ARC ETHOS
Accelerating Research on Consciousness:
Empirical Tests of Higher-Order theories of consciousnesS
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- The performance of mind: from movement, mental states, and consciousness. A new paper from Guy Cheron and Ana Maria Cebolla. Read it here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... or get the PDF from our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs
- Vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. A new paper by @benjyb.bsky.social @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social Read it here: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... or on the ETHOS website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs
- OPPORTUNITY: The 2026 Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition is now taking applications. This year we're focusing on new innovations in the field and one attendee can win a £2500 prize. It's July 8th-10th in London. Find out more and apply here: metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
- One of our advisory board members, @onemorebrown.bsky.social has given a talk "Testing the HOROR Theory of Phenomenal Consciousness". Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZc...
- Happy New Year from the ETHOS team! Why not celebrate by reading some preprints from @peterlush.bsky.social and @zoltandienes.bsky.social at Sussex which lay the groundwork for Experiment 3? To access the preprints, please see the links on our outputs page: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs
- In case you missed @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster at SfN this year, you can see it here! It's also available, along with ETHOS' other outputs on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/outputs
- Massive congratulations to @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social on being one of The Transmitter's rising stars of neuroscience 2025! Among her many accomplishments, she's leading ETHOS Experiment 2B. www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...
- Meet the Team: Seth Schallies Seth is at Northeastern University’s Subjectivity Lab with @jorge-morales.bsky.social and working on research relating to mental imagery and perception. Read more on our website: www.arc-ethos.org/news
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- Meet the Team: @ogulyurdakul.bsky.social is a PhD student at UCI. He's interested in how statistical signal processing methods can be applied in consciousness science and how different theories of consciousness intersect and differentiate. See www.arc-ethos.org/news, ogulyurdakul.github.io for more.
- Going to @sfn.org this year? Check out @aliekhlasi.bsky.social's poster. November 19th from 4-5pm. See the abstract: www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/?_gl=1*1...
- Reposted by ARC ETHOS📣 BIG NEWS EVERYONE. I am so excited to announce… 🎉 I’m moving to University College London @ucl.ac.uk to join the Experimental Psychology department in @uclpals.bsky.social! 🎉 The big move happens in spring/summer. So I’m already exploring recruiting staff & students at UCL for fall 2026!
- Xueyi Huang (working with @jorge-morales.bsky.social at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at @assc28.bsky.social over the summer. See her poster here:
- Meet the team: Saïd-Iraj Hashemi Saïd-Iraj is a PhD student in neurophysiology at ULB working on Experiment 3. His work investigates the (mis)alignment between lived experience and perceptual processing through the study of evoked potentials and oscillatory brain activity. www.arc-ethos.org/news
- Reposted by ARC ETHOS🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4
- ETHOS had our first in-person meeting on Friday, September 12th in Brussels. It was exciting to see all the experiments coming together! www.arc-ethos.org/news
- Xueyi Huang (working with @jorge-morales.bsky.social at Northeastern) presented her work on Experiment 2A at the Vision Sciences Society meeting in Florida. Read the abstract here: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
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- .@smfleming.bsky.social @onemorebrown.bsky.social and @axc.bsky.social have published a theoretical paper titled “Computational higher-order theories of consciousness” as a book chapter. See the preprint here. philarchive.org/archive/FLECHT
- Reposted by ARC ETHOS📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Reposted by ARC ETHOS🚨Amazing opportunity: position available for a new associate/full professor at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social! Do you have a neuroimaging-focused research program? Get applying! 🚨 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
- Our funders @templetonworld.bsky.social, have highlighted ETHOS on their website. See their article here: www.templetonworldcharity.org/blog/how-eth...
- Meet the Team - Ataol Burak Ozsu Ataol recently joined @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab as a research assistant. He will study higher-order representations of imagined, perceived, and unconscious stimuli using MEG. See the ETHOS website for more: www.arc-ethos.org/news
- Meet the Team - Michaela Klímová Michaela is a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern working on Experiment 2. She is interested in how the visual system transforms the basic building blocks of vision into complex representations. For more information see: www.arc-ethos.org/news
- Meet the Team - @angelashen.bsky.social Angela is a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine. She's broadly interested in investigating the behavioral and neural relationships among visual perception, metacognition, and visual attention. For more info: www.arc-ethos.org/news
- Meet the Team: Karen Tian Karen is a Ph.D. student at Boston University working on Experiment 1. She studies visual perception, with a special interest in its interplay with visual attention and their dynamics. For more details, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or www.karentian.com
- Meet the team: @aliekhlasi.bsky.social is a post-doc working on Experiment 2 at UCI. His current research focuses on applying machine learning to evaluate theories of consciousness using fMRI data. For more, see www.arc-ethos.org/news or his website aliekhlasi.com
- Meet the Team: Peter Lush Peter is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sussex, where he is testing imaginative suggestion for changes in visual experience with Zoltan Dienes for ETHOS Experiment 3. www.arc-ethos.org/news
- Meet the Team - Xueyi Huang Xueyi is a PhD student at Northeastern. Her research focuses on visual mental imagery, perception, and the shared mechanisms between them. She is currently working on ETHOS Experiment 2 and investigating the visual properties of mental images. www.arc-ethos.org/news
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- Meet the Team - Kiarra Garcia Kiarra joined ETHOS in July 2024 as a research assistant. She is pursuing her B.S. in Cognitive Science at the UCI. She is currently working on behavioral and fMRI studies that decode vividness in imagery and perception. www.arc-ethos.org/our-team
- Meet the Team: @benjyb.bsky.social is working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on ETHOS. He is helping @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social test the richness of higher-order representations using MEG. See more about Benjy here www.arc-ethos.org/news and on his website benjybarnett.github.io
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- Reposted by ARC ETHOSJOB ALERT: We are recruiting a research assistant in the Imagine Reality Lab to work on a project using MEG decoding to distinguish between different theories of consciousness 🧠 Get in touch if you have any questions about the role's scientific details. Please share! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
