Picture of Megan Peters
We are excited that @meganakpeters.bsky.social is our next keynote speaker at the 7th Models of Consciousness Conference #MoC7!
She investigates the mechanisms behind metacognition and perceptual decision-making, shedding light on their links with conscious experience and AI consciousness.
Thank you to the amazing Karen Hao (@karenhao.bsky.social) for her words. In the digital age, reading a paper book is a quiet act of defiance. Support #books and #authors by pre-ordering #PROPHECY:
US: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...
UK: amzn.eu/d/09DFxL4Q
And huge thanks to everyone who has already pre-ordered it. You are making a big difference. It's great to see #PROPHECY gathering attention before publication! 🙏
🧠 New year, new preprint!
Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
Please join us tomorrow at UPF Poblenou, Barcelona, for the Valence Asymmetries seminar (12:00-13:30). Our own project member Morgan Moyer will give the talk "Affect is prominent in word meaning", based on joint work with Anouch Bourmayan, Brent Strickland, and myself.
There is also good work.
Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
#neuroscience
Effort research is booming & it’s tough to keep up with how it's defined and measured.
Huge kudos to @dhprlab.bsky.social PhD student @lukas-hack.bsky.social for leading our attempt to create an impartial overview & starter guide. Great effort (pun intended 😉)!
Interested? Check it out ⬇️
ABSTRACT. Recent years have seen little pushback on the pictorialist thesis that mental imagery occurs in an analogue or iconic format. This paper challenges the status quo in developing new arguments to show how the phenomena most commonly cited in pictorialism’s favour—namely, participant response times during ‘mental rotation’ and ‘mental scanning’ tasks, and the retinotopic organization of cortical areas underlying visual imagery—fail to provide positive evidence for the thesis that mental imagery is analogue or iconic in format. In addition, alternative explanations are provided for why we might see retinotopic activation in cortical areas underlying imagery, and why we would observe the relevant response times in rotation and scanning tasks, even if mental imagery did not occur in an analogue format.
Just accepted:
'The Imagery Debate Exhumed and Reanimated'
– Peter Langland-Hassan
Abstract in alt text or read the full paper here:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
#philsci #philsky
so Nous, PPR, and now Phil Imprint, aren't taking submissions. Nice.
keep us posted
The APSC affiliated conference "Creativity, Agency, and Value," which will take place at the University of Geneva 21-22 May 2025, will also be available remotely!
Info and program available here: www.creaphil.org/creativity-a...
if even eye movements are driven by effort minimization, then what's going on with conscious feelings of effort
Excited to have @susanamonso.com speaking at #Oxfordlitfest today oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
It's my honor to announce the 2025 winner of the Stanton Prize given out by the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (drum roll 🥁): Shannon Spaulding 🏆
Huge congratulations!! Make sure to see Shannon's prize lecture at the SPP conference at Cornell this June.
www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
I can’t get over the fact that after all the amazing things AI could have been, we got a bunch of sycophantic little machine shits that at any given moment are stealing from you, plagiarizing you, defaming you, manipulating you, lying to you, or turning you into nonconsensual porn
🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity?
Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states.
Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context
Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d
A thread 🧵👇 1/n
Love this (below); Here's a short piece to a similar tune from me, @alvanoe.bsky.social, & @evanthompson.bsky.social
(2024) ––
"LLMs Don't Know Anything"
philpapers.org/archive/GODL...
Today is a great day to ditch your Echo. #privacy #AIEthics #surveillance
Everyone clap for the crap artists
A pat on the back to whichever one sounds smartest
Capture the magic of blabberin' half-hearted
And the last rambling man standing laughs hardest
-Despot
the most disastrous team in the eastern conference is using LLMs
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📢 Lakatos Award Lecture! ✨
📅 This Friday @ 6PM (London time), our Scientific Director, Carl Hoefer, winner of the 2024 Lakatos Award, presents his acclaimed book:
📖 Chance in the World: A Humean Guide to Objective Chance
🔗 Info: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/e...
💻 Join Online: t.ly/2FztR
👇👇👇
TFW Led Zeppelin thinks you suck for appropriating others’ art.
Concluding 2024 with a thread on our most recent empirical manuscript.
"Natural forgetting reversibly modulates engram expression"
elifesciences.org/articles/92860
- by Postdoctoral Researcher Dr. James O'Leary at @tcddublin.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social
#engram #memory #forgetting
