Brendan Hutchinson
@bman1285.bsky.social
Post doc researching the electrophysiological underpinnings of consciousness.
EEG | consciousness | meta-analysis | learning | meditation | psychedelics
EEG | consciousness | meta-analysis | learning | meditation | psychedelics
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Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility
Fetal and infant brains offer clues to when human experience begins
www.science.org
March 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Consciousness before birth? Imaging studies explore the possibility | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
openrxiv.org
March 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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If you're interested in #habits, check out these two papers by @eikekofi.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/mu96jzdd) & @drbengardner.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/3nd4bx5p). I reread them recently & highly recommend them. Each presents a model & uses it to suggest ways to form/break habits in real-world settings.
March 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you're interested in #habits, check out these two papers by @eikekofi.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/mu96jzdd) & @drbengardner.bsky.social (tinyurl.com/3nd4bx5p). I reread them recently & highly recommend them. Each presents a model & uses it to suggest ways to form/break habits in real-world settings.
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@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?
Evaluating animal consciousness
An emerging field shows how animal feelings can be studied scientifically
www.science.org
February 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
@jeffsebo.bsky.social @birchlse.bsky.social and I put a lot of philosophy into our new Science Perspective on animal consciousness. Mill's analogical argument + inference to the best explanation + careful experiments = justification for consciousness in many animals. Where might it end?
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Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread!
Check it out!
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Check it out!
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I will try to post the new articles published in Neuroscience of Consciousness here!
Let's start with a paper on grief, which challenges neuroscience's ability to investigate affective states.
**The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion**
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Let's start with a paper on grief, which challenges neuroscience's ability to investigate affective states.
**The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion**
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
The nature of grief: implications for the neurobiology of emotion
Abstract. This paper explores the limitations of neurobiological approaches to human emotional experience, focusing on the case of grief. We propose that g
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February 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Little reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread!
Check it out!
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Check it out!
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The Brain in the Operating Room: Understanding the Loss of Consciousness During General Anesthesia
www.greymattersjournalvc.org/issue-9-arti...
#neuroscience
www.greymattersjournalvc.org/issue-9-arti...
#neuroscience
The Brain in the Operating Room: Understanding the Loss of Consciousness During General Anesthesia — Grey Matters at Vassar College
Katerina Hristova Illustrations by Anna Bishop & Iris Li
www.greymattersjournalvc.org
January 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Brain in the Operating Room: Understanding the Loss of Consciousness During General Anesthesia
www.greymattersjournalvc.org/issue-9-arti...
#neuroscience
www.greymattersjournalvc.org/issue-9-arti...
#neuroscience
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Space acquires Time.
Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab.
“The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab.
“The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy - Nature Communications
Common organizational principles of spatial and temporal information processing are not fully understood. This study shows that the duration coding of brief visual events transforms along the human co...
www.nature.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Space acquires Time.
Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab.
“The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very cool article on some outstanding data from Domenica Bueti’s lab.
“The neural link between stimulus duration and spatial location in the human visual hierarchy”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
From The Unbearable Slowness of Being
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
From The Unbearable Slowness of Being
December 17, 2024 at 4:09 PM
"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
From The Unbearable Slowness of Being
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
From The Unbearable Slowness of Being
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New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications
Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:13 PM
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...
December 12, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...
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Many people argue that Registered Reports take a long time.
We submitted our first preprint to PCIRR on Feb 9.
It took less than a year, with some very high quality feedback from reviewers, & you can see all of it.
Registered Reports save you time & increase quality.
We submitted our first preprint to PCIRR on Feb 9.
It took less than a year, with some very high quality feedback from reviewers, & you can see all of it.
Registered Reports save you time & increase quality.
December 2, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Many people argue that Registered Reports take a long time.
We submitted our first preprint to PCIRR on Feb 9.
It took less than a year, with some very high quality feedback from reviewers, & you can see all of it.
Registered Reports save you time & increase quality.
We submitted our first preprint to PCIRR on Feb 9.
It took less than a year, with some very high quality feedback from reviewers, & you can see all of it.
Registered Reports save you time & increase quality.
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Hugely exciting focussed ultrasound neuromodulation data from JeYoung Jung today - substantial behavioral, neurochemical, and even volumetric effects of theta burst sonication of anterior temporal lobe. But how do 🧠 changes cause behavioral improvement? We still don’t fully understand…
December 2, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Hugely exciting focussed ultrasound neuromodulation data from JeYoung Jung today - substantial behavioral, neurochemical, and even volumetric effects of theta burst sonication of anterior temporal lobe. But how do 🧠 changes cause behavioral improvement? We still don’t fully understand…
Seems like a good idea to me
Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!
December 2, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Seems like a good idea to me
fascinating (and concerning)
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
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#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
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#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
November 26, 2024 at 12:32 PM
fascinating (and concerning)
Saturnians do make excellent brain surgeons
Wishing the Elsevier editors who desk-accepted this all the best for their next career moves.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
November 23, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Saturnians do make excellent brain surgeons
Damn, wish we got these kinds of breathtaking sceneries in psych/neuroscience
Some snaps from our recent #fieldwork in Langtang Valley, #Nepal
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@immerzeel.bsky.social @kraaijenbrink.bsky.social
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@immerzeel.bsky.social @kraaijenbrink.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 8:20 AM
Damn, wish we got these kinds of breathtaking sceneries in psych/neuroscience
some cool decoding results here!
🚨 Preprint Alert! Neural correlates of unconscious and conscious visual processing - with Michael Herzog & @davidpascucci.bsky.social
🧠📈 #EEG #consci
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🧠📈 #EEG #consci
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Neural correlates of unconscious and conscious visual processing
Postdictive effects, where later events influence the perception of earlier ones, suggest that conscious perception is not a continuous stream but occurs at discrete moments, preceded by extended peri...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 8:22 AM
some cool decoding results here!