Mateusz Wozniak
@mmwozniak.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist. Investigating the self, consciousness, social cognition, and human-robot interaction in @S4HRI_iit, former @SombyLab & @CogPhilLab
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Mateusz Wozniak
@mmwozniak.bsky.social
· Nov 18
My paper proposing that we develop self-representation in a series of discontinuous developmental steps, based on ideas from Bayes and Susan Carey is out in Front in Hum Neurosci
"How to grow a self: development of self-representation in the Bayesian brain"
www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...
"How to grow a self: development of self-representation in the Bayesian brain"
www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...
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Cecilia Roselli presented "The Duration of Robot Gaze Affects People’s Attitudes towards Humanoid Robots", showing that longer robot gaze durations lead to more positive attitudes from participants.
August 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Cecilia Roselli presented "The Duration of Robot Gaze Affects People’s Attitudes towards Humanoid Robots", showing that longer robot gaze durations lead to more positive attitudes from participants.
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@mmwozniak.bsky.social presented "We-Information Can Facilitate Performance in Joint Teleoperation Over a Humanoid Robot", demonstrating that providing information about co-actors can improve joint control and increases self-other overlap.
August 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
@mmwozniak.bsky.social presented "We-Information Can Facilitate Performance in Joint Teleoperation Over a Humanoid Robot", demonstrating that providing information about co-actors can improve joint control and increases self-other overlap.
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This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature
Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...
www.nature.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning
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Amanda Askell (Anthropic's in-house philosopher) now has more career citations than Dan Dennett. Not bad for a 2019 PhD.
May 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Amanda Askell (Anthropic's in-house philosopher) now has more career citations than Dan Dennett. Not bad for a 2019 PhD.
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We had an inspiring time at the sense of self meeting in London, where we talked about the interpersonal self and sense of agency!
Thanks to organisers @tonyjprescott.bsky.social, @awykowska.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, Paul Verschure, and to the @royalsociety.org for hosting
Thanks to organisers @tonyjprescott.bsky.social, @awykowska.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, Paul Verschure, and to the @royalsociety.org for hosting
May 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We had an inspiring time at the sense of self meeting in London, where we talked about the interpersonal self and sense of agency!
Thanks to organisers @tonyjprescott.bsky.social, @awykowska.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, Paul Verschure, and to the @royalsociety.org for hosting
Thanks to organisers @tonyjprescott.bsky.social, @awykowska.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, Paul Verschure, and to the @royalsociety.org for hosting
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New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al.
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
May 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al.
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New layer-fMRI manuscript:
V1 superficial layers create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex for attentional guidance.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
By Liu at al.
V1 superficial layers create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex for attentional guidance.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
By Liu at al.
April 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New layer-fMRI manuscript:
V1 superficial layers create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex for attentional guidance.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
By Liu at al.
V1 superficial layers create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex for attentional guidance.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
By Liu at al.
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Huggingface buys Pollen Robotics and plans to sell its Reachy 2 humanoids: techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/h...
Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup | TechCrunch
AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount.
techcrunch.com
April 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Huggingface buys Pollen Robotics and plans to sell its Reachy 2 humanoids: techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/h...
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New paper alert—this is a master class on interdisciplinary collaboration updating the basic understanding and clinical outlook for neurocardiology. Led by Olu Ajijola Kalyanam Shivkumar and a cardiology dream team. #interoception
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
Clinical neurocardiology: defining the value of neuroscience‐based cardiovascular therapeutics – 2024 update
Abstract figure legend Clinical neurocardiology: pathophysiology, diagnostics and therapeutics. Illustrated is a summary of bidirectional interactions between the heart and nervous system, with a pat...
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
New paper alert—this is a master class on interdisciplinary collaboration updating the basic understanding and clinical outlook for neurocardiology. Led by Olu Ajijola Kalyanam Shivkumar and a cardiology dream team. #interoception
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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Rhythms and communication in the brain
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
March 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Rhythms and communication in the brain
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
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Averaging brain responses is not a great idea...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Averaging brain responses is not a great idea...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...
February 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...
