Andrew Corcoran
@corcorana.bsky.social
vagally-interested postdoc @ nexs.ku.dk | bunny herder | caffeine abuser | open science enthusiast | thoughts almost certainly not his own
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Integrated information and predictive processing theories of consciousness: An adversarial collaborative review
As neuroscientific theories of consciousness continue to proliferate, the need to assess their similarities and differences -- as well as their predictive and explanatory power -- becomes ever more pr...
arxiv.org
The first major output of the @templetonworld.bsky.social @arc-intrepid.bsky.social adversarial collaboration testing IIT & predictive processing theories of consciousness is out now
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00555
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Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
Would You Agree If N Is Three? On Statistical Inference for Small N -- Psarou et al JoCN 2025
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Would You Agree If N Is Three? On Statistical Inference for Small N
Abstract. Nonhuman primate studies traditionally use two or three animals. We previously used standard statistics to argue for using either one animal, for an inference about that sample, or five or m...
direct.mit.edu
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Would You Agree If N Is Three? On Statistical Inference for Small N -- Psarou et al JoCN 2025
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self
In this primer, Patrick Haggard and Matthew Longo consider how sensory signals from
receptors throughout the body are integrated to produce the sense of a coherent, continuous,
sentient body that form...
www.cell.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
New primer in Cell from Patrick Haggard & @mattlongo.bsky.social
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
Somatosensation and the sense of self: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...
#interoception #exteroception #affect #neuroskyence
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"... a sense that the field has reached an uneasy stasis."
"... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. "
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
"... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. "
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
Frontiers | Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?
Understanding the biophysical basis of consciousness remains a substantial challenge for 21st-century science. This endeavor is becoming even more pressing i...
www.frontiersin.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"... a sense that the field has reached an uneasy stasis."
"... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. "
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
"... most extant experimental research (...) is geared toward supporting them rather than attempting to falsify or compare them, reflecting a confirmatory posture that hinders progress. "
www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...
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The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior.
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
Cerebellar Contributions to Action and Cognition: Prediction, Timescale, and Continuity
The cerebellum is implicated in nearly every domain of human cognition, yet our understanding of how this subcortical structure contributes to cognition remains elusive. Efforts on this front have ten...
arxiv.org
September 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior.
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ Rich Ivry.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
Reposted by Andrew Corcoran
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
Predictions of future events have a major impact on how we process sensory signals. However, it remains unclear how the brain keeps predictions online in anticipation of future inputs. Here, we combin...
www.jneurosci.org
October 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
@dotproduct.bsky.social's first first author paper is finally out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! Her findings show that content-specific predictions fluctuate with alpha frequencies, suggesting a more specific role for alpha oscillations than we may have thought. With @jhaarsma.bsky.social. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖
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Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
Sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits
Nature - Experiments with human volunteers and macaques show that expectations produced by probabilistic cueing of future sensory inputs shape motor circuit dynamics in order to increase the...
www.nature.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
www.nature.com/articles/s4...
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More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧵1/7
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
Lady Parts and Baby Parts: What Is a Fetus?
A common-sense view of mammalian pregnancy treats the fetus as (a) an organism and (b) co-extensive with the approximately baby-shaped entity developing in the uterus. In this paper, I draw on metabo...
doi.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧵1/7
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
doi.org/10.1111/phpr...
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On November 26 our @SpringerNature book in commemoration of Bud (A.D.) Craig's legacy is out. See TOC with 14 contributions on the insular cortex, bodily self, emotion, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, pain, mindfulness, touch, music, and subjective time. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Bodily Self, Emotion, and Subjective Time
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the interplay between the bodily self, emotion, and subjective time perception and consciousness.
link.springer.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:42 AM
On November 26 our @SpringerNature book in commemoration of Bud (A.D.) Craig's legacy is out. See TOC with 14 contributions on the insular cortex, bodily self, emotion, psychiatric disorders, epilepsy, pain, mindfulness, touch, music, and subjective time. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function - Nature Neuroscience
Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI studies of psychedelics.
