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Accelerating Research on Consciousness:
Empirical Tests of Higher-Order theories of consciousnesS

https://www.arc-ethos.org/
Meet the team: Saïd-Iraj Hashemi

Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news
October 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
ETHOS had our first in-person meeting on Friday, September 12th in Brussels. It was exciting to see all the experiments coming together! www.arc-ethos.org/news
September 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Meet the Team - Ataol Burak Ozsu
Ataol recently joined @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab as a research assistant. He will study higher-order representations of imagined, perceived, and unconscious stimuli using MEG.
See the ETHOS website for more: www.arc-ethos.org/news
May 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Meet the Team - Michaela Klímová
Michaela is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern working on Experiment 2. She is interested in how the visual system transforms the basic building blocks of vision into complex representations.
For more information see: www.arc-ethos.org/news
April 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Meet the Team: Karen Tian
Karen is a Ph.D. student at Boston University working on Experiment 1. She studies visual perception, with a special interest in its interplay with visual attention and their dynamics.
For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or www.karentian.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Meet the team: @aliekhlasi.bsky.social is a post-doc working on Experiment 2 at UCI. His current research focuses on applying machine learning to evaluate theories of consciousness using fMRI data.
For more, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or his website aliekhlasi.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Meet the Team: Peter Lush
Peter is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sussex, where he is testing imaginative suggestion for changes in visual experience with Zoltan Dienes for ETHOS Experiment 3.
www.arc-ethos.org/news
March 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Meet the Team - Xueyi Huang

Xueyi is a PhD student at Northeastern. Her research focuses on visual mental imagery, perception, and the shared mechanisms between them. She is currently working on ETHOS Experiment 2 and investigating the visual properties of mental images.

www.arc-ethos.org/news
February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Meet the Team - Kiarra Garcia

Kiarra joined ETHOS in July 2024 as a research assistant. She is pursuing her B.S. in Cognitive Science at the UCI. She is currently working on behavioral and fMRI studies that decode vividness in imagery and perception. 
www.arc-ethos.org/our-team
February 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Meet the Team:
@benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG.
See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM