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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · Jul 2

My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social ‬is now out in Science Advances!

We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime

doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children

The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.

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François Stockart @francoisstock.bsky.social · 8d

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

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Pietro Amerio @pietroamerio.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely incredible work led by @patxelos.bsky.social and @dsotob.bsky.social - such a compelling case of unconscious perception! Privileged to have been a little part of this 🧠

Patxi Elosegi @patxelos.bsky.social · 10d

1/Preprint Alert🔔: Across two experiments plus a computational model, we show the visual system compresses complex scenes into summary statistics that can guide behavior without conscious access to the task-defining features. We term this the Ensemble Blindsight effect.

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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · 9d

Great work by the unstoppable @patxelos.bsky.social

@meganakpeters.bsky.social
@hakwan.bsky.social
@smfleming.bsky.social
@liadmudrik.bsky.social
@theassc.bsky.social

Patxi Elosegi @patxelos.bsky.social · 10d

1/Preprint Alert🔔: Across two experiments plus a computational model, we show the visual system compresses complex scenes into summary statistics that can guide behavior without conscious access to the task-defining features. We term this the Ensemble Blindsight effect.

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Patxi Elosegi @patxelos.bsky.social · 10d

1/Preprint Alert🔔: Across two experiments plus a computational model, we show the visual system compresses complex scenes into summary statistics that can guide behavior without conscious access to the task-defining features. We term this the Ensemble Blindsight effect.

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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · 13d

BBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!

Maor Schreiber @maorschreiber.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS.
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏

Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus

www.cambridge.org

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 25d

Unconscious perception of ensembles, assessed with a bias-discouraging 2IFC task: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Great work by @patxelos.bsky.social, @dsotob.bsky.social et al.!

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Heejung Jung @jungheejung.bsky.social · Sep 4

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Sep 4

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain. Intriguing new preprint by Roy & Naselaris et al for anyone interested in mental imagery!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain

Extensive work has shown that the visual cortex is reactivated during mental imagery, and that models trained on visual data can predict imagery activity and decode imagined stimuli. These findings ma...

www.biorxiv.org

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Sep 1

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · Aug 31

Invariant inter-subject relational structures in high order human visual cortex

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

Invariant inter-subject relational structures in high order human visual cortex - Nature Communications

The neuronal coding principles that underlie inter-individual perceptual similarities remains unclear. Here, the authors compared the stability of relational similarity versus activation patterns acro...

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · Aug 29

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..."

Nishida lab

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Inattentional noise leads to subjective color uniformity across the visual field

Humans perceive a vividly colored world coherently across the visual field, even though our peripheral vision has limited color sensitivity compared t…

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

MIT Consciousness Club

The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · Aug 19

On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!

In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ

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Elisabetta Versace @elisabettaversace.bsky.social · Aug 6

Representational drift gates critical-period plasticity in mouse visual cortex www.cell.com/current-biol...

Representational drift gates critical-period plasticity in mouse visual cortex

Brown and McGee employ in vivo calcium imaging to measure representational drift during and after visual circuit maturation. The instability of neuronal tuning is greater during the developmental crit...

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Aug 3

This paper is making the rounds: arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734

A tiny (27M) brain-inspired model trained just on 1000 samples outperforming o3-mini-high on reasoning tasks.

#MLSky 🧠🤖

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Maor Schreiber @maorschreiber.bsky.social · Jul 29

I want to thank @francoisstock.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, and @nfaivre.bsky.social for leading this project with me!🙏
As well as all of the amazing co-authors: @pietroamerio.bsky.social, David Carmel, @axc.bsky.social, Leon Deouell, Zoltan Dienes, Patxi Elosegi,
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Rebecca Boehme @rebeccaboehme.bsky.social · Jul 25

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis

including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀

#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
@paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social
rdcu.be/exN0e

Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

Molecular Psychiatry - Altered processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis at cortical and spinal levels

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Yingtian (David) Tang @davidtyt.bsky.social · Jul 30

🧠 NEW PREPRINT
Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective

How the human brain supports diverse behaviours has been debated for decades. The canonical view divides visual processing into distinct "what" and "where/how" streams – however, their origin and inde...

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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is now out

"Domain Adaptation-enhanced searchlight: enabling classification of brain states from visual perception to mental imagery"
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Domain Adaptation-enhanced searchlight: enabling classification of brain states from visual perception to mental imagery - Brain Informatics

In cognitive neuroscience and brain-computer interface research, accurately predicting imagined stimuli is crucial. This study investigates the effectiveness of Domain Adaptation (DA) in enhancing ima...

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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT

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Nirmitee Mulay @nirmiteem.bsky.social · Jul 4

Heading to my very first ASSC! Quite excited to present my work, supervised by @dsotob.bsky.social on unconscious working memory in the concurrent session at Studio Theatre on Wednesday at 15:30! Please come drop by! : ) @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28

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Kobe Desender @kobedesender.bsky.social · Jun 26

Performance feedback counterintuitively _increases_ overconfidence in young children. Great Collab @dsotob.bsky.social

David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · Jun 25

Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/

Performance feedback triggers liberal detection and perceptual confidence biases in early childhood: Implications for metacognitive training - PubMed

Metacognition allows us to monitor our own mental processes and the quality of our decisions in order to promote adaptive behavior and learning across different domains. Despite its potential, the rol...

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Michał Klincewicz @michalk.bsky.social · Jun 25

Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social

Adversarial collaborations: all theories must be subject to critical evaluation | Nature

Letter to the Editor

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David Soto @dsotob.bsky.social · Jun 25

Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/

Performance feedback triggers liberal detection and perceptual confidence biases in early childhood: Implications for metacognitive training - PubMed

Metacognition allows us to monitor our own mental processes and the quality of our decisions in order to promote adaptive behavior and learning across different domains. Despite its potential, the rol...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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