Athena Demertzi
Experimenter charmed by unconsciousness. FNRS ULiège PI leading the @physiocognition.bsky.social | Co-EiC Neuroscience of Consciousness (OUP) | Co-chair of the assc2025.gr/ @assc28.bsky.social
- 🎉 Very happy that this worked out! From the FNRS: "The AMG supports original, bold and creative medical or biomedical research projects that are unable to find support through traditional funding channels due to a lack of preliminary data, the absence of previous work or an unusual methodology."
- This is so sad news 😢 Jonny was leading the fied of spontaneous thinking. And what a wonderful music maker. Truly will be missed, may he rest in peace.. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
- Nothing more exciting than running the first pilot of a new study. It's on @agusaragon.bsky.social 👌
- 🧪 Our new study on decoding #MindBlanking events started yesterday. The pilot was successful, and we now fine-tune the details. Led by @agusaragon.bsky.social, with the precious assistance of #NikosSimos and @b-marion.bsky.social
- In the line of good news, our lab's magician @parboulakis.bsky.social is presenting our latest work with @thomasandrillon.bsky.social @anikokusztor.bsky.social and #TsuchiyaNao. We combined fMRI and EEG & found that #MindBlanking has different neural signatures depending on perceived vigilance 😍. 🧵👇
- 🚨Preprint alert 🚨. Our work “Distinct cortical profiles underlie the common reportability of thought-free experiences” is available at www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... 🧵A thread ...
- She is unstoppable, @agusaragon.bsky.social 🤩
- Good luck, @agusaragon.bsky.social! We are so proud of you ☺️
- Our @agusaragon.bsky.social is a finalists at the #MindScienceFoundation Pitch Competition! And tonight she is also up for the audience choice award. Good luck, Agus! @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social @universitedeliege.bsky.social
- So happy for @agusaragon.bsky.social for this distinction, bravo! 🥳
- Accessible for students and not only 😊👇
- 🧠 New preprint! 🧠 As part of a forthcoming book on consciousness, we wrote a chapter on: Spontaneous thoughts and experiences across wakefulness and sleep osf.io/preprints/ps... with @parboulakis.bsky.social @ademertzi.bsky.social and @jdsitt.bsky.social A brief 🧵!
- I am in Sheffield upcoming Wed-Fri for our @escop.bsky.social symposium "The role of the body in cognition and emotion". 🙏 Grateful to @evdbussc.bsky.social & #GethinHughes for bringing together such an interesting panel to address how the body impacts emotions and thoughts. Connect if you attend!
- One month is left for the Pure Awareness Prize!
- Reposted by Athena DemertziIf you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
- Someone from the #ASSC28 sneaked in the airplane and plans to get bigger. My best reminder of this event 😊
- The Belgian mission of the #ASSC28 is heading back home. PS, @axc.bsky.social how.is it possible you are elegant ALL the time?
- 🥳 Thank you for the nomination @belgianneuro.bsky.social, I'm so humbled! Fingers crossed for a positive outcome 🤞 And big congratulations to #SenneBraem of course! 👏👏👏
- It was the night when Lionel Naccache paraphrased King Louis "It's good to be the President" #ASSC28 w/ @estamatakis.bsky.social
- Reposted by Athena DemertziTell us how we did! What do we need to improve? Any changes we should make to the conference? Fill out our survey to express your opinion on the ASSC conference.
- Please fill out the feedback survey for #ASSC2025 if you attended and haven't done so yet www.surveymonkey.com/r/HGNLBJW
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- It was our pleasure!
- A big thank you again to Athena Demertzi and Emmanuel Stamatakis for organising a wonderful ASSC conference @assc28.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social! See you all in Chile next year @assc2026.bsky.social !
- Not ready to say goodbye to Heraklion yet. For two days I'm participating at the INTREPID Symposium. Science everywhere.
- Impressed by the keynote of Prof Makris Nikos, who gave a comprehensive coverage of the relationship between metacognition and theory of mind and introduces the reflective nexus as the glue ingredient of the former two #ASSC28
- Reposted by Athena DemertziWhat is a journal without its Reviewers? Yet, finding the right experts is sometimes difficult. #NCONSC needs your expertise! The more diverse, the better! If you are interested in reviewing for us, register here! forms.gle/GYRJWc2ZWsD9... Enjoy @assc28.bsky.social!
