Danila Shelepenkov
@shpen.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscience, stupid jokes and philosophy
15/ I don't like all the modern elegant (more like tiaras or EEG) systems in the movies, so we'll finish here with one MRI like, TOTAL RECALL!
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
15/ I don't like all the modern elegant (more like tiaras or EEG) systems in the movies, so we'll finish here with one MRI like, TOTAL RECALL!
14/ This Canadian Robocop (Vindicator) is really scary, besides, I don't think you can just put your brain in plastic
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
14/ This Canadian Robocop (Vindicator) is really scary, besides, I don't think you can just put your brain in plastic
13/ Perhaps a couple more invasive ones, for example, how can you sleep with this in your head? And how to wear a hat?
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
13/ Perhaps a couple more invasive ones, for example, how can you sleep with this in your head? And how to wear a hat?
12/ Looks brutal(Johnny mnemonic 1994). This and the matrix are my favorite loaded designs (lots of wires, hardware and other stuff)
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
12/ Looks brutal(Johnny mnemonic 1994). This and the matrix are my favorite loaded designs (lots of wires, hardware and other stuff)
11/ This is opposite, good style, you can see right away that only the frontal lobes are needed (Surrogates 2009) I also think this is a reference to Schwarzenegger's BCI from the movie 6th day
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
11/ This is opposite, good style, you can see right away that only the frontal lobes are needed (Surrogates 2009) I also think this is a reference to Schwarzenegger's BCI from the movie 6th day
10/ Want to dive into VR and become a genius in your garage? This is Lawnmower Man movie, pure trash
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
10/ Want to dive into VR and become a genius in your garage? This is Lawnmower Man movie, pure trash
9/ Back to the early OPM era, the bulb lights inside make everything cooler pls add them to real MEG
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
9/ Back to the early OPM era, the bulb lights inside make everything cooler pls add them to real MEG
8/ Brainstorm (1983) - this according to the plot records experiences and memories, cool and stylish but I have a question why two staples on the sides?
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
8/ Brainstorm (1983) - this according to the plot records experiences and memories, cool and stylish but I have a question why two staples on the sides?
7/ It's a head drying or maybe brainwashing, who knows, but it looks cool for 50s
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
7/ It's a head drying or maybe brainwashing, who knows, but it looks cool for 50s
6/ Old and clean. They were able to transfer consciousness in Metropolis using only 3 electrodes and this was in 1927, impressive
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
6/ Old and clean. They were able to transfer consciousness in Metropolis using only 3 electrodes and this was in 1927, impressive
5/ My top 1, legend from Ghostbusters, you can still make pasta using this
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
5/ My top 1, legend from Ghostbusters, you can still make pasta using this
4/ According to the description from neurafutures.com, most often such devices are used in science fiction to control memory or transplant consciousness. Well, I don't think that anyone is working on this now, but what is definitely cool in these films is the design of the devices. Below is my top
neurafutures.com
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
4/ According to the description from neurafutures.com, most often such devices are used in science fiction to control memory or transplant consciousness. Well, I don't think that anyone is working on this now, but what is definitely cool in these films is the design of the devices. Below is my top
3/ As a database I used bciwiki.org/index.php/Br... add some info from the excellent project www.neurafutures.com and also posts on Reddit and from my own memory (cool device photo starting from 5/ )
Brain Computer Interfaces In Fiction - Brain Computer Interface Wiki
bciwiki.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
3/ As a database I used bciwiki.org/index.php/Br... add some info from the excellent project www.neurafutures.com and also posts on Reddit and from my own memory (cool device photo starting from 5/ )
2/ Well, quite a few movies use BCI or something similar, and I didn't include magical objects like the sorting hat from Harry Potter
February 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
2/ Well, quite a few movies use BCI or something similar, and I didn't include magical objects like the sorting hat from Harry Potter
20/ More important that, predictive coding was able to elegantly combine perception, learning, and attention (and sensory attenuation) into one model. Also while it did change the idea of what a neural signal is, we're still 25 years later trying to figure out how exactly error signals are encoded
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
20/ More important that, predictive coding was able to elegantly combine perception, learning, and attention (and sensory attenuation) into one model. Also while it did change the idea of what a neural signal is, we're still 25 years later trying to figure out how exactly error signals are encoded
19/ So what about the strange inversion? From my point of view It wasn't really a real inversion from stimulus–cognition–response towards prediction. Although the concept of predictive error was new to psychology and neuroscience
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
19/ So what about the strange inversion? From my point of view It wasn't really a real inversion from stimulus–cognition–response towards prediction. Although the concept of predictive error was new to psychology and neuroscience
18/ Finally, there were no studies pointing to suppression in the visual cortex, a key element in pioneer predictive coding papers. For example see, Predictive coding: A fresh view on inhibition in the retina (1982) and Rao & Ballard's work, both mention end-inhibition neurons
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
18/ Finally, there were no studies pointing to suppression in the visual cortex, a key element in pioneer predictive coding papers. For example see, Predictive coding: A fresh view on inhibition in the retina (1982) and Rao & Ballard's work, both mention end-inhibition neurons
17/ Additionally, the mathematical foundation were not on the table (like in 90s). Ideas related to optimal information processing, developed within cybernetics and information theory, only emerged in the 60s-70s (when a New Look approache was drowned in criticism).
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
17/ Additionally, the mathematical foundation were not on the table (like in 90s). Ideas related to optimal information processing, developed within cybernetics and information theory, only emerged in the 60s-70s (when a New Look approache was drowned in criticism).
16/ Also because many early cognitive psychologists in the 50s-60s were reluctant to work with "set," which was seen as a garbage term tied to psychoanalysis and Gestalt psychology. New Look failed to formalize this correctly
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
16/ Also because many early cognitive psychologists in the 50s-60s were reluctant to work with "set," which was seen as a garbage term tied to psychoanalysis and Gestalt psychology. New Look failed to formalize this correctly
15/ I think this happened because it was the simplest interpretation of experimental results (e.g., faster reactions to expected stimuli and slower to unexpected ones) Occam's razor slaughtered the theory's growth
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
15/ I think this happened because it was the simplest interpretation of experimental results (e.g., faster reactions to expected stimuli and slower to unexpected ones) Occam's razor slaughtered the theory's growth
14/ These concepts assumed “directive factors, given a stimulus input of certain characteristics, operate to organize the perceptual field in such a way as to maximize percepts relevant and expectations and to minimize percepts inimical to such needs and expectations”
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
14/ These concepts assumed “directive factors, given a stimulus input of certain characteristics, operate to organize the perceptual field in such a way as to maximize percepts relevant and expectations and to minimize percepts inimical to such needs and expectations”
13/ What's even stranger is that the opposite happened. New Look proponents developed concepts like Perceptual Defense and perceptual vigilance.
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
13/ What's even stranger is that the opposite happened. New Look proponents developed concepts like Perceptual Defense and perceptual vigilance.
12/ Even experiments from the 20th century, like Bruner & Postman's card experiment, closely resembled the oddball paradigm, a classic in predictive coding?
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
12/ Even experiments from the 20th century, like Bruner & Postman's card experiment, closely resembled the oddball paradigm, a classic in predictive coding?
11/ So, describing the 20th century solely as stimulus–cognition–response is inaccurate. But why didn’t we get a fully developed precursor theory of predictive coding 50 years earlier? After all, the "set" also includes prediction
January 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
11/ So, describing the 20th century solely as stimulus–cognition–response is inaccurate. But why didn’t we get a fully developed precursor theory of predictive coding 50 years earlier? After all, the "set" also includes prediction