Anikó Kusztor
@anikokusztor.bsky.social
Research fellow at Monash University, Australia; interested in consciousness & open science
Website: https://www.aniko-kusztor.hu
Website: https://www.aniko-kusztor.hu
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Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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New #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n]
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Intrinsic Universal Structures and Extrinsic Local Functions
PDF | Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks, structuralist vs. functionalist, universal vs. local,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
www.researchgate.net
September 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
New #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n]
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Thank you so much for having me!! I always have a blast chatting with @bethfisher.bsky.social and this time was no different! 💕 Also I loved your reflections in the end and how both of you have change your mind perhaps a bit through sharing your experiences with each other. So cool and precious!
New episode!! Dr. Anikó Kusztor joins us this week to discuss the results of dissociation, and how they vary from person to person. Link in 🧵
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Thank you so much for having me!! I always have a blast chatting with @bethfisher.bsky.social and this time was no different! 💕 Also I loved your reflections in the end and how both of you have change your mind perhaps a bit through sharing your experiences with each other. So cool and precious!
We had a really cool chat about the Olo color and its implications for consciousness research. If you’re after an excellent summary of this paper, look no further! Angus did an excellent job 😎
A new installment of our (never ending) journal club on YouTube! youtu.be/z_xmNALhbUs?...
NEJC#04 Journal Club on Fong et al. 2025 Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors..
YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure
youtu.be
May 29, 2025 at 3:29 AM
We had a really cool chat about the Olo color and its implications for consciousness research. If you’re after an excellent summary of this paper, look no further! Angus did an excellent job 😎
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Very happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris).
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
Evidence for domain-general arousal from semantic and neuroimaging meta-analyses reconciles opposing views on arousal | PNAS
Arousal refers to changes in brain-body state underpinning motivated behavior but
lacks a proper definition and taxonomy. Neuroscience and psycholo...
doi.org
February 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Very happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris).
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
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Age-related differences in 1/f aperiodic EEG/MEG signals can be driven by cardiac rather than brain activity 👇
#interoception 🧠🫀 #neuroskyence
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
#interoception 🧠🫀 #neuroskyence
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Age-related changes in “cortical” 1/f dynamics are linked to cardiac activity
elifesciences.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Age-related differences in 1/f aperiodic EEG/MEG signals can be driven by cardiac rather than brain activity 👇
#interoception 🧠🫀 #neuroskyence
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
#interoception 🧠🫀 #neuroskyence
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Launching our new "Never Ending" Journal Club series from T-lab! In our debut episode, we dive into the fascinating psychological geometries of musical pitch explored in Marjieh, Griffiths & Jacobi (2023).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9-...
NEJC#01 Journal Club on Marjieh et al. 2023 “Musical pitch has multiple psychological geometries”
YouTube video by Neural basis of Consciousness & Qualia Structure
www.youtube.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Launching our new "Never Ending" Journal Club series from T-lab! In our debut episode, we dive into the fascinating psychological geometries of musical pitch explored in Marjieh, Griffiths & Jacobi (2023).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9-...
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New preprint! 🗞️
Lucy Whitmore and I discuss the many potential challenges in using the brain age prediction framework in children and adolescents, and make recommendations for future directions.
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Lucy Whitmore and I discuss the many potential challenges in using the brain age prediction framework in children and adolescents, and make recommendations for future directions.
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
March 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
New preprint! 🗞️
Lucy Whitmore and I discuss the many potential challenges in using the brain age prediction framework in children and adolescents, and make recommendations for future directions.
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Lucy Whitmore and I discuss the many potential challenges in using the brain age prediction framework in children and adolescents, and make recommendations for future directions.
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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The latest paper from the Qualia Structure is published in PNAS!
Do you think children have similar color qualia as adults? Please see our paper to find it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Do you think children have similar color qualia as adults? Please see our paper to find it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Comparing color qualia structures through a similarity task in young children versus adults | PNAS
Examination of the subjective qualitative aspects of an experience, or “qualia” in
short, is a fundamental and core aspect of consciousness researc...
www.pnas.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The latest paper from the Qualia Structure is published in PNAS!
Do you think children have similar color qualia as adults? Please see our paper to find it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Do you think children have similar color qualia as adults? Please see our paper to find it out!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Last year IIT was branded as pseudoscience. Not with arguments or evidence, but with a now infamous letter.
