Octavio Ocampo (1992) “Equality”. The mirror reflection of the woman's face is perceived as a man's face.

A classic painting from the Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo.

Try rotating the image upside-down if you don't see anything strange at first.

My review on the "Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making" is now published. I think that this will be useful to both experts and newcomers to the field.

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

Each year, people speak 338 less words per day (on average). These effects accumulate. In 2019, people were speaking 28% less words each day than in 2005 (!).

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!!!! Last couple weeks before we run interviews for this! Please share around if you know people wanting to do multidisciplinary research at the intersection between interoception and addiction.

implicit workshop Thursday May 7th (preceded by socialising evening May 6th) No registration needed. Lunch and coffee provided. Venue: Meeting House, University of Sussex. The campus can be accessed via Falmer railway ...

Interested in implicit learning, implicit cognition, and non-conscious processes? Join us at the 12th Implicit Learning Seminar on May 7, 2026 at the University of Sussex, near Brighton. sites.google.com/view/implici...

My course on consciousness is now online: six 90´ lectures featuring both history and recent experimental results on ignition, P3b, working memory, neural manifolds… unpublished results too.
I speak in French (College de France oblige) but slides and subtitles are in English
tinyurl.com/cz9yb4z3

The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought Cognitive diversity, reflected in variations of language, perspective, and reasoning, is essential to creativity and collective intelligence. This diversity is rich and grounded in culture, history, and individual experience. Yet, as large language models (LLMs) become deeply embedded in people’s lives, they risk standardizing language and reasoning. We synthesize evidence across linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, and computer science to show how LLMs reflect and reinforce dominant styles while marginalizing alternative voices and reasoning strategies. We examine how their design and widespread use contribute to this effect by mirroring patterns in their training data and amplifying convergence as all people increasingly rely on the same models across contexts. Unchecked, this homogenization risks flattening the cognitive landscapes that drive collective intelligence and adaptability.

Online Now: The homogenizing effect of large language models on human expression and thought

The inflation of subjective awareness occurs regardless of what repetitions do to first-order grammaticality decisions.

By latching onto repetitions, conscious representations attempt to simplify more distributed regularities, which may remain largely non-conscious (consciousness seeks simplicity)

Out in PNAS:
Repetitions trigger illusory awareness in implicit statistical learning
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We find that the presence of repetitions in sequences that follow a hidden, complex regularity makes participants think they consciously figured out the real regularity... 1/n

Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Abstract. Although in recent years some studies have found evidence suggesting that working memory (WM) may operate on unconscious perceptual contents, dec

So happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making!
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

A celebration of open and collaborative science:
📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report

Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