Chaz Firestone
chazfirestone.bsky.social
Chaz Firestone
@chazfirestone.bsky.social
Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think @ Johns Hopkins University. 🇨🇦

Lab: https://perception.jhu.edu/
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Thanks! We cite and discuss plenty of work like this in our own paper (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). The paper you linked to, of course, appeared after ours did.
The perception of silence | PNAS
Auditory perception is traditionally conceived as the perception of sounds—a friend’s voice, a clap of thunder, a minor chord. However, daily life ...
www.pnas.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Reposted by Chaz Firestone
me: finding a recent and relevant Chaz phil vis paper that I had missed through zohran-posting
November 9, 2025 at 3:37 AM
also me: i’m still using bluesky like it’s twitter aren’t i
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I'd add that interpretations of blindsight as involving "a stimulus that does not enter consciousness" are quite controversial, for some of the same reasons. My collaborator @ianbphillips.bsky.social has written what is, in my view, the definitive treatment: www.ianbphillips.com/uploads/2/2/...
www.ianbphillips.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 AM
We also use detection-theoretic statistics to show that our subjects, as a group, are conservative in their reports of awareness, giving additional reason to think that those who say "no" to yes/no questions about whether they noticed a given stimulus are actually playing it safe with their answers.
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It's a great question! In this case the 'subsequent choices' are explicit reports about the very stimulus in question. Subjects can tell us where the stimulus was located on the display, what color it was, and so on. We think the natural explanation of such accurate reports is that they could see it
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 AM
here i am perceiving absence
October 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
congrats!!
October 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM