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La Science, CQFD @sciencecqfd.bsky.social · 18h

Et demain, on consacrera notre émission aux conséquences potentiellement délétères des IA sur la santé mentale 🤖
Ce sera à 16h sur @franceculture.fr ! #ScienceCQFD

a close up of a red circle with a white center

Alt: La lumière rouge de l'I.A HAL 9000 dans le film "2001, l'Odyssée de l'espace"

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 1d

🌐 Read the full report: ohchr.org/en/documents...

🌐 Our submission: ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

UN Human Rights Office

Children urge world leaders to enshrine free early childhood and secondary education in lawRead the story

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 1d

🌐 Our submission "Reclaiming #Creativity: Cultural Rights, #AI, and the Future of Human Expression", with Antoine Bellemare, Suzanne Kite, @karimjerbi.bsky.social, has been positively received by the #UN Human Rights Office and cited their report for the UN General Assembly!

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SINe Lab @sinelabdtu.bsky.social · 4d

🫁❤️New preprint out: The social, decoupled self

We show effects of interpersonal synchronization of physiological rhythms on intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling: when we sync our breathing, our breathing–heart rhythms decouple, with a perturbed phase-relationship
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The social, decoupled self: interpersonal synchronization of breathing alters intrapersonal cardiorespiratory coupling

People synchronize their periodic behavioural and physiological rhythms with each other during social interaction. While this interpersonal synchronization has largely been associated with positive ef...

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, Anil! 🙏

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Ivana 🫶!

Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Megan :)!

Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · 9d

Honored to be awarded the FRQ–IVADO Research Chair in "Social Neuro-AI & Inter-Personalized Psychiatry"!

Grateful to my team & colleagues at @cra-chusj.bsky.social & @mila-quebec.bsky.social, and my family for their support 🙏

Excited to keep bridging social neuroscience, AI & precision psychiatry🚀

IVADO @ivado.bsky.social · 9d

🔷 IVADO announces 6 new #AI #research chairs with the support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Awarded to professors from our 5 partner universities, they reflect the excellence and diversity of AI research in Québec.

👉 ivado.ca/en/2025/09/2...

@fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social #R3AI

IVADO announces the creation of six new research chairs in artificial intelligence with the support of the Fonds de recherche du Québec | IVADO

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The Viking (Gunnar Blohm) @gunnarblohm.bsky.social · Aug 26

Having fun facilitating this amazing group of young Profs at the #Neuro4Pros workshop with @kordinglab.bsky.social and @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @yaelniv.bsky.social, and Hannah Bayer.

Watch out world: this is the next generation of leaders!

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Aug 15

🗺️ Pathfinding: a neurodynamical account of intuition

📔 We #review the neuroscience of #intuition, and present it as a predictive embodied process, emergent from hippocampal replay & brain metastability

🤝 with S. Kotler, M. Mannino, K. Friston, G. Buzsáki & J.A.S Kelso

🔗 nature.com/articles/s42...

Pathfinding: a neurodynamical account of intuition - Communications Biology

This Perspective article proposes a neurodynamical model of intuition as a fast, embodied pathfinding mechanism shaped by evolution. Drawing on the free-energy principle and metastability, it explores...

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Aug 8

🫶 Potentially of interest for @evanthompson.bsky.social @mjdramstead.bsky.social @antoinelutz.bsky.social @leoschilbach.bsky.social @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @annaciaunica.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social @ryssamoffat.bsky.social #PleaseRT🙏

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Aug 8

We offer concrete steps to pursue Francisco Varela’s vision at the social level:
🫂 Capturing shared lived experience
🌀 Bridging phenomenology with social neuroscience
🧠 Informing mental health & neurodiversity research

📝 Check our #preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... (3/3)

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Aug 8

📌 We lay the groundwork for a generative neurophenomenology:
→ integrating first-person experiential data (e.g. micro-phenomenology) at dyadic level
→ with third-person data at the interpersonal, physiological level
→ formalized with modern computational frameworks (2/3)

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Aug 8

🤔 How can we study #consciousness between people, at the social level? 🧠✨ New #preprint co-led by Anne Monnier & Lena Adel: “Now is the Time: Operationalizing Generative Neurophenomenology through Interpersonal Methods” 🧵(1/3)

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jul 22

🧠🤖 De + en + de gens parlent à ChatGPT pour du soutien psychologique. Mais peut-on confier sa santé mentale à un chatbot ?
📺 Petit témoignage dans ce reportage TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=etrv... #SantéMentale #ChatGPT #IA #Psychologie

Santé mentale et IA : parler à un robot plutôt qu’un psychologue

YouTube video by Radio-Canada Info

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jul 21

📚 Le livre “Le hasard: Littérature, arts, sciences, philosophie” est en #OpenAccess ➡️ books.openedition.org/editionscnrs...

