Brian Odegaard
@brianodegaard.bsky.social
UF Assistant Professor. Attention, Perception, Consciousness.
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It's worth having a look at our website, if you haven't, or haven't lately. There are a lot of remarkable things going on at UF philosophy these days.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:50 PM
It's worth having a look at our website, if you haven't, or haven't lately. There are a lot of remarkable things going on at UF philosophy these days.
phil.ufl.edu
phil.ufl.edu
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Our new paper is out in @natmed.nature.com 😱! A thread:
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
January 21, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Our new paper is out in @natmed.nature.com 😱! A thread:
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
Can our thoughts and feelings directly affect our physical well-being? Our pre-registered, double-blind RCT investigated this by testing if modulating the brain's reward system could enhance immune responses to vaccination.
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Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
January 20, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...
Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
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We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
Summer School - About — the MetaLab
metacoglab.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
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This Thursday at noon. Join us (over Zoom) for the MIT Consciousness Club.
George Mashour (University of Michigan Medical School) - "Consciousness and the Dying Brain"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
George Mashour (University of Michigan Medical School) - "Consciousness and the Dying Brain"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
This Thursday at noon. Join us (over Zoom) for the MIT Consciousness Club.
George Mashour (University of Michigan Medical School) - "Consciousness and the Dying Brain"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
George Mashour (University of Michigan Medical School) - "Consciousness and the Dying Brain"
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
#neuroscience
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House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now.
- $400M increase
- Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels.
- No line item for BRAIN Initiative
text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).
- $400M increase
- Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels.
- No line item for BRAIN Initiative
text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).
January 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM
House Appropriations minibus bill funding NIH is out now.
- $400M increase
- Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels.
- No line item for BRAIN Initiative
text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).
- $400M increase
- Multiyear funding of new awards capped at 2025 levels.
- No line item for BRAIN Initiative
text here: docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
Screenshots from Dem summary and Sec 240 (multiyear funding text).
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super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 AM
super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD
Matthias Michel, Consciousness doesn't do that - PhilPapers
The question of which mental functions require consciousness has recently come to the forefront because of its relevance for investigating animal consciousness. Finding out that an animal can perform ...
philpapers.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD
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If I want to release an NHP-ephys-behavior dataset alongside a paper that documents the dataset in some detail -- is there a best venue for that combo that yields a DOI? (assume our actual paper doing science with that same data is already out)
January 14, 2026 at 2:53 AM
If I want to release an NHP-ephys-behavior dataset alongside a paper that documents the dataset in some detail -- is there a best venue for that combo that yields a DOI? (assume our actual paper doing science with that same data is already out)
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New preprint: Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making. A review I was supposed to write 3 years ago for my VSS Young Investigator Award. Better late than never 😅 I tried to organize the literature and explore the likely mechanisms. Feedback welcome!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
New preprint: Confidence-accuracy dissociations in perceptual decision making. A review I was supposed to write 3 years ago for my VSS Young Investigator Award. Better late than never 😅 I tried to organize the literature and explore the likely mechanisms. Feedback welcome!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A nice summary of the recent paper by Freeman, Odegaard, Yoo, and Michel in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews:
news.mit.edu/2026/new-too...
news.mit.edu/2026/new-too...
This new tool could tell us how consciousness works
Transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive brain imaging tool, may help researchers gain knowledge about human consciousness.
news.mit.edu
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 PM
A nice summary of the recent paper by Freeman, Odegaard, Yoo, and Michel in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews:
news.mit.edu/2026/new-too...
news.mit.edu/2026/new-too...
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
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We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 6, 2026 at 7:04 PM
We recently published a theoretical review about how compositional and generative mechanisms in working memory provide a flexible engine for creative perception and imagery.
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pre-print:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
January 5, 2026 at 10:55 PM
somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.
lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply
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...and while I'm not supposed to advertise the book during my talk, I'm free to be a shameless self-promoter here. 😀 Buy my book for a full introductory #visionscience course built around observation! Available from booksellers everywhere (and such a deal!): www.amazon.com/Practical-Vi...