www.nature.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Psychedelics alter neurovascular coupling, which means we need to critically re-evaluate fMRI findings of acute psychedelic effects
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fluctuations in #AlphaOscillations influence whether we perceive faint stimuli, but how? @joeyzhou.bsky.social @haegenslab.bsky.social &co show that alpha associated with the #visual system modulate sensitivity, while #sensorimotor alpha affects decision criteria @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ho3ecR
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Fluctuations in #AlphaOscillations influence whether we perceive faint stimuli, but how? @joeyzhou.bsky.social @haegenslab.bsky.social &co show that alpha associated with the #visual system modulate sensitivity, while #sensorimotor alpha affects decision criteria @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ho3ecR
completely agree; indeed our recent paper on mind-wandering & mind-blanking confirms task-disengagement / internally-oriented cognition does not simply correspond to increased interoceptive processing
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
October 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
completely agree; indeed our recent paper on mind-wandering & mind-blanking confirms task-disengagement / internally-oriented cognition does not simply correspond to increased interoceptive processing
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
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"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
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Check out our new preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
And Paris' thread (@parboulakis.bsky.social):
bsky.app/profile/parb...
Where we explore the neural signature of mind blanking using EEG and fMRI combined!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
And Paris' thread (@parboulakis.bsky.social):
bsky.app/profile/parb...
Where we explore the neural signature of mind blanking using EEG and fMRI combined!
October 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Check out our new preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
And Paris' thread (@parboulakis.bsky.social):
bsky.app/profile/parb...
Where we explore the neural signature of mind blanking using EEG and fMRI combined!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
And Paris' thread (@parboulakis.bsky.social):
bsky.app/profile/parb...
Where we explore the neural signature of mind blanking using EEG and fMRI combined!
Reposted by Andrew Corcoran
🚨Preprint alert 🚨. Our work “Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences” is available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵A thread ...
Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences
Mind blanking (MB) is a mental state of seemingly no reportable thought content. The question of how we can entertain no thoughts while awake is challenging for the study of spontaneous thinking. By c...
www.biorxiv.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨Preprint alert 🚨. Our work “Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences” is available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵A thread ...
Reposted by Andrew Corcoran
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
Spontaneous thoughts, occupying much of one’s awake time in daily life, are often colored by emotional qualities. While spontaneous thoughts have been associated with various neural correlates, the re...
www.jneurosci.org
October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Neural sensitivity to the heartbeat is modulated by fluctuations in affective arousal during spontaneous thought
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Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...
Reposted by Andrew Corcoran
Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Together with Teresa Berther, @martinasaltafossi.bsky.social, @eliobalestrieri.bsky.social, and @ualsbombe.bsky.social, we have developed a pipeline which uses IAAFT-based respiration time series surrogates to then adapt gold-standard cluster permutation testing for circular (phase-binned) data.
Reposted by Andrew Corcoran
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
Why I left academia and neuroscience
Don't worry, this isn't yet another story of rage-quitting.
mikexcohen.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Michael X Cohen on why he left academia/neuroscience.
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
mikexcohen.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
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How does one do nothing skilfully? Can one get something of this skill in a single 15 min session? Is this first session aversive and difficult, as people commonly find doing nothing, or is it calming and easy? Our new preprint on Do Nothing meditation answers these questions! 🧵
osf.io/8fp6e
osf.io/8fp6e
October 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
How does one do nothing skilfully? Can one get something of this skill in a single 15 min session? Is this first session aversive and difficult, as people commonly find doing nothing, or is it calming and easy? Our new preprint on Do Nothing meditation answers these questions! 🧵
osf.io/8fp6e
osf.io/8fp6e
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🚨 Out now in @commspsychol.nature.com 🚨
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
September 30, 2025 at 8:11 AM
🚨 Out now in @commspsychol.nature.com 🚨
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
doi.org/10.1038/s442...
Our #RegisteredReport tested whether the order of task decisions and confidence ratings bias #metacognition.
Some said decisions → confidence enhances metacognition. If true, decades of findings will be affected.
Reposted by Andrew Corcoran
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Extrapolating Other Consciousnesses: The Prospects and Limits of Analogical Abduction
www.cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
Happy to share this new paper (open access) on the logic of extrapolations in consciousness science, written with @liadmudrik.bsky.social
Reposted by Andrew Corcoran
I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I'm thrilled to share that our new paper is now published in Psychophysiology (Open Access):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@zacndr.bsky.social @teamlabuda.bsky.social @fraferri.bsky.social @danlikesbrains.bsky.social
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2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics
Sigh-induced structural changes lower alveolar surface stress through a mechanical response.
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September 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
2025. How sighing regulates pulmonary surfactant structure and its role in breathing mechanics | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...