📖 Vous pouvez lire notre Chapitre 5 sur “Créativité et contingence. Susciter le hasard à travers les arts”

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La Science, CQFD @sciencecqfd.bsky.social · Jul 17

[RDV 16h !] L’activité des cerveaux peut se synchroniser lors d’une interaction. Les mécanismes sous-jacents restent méconnus. Comment la technique de l’hyperscanning permet-elle d’étudier cette synchronie ? Comment l'interpréter ? avec Guillaume Dumas et François-Xavier Alario

Synchronisation des cerveaux : branchés sur la même fréquence : épisode 4/4 du podcast Cerveau : les dessous de la mécanique

L’activité des cerveaux d’individus peut se synchroniser lors d’une interaction, comme le toucher affectif chez un couple. Les mécanismes sous-jacents à ce phénomène restent encore méconnus. Comment la technique de l’hyperscanning permet-elle d’étudier cette synchronie ? Comment l'interpréter ?

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jul 14

♥️🔄♥️ Interpersonal Cardiac Synchrony During Emotional Sharing Between Strangers

🔎 Even brief emotional exchanges can align heart rhythms between strangers

📄 A new preprint led by the outstanding Lena Adel & Viktoriya Manova osf.io/preprints/ps...

#Social #Embodiment #AffectiveScience #Physiology

OSF

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jul 14

Proud of Pascal Notsawo, presenting at #ICML2025 about our research on #Grokking. He demonstrated how this phase transition to generalization depends on training objectives and regularization, and how standard metrics may overlook the key dynamics.

📄 arxiv.org/abs/2506.05718
📍 Poster W-811, July 16

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jul 3

This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning

Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature

Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧠💬 New #review on #hyperscanning & therapeutic alliance! After >15 years of developing this tech, I'm glad to see how brain-to-brain sync may explain some mechanisms of psychotherapy, but we're just getting started. Future: more data, multimodal & groups www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A systematic review of hyperscanning in clinical encounters

Therapeutic alliance is defined as the collaborative relationship between patient and therapist. Strong therapeutic alliances have been associated wit…

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jun 4

This is a follow-up of our previous work about the « jingle-jangle fallacy » of empathy: Delineating affective, cognitive and motor components of empathy from behavioral synchrony using a virtual agent www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The « jingle-jangle fallacy » of empathy: Delineating affective, cognitive and motor components of empathy from behavioral synchrony using a virtual agent

Empathy is a multidimensional construct, which has been subject to many conceptualizations (affective, cognitive, and motor components). The present i…

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Jun 4

Not all #empathy is the same. In this new study led by the brilliant Julia Ayache, we unpack how psychopathic, autistic, and alexithymic traits relate differently to affective, cognitive, and motor empathy—using self-reports and a Social #NeuroAI agent 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A “fine-cuts” approach disentangling psychopathic, autistic and alexithymic traits in their associations with affective, cognitive and motor empathy

Atypical empathy is seen in relation to psychopathy and autistic traits; however, studies typically conflate affective and cognitive facets of empathy…

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · May 19

🎙️J’ai eu le plaisir de passer au What’s Up #podcast pour parler d'#IA : de la conscience artificielle aux applications concrètes en #Médecine. Une belle discussion dans une ambiance décontractée et bien québécoise ⚜️ Bonne écoute!👂📻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcyN...

Dr.Guillaume Dumas / Innover en santé grâce à l'A.I. / Whats Up Podcast 402

YouTube video by Jerr Allain

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Apr 30

📝New preprint! ⚡️Kudos to @quentinmoreau.bsky.social & @vchamberland.bsky.social for co-leading this work combining elegantly neuromodulation and social interaction with an artificial agent in real-time! Excited about our @PPSP_team starting to release empirical works in #Social #NeuroAI 🧠~🤖

vchamberland.bsky.social @vchamberland.bsky.social · Apr 30

Our latest work at @ppsp_team is now available on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

⚡🧠~🤖 We tested whether online non-invasive brain stimulation could modulate real-time human~machine social interactions.

📄 Read the preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Online HD-tRNS over the right temporoparietal junction modulates social inference but not motor coordination

Social interactions are fundamental to human cognition, with the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) playing a key role in integrating motor coordination and social inference. Transcranial random no...

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