Practical Vision Science: Learning Through Experimentation
Amazon.com: Practical Vision Science: Learning Through Experimentation eBook : Balas, Benjamin: Kindle Store
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January 5, 2026 at 3:44 PM
...and while I'm not supposed to advertise the book during my talk, I'm free to be a shameless self-promoter here. 😀 Buy my book for a full introductory #visionscience course built around observation! Available from booksellers everywhere (and such a deal!): www.amazon.com/Practical-Vi...
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Anthropic has a great new piece on “Signs of introspection in large language models” 👉 www.anthropic.com/research/int...
🤔 Neat evidence that LLMs can report on manipulated activations, with big caveats!
🧠 But leaves open: what are the “internal states” an LLM can introspect in the first place?
🤔 Neat evidence that LLMs can report on manipulated activations, with big caveats!
🧠 But leaves open: what are the “internal states” an LLM can introspect in the first place?
Emergent introspective awareness in large language models
Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect
www.anthropic.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Anthropic has a great new piece on “Signs of introspection in large language models” 👉 www.anthropic.com/research/int...
🤔 Neat evidence that LLMs can report on manipulated activations, with big caveats!
🧠 But leaves open: what are the “internal states” an LLM can introspect in the first place?
🤔 Neat evidence that LLMs can report on manipulated activations, with big caveats!
🧠 But leaves open: what are the “internal states” an LLM can introspect in the first place?
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Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
Lindsay Lab - Postdoc Position
Artificial neural networks applied to psychology, neuroscience, and climate change
lindsay-lab.github.io
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Spread the word: I'm looking to hire a postdoc to explore the concept of attention (as studied in psych/neuro, not the transformer mechanism) in large Vision-Language Models. More details here: lindsay-lab.github.io/2025/12/08/p...
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
#MLSky #neurojobs #compneuro
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I've been trying to think through my misgivings about machine psychology. I think it's reasonable to argue that cognitive science should try to understand all cognitive systems, including machines. And it would be useful to know the biases of agents we are interacting with or delegating work to.
December 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I've been trying to think through my misgivings about machine psychology. I think it's reasonable to argue that cognitive science should try to understand all cognitive systems, including machines. And it would be useful to know the biases of agents we are interacting with or delegating work to.
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$600 million dollar bet by Astera Foundation to solve consciousness via reading and writing of neural activity led by Doris Tsao.
astera.org/neuroscienti...
astera.org/neuroscienti...
Neuroscientist Doris Tsao joins Astera to lead its new neuroscience program - Astera
The Astera Institute is excited to launch a major new neuroscience research effort led by Dr. Doris Tsao, who will be joining as Chief Scientist for Astera Neuro. We seek to understand one of the deep...
astera.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
$600 million dollar bet by Astera Foundation to solve consciousness via reading and writing of neural activity led by Doris Tsao.
astera.org/neuroscienti...
astera.org/neuroscienti...
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🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946
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December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946
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If we look back at old science papers, what percentage drew incorrect conclusions? I don't mean how many had data that turned out to be flawed, but how many used good data to claim something that later turned out to be Wrong? I suspect the percentage is quite high but it would be hard to check.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If we look back at old science papers, what percentage drew incorrect conclusions? I don't mean how many had data that turned out to be flawed, but how many used good data to claim something that later turned out to be Wrong? I suspect the percentage is quite high but it would be hard to check.
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New paper: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception. With Dan Freeman, @brianodegaard.bsky.social, and Seung-Schik Yoo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception
Identifying what aspects of brain activity are responsible for conscious perception remains one of the most challenging problems in science. While pro…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New paper: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception. With Dan Freeman, @brianodegaard.bsky.social, and Seung-Schik Yoo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.
November 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Delighted to share our new Perspective article @natrevneuro.nature.com, led by the great @edoardochidichimo.bsky.social : "Towards an informational account of interpersonal coordination". With @loopyluppi.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, @introspection.bsky.social, Victoria Leong and Richard Bethlehem.