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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Jiahao Wu, Yumiko Yoshimura for providing the mouse data! Hope further great collaborations! (Their primary paper link is here www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...)

Congrats to Kallum for finalizing his Honours thesis into this gigantic work!

Anesthesia Induces Shifts in Spatial Frequency Preference in the Primary Visual Cortex

General anesthesia markedly reduces overall brain responsiveness to external stimuli. Animal studies reveal that in individual neurons of the primary visual cortex (V1), anesthesia modulates the gain ...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 11d

A new print from our lab! Comparisons of human similarity structures and mouse visual neural response pattern similarity structure in the domain of visual motion!

Common Phenomenal and Neural Substrate Geometry in Visual Motion Perception. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Common Phenomenal and Neural Substrate Geometry in Visual Motion Perception.

What is a possible physical substrate of the qualitative aspects of consciousness (qualia)? Answering this question is a central goal of consciousness research. Due to their subjective and ineffable n...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 13d

Anesthesia Induces Shifts in Spatial Frequency Preference in the Primary Visual Cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Jiahao Wu, Taisuke Yoneda, Kallum Robinson, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Yumiko Yoshimura
bioRxiv 2025.09.29.679183; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Anesthesia Induces Shifts in Spatial Frequency Preference in the Primary Visual Cortex

General anesthesia markedly reduces overall brain responsiveness to external stimuli. Animal studies reveal that in individual neurons of the primary visual cortex (V1), anesthesia modulates the gain ...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations to Yun Zhao et al!
www.nature.com/articles/s42... Cortical connectivity, local dynamics and stability correlates of global conscious states : Communications in Biology - Neural basis of loss of consciousness due to Xenon anesthesia with mean field models

Cortical connectivity, local dynamics and stability correlates of global conscious states - Communications Biology

Time-resolved MEG modeling under Xenon anesthesia identifies posterior parietal connectivity and cortical stability as correlates of consciousness, with weaker parietal-occipital and parietal-to-prefrontal links marking reduced responsiveness.

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 13d

IIT & Qualia Structure JC #:5 An Adjunction Hypothesis between Qualia and Reports youtu.be/7nQXoncCM7Q?... via @YouTube

IIT & Qualia Structure JC #:5 An Adjunction Hypothesis between Qualia and Reports

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 26d

[Qstr PI talk, Tom Froese] the phenomenological ontology motivating the irruption theory by Tom Froese youtu.be/z8MSEMNIg-I?... via @YouTube @DrTomFroese

[Qstr PI talk, Tom Froese] the phenomenological ontology motivating irruption theory

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 27d

Congrats to @ZhangChuyin ! This is our latest PREPRINT from our lab. While it originated as a reply to a critical paper, it ended up with a nice paper with philosophical claim on how to (and how not to) measure experience and new analysis methods of free-report based data!
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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · 28d

Why does time feel the way it does? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Toward a principled account of temporal experience
Author links open overlay panel Renzo Comolatti, Matteo Grasso , Giulio Tononi

Why does time feel the way it does? Toward a principled account of temporal experience

Time flows—or at least the time of our experience does. Can we provide an objective account of why the conscious present encompasses a succession of m…

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Francesco Ellia @ellia.bsky.social · Sep 14

New #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n]

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(PDF) Intrinsic Universal Structures and Extrinsic Local Functions

PDF | Contemporary consciousness science faces an impasse: competing theoretical frameworks, structuralist vs. functionalist, universal vs. local,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Sep 12

Discussion with Muneki Ikeda, Matteo Paganin, Oisin Clancy, and Davide Alde. Link to the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.12179

Towards a (meta-)mathematical theory of consciousness: universal (mapping) properties of experience

Conscious experience permeates our daily lives, yet general consensus on a theory of consciousness remains elusive. In the face of such difficulty, an alternative strategy is to address a more general...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Sep 12

IIT & Qualia Structure JC #:2 Consciousness as an intrinsic causal structure youtu.be/93-yh_3_VaE?...

Luis Humberto Eudave Ramos presents "Towards a (meta-)mathematical theory of consciousness: universal (mapping) properties of experience" by Grasso et al., forthcoming.

