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Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · 24d

New #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n]

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(PDF) Intrinsic Universal Structures and Extrinsic Local Functions

PDF | Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks, structuralist vs. functionalist, universal vs. local,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Sep 5

Last but not least, I am very grateful for my excellent co-authors on this project! @nirmiteem.bsky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social, @qualiastructure.bsky.social and Makiko Yamada!

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you want to dive deeper into dissociation research, I recently discussed this study and some other upcoming work on the Minds Matter Podcast:
Show notes: www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/s4-ep-16-you...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3EBE...
Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

S4 Ep16: Your Mind on Dissociation with Dr. Anikó Kusztor

www.mindsmatterpodcast.com

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Sep 5

Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you so much for having me!! I always have a blast chatting with @bethfisher.bsky.social and this time was no different! 💕 Also I loved your reflections in the end and how both of you have change your mind perhaps a bit through sharing your experiences with each other. So cool and precious!

Minds Matter Podcast @mindsmatter.bsky.social · Aug 31

New episode!! Dr. Anikó Kusztor joins us this week to discuss the results of dissociation, and how they vary from person to person. Link in 🧵

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · May 29

We had a really cool chat about the Olo color and its implications for consciousness research. If you’re after an excellent summary of this paper, look no further! Angus did an excellent job 😎

Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · May 28

A new installment of our (never ending) journal club on YouTube! youtu.be/z_xmNALhbUs?...

NEJC#04 Journal Club on Fong et al. 2025 Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors..

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure

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Magdalena Sabat @magdalenasabat.bsky.social · Feb 11

Very happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris).

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal | PNAS

Arousal refers to changes in brain-body state underpinning motivated behavior but lacks a proper definition and taxonomy. Neuroscience and psycholo...

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Natalie Peluso 🧠🫁😊 @nataliepeluso.com · Apr 1

Age-related differences in 1/f aperiodic EEG/MEG signals can be driven by cardiac rather than brain activity 👇

#interoception 🧠🫀 #neuroskyence

elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Mar 30

Launching our new "Never Ending" Journal Club series from T-lab! In our debut episode, we dive into the fascinating psychological geometries of musical pitch explored in Marjieh, Griffiths & Jacobi (2023).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9-...

NEJC#01 Journal Club on Marjieh et al. 2023 “Musical pitch has multiple psychological geometries”

YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Mar 15

This is beautiful!

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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · Mar 14

New preprint! 🗞️

Lucy Whitmore and I discuss the many potential challenges in using the brain age prediction framework in children and adolescents, and make recommendations for future directions.

🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...

image showing a figure that illustrates the brain age prediction framework, whereby a machine learning algorithm is trained with multiple brain MRI images and then tested with new brain data. The new brain data is without an age tag, meaning the machine learning algorithm has to estimate age based on its training. The resulting brain predicted age (here 11) is compared to the actual age in the last panel (here 9), and a difference between them is calculated, known as the brain age gap (here 2).

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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · Mar 12

The latest paper from the Qualia Structure is published in PNAS!

Do you think children have similar color qualia as adults? Please see our paper to find it out!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Comparing color qualia structures through a similarity task in young children versus adults | PNAS

Examination of the subjective qualitative aspects of an experience, or “qualia” in short, is a fundamental and core aspect of consciousness researc...

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Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · Mar 10

Last year IIT was branded as pseudoscience. Not with arguments or evidence, but with a now infamous letter.

I believe that IIT is an important research program, but everyone can judge by themselves:

Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? By Tononi et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms - Nature Neuroscience

Integrated information theory (IIT) starts from consciousness, which is subjective, and accounts for its presence and quality in objective, testable terms. Attempts to label as ‘pseudoscientific’ a th...

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Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · Mar 6

⚠️🚨New @qualiastructure.bsky.social publication, by @gen21ka.bsky.social @arielzj.bsky.social @takeda @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and @oizumi!

I think that the intuition to apply GWOT to Qualia will have significant and impactful consequences!

Please share and follow the authors!

Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · Mar 5

Highly recommend: Is my “red” your “red”?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Is my “red” your “red”?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment

Psychology

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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · Mar 6

Check out @shawnprest.bsky.social’s new preprint on Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go.
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social

Shawn Prest @shawnprest.bsky.social · Feb 26

New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘

Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.

I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Feb 23

Check this out and share it widely!! #neuroskyence #Consciousness

Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Feb 23

[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...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Feb 23

[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...

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Feb 11

Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread!

Check it out!

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Dec 22

I will try to post the new articles published in Neuroscience of Consciousness here!

Let's start with a paper on grief, which challenges neuroscience's ability to investigate affective states.

**The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion**
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion

Abstract. This paper explores the limitations of neurobiological approaches to human emotional experience, focusing on the case of grief. We propose that g

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Jan 31

🗣️ 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...

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Feb 1

Okay these cannot be real 😂

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Feb 1

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

Beth Fisher @bethfisher.bsky.social · Jan 31

Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.

cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

An Active Inference Model of the Optimism Bias | Computational Psychiatry

Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...

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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · Jan 31

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

@monash-m3cs.bsky.social

Beth Fisher @bethfisher.bsky.social · Jan 31

Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social

We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.

cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....

An Active Inference Model of the Optimism Bias | Computational Psychiatry

Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Jan 31

It’s so cool! Also I think this data goes against many people’s intuition… it’s great to see this research

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Anikó Kusztor @anikokusztor.bsky.social · Jan 30

Ohh i have my fun fact tor the day! 😎

Eros Carvalho @filosofemas.bsky.social · Jan 28

As expected: "Despite ChatGPT reportedly outperforming 99.9% of humans in a Verbal IQ test, it falls short of passing the Turing Test. In 9 out of the 10 tests conducted, the interrogators successfully identified ChatGPT-4 and the human participant."

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

ChatGPT-4 in the Turing Test - Minds and Machines

There has been considerable optimistic speculation on how well ChatGPT-4 would perform in a Turing Test. However, no minimally serious implementation of the test has been reported to have been carried...

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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jan 29

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

Bodily Self-Dysfunction in Psychosis: Altered Neural and Spinal Response to Self-produced Sensations

Psychosis is often characterized by disturbances in the sense of self, with patients frequently misattributing self-produced sensations to external sources. While somatic hallucinations and mispercept...

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