Orlando is a vibrant, diverse, and progressive city with world-class amenities in a beautiful natural setting, close to beaches, national forests, fresh-water springs, and the Space Coast.

Pretty sure Minnesota might be the only place where you can look at high-field MRI images on a jumbotron.

Me to ESPN today.

First day of the term vibes.

A campfire and big open sky helps temporarily.

Please share! Come work with us in Orlando! The Conscious Audition and Scene Analysis (CASA) Lab at the University of Central Florida is looking to hire a postdoc to work on projects related to the neural basis of auditory perception and cognition. 🧠📈 #EEG 🧠🤖 #consci

Really great turnout and engagement at our #ASSC27 tutorial on using the Human Neocortical Neurosolver to bridge across scales in (un)conscious processing. Thanks to all who participated, and Carolina Fernandez, Stephanie Jones, @tmarvan.bsky.social, and the ASSC.
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We also observed above-chance decoding for SWS vs. flipped SWS words in phase 2, but not in phase 1.

This was observed as a phase 2 > phase 1 negative-going response for SWS words, but not for flipped SWS words.

Our main finding was a left-lateralized two-way interaction between phase (phase 1 vs. 2) and stimulus type (SWS vs. flipped SWS) from ~150-350 ms post word-onset.

Importantly, and in contrast to previous studies using similar stimuli/designs, we also created control stimuli for use within subjects that were identical to the SWS stimuli except for a time-limited frequency “flipping” of the 2nd and 3rd formants of each SWS token.

In phase 2, after confirming the lack of speech perception in phase 1, listeners performed the same 1-back task as in phase 1, keeping the SWS task-irrelevant. However, because listeners were now primed, the SWS that was previously heard as whistles was now heard as speech.

The message my graduate students - budding consciousness scientists - are receiving from the social media discussion atm.