@neurophysics.bsky.social
Arbores cerebro sunt radices mentis
A place to discuss:
Neurophysics
Causality
Natural and Synthetic Intelligence
Mind-Body Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind, Science, and Physics
https://linktr.ee/neurophysics
Account run by:
@wisam.bsky.social
A place to discuss:
Neurophysics
Causality
Natural and Synthetic Intelligence
Mind-Body Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind, Science, and Physics
https://linktr.ee/neurophysics
Account run by:
@wisam.bsky.social
Pinned
Information Ontology Cannot Account for Consciousness - Clubhouse
Reading Peter Tse’s paper “Ontological Conceptions of Information Cannot Account for Consciousness”
tinyurl.com
Reading and discussing Peter Tse's new paper "Ontological conceptions of information cannot account
for consciousness" at 7 PM EST tonight on Clubhouse. Come listen in or join the discussion!
Event link (will link to the recording after the event):
tinyurl.com/Tse-Info-Ont...
for consciousness" at 7 PM EST tonight on Clubhouse. Come listen in or join the discussion!
Event link (will link to the recording after the event):
tinyurl.com/Tse-Info-Ont...
Reposted
Genetic screening of prospective pets to deduce behavioural traits can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality
✏️ @philipcball.bsky.social
✏️ @philipcball.bsky.social
Dog DNA tests are barking up the wrong tree
Genetic screening of prospective pets to deduce behavioural traits can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Genetic screening of prospective pets to deduce behavioural traits can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality
✏️ @philipcball.bsky.social
✏️ @philipcball.bsky.social
Reposted
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Reposted
My review of Maja Spener's book "Introspection: first-person access in science and agency" is now published in MIND. You can find it here: academic.oup.com/mind/advance....
Introspection: First-Person Access in Science and Agency, by Maja Spener
Most books about introspection are full of chivalry: they’re about the metaphysical nature of introspection and its role in securing first-person knowledge
academic.oup.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My review of Maja Spener's book "Introspection: first-person access in science and agency" is now published in MIND. You can find it here: academic.oup.com/mind/advance....
Reposted
"The death of the scientist is the loss of the inner world that creates an idea, but this is also when the idea can become shared, and the inner world of the societal system of debate and controversy comes alive" www.noemamag.com/the-death-of...
The Death Of The Scientist | NOEMA
Will AI kill science, or will it foster a scientific revolution? The answer depends on something no one knows: What is science?
www.noemamag.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"The death of the scientist is the loss of the inner world that creates an idea, but this is also when the idea can become shared, and the inner world of the societal system of debate and controversy comes alive" www.noemamag.com/the-death-of...
🙌
December 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
🙌
Reposted
Four experts reflect on the regulatory future of organoids and assembloids after a conference in California.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/organoids/wh...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/organoids/wh...
What is the future of organoid and assembloid regulation?
Four experts weigh in on how to establish ethical guardrails for research on the 3D neuron clusters as these models become ever more complex.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Four experts reflect on the regulatory future of organoids and assembloids after a conference in California.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/organoids/wh...
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/organoids/wh...
Reposted
Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe - my lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dec 2nd 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61N... w/ thanks to @mvargam.bsky.social for the invitation! 😊
Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe - Lecture of Dr. Kevin Mitchell
YouTube video by MTA 1825
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Free Will in an Indeterministic Universe - my lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Dec 2nd 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61N... w/ thanks to @mvargam.bsky.social for the invitation! 😊
Reposted
Beta Burst Waveform Diversity: A Window onto Cortical Computation
doi.org/10.1177/1073...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.1177/1073...
#neuroscience
Beta Burst Waveform Diversity: A Window onto Cortical Computation - Holly Rayson, Quentin Moreau, Solene Gailhard, Maciej J. Szul, James J. Bonaiuto, 2025
Neural activity in the beta band is increasingly recognized to occur not as sustained oscillations but as transient burst-like events. These beta bursts are div...
doi.org
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Beta Burst Waveform Diversity: A Window onto Cortical Computation
doi.org/10.1177/1073...
#neuroscience
doi.org/10.1177/1073...
#neuroscience
Reposted
🚨New publication!
I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves!
@erc.europa.eu
@upcite.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves!
@erc.europa.eu
@upcite.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Traveling waves across scales: Different mechanisms but same canonical computation?
The review proposes a novel mechanistic distinction between first- and second-order traveling waves that subserves a same canonical computation by ordering neuronal processing to impose a computationa...
elifesciences.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨New publication!
I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves!
@erc.europa.eu
@upcite.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves!
@erc.europa.eu
@upcite.bsky.social
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
Reposted
This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host:
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host:
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Reposted
Study maps how psilocybin reshapes brain circuits linked to depression
"Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks
Psilocybin holds promise as a treatment for mental illnesses. One dose of psilocybin induces structural remodeling of dendritic spines in the medial f…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Study maps how psilocybin reshapes brain circuits linked to depression
"Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted
Timing is everything
Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window
Sabat et al. find that neurons in the ferret auditory cortex are invariant to sounds
outside of a time-limited integration window. These windows vary substantially across
cells, from ∼15 to ∼150 ms; a...
www.cell.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Timing is everything
Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window
www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroscience
Reposted
What a great paper. Wilson Poon & colleagues argue that life isn't exactly trying to be energetically efficient, because it needs the heat to optimize other capabilities.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.04725
www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.04725
Why life is hot
The process of evolution by natural selection leads to fitness-maximising phenotypes. On the level of cellular chemical reaction networks, maximising fitness can mean optimising a variety of fitness f...
