Can You Be Traumatized by Something You Don’t Remember? Judith Carlisle (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

In traumatic memory, many people remember the event which led to the trauma. But is the memory necessary for their trauma, and if so why? Today at The Memory Palace, Judith Carlisle (Tennessee) explores the many connections between memory and trauma.
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The Self-Evidencing Agent What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...

"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social

Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option.

I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements.

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Awesome news!!

Gabriel Siegel, The Perceptual Sense of Agency - PhilPapers The sense of agency is the experience of predicting, initiating, or controlling actions. In this paper, I provide a novel account of the sense of agency that appears in perceptual consciousness. ...

New paper forthcoming in Review of Philosophy and Psychology. I defend a novel account of the sense of agency in perceptual experience. I argue that the perceptual sense of agency should be modeled as an intentional mode, rather than as represented contents.

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Transfer of statistical regularity in visual search - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics People are able to take advantage of statistical regularities in scenes, using those regularities to bias their attention to the likely locations of items of interest. People also seem able to learn o...

New psych paper out in APP with Richard Abrams. We show that object-centered statistical regularities transfer to new spatial locations even in the absence of any explicit object and hence may not be truly object centered.

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