Christof Koch speaking at the 15th Symposium of the BIAL foundation / www.fundacaobial.com/en-GB/sympos...

Frequency-tagging as a measure of conscious face perception Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) from frequency-tagging (FT) paradigms are widely used to investigate visual processing. Yet their assoc…

📢 Excited to share our new paper in Cortex!

"Frequency-tagging as a measure of conscious face perception" with @axc.bsky.social & Adélaïde de Heering

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

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

exactly 😃

An amazing opportunity - I am proposing a project dedicated to the thorny question of synthetic pleasure, but I am competing with stellar colleagues with equally fascinating topics!

I really enjoyed the #COSYNE2026 (comp neuro) meeting - amazing talks and fantastic poster sessions! 👏

Still surprised how little mention there was of either evolution or development, though. It's worth keeping in mind that things are the way they are because they got that way! 😉

check out the faculty supervising *funded fellowship projects*!

(yes, me included!)

you won't want to miss this opportunity folks. seriously, it will be fabulous.

📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce…

🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉

The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!

Home - ESCAN 2026 ESCAN 2026 is the 9th ESCAN Conference, the biennial meeting of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

🎉The XP team is so glad to present a symposium at #ESCAN2026 in Roma on the need to consider affect to understand the function of consciousness! Inès Mentec and Gabriel Brandolini will be joined by @ashenhav.bsky.social and Benedetto De Martino. 😁See you there!😁https://escan2026.eu/

Very happy to see this come out 😃

🤦‍♂️ #GenAI #Academia

✨What is the relationship between aesthetic preferences and consciousness?✨

We are so very excited to welcome Richard Prum to discuss this question with us in Brussels.
Do not miss this event!

📅 18 of March, 2026
🕒 16h-18h
📍 Brussels, ULB campus Solbosch, Solvay

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

« [AI systems] delegitimize knowledge, inhibit cognitive development, short-circuit decision making processes, and isolate humans by displacing or degrading human connection. »

A tree cut down and felled next to its fellow trees but this tree's rings have an oddity to them and the shape and texture and color it makes it look like a fish drawing

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

I laughed out loud when I saw

“AI use statement
The author used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 for research purposes and for editorial feedback after the drafting process.”

#neuroskyence

Yes I get your point and it’s an interesting one. It’s a credit assignment problem, and here either you take undue credit or you devaluate the product because it was co-created. Likewise the receiver will assign completely different meaning to something that they know AI wrote rather than you.

Why should I just write « I agree »? 😃 It is indeed OK to use the words of someone else, but then typically you would quote the person you are citing. Here, it would be very difficult (it seems to me) to say « As chatGPT wrote, … ». So you wouldn’t. But then we’re back where we started.

Precisely - responsibility rests with you. So would you rather take credit for something you did not write, or show how coldly utilararian you are by admitting you used AI to write something meant to be so deeply personal?

Consider this: You ask chatGPT to compose the eulogy for a deceased friend. After you speak at the funeral, someone tells you how moved she was. Do you reveal chatGPT wrote the speech? If you don’t, you are cheating. But if you do, the words lose their meaning and you are a fraud. What would you do?

outsourcing thinking itself is unquestionably a catastrophic way forward for humanity

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone.

And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

spotted in Brussels; not sure yet of the intent

real-life Necker cubes - can you see them?

1976/81; hard to find but looking forward to reading it. And that gorgeous cover! Anyone knows the font?

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 years in the making, great to see this important new study (actually many studies) now preprinted. 👏🏼👏🏼 @peterlush.bsky.social

Thank you for all the energy and passion you have invested in launching the Association - I am almost jealous that this will now benefit the council, but convinced that your presence there will help us all!