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Reposted by Mateusz Wozniak
Join our Igor pack to discuss and share a specific topic and interest related to open science, bio/cognitive/psychopy & neuroscience - even job/ grant opportunities! go.bsky.app/7GAoP8i
February 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Join our Igor pack to discuss and share a specific topic and interest related to open science, bio/cognitive/psychopy & neuroscience - even job/ grant opportunities! go.bsky.app/7GAoP8i
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Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learning
#compneuro #MLSky
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#compneuro #MLSky
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learning - Nature Machine Intelligence
Humans continuously acquire knowledge and develop complex behaviours. Meng, Bing, Yao and colleagues present a robotic lifelong learning framework using a Bayesian non-parametric knowledge space, enab...
www.nature.com
February 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learning
#compneuro #MLSky
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
#compneuro #MLSky
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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What I should read published recently along these lines?(Bonus if it uses examples I could know something about...)
February 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What I should read published recently along these lines?(Bonus if it uses examples I could know something about...)
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👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience
Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies.
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
January 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies.
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..
www.nber.org/papers/w33311
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'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025)
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development
The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …
www.sciencedirect.com
December 29, 2024 at 10:18 AM
'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025)
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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Just ready before Christmas: a new issue of Computational Brain and Behaviour on what is a good theory: link.springer.com/journal/4211...
Computational Brain & Behavior | Volume 7, issue 4
Volume 7, issue 4 articles listing for Computational Brain & Behavior
link.springer.com
December 24, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Just ready before Christmas: a new issue of Computational Brain and Behaviour on what is a good theory: link.springer.com/journal/4211...
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What does it mean for something to be Turing complete?
I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.
samwho.dev/turing-machi...
I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.
samwho.dev/turing-machi...
December 20, 2024 at 10:33 PM
What does it mean for something to be Turing complete?
I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.
samwho.dev/turing-machi...
I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.
samwho.dev/turing-machi...
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Applied research is the path to legitimacy in psychological science
Comment by Judith P. Andersen
Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ
PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq
Comment by Judith P. Andersen
Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ
PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq
December 9, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Applied research is the path to legitimacy in psychological science
Comment by Judith P. Andersen
Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ
PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq
Comment by Judith P. Andersen
Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ
PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq
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Some learning resources on Reinforcement Learning in no particular order.
- UCL Course on RL ( www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/ )
- UC Berkeley's Deep Reinforcement Learning ( rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ )
- Lil's Reinforcement-Learning ( lilianweng.github.io/tags/reinfor... )
- UCL Course on RL ( www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/ )
- UC Berkeley's Deep Reinforcement Learning ( rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ )
- Lil's Reinforcement-Learning ( lilianweng.github.io/tags/reinfor... )
December 9, 2024 at 11:40 PM
Some learning resources on Reinforcement Learning in no particular order.
- UCL Course on RL ( www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/ )
- UC Berkeley's Deep Reinforcement Learning ( rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ )
- Lil's Reinforcement-Learning ( lilianweng.github.io/tags/reinfor... )
- UCL Course on RL ( www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/ )
- UC Berkeley's Deep Reinforcement Learning ( rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ )
- Lil's Reinforcement-Learning ( lilianweng.github.io/tags/reinfor... )
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📝 New paper: Woensdregt, M., Fusaroli, R., Rich, P. et al. Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...
Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect - Computational Brain & Behavior
In many scientific fields, sparseness and indirectness of empirical evidence pose fundamental challenges to theory development. Theories of the evolution of human cognition provide a guiding example, ...
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 5:58 AM
📝 New paper: Woensdregt, M., Fusaroli, R., Rich, P. et al. Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...
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Registration now open for this fantastic event next year 👇🏼
The sense of self : one body, multiple mechanisms
Thank you for the invitation and honoured to be part of this rockstar line up 😎🔥
The sense of self : one body, multiple mechanisms
Thank you for the invitation and honoured to be part of this rockstar line up 😎🔥
December 3, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Registration now open for this fantastic event next year 👇🏼
The sense of self : one body, multiple mechanisms
Thank you for the invitation and honoured to be part of this rockstar line up 😎🔥
The sense of self : one body, multiple mechanisms
Thank you for the invitation and honoured to be part of this rockstar line up 😎🔥