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Krzysztof Basiński

@kbas.bsky.social

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PI @ Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Medical University of Gdańsk, Poland. | I’m into sound. | Family guy. | Guitar player/electronic musician.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Excited to announce a new study from my time at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, now available on bioRxiv!

Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation

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#neuroscience
#neuroskyence

Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation

Harmonicity is an important feature for auditory perception as it influences pitch processing, memory and hearing in noisy environments. However, the neural substrates of processing harmonic and inhar...

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Fleur Zeldenrust @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social · 1d

No I don't!

I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · 8d

I’m driven nuts by the fact that what was once a user manual is now a series of YouTube shorts.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · 23d

Excited to be here in beautiful Maastricht for ICAC 2025! Come see Tomek Domżalski presenting preliminary results from his PhD tomorrow, poster #237. On Thursday, I’ll show fresh results from our study on inharmonicity effects on different auditory features, poster #333.

@icac2025.bsky.social

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · 25d

Try „Titipo the little train”. It’s a Korean cartoon about … little trains. Made two-year-old madness more bearable for both my kids.

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ai-assisted devaluation of written communication.

Timothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · Jul 16

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How Sneaky Researchers Are Using Hidden AI Prompts to Influence the Peer Review Process

Yes, I expose every word of their prompt injection technique

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jul 7

Also, make sure to check out posters by Aniela, Kornelia and Zosia (poster session 1, stands 25-26)!

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jul 7

Just hopped on a train to Kraków, heading for #IOP2025. I’m super excited to share new results from our lab at the “Psychophysiology of Predictions” symposium on Tuesday morning (co-chaired with Marcin Leszczyński).

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jun 30

My fav (by a different YouTuber) was “tamash marchooka”….

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jun 11

It’s like in Asch’s conformity experiments. Need just one dissident for group conformity to disappear.

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jun 11

I get that. But perhaps what you achieved with the IIT letter is that it encouraged ppl outside of the consciousness field to be more critical of consciousness theories in general. This might not be very apparent in the discourse but it’s still there.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jun 11

How about something more careful, like this? :) osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jun 11

There are indeed. Though this “preprint” is pure shitposting and probably doesn’t help the cause in the long run.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Jun 4

After reading this, how can people even consider using ChatGPT for anything remotely important?

Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jun 4

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.

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Diabolus Ex Machina

This Is Not An Essay

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · May 29

Love the skyline background. Fingers crossed!

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · May 19

Are you teasing something new wrt Diva or am I hallucinating things?

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · May 4

Cool, how do you do biometric sudo?

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · May 1

Wow, that’s super interesting, would love to learn more!

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Huh, interesting! I expect that perhaps people with PP would be more likely to segregate inharmonic sounds into multiple objects.

Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Super-grateful to my co-authors: Sánder, @dquiroga.bsky.social and Peter for all their hard work.

We’re now following up on this study in many different ways here in Gdańsk. Check out the Auditory Neuroscience Lab webpage for more details: anl.gumed.edu.pl

Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

This indicates that perhaps the brain tries to divide the inharmonic sound into multiple auditory objects.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Unexpectedly (and excitingly!), inharmonic sounds had significantly smaller P2 peaks than harmonic sounds - a response pattern known as object-related negativity, previously observed with auditory stream segregation.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

In contrast, MMN responses became undetectable when the jittering pattern changed between consecutive sounds. This suggests that prediction errors are weighted by sequential but not spectral uncertainty.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

In this study we used EEG to record MMN and P3a mismatch responses - markers of auditory prediction error. Inharmonic sounds with a constant jittering pattern generated similar MMN and stronger P3a responses than harmonic sounds.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Harmonicity is an important property for sound perception and it influences pitch processing, memory or hearing in noisy environments. However, it’s unclear how the brain processes harmonic and inharmonic sounds.

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Krzysztof Basiński @kbas.bsky.social · Apr 30

Many sounds that are important for humans are harmonic complex tones. These include speech, animal calls or sounds of musical instruments. Inharmonic sounds are often described as noises, crackles, pops etc.

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