- Thank you!
- One of the things I was hoping we provide to the #ASSC28 was children activities, for assisting parents to attend the sessions. And we did it! As a bonus, we get to have kids' refreshing energy around, so very welcome!
- For those joining us at the #ASSC28, mind to download the app for a comfortable navigation and easy networking with peers during the conference days. Soon!
- For an easier navigation during the #ASSC28 conference, download the app here 👇
- Reposted by Athena DemertziFor an easier navigation during the #ASSC28 conference, download the app here 👇
- I was looking forward to the #ASSC28 science, but this just makes the experience complete 😋
- Reposted by Athena DemertziWe need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤 If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then? Scientists know actually very little about this private moment. We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible! Here is the link: redcap.link/DriftingMinds
- 🥳 The 2024 Impact Factor & CiteScores are now released. We're pleased to inform you that Neuroscience of Consciousness #NCONSC achieved an Impact Factor of 4.3 (2023 IF 4.1). We are very excited and thankful for our prolific community of consciousness science! #consci @thomasandrillon.bsky.social
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- I can't believe it all came together 🥹 #ASSC28 @estamatakis.bsky.social
- The full programme is ready and online! assc2025.gr/programme
- We are very pleased that we could help some students with travel grants. Congratulations to the winners! #ASSC28
- Coming closer!
- English actors and actresses are incomparable, hands down.
- In Maastricht today to talk about Network Dynamics and Consciousness, what a wonderful program ahead set up by #EnricoAmico and @tjeerdwboonstra.bsky.social networkneuroscience.github.io
- Reposted by Athena DemertziI am opening one PhD position at the Neuroscience Center @uhneuro.bsky.social, focusing on large-scale neural interactions in perception and prediction (ECoG/LFPs/MEG) across human and non-human primates using comp. modeling and information theory. contact: www.helsinki.fi/en/hilife-he...
- Our symposium "How uncertainty in variant designs can inform neuro-cognitive function" just happened during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences #BAPS2025 and was not bad at all, given the diversity of the talks. Always fun around @axc.bsky.social 😊
- Reposted by Athena DemertziSynchrony and subjective experience: the neural correlates of the stream of consciousness: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Athena DemertziAre you coming to #ASSC_2025? If so, you might want to stick around for a couple more days for this symposium where the results of the INTERPID adversarial collaboration will be revealed! (+some meta-questions on the adversarial collaboration approach will be discussed) arc-intrepid.com/symposium/
- 🥳 Our JNeurosci 2023 paper is listed among the papers that use transparent thresholding in figures, thus making results more interpretable and useful for other studies. w/ @parboulakis.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40297230/ www.jneurosci.org/content/43/4...
- Spot on! We are looking at something similar and this great work is soooo welcome!👌
- Reposted by Athena DemertziWhat happens in the brain when your mind blanks? Team of neuroscientists and philosophers outline what we know so far. www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @ademertzi.bsky.social, Thomas Andrillo, @antoinelutz.bsky.social, Jennifer Windt @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social
- We were Symposium panel at the ASSC Amsterdam 2022. Since, we worked on this paper on #MindBlanking, which we think is a comprehensive coverage of the various questions around the hows of MB. Thank you @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social for the invitation. Thread🧵 by @thomasandrillon.bsky.social 👇
- With immense pleasure, here is our #TICS opinion paper on "mind blanking"! @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social **Where is my mind?** A neurocognitive investigation of mind blanking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... With Jenny Windt, @antoinelutz.bsky.social and @ademertzi.bsky.social
- To help the late early birds, we have extended the registration by a week. No more extensions are going to take place after that, attention. #ASSC28
- Yes, please, check that the validity of your ASSC membership is active during the conference 🙏
- Just realized that the #ASSC28 website has a foodie guide for Cretian food 😋 www.discovergreece.com/travel-ideas...
