Renzo Lanfranco
@renzolanfranco.bsky.social
Principal Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet. Interested in consciousness, visual & body perception, self, face recognition, metacognition & altered states of consciousness | https://ki.se/en/people/renzo-lanfranco
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Minimal exposure durations reveal visual processing priorities for different stimulus attributes - Nature Communications
Minimal exposure durations required for visual processing of stimulus attributes can reveal the system’s priorities. Here, the authors show a distinct sequence of minimal exposures needed for face pro...
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In our new @NatureComms paper, we investigate the visual system's priorities for extracting meaningful information from faces and bringing it to conscious awareness. We use a new tachistoscope that enables visual presentations as short as 0.002 ms: nature.com/articles/s41... (🧵👇)
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Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social) at Georgetown University is looking for a postdoc interested in brain plasticity and behavior in people born with blindness, deafness, or without hands, using behavioral paradigms, computational methods, and fMRI. Details at: apply.interfolio.com/177838 🧠🧪
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Ella Striem-Amit (@striemamit.bsky.social) at Georgetown University is looking for a postdoc interested in brain plasticity and behavior in people born with blindness, deafness, or without hands, using behavioral paradigms, computational methods, and fMRI. Details at: apply.interfolio.com/177838 🧠🧪
I'm happy to share our preprint "Disentangling visually-driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership". We show that tactile predictions in the rubber hand illusion are as important as feeling touch on the hand to elicit the feeling of ownership. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I'm happy to share our preprint "Disentangling visually-driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership". We show that tactile predictions in the rubber hand illusion are as important as feeling touch on the hand to elicit the feeling of ownership. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club - Yair Pinto (www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...) on “No easy solutions for the Hard Problem of consciousness”. Should be fun!
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club - Yair Pinto (www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...) on “No easy solutions for the Hard Problem of consciousness”. Should be fun!
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time
For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...
Our new preprint on the effects of visually-driven tactile predictions on the sense of body ownership is out. Thread coming soon! 🧵👇
Disentangling visually-driven tactile predictions from multisensory integration in body ownership: https://osf.io/jbk4x
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Our new preprint on the effects of visually-driven tactile predictions on the sense of body ownership is out. Thread coming soon! 🧵👇
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
October 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I'm so sorry to share that Friedemann Pulvermüller, brilliant neuroscientist, has passed. He gave Embodiment ideas legs and worked tirelessly on treatments for stroke victims during his storied career. His kindness and wry humor made him sparkle.
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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!
Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!
We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
If you're attending ICON in Porto this week, come to our symposium: "Recent Developments in Bodily Self-awareness Research." We'll talk about the computational and neural mechanisms of the sense of body ownership and body representation | 📆 Friday 19th at ⏰️ 13:30.
September 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
If you're attending ICON in Porto this week, come to our symposium: "Recent Developments in Bodily Self-awareness Research." We'll talk about the computational and neural mechanisms of the sense of body ownership and body representation | 📆 Friday 19th at ⏰️ 13:30.
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing!
Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.
Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.
August 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing!
Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.
Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.
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If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation
Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...
www.medrxiv.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇
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📣 New preprint 📣
The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈
The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈
Motor prediction reduces beta-band power and enhances cerebellar-somatosensory connectivity before self-touch to enable its attenuation
Prevailing theories suggest that the brain uses an internal forward model to predict tactile input during voluntary movements, thereby reducing the intensity of the reafferent tactile sensation, a phe...
www.biorxiv.org
July 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
📣 New preprint 📣
The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈
The brain attenuates self-touch, but how does this unfold at the neural level before the touch? We used MEG to find out 🧠 👉👈
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
Ever wondered if you were aware of your own biases? Us too! If you're attending #RLDM2025, stop by poster #92 on Friday to learn how we tested insight into perceptual decision biases using (hierarchical) drift diffusion modelling. Work with @kobedesender.bsky.social, Peter Murphy & Hanne Daenen.
June 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Ever wondered if you were aware of your own biases? Us too! If you're attending #RLDM2025, stop by poster #92 on Friday to learn how we tested insight into perceptual decision biases using (hierarchical) drift diffusion modelling. Work with @kobedesender.bsky.social, Peter Murphy & Hanne Daenen.
