The LAB Lab 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@thelablab.bsky.social
We study the neurobiology of language and its relationship to consciousness, mental health, and wellbeing using neuroimaging and psychedelics at UCL 🧠 🗣️
http://www.lab-lab.org/
UCL Centre for Consciousness Research
https://www.uccr.uk/
http://www.lab-lab.org/
UCL Centre for Consciousness Research
https://www.uccr.uk/
Pinned
🗣️📶🟰🧠: Language regions are hubs that aren't fixed. They are spatiotemporally dynamic, connecting with 44% of peripheral brain regions at any moment. These are averaged and thresholded away, leaving 'the language network' ONLY in the aggregate over time: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
September 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With @daniellametti.com and David Green
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With @daniellametti.com and David Green
August 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With @daniellametti.com and David Green
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With @daniellametti.com and David Green
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Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671634v1
August 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671634v1
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Preprint time:
“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!
“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!
August 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Preprint time:
“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!
“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
osf.io/preprints/ps...
On how a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!
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Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age
Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flick…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work.
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience
Redirecting
doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work.
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
#neuroscience
Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️
direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...
☎️ DM me for more details.
direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...
☎️ DM me for more details.
July 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Call for papers @jneurolang.bsky.social: Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Relationship Between the Neurobiology of Language and Consciousness. 🧠🗨️
direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...
☎️ DM me for more details.
direct.mit.edu/DocumentLibr...
☎️ DM me for more details.
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Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today
📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science
💶 They take time and money to collect
⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science
💶 They take time and money to collect
⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A multimodal transformer-based tool for automatic generation of concreteness ratings across languages - Communications Psychology
This resource presents a tool to use multimodal transformers to generate reliable, context-sensitive concreteness ratings for single words and multi-word expressions across languages.
www.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today
📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science
💶 They take time and money to collect
⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science
💶 They take time and money to collect
⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age
Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flicker (Ganzflicker) and sensory deprivation (Ganzfeld...
www.biorxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1
June 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1
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Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1
June 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.656359v1
1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️🩹.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
1st mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice for #psychedelics ☎️🗣️⏲️🪷: We find 5-MeO-DMT induces a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️🩹.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Speech markers of psychedelic-induced psychological change https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649217v1
April 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Speech markers of psychedelic-induced psychological change https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.16.649217v1
You feel closer to AI when it exhibits psychological traits similar to your own. 👏🥂
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You feel closer to AI when it exhibits psychological traits similar to your own. 👏🥂
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“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/lan...
#philsky #langsky #consky
#philsky #langsky #consky
Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper
iai.tv
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/lan...
#philsky #langsky #consky
#philsky #langsky #consky
Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper
iai.tv
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/
We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
March 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Tired but happy to say this is out w @andreaeyleen.bsky.social: Are Neurocognitive Representations 'Small Cakes'? philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24834/
We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
We analyse cog neuro theories showing how vicious regress, e.g. the homunculus fallacy, is (sadly) alive and well — and importantly how to avoid it. 1/
Goodbye T. Robbins, you transformed me. 🐐👍 A cherished moment was receiving this message after I wrote you the absurd:
'...that I mostly wear only bejeweled pink flip-flops can be tied by some tendril back to your writing. Your characters have often served as my role models...'
💎 Namo Amitabha 🪷
'...that I mostly wear only bejeweled pink flip-flops can be tied by some tendril back to your writing. Your characters have often served as my role models...'
💎 Namo Amitabha 🪷
February 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Goodbye T. Robbins, you transformed me. 🐐👍 A cherished moment was receiving this message after I wrote you the absurd:
'...that I mostly wear only bejeweled pink flip-flops can be tied by some tendril back to your writing. Your characters have often served as my role models...'
💎 Namo Amitabha 🪷
'...that I mostly wear only bejeweled pink flip-flops can be tied by some tendril back to your writing. Your characters have often served as my role models...'
💎 Namo Amitabha 🪷
🐐🪷
Breaking News: Tom Robbins, whose comic novels drew a cult following by blending pop philosophy and absurdist comedy, has died at 92.
Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🐐🪷
👋 We show that #wellbeing, like other high-level constructs, e.g., ‘language’, is fundamentally a dynamic, whole brain process, with big-ol' individual differences, supported by distinct networks. 🧠 🗣️ 🫀
Amazing work from the formidable @yumengma.bsky.social. 🥂
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing work from the formidable @yumengma.bsky.social. 🥂
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
👋 We show that #wellbeing, like other high-level constructs, e.g., ‘language’, is fundamentally a dynamic, whole brain process, with big-ol' individual differences, supported by distinct networks. 🧠 🗣️ 🫀
Amazing work from the formidable @yumengma.bsky.social. 🥂
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing work from the formidable @yumengma.bsky.social. 🥂
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🗣️ 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...
⭐ Do you have experience with #psychedelics 🍄 or #meditation 🪷? ⭐
🆘 Please help us understand how these practices shape the experience of emotions in our bodies.
🔬 Contribute to science by taking part in a quick, 20-min anonymous online experiment.
🖱️ Click here to participate: bit.ly/3DYMEkb
🆘 Please help us understand how these practices shape the experience of emotions in our bodies.
🔬 Contribute to science by taking part in a quick, 20-min anonymous online experiment.
🖱️ Click here to participate: bit.ly/3DYMEkb
January 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
⭐ Do you have experience with #psychedelics 🍄 or #meditation 🪷? ⭐
🆘 Please help us understand how these practices shape the experience of emotions in our bodies.
🔬 Contribute to science by taking part in a quick, 20-min anonymous online experiment.
🖱️ Click here to participate: bit.ly/3DYMEkb
🆘 Please help us understand how these practices shape the experience of emotions in our bodies.
🔬 Contribute to science by taking part in a quick, 20-min anonymous online experiment.
🖱️ Click here to participate: bit.ly/3DYMEkb
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A psychedelic drug, DMT, is being tested as a novel way to reduce problematic alcohol consumption, in an ongoing study led by Prof Ravi Das and Prof Jeremy Skipper @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social. Article by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled on UK volunteers to tackle alcohol misuse
Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
A psychedelic drug, DMT, is being tested as a novel way to reduce problematic alcohol consumption, in an ongoing study led by Prof Ravi Das and Prof Jeremy Skipper @uclpals.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social. Article by @hannahdevlin.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Psychedelic drug DMT trialled on patients to treat alcohol addiction
Psychedelic drug DMT trialled on patients to treat alcohol addiction
Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake
A powerful psychedelic that is used in healing ceremonies by Indigenous groups in the Amazon is being trialled as a pioneering approach to reduce…
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Psychedelic drug DMT trialled on patients to treat alcohol addiction
Please share this @theguardian.com article about our work (@theunityproject.bsky.social) using the #psychedelic compound 'DMT' to help heavy drinkers drink less:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Psychedelic drug DMT to be trialled on UK volunteers to tackle alcohol misuse
Exclusive: Scientists at UCL hope one-off dose of powerful hallucinogenic could help drinkers reduce intake
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Please share this @theguardian.com article about our work (@theunityproject.bsky.social) using the #psychedelic compound 'DMT' to help heavy drinkers drink less:
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...