Ishan Singhal
@singhal.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SCCS, University of Sussex| Cognitive science, time and consciousness
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Ishan Singhal
@singhal.bsky.social
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Dynamics of mental imagery
Phenomenology of mental imagery can reveal the structure of underlying mental representations, yet progress has been limited because of its private na…
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With nervous excitement, my most ambitious project yet: Dynamics of mental imagery.
We got over 800 people to recreate the contents of their mental imagery with a focus on distinct phenomenological properties. Temporal grain, smoothness, stability.
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a 🧵1/n
We got over 800 people to recreate the contents of their mental imagery with a focus on distinct phenomenological properties. Temporal grain, smoothness, stability.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
a 🧵1/n
We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
Computational Neurophenomenology Cabin Workshop - Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative (BAMΞ)
www.uni-bamberg.de
November 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
We're very happy to announce another consciousness workshop in the famed snowy mountain cabin of the Austrian Alps! ❄️🦇
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
This year's theme is computational neurophenomenology (broadly defined)
Applications are now open!
www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/res...
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Officially out in the current issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
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"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Officially out in the current issue of Trends in Cognitive Sciences:
"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
"Physics versus graphics as an organizing dichotomy in cognition"
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 AM
1/n We have discovered that bees can keep track of time duration!
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
Bees can discriminate long 🟡🟡 vs short🟡 flashes, a bit like the "dash" and "dot" of the Morse code.
Check our new paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... and videoclip youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk?... @preparedmindslab.bsky.social
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Philosophical debates often resemble trench warfare: both sides are so busy defending their positions that they not only fail to notice the battle ended a long time ago, but also that the points they were defending are now so riddled with holes that they are no longer worth fighting for
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Philosophical debates often resemble trench warfare: both sides are so busy defending their positions that they not only fail to notice the battle ended a long time ago, but also that the points they were defending are now so riddled with holes that they are no longer worth fighting for
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🚨Please repost widely!
Are you into VR and cognitive rehab? Looking for a research technician to work with me in Pamplona @unav.edu on developing a multimodal XR system for stroke rehab (VYSIUM HEALTH).
This project is financed by the Government of Navarra and FEDER.
Apply here or DM me!
Are you into VR and cognitive rehab? Looking for a research technician to work with me in Pamplona @unav.edu on developing a multimodal XR system for stroke rehab (VYSIUM HEALTH).
This project is financed by the Government of Navarra and FEDER.
Apply here or DM me!
Técnico de Investigación área de Educación y Psicología
En la Facultad de Educación y Psicología de la Universidad de Navarra, formamos a profesionales con espíritu de servicio, pensamiento crítico, compromiso ético y ganas de aportar su conocimiento a la ...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🚨Please repost widely!
Are you into VR and cognitive rehab? Looking for a research technician to work with me in Pamplona @unav.edu on developing a multimodal XR system for stroke rehab (VYSIUM HEALTH).
This project is financed by the Government of Navarra and FEDER.
Apply here or DM me!
Are you into VR and cognitive rehab? Looking for a research technician to work with me in Pamplona @unav.edu on developing a multimodal XR system for stroke rehab (VYSIUM HEALTH).
This project is financed by the Government of Navarra and FEDER.
Apply here or DM me!
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Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:
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I feel bad for Panpsychism. Too many of its contemporary proponents give it a bad name as a lazy rhetoric humping polemic proposal. I sometimes wonder what would happen if a good philosopher picked it up and brought this idea into the 21st century.
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I feel bad for Panpsychism. Too many of its contemporary proponents give it a bad name as a lazy rhetoric humping polemic proposal. I sometimes wonder what would happen if a good philosopher picked it up and brought this idea into the 21st century.
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You can really hear the silence.
October 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
You can really hear the silence.
Absolutely brilliant! #consci
A new addition to my “Visual Phenomena and Optical Illusions” collection: “Mainz-Linez”. Here's the live demonstration and explanation of the somewhat mysterious title: michaelbach.de/ot/mot-Mainz.... Enjoy!
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Absolutely brilliant! #consci
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
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October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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Monty Python understood p-hacking
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Monty Python understood p-hacking
Is someone running a study to see how consciousness researchers react to crazy emails about AI, metaphysics, and or consciousness? I have run out of explanations for why I am getting so many random emails with manuscripts on this topic asking for feedback.
October 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Is someone running a study to see how consciousness researchers react to crazy emails about AI, metaphysics, and or consciousness? I have run out of explanations for why I am getting so many random emails with manuscripts on this topic asking for feedback.
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It is an enormous pleasure—and a dream, really—to share that the University of Bamberg has approved an initiative dedicated to mathematical approaches in #ConSci. The initiative is called Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative, or BAMΞ for short.
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
October 17, 2025 at 12:34 PM
It is an enormous pleasure—and a dream, really—to share that the University of Bamberg has approved an initiative dedicated to mathematical approaches in #ConSci. The initiative is called Bamberg Mathematical Consciousness Science Initiative, or BAMΞ for short.
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
bamxi.org #BAMΞ @uni-bamberg.de
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New preprint!
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
New preprint!