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
"We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments"
May 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments"
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...
Large-scale interactions in perception and prediction across species | HiLIFE – Helsinki Institute of Life Science | University of Helsinki
Andres Canales-Johnson research group
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May 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...
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New article out at Science Advances!
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
The extraordinary enigma of ordinary tickle behavior: Why gargalesis still puzzles neuroscience
Tickle sensation remains one of the biggest unresolved mysteries in neuroscience—one that scientists are only beginning to unravel.
www.science.org
May 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New article out at Science Advances!
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
Three challenges, five questions, and multiple implications of tickle.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@dondersinst.bsky.social @ki.se @erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Sensorimotor #ERCResearch #ticklelab
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Delighted to share our latest article at #CerebralCortex: "Odorant representations indicate nonlinear processing across the olfactory system". A transatlantic effort led by Jesus Olivares, with Pato Orio, Viktor Sadilek, and Oliver Schmachtenberg. Thread below 👇
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May 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Delighted to share our latest article at #CerebralCortex: "Odorant representations indicate nonlinear processing across the olfactory system". A transatlantic effort led by Jesus Olivares, with Pato Orio, Viktor Sadilek, and Oliver Schmachtenberg. Thread below 👇
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...
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New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
May 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New paper out. We asked 29 people with developmental #prosopagnosia (face blindness) what it was like living with the condition and also analysed their objective scores on lab tests of face recognition dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
Open positions – Dr. Marie Chancel
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April 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
📣 Open PhD & Postdoc Positions 📣
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
More info here: mariechancel.com/open-positio... or by contacting me directly !
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New from our predictive coding study: hollow mask illusion is weaker in schizophrenia and non-clinical voice hearers. Trend towards positive correlation between top-down effects and psychosis - not a simple story, but intriguing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Depth inversion illusion and its relationship to positive symptoms in clinical and non-clinical voice hearers
Among people with schizophrenia (PSZ), positive symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions are often conceptualised as resulting from abnormal top-down modulation of sensory information. PSZ oft...
www.tandfonline.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
New from our predictive coding study: hollow mask illusion is weaker in schizophrenia and non-clinical voice hearers. Trend towards positive correlation between top-down effects and psychosis - not a simple story, but intriguing www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
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March 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience! Join us, & investigate how we can endow domain-specific models of vision (eg DNNs) with domain-general processes such as metacognition or working memory.
All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience
www.kuleuven.be
March 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
PhD position in cognitive computational neuroscience! Join us, & investigate how we can endow domain-specific models of vision (eg DNNs) with domain-general processes such as metacognition or working memory.
All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
All details => www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#PsychSciSky #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence
Dear colleagues in visual perception research, I have a quick question for you! We’re looking to purchase a head-mounted display (HMD) that’s compatible with EEG—we’re using a 128-electrode Biosemi system. Do you have any recommendations for products that might suit our needs? Many thanks!
March 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Dear colleagues in visual perception research, I have a quick question for you! We’re looking to purchase a head-mounted display (HMD) that’s compatible with EEG—we’re using a 128-electrode Biosemi system. Do you have any recommendations for products that might suit our needs? Many thanks!
Today at 16:00 (Central European Time), Axel Cleeremans (@axc.bsky.social) will present at our Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars on his lab's work on the value of consciousness. For those who want to attend, please find the relevant information (e.g. Zoom link) below. We're excited to have you, Axel!
Cognitive Neuroscience Club: "What it's like is all there is: The value of Consciousness"
Our next online seminar is on Friday 7 March 2025 at 16:00. We welcome Prof. Axel Cleeremans, Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences (CRCN), Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
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March 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today at 16:00 (Central European Time), Axel Cleeremans (@axc.bsky.social) will present at our Cognitive Neuroscience Seminars on his lab's work on the value of consciousness. For those who want to attend, please find the relevant information (e.g. Zoom link) below. We're excited to have you, Axel!
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We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
To apply and for more details, please see:
RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
Reposted by Renzo Lanfranco
New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions"
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions"
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...