces are in fact identical and were generated by averaging many faces. This image illustrates how some people with face blindness (prosopagnosia) find it very difficult to tell faces apart despite seeing them clearly.

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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Apr 30

I nearly gave up—but didn’t, only because I had a specific project in Belgium (for a specific number of months). Otherwise, I would’ve chosen somewhere else. My point: small, low-effort changes to immigration laws could make a big difference in keeping scientists from giving up on Europe.

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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Apr 30

Even more absurd when you consider I can enter the EU on a Chilean passport for 90 days—yet Belgium requires a TB certificate for researcher/work visas. Their explanation? To protect Belgians from certain diseases. But I’ve only lived in countries with lower TB rates than Belgium. Makes no sense.

Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Apr 30

Great. A good start'd be making PhD immigration less absurd. Born in Chile, lived 7 yrs in the UK, then 4 in Sweden—yet Belgium required a tuberculosis certificate with x-rays. That’s despite TB rates being lower in Sweden, UK, & Chile than in Belgium. & doctors don’t order x-rays without symptoms.

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Marie Chancel @mariechancel.bsky.social · Apr 14

📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣

More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !

Open positions – Dr. Marie Chancel

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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · Apr 26

New from our predictive coding study: hollow mask illusion is weaker in schizophrenia and non-clinical voice hearers. Trend towards positive correlation between top-down effects and psychosis - not a simple story, but intriguing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Depth inversion illusion and its relationship to positive symptoms in clinical and non-clinical voice hearers

Among people with schizophrenia (PSZ), positive symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions are often conceptualised as resulting from abnormal top-down modulation of sensory information. PSZ oft...

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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Apr 13

There are so many concepts that people create that probably refer to things that don't exist. I hope people are more careful and reduce the concepts they summon to keep a clean field rather than because of coolness.

Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Apr 13

Maybe people are becoming more rigorous and they only use 'consciousness' when you need to distinguish between unconscious processing and conscious awareness/access. If such a distinction isn't needed, then why use the word 'consciousness'?

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Mar 18

We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...

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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...

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Renzo Lanfranco @renzolanfranco.bsky.social · Mar 27

Congrats! 👏 🎊