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Ishan Singhal

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SCCS, University of Sussex| Cognitive science, time and consciousness

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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Apr 16

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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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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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 16d

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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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 7d

🐭 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.

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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.

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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · 8d

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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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · 8d

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Andrew Reid @reid-lab.org · 13d

This one looks intriguing. Arousal "embedding" whole-brain dynamics. 🤯

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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.

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 23d

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.

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PCDL @ OSU

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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · 23d

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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Aug 16

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · Aug 6

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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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · Aug 5

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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nbalamur.bsky.social @nbalamur.bsky.social · Jul 28

🧠⚽ 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
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Ishan Singhal @singhal.bsky.social · Jul 25

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