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We study the neurobiology of language and its relationship to consciousness, mental health, and wellbeing using neuroimaging and psychedelics at UCL 🧠 🗣️ http://www.lab-lab.org/ UCL Centre for Consciousness Research https://www.uccr.uk/

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Oct 6

🗣️📶🟰🧠: Language regions are hubs that aren't fixed. They are spatiotemporally dynamic, connecting with 44% of peripheral brain regions at any moment. These are averaged and thresholded away, leaving 'the language network' ONLY in the aggregate over time: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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andrea e. martin @andreaeyleen.bsky.social · 9d

Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)

By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Aug 27

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

With @daniellametti.com and David Green

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speechpapers.bsky.social @speechpapers.bsky.social · Aug 24

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671634v1

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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · Aug 20

Preprint time:
“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
osf.io/preprints/ps...

On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!

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Oris Shenyan @orisshenyan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social

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

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age

Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flick…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · Jul 25

A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work.
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience

Redirecting

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️

direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...

☎️ DM me for more details.

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viktorkewenig.bsky.social @viktorkewenig.bsky.social · Jul 8

Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today

📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science
💶 They take time and money to collect
⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free!

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A multimodal transformer-based tool for automatic generation of concreteness ratings across languages - Communications Psychology

This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages.

www.nature.com

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Oris Shenyan @orisshenyan.bsky.social · Jun 4

The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age

Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flicker (Ganzflicker) and sensory deprivation (Ganzfeld...

www.biorxiv.org

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Jun 1

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 1

Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · May 12

Beautiful work from @joannakuc.bsky.social @rosmcalpine.bsky.social, @rhizoqualia.bsky.social, Amelia Sellers, & @daniellametti.com 👏🎉.

The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · May 12

1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️‍🩹.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Apr 21

Speech markers of psychedelic-induced psychological change https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649217v1

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 24

You feel closer to AI when it exhibits psychological traits similar to your own. 👏🥂

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · Mar 21

“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/lan...

#philsky #langsky #consky

Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 22

We've gone on holiday by mistake.

The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 22

I feel like a pig shat in my head!

The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 21

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 21

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 21

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 21

The world is made of language.

Terence McKenna

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 21

I also see the words fall, they come from up above, as if they were little luminous objects falling from the sky, the language falls on the sacred table, falls on my body, then with me hands, I catch word after word

Maria Sabina as quoted by Allyson Grey

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 21

Words are not ... facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world ... so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

J L Austin

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The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab.bsky.social · Mar 21

I am impressed by the inadequacy of language to express our conscious thought.

Alfred North Whitehead

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