I believe that IIT is an important research program, but everyone can judge by themselves:
Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? By Tononi et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I believe that IIT is an important research program, but everyone can judge by themselves:
Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? By Tononi et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms - Nature Neuroscience
Integrated information theory (IIT) starts from consciousness, which is subjective, and accounts for its presence and quality in objective, testable terms. Attempts to label as ‘pseudoscientific’ a th...
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Last year IIT was branded as pseudoscience. Not with arguments or evidence, but with a now infamous letter.
I believe that IIT is an important research program, but everyone can judge by themselves:
Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? By Tononi et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I believe that IIT is an important research program, but everyone can judge by themselves:
Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? By Tononi et al.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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⚠️🚨New @qualiastructure.bsky.social publication, by @gen21ka.bsky.social @arielzj.bsky.social @takeda @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and @oizumi!
I think that the intuition to apply GWOT to Qualia will have significant and impactful consequences!
Please share and follow the authors!
I think that the intuition to apply GWOT to Qualia will have significant and impactful consequences!
Please share and follow the authors!
Highly recommend: Is my “red” your “red”?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Is my “red” your “red”?: Evaluating structural correspondences between color similarity judgments using unsupervised alignment
Psychology
www.cell.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
⚠️🚨New @qualiastructure.bsky.social publication, by @gen21ka.bsky.social @arielzj.bsky.social @takeda @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and @oizumi!
I think that the intuition to apply GWOT to Qualia will have significant and impactful consequences!
Please share and follow the authors!
I think that the intuition to apply GWOT to Qualia will have significant and impactful consequences!
Please share and follow the authors!
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Check out @shawnprest.bsky.social’s new preprint on Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go.
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
New preprint: Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go! 🧘
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
Model shows how the phenomenology of defabrication naturally emerges from the dynamics of hierarchical active inference.
I take a computational phenomenology approach, with a model that is in-silico and formalised.🧵
March 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Check out @shawnprest.bsky.social’s new preprint on Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go.
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
Check this out and share it widely!! #neuroskyence #Consciousness
[Trailer]
Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU...
produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU...
produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
February 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Check this out and share it widely!! #neuroskyence #Consciousness
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[Trailer]
Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU...
produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU...
produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
February 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
[Trailer]
Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU...
produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU...
produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
Reposted by Anikó Kusztor
Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread!
Check it out!
🧠🧪
Check it out!
🧠🧪
I will try to post the new articles published in Neuroscience of Consciousness here!
Let's start with a paper on grief, which challenges neuroscience's ability to investigate affective states.
**The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion**
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Let's start with a paper on grief, which challenges neuroscience's ability to investigate affective states.
**The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion**
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion
Abstract. This paper explores the limitations of neurobiological approaches to human emotional experience, focusing on the case of grief. We propose that g
academic.oup.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread!
Check it out!
🧠🧪
Check it out!
🧠🧪
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🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠
In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠
In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Really amazing work from the wonderful @bethfisher.bsky.social et al !!
Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.
cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.
cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
An Active Inference Model of the Optimism Bias | Computational Psychiatry
Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...
cpsyjournal.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Really amazing work from the wonderful @bethfisher.bsky.social et al !!
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Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias!
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social
We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.
cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action.
cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
An Active Inference Model of the Optimism Bias | Computational Psychiatry
Computational Psychiatry publishes original research articles and reviews that involve the application, analysis, or invention of theoretical, computational and statistical approaches to mental functi...
cpsyjournal.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Check out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias!
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
@monash-m3cs.bsky.social
Ohh i have my fun fact tor the day! 😎
As expected: "Despite ChatGPT reportedly outperforming 99.9% of humans in a Verbal IQ test, it falls short of passing the Turing Test. In 9 out of the 10 tests conducted, the interrogators successfully identified ChatGPT-4 and the human participant."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
ChatGPT-4 in the Turing Test - Minds and Machines
There has been considerable optimistic speculation on how well ChatGPT-4 would perform in a Turing Test. However, no minimally serious implementation of the test has been reported to have been carried...
link.springer.com
January 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ohh i have my fun fact tor the day! 😎
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New preprint! ⬇️🤩
We find a reduced self-other distinction in psychosis 😶🌫️, including increased neural activity during self-touch 🧠, reduced latency differences already at the *spinal cord* level 😲, and diminished interoceptive accuracy 🫀.
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
We find a reduced self-other distinction in psychosis 😶🌫️, including increased neural activity during self-touch 🧠, reduced latency differences already at the *spinal cord* level 😲, and diminished interoceptive accuracy 🫀.
