Of course! These are a few highlights from our results (much more to come😊) Happy to discuss this further!

Last poster session of the #ASSC28!
Come to the space below the stairs to hear about attributions of consciousness and moral status, vulcans, zombies and more 🤓 @assc28.bsky.social

When @davidchalmers.bsky.social has a slide with @matanmazor.bsky.social as a title, you know he's onto something :) pay a visit to my poster today at 16:30 (P359) to hear what people think about consciousness, moral status and the relationship between them! #ASSC28

Thank you so much @tobiasschlicht.bsky.social for organizing this workshop about @birchlse.bsky.social 's Edge of Sentience! Had a great time presenting some exciting results from our survey of public intuitions about consciousness and moral status @niccolonegro.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social

I lost count of how many times I said, “I’ll believe it when I see it", and here we are. It's been a privilege to be part of @arc-cogitate.bsky.social and to learn from such brilliant people (especially grateful to @liadmudrik.bsky.social for the opportunity to join this massive project)

Thanks! Such a privilege to speak at this amazing event. The cathedral vibes made it even more special, and I was truly honored to share the stage with so many brilliant speakers (@johanneskleiner.bsky.social included!!)

Somehow @liadmudrik.bsky.social manages to raise the bar for a fully-packed lecture hall every single time; today, talking about what makes life meaningful 🧐 #ISCOP

Had a great time presenting our work on the tilt aftereffect at #ISCOP! So good to be back at this conference (and enjoy these views 🌊 🎊)

Reality often sucks, but much less so when @royesal.bsky.social is giving a talk about his unreal paradigm 😎

It was a great pleasure to talk at the ISFN about the VR paradigm we built 🎉
For those who are interested, it can be found here >> github.com/RonyHirsch/V...

Arguably, non-existing words might stem from experiences that were real, just not veridical. While relying on words alone does not allow to disentangle the two, looking at rated confidence gives us a hint: existing words had higher confidence ratings than non-existing ones >>

We suggest that gist perception and semantic knowledge might drive some of the responses: when examining the words’ contents, ~ ⅓ did not describe things that appeared in the image, and some of these non-existing words matched the gist of the scene >>

But the uniqueness of words to images was not affected by the degradation manipulation. Moreover, the measure was correlated with the frequency of words in English, suggesting that it might reflect language patterns rather than exclusively track perception >>

We reasoned that if this measure captures the richness of conscious perception, they should be sensitive to changes in perceptual contents, specifically ones that degrade them. In two studies (six experiments and five controls) we degraded the visual experience like so >>

We explore this question using a recently developed method: people viewed briefly presented images of scenes and were asked to freely report five words and rate their confidence in each word; the suggested metric then quantified the uniqueness of these descriptions >>

Excited to share our latest work with
Itay Yaron, Dan Biderman, Natalie Biderman,
Rotem Bennet, Meir Plotnik and @liadmudrik.bsky.social
introducing a multi-trial IB paradigm in virtual reality ✨ 🥽 doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02401-8 all the materials are open access here >> osf.io/648bp/