Phil Corlett
@philcorlett.bsky.social
I study how the brain makes up the mind
Delusions, Hallucinations
Prediction Errors, Priors
Beliefs, Perception
He/Him
belieflab.yale.edu
Delusions, Hallucinations
Prediction Errors, Priors
Beliefs, Perception
He/Him
belieflab.yale.edu
This is really great work. Perception of the Ebbinghaus Illusion INCREASES under psilocybin, due to changes in divisive normalization. Seems to challenge REBUS - since the belief that underwrites the illusion is stronger, not relaxed?
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is really great work. Perception of the Ebbinghaus Illusion INCREASES under psilocybin, due to changes in divisive normalization. Seems to challenge REBUS - since the belief that underwrites the illusion is stronger, not relaxed?
Reposted by Phil Corlett
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
Reposted by Phil Corlett
First, we looked at visual perception using the Ebbinghaus illusion, a classic example of how context shapes what we perceive. The contextual surround illusion got systematically stronger! It's not just a figure of speech: we literally see the world differently with psilocybin👁️
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
First, we looked at visual perception using the Ebbinghaus illusion, a classic example of how context shapes what we perceive. The contextual surround illusion got systematically stronger! It's not just a figure of speech: we literally see the world differently with psilocybin👁️
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The Thing (1982) is a Thanksgiving movie.
Thought of it while prepping a Friendsgiving turkey today.
Thought of it while prepping a Friendsgiving turkey today.
November 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The Thing (1982) is a Thanksgiving movie.
Thought of it while prepping a Friendsgiving turkey today.
Thought of it while prepping a Friendsgiving turkey today.
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How do they know it’s because Batman is unexpected and not because he’s seen as a moral authority (albeit fictional)? What happens if you send in the Riddler? 🧪
The Batman Effect, just published in NATURE:
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
How do they know it’s because Batman is unexpected and not because he’s seen as a moral authority (albeit fictional)? What happens if you send in the Riddler? 🧪
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The Batman Effect, just published in NATURE:
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect - npj Mental Health Research
npj Mental Health Research - Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect
www.nature.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The Batman Effect, just published in NATURE:
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
When an experimenter dressed as Batman boarded a train, passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seats to another “pregnant” experimenter than if Batman wasn’t present (67.21% vs. 37.66%) #SciComm 1/2
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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This made me giggle
November 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This made me giggle
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 22
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 22
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“There’s a popular view that connectivity, in the Facebook sense, is a good thing. In my world, it’s really bad. Dense connectivity is the killer. It is death.” — Karl Friston. hbarjournal.substack.com/p/karl-frist...
Karl Friston — Functioning Brains and Psychotic Societies
On the Free Energy Principle, societal boundaries, cancer, and the beauty of sparsity.
hbarjournal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“There’s a popular view that connectivity, in the Facebook sense, is a good thing. In my world, it’s really bad. Dense connectivity is the killer. It is death.” — Karl Friston. hbarjournal.substack.com/p/karl-frist...
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Congratulations to Harriet De Wit, Ph.D., for being awarded the Barbara Fish Memorial Award! ☺️ #ACNP2026
Please click here ➡️tinyurl.com/2ndexz5k to watch the nominator video by Abraham Palmer, Ph.D.
Please click here ➡️tinyurl.com/2ndexz5k to watch the nominator video by Abraham Palmer, Ph.D.
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Congratulations to Harriet De Wit, Ph.D., for being awarded the Barbara Fish Memorial Award! ☺️ #ACNP2026
Please click here ➡️tinyurl.com/2ndexz5k to watch the nominator video by Abraham Palmer, Ph.D.
Please click here ➡️tinyurl.com/2ndexz5k to watch the nominator video by Abraham Palmer, Ph.D.
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📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
📣🔥Thrilled to announce that 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference will take place in New Haven, CT, btw July 14-16 -
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
www.cpconf.org
@robbrutledge.bsky.social @drrickadams.bsky.social @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social @docqhuys.bsky.social @clairegillan.bsky.social Sonia Bishop
More info to come soon!
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Getting journal rejections like
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Getting journal rejections like
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Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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also, never abbreviate "assistant professor' as "ass prof"
Science PSA: Never abbreviate “analysis” as “anal”. Ever.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
also, never abbreviate "assistant professor' as "ass prof"
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What happens if you hook up an energy-efficiency optimising RNN on active vision input?
It learns predictive remapping and path integration into allocentric scene coordinates.