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary
"Non-commitment in mental imagery is distinct from perceptual inattention, and supports hierarchical scene construction"
(by Li, Hammond, & me)
link: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
-- the title's a bit of a mouthful, but the nice thing is that it's a pretty decent summary
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New paper!
This one is going to raise some eyebrows, so I want to explain the details before people get all worked-up about the title.
1/N
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This one is going to raise some eyebrows, so I want to explain the details before people get all worked-up about the title.
1/N
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Identification of brain-like complex information architectures in embryonic tissue of Xenopus laevis organoids
Understanding how populations of cells collectively coordinate activity to produce the complex structures and behaviors that characterize multicellular organisms, and which coordinated activities, ...
www.tandfonline.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
New paper!
This one is going to raise some eyebrows, so I want to explain the details before people get all worked-up about the title.
1/N
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This one is going to raise some eyebrows, so I want to explain the details before people get all worked-up about the title.
1/N
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
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There is no need to simulate multiple alternatives according to an internal model and then select one in order to navigate the environment. F&M articulate their view of perceptual consciousness in terms of this kind of implicit model-based planning, which we think does not exist. (4/7)
September 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
There is no need to simulate multiple alternatives according to an internal model and then select one in order to navigate the environment. F&M articulate their view of perceptual consciousness in terms of this kind of implicit model-based planning, which we think does not exist. (4/7)
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🐭 Mouse faces reveal hidden thoughts
Researchers found that subtle facial expressions in mice reflect not only their current decisions but also unexpressed cognitive states, offering a new window into brain activity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪
Researchers found that subtle facial expressions in mice reflect not only their current decisions but also unexpressed cognitive states, offering a new window into brain activity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪
Facial expressions in mice reveal latent cognitive variables and their neural correlates - Nature Neuroscience
The face reveals more than just emotion. Cazettes, Reato and colleagues show that subtle facial movements reveal hidden cognitive states, reflecting the brain’s ongoing computations and offering a noninvasive window into unexpressed thoughts and decisions.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🐭 Mouse faces reveal hidden thoughts
Researchers found that subtle facial expressions in mice reflect not only their current decisions but also unexpressed cognitive states, offering a new window into brain activity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪
Researchers found that subtle facial expressions in mice reflect not only their current decisions but also unexpressed cognitive states, offering a new window into brain activity.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪
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What does postdiction show about the speed of consciousness? In this forth. piece in BBS, I respond to @smfleming.bsky.social + @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's claim that postdiction shows consciousness is slow -- too slow for its purpose to be online action guidance. 1/3 philpapers.org/rec/PHIPAT-14
philpapers.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What does postdiction show about the speed of consciousness? In this forth. piece in BBS, I respond to @smfleming.bsky.social + @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's claim that postdiction shows consciousness is slow -- too slow for its purpose to be online action guidance. 1/3 philpapers.org/rec/PHIPAT-14
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This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you.
www.cogdevlab.org
www.cogdevlab.org
PCDL @ OSU
www.cogdevlab.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you.
www.cogdevlab.org
www.cogdevlab.org
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Wta? Mind you I got an AI summary that insisted people who had been awarded PhDs were more likely to get Alzheimer’s. Perplexed, I looked up the original. It defined PHD as primary headache disorder. The AI took the statistically more likely abbreviation and came up with its idiotic response. Sigh!
August 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Wta? Mind you I got an AI summary that insisted people who had been awarded PhDs were more likely to get Alzheimer’s. Perplexed, I looked up the original. It defined PHD as primary headache disorder. The AI took the statistically more likely abbreviation and came up with its idiotic response. Sigh!
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Proofs are in for my paper. The copy editor asks me to provide the given name for the reference to Aristotle. Amazing.
August 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Proofs are in for my paper. The copy editor asks me to provide the given name for the reference to Aristotle. Amazing.
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🧠⚽ Spot the ball! New benchmark for visual scene understanding!
We ask: Can people and models locate a hidden ball in sports images using only visual context and reasoning?
🕹️ Try the task: v0-new-project-9b5vt6k9ugb.vercel.app
#CogSci2025
We ask: Can people and models locate a hidden ball in sports images using only visual context and reasoning?
🕹️ Try the task: v0-new-project-9b5vt6k9ugb.vercel.app
#CogSci2025
July 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
🧠⚽ Spot the ball! New benchmark for visual scene understanding!
We ask: Can people and models locate a hidden ball in sports images using only visual context and reasoning?
🕹️ Try the task: v0-new-project-9b5vt6k9ugb.vercel.app
#CogSci2025
We ask: Can people and models locate a hidden ball in sports images using only visual context and reasoning?
🕹️ Try the task: v0-new-project-9b5vt6k9ugb.vercel.app
#CogSci2025
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My PhD student Trevor Hewitt is conducting an online experiment into closed-eye visuals during psychedelic experiences. If you've had such an experience, please consider taking part at closed-eyes.com (it's only a short survey) - and/or help us spread the word. 🙏🏽🧠
July 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My PhD student Trevor Hewitt is conducting an online experiment into closed-eye visuals during psychedelic experiences. If you've had such an experience, please consider taking part at closed-eyes.com (it's only a short survey) - and/or help us spread the word. 🙏🏽🧠