Neuroscientist & Affiliated Lecturer @CambPsych | Assistant Professor @UCatolicaMaule | Creator of 'Talking Brains' 🧠🎙️

Cambridge, England
Joined March 2010
Happy to share our new pre-print "Attention reshapes the information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning" led by the great Juho Äijälä, with @happieheads, @Kai_J_Miller, @dora_hermes, @drrobinince, @ABlenkmann , @TrikBek, Max Garagnani. Thread below👇
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Art accompanying the publication. Variations_on_a_theme_270926. #Emergent #Multiscale #Organisation across (un)conscious states. I’ve been toying with how we visualise data as #digital #art- (ifacts). I am using @Blender particle systems, scientific data is the medium.
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I’m super excited to share that our new preprint is now live on bioRxiv! We uncovered another unexpected role for kainate receptors (KARs; grik genes), this time in coordinating embryonic blood development. biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Who cares about AI consciousness ? We have a new cat 😎🐈‍⬛😅
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
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New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
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A new species of cat has been identified for the first time in a century—and experts think that there may be even more to discover around the world: on.natgeo.com/n5nxra
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How much information about a stimulus is available to a perceptual system, and how much of that info becomes consciously accessible? Here, in “Perceptual awareness as an information-distribution problem,” I propose an information-theoretic framework. osf.io/zmf5h
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1/🧠 Happy to share our new preprint: "From synergy to redundancy: An information-relation account of consciousness" What makes a neural representation conscious? Is it because information becomes integrated across the brain? Or because it becomes widely available to many systems? We propose these may be two parts of the same story: 🧵👇
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8/ So perhaps the key question is not: Are conscious representations integrated or globally available? but: How is information about a conscious content constructed, transformed, and shared across the brain? Our proposal: Synergy constructs. Redundancy shares. Conscious perception may require both. with @danielrebbin , @MilinkovBorjan, @drrobinince, and @martin_a_vinck 👉 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cz…
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I didn’t become Prime Minister to just make a few tweaks around the edges. I want to change the way this country works. For too long, politics became comfortable with the idea that some things just can't be fixed. People sleeping on our streets. Huge inequalities between different parts of the country. Young people unable to afford a home. Communities watching decisions about their future being taken somewhere else, by someone else. Governments have talked about those things. They've even promised to fix them. But too often, they've reached the same conclusion: it just can't be done. I don't accept that, and I never have. That’s why we’ve invested to offer everyone who needs it a route off the streets by Christmas. It's why we've announced the biggest council housebuilding programme since the Second World War. It's why we're opening 159 new mental health centres. It's why we've finally put technical education on par with the academic route. It's why we're delivering the biggest transfer of power out of Westminster and into local communities in a generation. And it's why we opened No10 North too. Not as another government office. But because I believe one thing very strongly: Britain won't be rebuilt from the top down. You have to put power back in the hands of the people and places that know their communities best - and then put the full weight of government behind them. I also want to give people a bit of breathing space too. That's why we've cut tax on electricity bills, capped bus fares at £2, and made subscriptions easier to cancel. It’s why we've cracked down on fake discounts and cut business rates for pubs, social clubs and music venues. And it's why we've extended the 16-17 Saver Railcard and introduced free 24/7 bus travel for disabled people. That is the change we have started. More power for our communities, more support on the cost of living and a long-term plan to rebuild the country. Each one of those changes is part of the same thing. Good growth in every postcode. Reindustrialising Britain. And making sure wherever you live - and whatever your background - you feel this country has a future for you. Because, in the end, that's what this is about: bringing back hope.
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All above board: what Nigel Farage claims he said vs what Nigel Farage actually said
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'What do you think he thinks of mugs like you?' James O'Brien has a warning for Nigel Farage's supporters, after the Reform leader 'threw his own protégé under a bus' over the party's donations scandal.
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