New paper! From a collaboration of neuroscientists and philosophers trying to really understand what it takes to show that the brain *represents* something, and offering a formal framework to do so 🧠

Congrats @stephanpohl.bsky.social and the whole team!

The idea of subjective inflation has motivated higher-order theories of consciousness. This study is one part of an "adversarial collaboration" to adjudicate between first-order and higher-order theories of consciousness funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social

Led by @kantian.bsky.social, Brian Maniscalco, and @meganakpeters.bsky.social in collaboration with a large team of scientists and philosophers, including @neddo.bsky.social, @davidchalmers.bsky.social, @biyuhe.bsky.social, Jan Brascamp, @hakwan.bsky.social, @onemorebrown.bsky.social, Victor Lamme

Excited to share our new preprint! A massive (~400k trials) multi-site effort to test "subjective inflation," the influential but under-tested idea that subjective experience in the unattended periphery can be inflated beyond what objective performance would suggest
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A dynamic spatiotemporal normalization model captures perceptual and neural effects of spatial and temporal context The effects of spatial and temporal context on sensory systems have mostly been studied independently of each other. This study shows that the modulation of visual perception and neural activity by th...

Happy to share this new paper from the lab led by Angus Chapman, now out in PLoS Biology! It presents an integrated spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision. @afchapman.bsky.social

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My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more

1/2 present to you: Temporality and the Brain: The Long and Winding Emergence of Time in Cognitive Neuroscience". Link to the pub below

If you saw me introduce my work to a broad audience you might have heard me talking about a ruling spatial perspective in cog neuro.

Excited to share this new preprint from the lab introducing a highly general spatiotemporal normalization modeling framework that handles continuous dynamic visual input. Beautiful work by Angus Chapman @afchapman.bsky.social Science continues!!