www.arxiv.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What a great paper. Wilson Poon & colleagues argue that life isn't exactly trying to be energetically efficient, because it needs the heat to optimize other capabilities.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.04725
www.arxiv.org/abs/2512.04725
Reposted
Soapbox time: the problem with metabolic efficiency arguments in neuroscience is that they often confuse energy efficiency with energy expenditure. Biological systems are optimized for energy efficiency, but that does NOT imply they are optimized for low energy expenditure 🧵 1/
December 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Soapbox time: the problem with metabolic efficiency arguments in neuroscience is that they often confuse energy efficiency with energy expenditure. Biological systems are optimized for energy efficiency, but that does NOT imply they are optimized for low energy expenditure 🧵 1/
Reposted
🧠📢 New preprint alert
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
December 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
🧠📢 New preprint alert
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Large-scale ephys is exploding but spike sorting remains the computational bottleneck. A 2-hr, 6-probe Neuropixels 2.0 Quad Base session can take over a week to sort on a single machine. Here's a better solution. 🧵
#neuroskyence #compneurosky
Reposted
Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Both localized and distributed views on the functional organization of the brain have been put forward. In this Perspective, Rosen and Freedman examine the degree to which these two views account for ...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Thoughtful review with some good recent historical perspective on the ongoing paradigm shift that is radically changing the way we think about what brain areas do.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted
The basal forebrain plays the cortex like a piano.
A cholinergic mechanism orchestrating task-dependent computation across the cortex
In an ever-changing environment, animals often need to switch between performing different tasks involving distinct sets of cognitive processes. Many such tasks involve neural activity distributed acr...
www.biorxiv.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The basal forebrain plays the cortex like a piano.
Reposted
Anticipating seasons may have emerged early in life’s evolution. It may have even predated the internal clocks that give an organism a sense of day and night.
Even a Single Bacterial Cell Can Sense the Seasons Changing | Quanta Magazine
Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it. The discovery suggests that seasonal tracking is fundamental to life.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Anticipating seasons may have emerged early in life’s evolution. It may have even predated the internal clocks that give an organism a sense of day and night.
Reposted
One for the heredity scolds: construct a multi-tissue GRM where people
are differentially related to themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
are differentially related to themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:16 AM
One for the heredity scolds: construct a multi-tissue GRM where people
are differentially related to themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
are differentially related to themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted
What a great story from Heidi. "“We need a molecular definition of what is normal.” In the light of this work, one has to wonder if the molecular is the right place to look for that at all.
One for the heredity scolds: construct a multi-tissue GRM where people
are differentially related to themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
are differentially related to themselves.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person
Technical advances allow researchers to trace the genetic changes that occur over time.
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
What a great story from Heidi. "“We need a molecular definition of what is normal.” In the light of this work, one has to wonder if the molecular is the right place to look for that at all.
Reposted
🧠👀
'These findings reveal high-dimensional aspects of cortical representation undetectable with conventional methods, such as RSA, & contradict previous theories suggesting that high-level visual cortex representations are low-dimensional.' #neuroskyence
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
'These findings reveal high-dimensional aspects of cortical representation undetectable with conventional methods, such as RSA, & contradict previous theories suggesting that high-level visual cortex representations are low-dimensional.' #neuroskyence
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex
Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. ...
journals.plos.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🧠👀
'These findings reveal high-dimensional aspects of cortical representation undetectable with conventional methods, such as RSA, & contradict previous theories suggesting that high-level visual cortex representations are low-dimensional.' #neuroskyence
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
'These findings reveal high-dimensional aspects of cortical representation undetectable with conventional methods, such as RSA, & contradict previous theories suggesting that high-level visual cortex representations are low-dimensional.' #neuroskyence
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Reposted
Thrilled to share our new paper!
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Evolution of taste processing shifts dietary preference - Nature
Calcium imaging of taste neurons and the ventral brain provides insight into evolutionary divergence of food choice in Drosophila species, supporting a role of sensorimotor processing in addition to p...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper!
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With @tomtom-auer.bsky.social team, we asked how #evolution reshapes what animals #eat to match their ecological niches. Using pan-neuronal Ca2+ imaging, we show that the changes are in how the brain processes #taste.
Link @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted
What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions.
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
1/n🧵👇
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
1/n🧵👇
What does it mean to understand language?
Language understanding entails not just extracting the surface-level meaning of the linguistic input, but constructing rich mental models of the situation it describes. Here we propose that because pr...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
What does it mean to understand language? We argue that the brain’s core language system is limited, and that *deeply* understanding language requires EXPORTING info to other brain regions.
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
1/n🧵👇
w/ @neuranna.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @nancykanwisher.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
1/n🧵👇
Reposted
What a privilege and a delight to work with @coltoncasto.bsky.social @ev_fedorenko and @neuranna
on this new speculative piece on What it means to understand language, nicely summarized in this
Tweeprint from @coltoncasto.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
on this new speculative piece on What it means to understand language, nicely summarized in this
Tweeprint from @coltoncasto.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
November 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What a privilege and a delight to work with @coltoncasto.bsky.social @ev_fedorenko and @neuranna
on this new speculative piece on What it means to understand language, nicely summarized in this
Tweeprint from @coltoncasto.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
on this new speculative piece on What it means to understand language, nicely summarized in this
Tweeprint from @coltoncasto.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2511.19757
Reposted
During the later stages of learning, the mouse brain progressively activates transcriptional regulators that drive memory consolidation.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/to-pe...
#neuroskyence
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/to-pe...
#neuroskyence
To persist, memories surf molecular waves from thalamus to cortex
During the later stages of learning, the mouse brain progressively activates transcriptional regulators that drive memory consolidation.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
During the later stages of learning, the mouse brain progressively activates transcriptional regulators that drive memory consolidation.
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/to-pe...
#neuroskyence
By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/memory/to-pe...
#neuroskyence