Now out in patterns: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
It learns predictive remapping and path integration into allocentric scene coordinates.
Now out in patterns: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
What happens if you hook up an energy-efficiency optimising RNN on active vision input?
It learns predictive remapping and path integration into allocentric scene coordinates.
Now out in patterns: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
It learns predictive remapping and path integration into allocentric scene coordinates.
Now out in patterns: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
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New preprint with super @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social !
Mathematical approaches to the study of agents
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Mathematical approaches to the study of agents
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New preprint with super @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social !
Mathematical approaches to the study of agents
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Mathematical approaches to the study of agents
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Parietal cortex output neurons form a specialized population code that enhances the propagation of information to a downstream target and potentially improves the accuracy of decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Specialized structure of neural population codes in parietal cortex outputs - Nature Neuroscience
Cortical neurons comprising an output pathway form a specialized population code that enhances the propagation of information to a downstream target, potentially improving the accuracy of decision-mak...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Parietal cortex output neurons form a specialized population code that enhances the propagation of information to a downstream target and potentially improves the accuracy of decision-making
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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It's time for my annual reminder that Thanksgiving will (likely) be more meaningful than you think 🦃
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It's time for my annual reminder that Thanksgiving will (likely) be more meaningful than you think 🦃
💔 His bass anchored two iconic British bands, and he seemed a genuinely good bloke, unlike (some of) his bandmates
November 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
💔 His bass anchored two iconic British bands, and he seemed a genuinely good bloke, unlike (some of) his bandmates
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November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#SfN25 Wednesday posters to visit:
8a-12p | PSTR412.06
Omri Raccah
Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus
Raccah is a postdoc at Yale in the Turk-Browne Lab focused broadly on how the human brain supports the formation real-world episodic memories.
8a-12p | PSTR412.06
Omri Raccah
Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus
Raccah is a postdoc at Yale in the Turk-Browne Lab focused broadly on how the human brain supports the formation real-world episodic memories.
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
#SfN25 Wednesday posters to visit:
8a-12p | PSTR412.06
Omri Raccah
Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus
Raccah is a postdoc at Yale in the Turk-Browne Lab focused broadly on how the human brain supports the formation real-world episodic memories.
8a-12p | PSTR412.06
Omri Raccah
Auditory and multisensory representations in the human hippocampus
Raccah is a postdoc at Yale in the Turk-Browne Lab focused broadly on how the human brain supports the formation real-world episodic memories.
Reposted by Phil Corlett
#SfN25 Tuesday 11.18 presentations to visit:
8a-12p | NANO035 🧠 Weikang Shi
Neural dynamics of social evidence accumulation in cooperative interactions of freely moving marmosets
#KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #HumansOfWTI
8a-12p | NANO035 🧠 Weikang Shi
Neural dynamics of social evidence accumulation in cooperative interactions of freely moving marmosets
#KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #HumansOfWTI
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#SfN25 Tuesday 11.18 presentations to visit:
8a-12p | NANO035 🧠 Weikang Shi
Neural dynamics of social evidence accumulation in cooperative interactions of freely moving marmosets
#KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #HumansOfWTI
8a-12p | NANO035 🧠 Weikang Shi
Neural dynamics of social evidence accumulation in cooperative interactions of freely moving marmosets
#KnowTogether #ScienceAtYale #HumansOfWTI
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Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
OSF
osf.io
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Super excited to share my first preprint with Katherine Duncan and Morgan Barense (@barense.bsky.social) -- "Memory strength at reactivation, not memory age, governs prediction error driven updating of naturalistic event memory"! 🧠🎉https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/q9rkn_v1
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I am truly honored by the piece Daniel Oppenheimer (a wonderful writer & podcaster) wrote about me for Psychotherapy Networker, a generous profile (with kind comments from Frances & Aviv) & many apt observations by Daniel about the state of psychiatry
www.psychotherapynetworker.org/article/psyc...
www.psychotherapynetworker.org/article/psyc...
Psychiatry Has a New Hero
Psychiatrist Awais Aftab has been inviting the most prominent thinkers in psychiatry to move beyond familiar narratives, embrace complexity, and change the field.
www.psychotherapynetworker.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I am truly honored by the piece Daniel Oppenheimer (a wonderful writer & podcaster) wrote about me for Psychotherapy Networker, a generous profile (with kind comments from Frances & Aviv) & many apt observations by Daniel about the state of psychiatry
www.psychotherapynetworker.org/article/psyc...
www.psychotherapynetworker.org/article/psyc...