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
Bodily Self-Dysfunction in Psychosis: Altered Neural and Spinal Response to Self-produced Sensations
Psychosis is often characterized by disturbances in the sense of self, with patients frequently misattributing self-produced sensations to external sources. While somatic hallucinations and mispercept...
www.medrxiv.org
January 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
New preprint! ⬇️🤩
We find a reduced self-other distinction in psychosis 😶🌫️, including increased neural activity during self-touch 🧠, reduced latency differences already at the *spinal cord* level 😲, and diminished interoceptive accuracy 🫀.
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
We find a reduced self-other distinction in psychosis 😶🌫️, including increased neural activity during self-touch 🧠, reduced latency differences already at the *spinal cord* level 😲, and diminished interoceptive accuracy 🫀.
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
It’s so great to see Ariel giving this talk at the Royal Institution! He’s put so much thought and effort into writing his book and now it’s getting out there. Incredibly cool stuff
'Could Science Abolish Death?'
My book condensed into a 50 min lecture at @ri-science.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKD...
My book condensed into a 50 min lecture at @ri-science.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKD...
Could science abolish death? - with Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston
YouTube video by The Royal Institution
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It’s so great to see Ariel giving this talk at the Royal Institution! He’s put so much thought and effort into writing his book and now it’s getting out there. Incredibly cool stuff
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Full PhD scholarship + stipend (for an Australian or international student) to join our group and study the nonlinear dynamics of sleep (or related topics in time-series analysis of complex dynamical systems).
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
ARC Postgraduate Research Scholarship
A $40,109 per annum stipend scholarship for research students within the Faculty of Science.
www.sydney.edu.au
January 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Full PhD scholarship + stipend (for an Australian or international student) to join our group and study the nonlinear dynamics of sleep (or related topics in time-series analysis of complex dynamical systems).
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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I understand there’s been a surge in Russian bot activity on Bluesky. A telltale sign of Russian bots is that they ignore the punchline of joke posts and write an earnest response to the joke setup. Please block anyone you see doing this on sight
January 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I understand there’s been a surge in Russian bot activity on Bluesky. A telltale sign of Russian bots is that they ignore the punchline of joke posts and write an earnest response to the joke setup. Please block anyone you see doing this on sight
Reposted by Anikó Kusztor
It really was a pleasure to work with Will on this.
Fascinating stuff, and I can only hope it keeps developing! So many more questions yet to be answered, and the ones we touched on here can surely be improved further. Can't wait to see where it leads 😊
Happy new year!
Fascinating stuff, and I can only hope it keeps developing! So many more questions yet to be answered, and the ones we touched on here can surely be improved further. Can't wait to see where it leads 😊
Happy new year!
New preprint out with @algarwegian.bsky.social and Giulio Tononi arxiv.org/abs/2412.21111
Some questions we address 👇 🧵
@joannaszczotka.bsky.social @renzocom.bsky.social @ksks.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social @davidchalmers.bsky.social @romainbrette.bsky.social
Some questions we address 👇 🧵
@joannaszczotka.bsky.social @renzocom.bsky.social @ksks.bsky.social @anilseth.bsky.social @davidchalmers.bsky.social @romainbrette.bsky.social
Intrinsic meaning, perception, and matching
Integrated information theory (IIT) argues that the substrate of consciousness is a maximally irreducible complex of units. Together, subsets of the complex specify a cause-effect structure, composed ...
arxiv.org
January 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It really was a pleasure to work with Will on this.
Fascinating stuff, and I can only hope it keeps developing! So many more questions yet to be answered, and the ones we touched on here can surely be improved further. Can't wait to see where it leads 😊
Happy new year!
Fascinating stuff, and I can only hope it keeps developing! So many more questions yet to be answered, and the ones we touched on here can surely be improved further. Can't wait to see where it leads 😊
Happy new year!
Research on infraslow oscillations during NREM sleep is definitely a hot topic ! 🔥 New paper making the link between norepinephrine oscillations and glymphatic clearance 🧠🚿
@cellcellpress.bsky.social @nataliehauglund.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
@cellcellpress.bsky.social @nataliehauglund.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
Norepinephrine-mediated slow vasomotion drives glymphatic clearance during sleep
Norepinephrine oscillations during NREM sleep drive synchronized changes in cerebral blood volume and cerebrospinal fluid, promoting glymphatic clearance. Optogenetic and pharmacological manipulations confirm that vasomotion, regulated by norepinephrine, acts as a pump for brain fluid transport.
www.cell.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:47 AM