Cody Cushing
@codycush.bsky.social
cognitive neuroscience of consciousness/mental health
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Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
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November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
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More evidence of continuous flash suppression / binocular rivalry under anesthesia (in mice): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Continuous Flash Suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects
We investigated whether binocularly conflicting stimuli adapted from primate binocular rivalry studies could induce binocular response suppression in mouse visual cortex. We presented binocularly conf...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More evidence of continuous flash suppression / binocular rivalry under anesthesia (in mice): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our work showing human-like individual differences in perceptual decisions emerge from random weight initializations in deep neural networks has been accepted in two NeurIPS workshops! 🎉 Awesome job by my student @herrickfung.bsky.social in collaboration with the amazing @apurvaratan.bsky.social.
September 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our work showing human-like individual differences in perceptual decisions emerge from random weight initializations in deep neural networks has been accepted in two NeurIPS workshops! 🎉 Awesome job by my student @herrickfung.bsky.social in collaboration with the amazing @apurvaratan.bsky.social.
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After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social
Adversarial collaborations: all theories must be subject to critical evaluation | Nature
Letter to the Editor
rdcu.be
June 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Here rdcu.be/es8A1 we respond to the recent (unfair) editorial in Nature about recent criticisms of IIT theory of consciousness. We keep fighting for transparent and serious science. @hakwan.bsky.social @felipedebrigard.bsky.social @deanbuono.bsky.social
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The brilliant @rastokke.bsky.social showing how shoddy evidence can spread like wildfire and how this has serious consequences #rEDTO25
June 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The brilliant @rastokke.bsky.social showing how shoddy evidence can spread like wildfire and how this has serious consequences #rEDTO25
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June 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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How can we resolve ambiguous visual input? To answer this question, Mooney images meets THINGS and large scale behavior! Amazing effort by an amazing crew in Granada, and happy to play a small part in it!
New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
How can we resolve ambiguous visual input? To answer this question, Mooney images meets THINGS and large scale behavior! Amazing effort by an amazing crew in Granada, and happy to play a small part in it!
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Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel.
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May 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Turns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel.
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who says that science doesn't generate profit?
April 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
who says that science doesn't generate profit?
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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
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new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
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aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
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OSF
osf.io
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
🧠📈
aphantasics reported to feel less 'absorbed' as they read stories, but they dwelled just as much on words that typically evoke imagery. so perhaps they just didn't realize they have (non-conscious) imagery too
Ali Moharramipour's 1st paper as senior author
🧠📈
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check out our METACOGNITIVE SCIENCE MEETING!! in collaboration with @cogcompneuro.bsky.social !! come one come all to Amsterdam in August!
Abstract submission is now open, closes May 20th!
We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
April 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
check out our METACOGNITIVE SCIENCE MEETING!! in collaboration with @cogcompneuro.bsky.social !! come one come all to Amsterdam in August!
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We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
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i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT.
inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
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inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
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finale: reply to Gomez-Marin & Seth about the scientific status of IIT
here i respond to a commentary written by Alex Gomez-Marin and Anil Seth, on a paper explaining why IIT is unscientific . the latter articl...
inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT.
inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
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inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
🧠📈
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Remember the controversy about IIT last year - I have great sympathy to the critical side? Well if you want to think a bit about what pseudosciences are and whether we can distinguish science and paeudoscience here is a new short book ffeee download. t.co/6YvZ1kwLti
https://cup.org/41mrXGQ
t.co
March 9, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Remember the controversy about IIT last year - I have great sympathy to the critical side? Well if you want to think a bit about what pseudosciences are and whether we can distinguish science and paeudoscience here is a new short book ffeee download. t.co/6YvZ1kwLti
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Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Me
I am one of the co-signers of the letter labeling IIT as “pseudoscience” for numerous reasons. These include a definition of…
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March 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
Now longer and in nature neuroscience. Why I (and 60+ of my closest friends) think IIT is pseudoscience. Has no empirical evidence. Has no hope of future empirical evidence. Open and closed case in my view.
New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience
Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...
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March 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Now longer and in nature neuroscience. Why I (and 60+ of my closest friends) think IIT is pseudoscience. Has no empirical evidence. Has no hope of future empirical evidence. Open and closed case in my view.
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Analog computing with waves. It's a thing. It's powerful and way more energy efficient than digital computing. The brain doesn’t just discard those useful waves.
Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#neuroscience
Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#neuroscience
Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network
Analog machine learning computations are performed passively by propagating light and sound waves through programmed materials.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
March 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Analog computing with waves. It's a thing. It's powerful and way more energy efficient than digital computing. The brain doesn’t just discard those useful waves.
Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#neuroscience
Wave physics as an analog recurrent neural network
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
#neuroscience
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The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu).
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT |
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March 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu).
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
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Why hypothesis testing is not the way forward to understand brains: medium.com/@kording/hyp...
Hypotheses No Longer Cut It
For decades, hypothesis-driven research has been the cornerstone of inquiry — from health and neuroscience to political science, economics…
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March 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Why hypothesis testing is not the way forward to understand brains: medium.com/@kording/hyp...
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Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Psilocybin alters visual contextual computations
Psilocybin alters perception and brain dynamics. Contextual computations are ubiquitous in the brain. Here, we investigate the effects of psilocybin using psychophysics, ultra-high field functional MR...
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February 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to julia_marshall1@brown.edu by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!
January 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to julia_marshall1@brown.edu by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!
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I am hiring a full time study coordinator for our EBI-BD study which uses EEG, cognitive testing, EMA, and wearables to study emotion-based impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Excellent position for someone who is interested in grad school!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
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Research Area Specialist Assoc (2 YR Term Limited) | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu
January 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I am hiring a full time study coordinator for our EBI-BD study which uses EEG, cognitive testing, EMA, and wearables to study emotion-based impulsivity in bipolar disorder. Excellent position for someone who is interested in grad school!
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...
careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...