IIT & Qualia Structure JC #:2 Consciousness as an intrinsic causal structure

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Sep 6

Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Last but not least, many thanks to our excellent co-authors on this project!
@MulayNirmitee
,
@hohwy

and Makiko Yamada!

S4 Ep16: Your Mind on Dissociation with Dr. Anikó Kusztor

Podcast Episode · Minds Matter · 08/31/2025 · 46m

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you want to dive deeper into dissociation research, I recently discussed this study and some other upcoming work on the Minds Matter Podcast:
Show notes: mindsmatterpodcast.com/s4-ep-16-you...
Spotify:

S4 Ep16: Your Mind on Dissociation with Dr. Anikó Kusztor

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Sep 6

Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

OSF

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Sep 6

IIT & Qualia Structure JC #:1 Consciousness as an intrinsic causal structure youtu.be/PZ0Dxh6aRVg?... via @YouTube

IIT & Qualia Structure JC #:1 Consciousness as an intrinsic causal structure

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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · Sep 3

www.atr.jp/topics/press... ATRから Nature Communications に掲載された DreamEEG database 論文についてのプレスリリースが出ました。

ATR｜株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所

情報通信分野における基礎的、独創的研究の推進をおこないます。

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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · Sep 1

「最近土谷が色々学んで、昔西郷さんが言ってたことがつながってきました」発表会その１(全６回） Primas から外積・ポアソン括弧まで youtu.be/fA5YxBGalYQ?... @YouTubeより

「最近土谷が色々学んで、昔西郷さんが言ってたことがつながってきました」発表会その１(全６回） Primas から外積・ポアソン括弧まで

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Aug 27

Ep 97: Let's discuss a paper soon after reading it! Perceptual Similarity in Mouse youtu.be/oWHR5lFp6as?... via @YouTube
Nakayama et al (2022). A behavioral paradigm for measuring perceptual distances in mice. Cell reports methods, 2(6), 100233. doi.org/10.1016/j.cr....

Ep 97: Let's discuss a paper soon after reading it! Perceptual Similarity in Mouse

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Aug 24

Paper Presentation on Anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness disrupts auditory responses youtu.be/LFQXML-_YI0?...

Presented by Olivia Gibbins

Original paper by Krom et al PNAS 2020

Paper Presentation on Anesthesia-induced loss of consciousness disrupts auditory responses

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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · Aug 24

I had a very conversation with Ryan Anderson at his awonderjunkie postcast!

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#86 Nao Tsuchiya -Qualia and Consciousness?

Podcast Episode · AWONDERJUNKIE · 08/14/2025 · 1h 53m

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Aug 19

Original paper : Correspondence of high-dimensional emotion structures elicited by video clips between humans and Multimodal LLMs
arxiv.org/abs/2505.12746

Correspondence of high-dimensional emotion structures elicited by video clips between humans and Multimodal LLMs

Recent studies have revealed that human emotions exhibit a high-dimensional, complex structure. A full capturing of this complexity requires new approaches, as conventional models that disregard high ...

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Consciousness - tlab @qualiastructure.bsky.social · Aug 19

[seminar talk] Haruka Asanuma : emotion structures in humans and Multimodal LMMs
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[seminar talk] Haruka Asanuma : emotion structures in humans and Multimodal LMMs

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Aug 14

This paper would not have been possible without

- the vision and commitment of Nao Tsuchiya for open science (@qualiastructure.bsky.social)!

- the tenacity of William Wong and the rest of the core team!

- the generosity of all the researchers who could contribute their data!

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Aug 14

💤🧠🧪 New article! 🧪🧠💤

After years of effort led by @qualiastructure.bsky.social (Nao Tsuchiya and William Wong), Jenny Windt, Katja Valli, Valdas Noreika and @rherzoga.bsky.social, the Dream database is now published in @natcomms.nature.com

**A dream EEG and mentation database**
rdcu.be/eAwni

Illustration from Ana Yael
https://www.anayael.com/

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Naotsugu Tsuchiya @naotsuchiya.bsky.social · Aug 15

only less than 7% of data marked as “available upon request” is actually accessible upon reasonable
request by researchers, according to a recent estimate

Gabelica et al "Many researchers were not compliant with their published data sharing statement". J Clin Epi 2022

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