Andrew (Andy) Dykstra
@adykstra.bsky.social
〰️🔊👂🧠 @ University of Central Florida | opinions mine
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Doctoral Program - UCF School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers professional education leading to a Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
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If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab.
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
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First paper is now out in Cortex! We find behavioral and neural evidence for non-conscious speech processing, using a new dual-task paradigm that creates repetitive occurrences of in attentional deafness without masking or degrading stimuli. @deouell.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
First paper is now out in Cortex! We find behavioral and neural evidence for non-conscious speech processing, using a new dual-task paradigm that creates repetitive occurrences of in attentional deafness without masking or degrading stimuli. @deouell.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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This is what Christmas Eve is all about.🎅🏻🎄🎁 #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is what Christmas Eve is all about.🎅🏻🎄🎁 #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas
I find tinsel distracting.
December 24, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I find tinsel distracting.
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1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
1/4 New preprint! We designed an open-source system for auditory brainstem response (ABR), a research & clinical auditory test. Costs $400 to build (vs $10K to buy a proprietary one) and works great! All open-source if you want to make one for your lab or classroom. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
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🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊
Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness?
And if so, where do we start?
I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on.
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Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness?
And if so, where do we start?
I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on.
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On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological computationalism
The rapid advances in the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have galvanised public and scientific debates over whether artificial systems m…
sciencedirect.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊
Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness?
And if so, where do we start?
I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on.
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Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness?
And if so, where do we start?
I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on.
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This is friggin’ cool.
New preprint!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions.
Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
As you are silently reading this, you may experience a little voice in your head. How is it represented in the brain, and what purpose does it serve? Our new study answers the questions.
Together with @adriendoerig.bsky.social and Radek Cichy.(1/8)
Auditory representations of words during silent visual reading
Silent visual reading is accompanied by the phenomenological experience of an inner voice. However, the temporal dynamics and functional role of the underlying neural representations remain unclear. H...
www.biorxiv.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is friggin’ cool.
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CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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If you're interested in hearing, speech, and voice, give our Center (Communication Technologies Research Center, or CTRC) @ctrcenter.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social a follow!
December 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If you're interested in hearing, speech, and voice, give our Center (Communication Technologies Research Center, or CTRC) @ctrcenter.bsky.social @ucf.bsky.social a follow!
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Let us know if you are interested!
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Let us know if you are interested!
I guess on account of Thanksgiving last week, Jimmy Cliff's passing just registered. 😥 In his honor:
youtu.be/cNTIluVz9Ls?...
youtu.be/cNTIluVz9Ls?...
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YouTube video by Jimmy Cliff - Topic
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December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I guess on account of Thanksgiving last week, Jimmy Cliff's passing just registered. 😥 In his honor:
youtu.be/cNTIluVz9Ls?...
youtu.be/cNTIluVz9Ls?...
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🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de!
Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster
Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
🔥 Open PhD position at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Systems Neuroscience @uni-muenster.de!
Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster
Join our team to investigate neural mechanisms of conscious and non-conscious processing of neutral and emotional stimuli using EEG, fMRI, or both simultaneously. tinyurl.com/phdmuenster
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This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is so true, and it highlights how annoying it is that outlets like the New York Times and The Atlantic obsessively fixate on the Ivies. Most U.S. students attend public universities, and those institutions change lives at a scale the Ivies can’t touch.
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Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.
Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 14, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Can confirm. I am okay and more motivated than ever to speak up.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
Nothing scares this administration more. Their power lies in our silence.
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I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
Brain-wide single-neuron bases of working memory for sounds in humans
In order to understand the constantly changing acoustic world our brains must maintain elements of auditory scenes in memory. The neural mechanisms for this fundamental process remain unclear. Here, w...
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I rarely come on here or any social media, but wanted to share our latest preprint of large-scale human single neuron recordings during an auditory working memory task: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
I'm very grateful to our patients, my co-authors and the funders. And to anyone who reads it :-) 🧠📈🧵👇(1/5)
To convince people you're not the same as the other guys, you have to be about something more than just winning the next election, which (ironically?) will help you win elections and (sarcasm loading) has the tangential benefit of actually improving the lives of those you serve.
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
To convince people you're not the same as the other guys, you have to be about something more than just winning the next election, which (ironically?) will help you win elections and (sarcasm loading) has the tangential benefit of actually improving the lives of those you serve.
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If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab.
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
Doctoral Program - UCF School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers professional education leading to a Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
tinyurl.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab.
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab.
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
Doctoral Program - UCF School of Communication Sciences and Disorders
The School of Communication Sciences and Disorders offers professional education leading to a Master of Arts in Communication Sciences and Disorders.
tinyurl.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
If you're interested in auditory neuroscience and doctoral work, reach out! I'm one of the mentors listed for CSD's (@ucf.bsky.social) new PhD program and would love to recruit a kind, curious, and enthusiastic new member of the conscious audition and scene analysis (CASA) lab.
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
tinyurl.com/m9www9rc
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What is it like for a U.S. citizen to be kidnapped by CBP? What are they like, how do they talk when they speed off with you in their car?
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Watch this. I mean it. Watch it
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
Need to feed your kids? Fine do that first. But the bathroom? Hold it. Watch this first
Jennifer Moriarty describes being thrown in a Border Patrol vehicle & spending hours driven around by, per Daniel Biss, the Keystone Kops danielbiss.substack.com/p/daniel-bis...
Daniel Biss talks with detained ICE protestor Jennifer Moriarty
In this recording from our live conversation, I spoke with Evanston resident Jennifer Moriarty, who was "grabbed by the neck" and then detained while peacefully protesting against ICE.
danielbiss.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
What is it like for a U.S. citizen to be kidnapped by CBP? What are they like, how do they talk when they speed off with you in their car?
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Hear it directly from this woman with extraordinary courage and presence of mind, who bravely shamed them and non-violently fought back until they released her.
Great write-up of an interesting article that traces its roots to "A modified concept of consciousness" (Sperry, 1969):
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
Is consciousness just a side effect? A new theory argues that consciousness controls the brain through top-down 'psychological laws' that influence neural activity. #neuroscience #consciousness
dailyneuron.com/consciousnes...
dailyneuron.com/consciousnes...
Does Consciousness Control the Brain? A New Theory Says Yes - Daily Neuron
Is consciousness just a side effect? A new theory argues that consciousness controls the brain through top-down 'psychological laws' that influence neural activity.
dailyneuron.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Great write-up of an interesting article that traces its roots to "A modified concept of consciousness" (Sperry, 1969):
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
The cruelty is the point.
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court for an emergency block on a judge’s order that it fully pay 42 million Americans' SNAP benefits for November.
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The cruelty is the point.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...
August 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...
Very cool auditory no-report fMRI study!
👂🧠NCC in an auditory no-report fMRI study 🧠👂
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social !
www.cell.com/current-biol...
Using inattentional deafness, we show that awareness of task-irrelevant sounds mainly activates stimulus-specific sensory brain areas.
Neural correlates of consciousness in an auditory no-report fMRI study
Dellert et al. use functional magnetic resonance imaging and inattentional deafness
to identify the neural basis of conscious auditory perception in humans. Their results
reveal a dominant role of sti...
www.cell.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Very cool auditory no-report fMRI study!