Benjy Barnett
Post doc in the Uncertainty Lab at Birkbeck University. Consciousness + everything that might mean.
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettIn response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettSo excited to see this lovely paper with @benjyb.bsky.social, @matanmazor.bsky.social and @giuliacabbai.bsky.social published in @nconsc.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
- 🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Out now in @nconsc.bsky.social 🧠😶🌫️ academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
- 🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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I've got a fully-funded PhD studentship open at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social, investigating social learning about metacognition & awareness, w/ behavioural studies & neuroimaging (fMRI) - thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk More details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV831/p... #cogsci #neuroskyence - Reposted by Benjy BarnettI am very excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, w/ @peterkok.bsky.social and others: ‘An attempt to push mental imagery over the reality threshold using non-invasive brain stimulation’ doi.org/10.31234/osf...
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettI wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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- Reposted by Benjy Barnett🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe 1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning? In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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- A ✨bittersweet✨ moment – after 5 years at UCL, my final first-author project with @smfleming.bsky.social is ready to read as a preprint! 🥲
- Distinct neural representations of perceptual and numerical absence in the human brain: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zyr…
- What do the music of Miles Davis, the paintings of Edward Hopper, and the equations of Isaac Newton have in common? They all rely – in different ways – on absences.
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettVery proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettAfter five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettIs vivid imagery reported faster than weak imagery? YES. There is an inverse correlation between subjective vividness and RTs in imagery tasks (N=117). doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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- Reposted by Benjy BarnettConfidence in absence as confidence in counterfactual visibility: a CogSci proceedings paper with star MSc student Maya Schipper, is now out on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇
- 🚨New preprint🚨 out with the dream team @matanmazor.bsky.social @giuliacabbai.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social! We report a novel and robust effect across five different datasets: vivid imagery is reported faster than weak imagery. 📝: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- A similar effect has been widely reported in perceptual detection - where reporting not seeing a stimulus takes more time than reporting that you saw it.
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- Reposted by Benjy BarnettHellohello again! Tomorrow at 5:15pm I’m giving a short talk on our latest MEG study about our very well-loved oscillating perceptual predictions @meguki2025.bsky.social. Come by and talk brains! There are amazing talks and very cool science happening all around! MEGUKI 2025👌
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- Reposted by Benjy BarnettI’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7
- Whenever you get a negative review back, remember, it can never be as bad as this annihilation of Robbie Williams’ art. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
- Reposted by Benjy Barnett🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! Next Friday, May 2nd, our brain meeting speaker will be Ben Harvey. His talk is entitled “Human quantity processing, from sensory to cognitive systems” You're welcome to join us in person or online. Details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/human-...
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- Very honoured to have written a little something for @aeon.co about zero, absence, and consciousness. It was a real pleasure to write, and very curious to know what people think! 0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #consci
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettThis guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettWe're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation" To apply and for more details, please see: RA: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Postdoc: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettWe have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
- Just a reminder that Elon Musk did an unambiguous Nazi Salute in front of the whole world a few days ago and the public discussion lasted all of 5 minutes - the Royal Society covers itself in shame the longer they stay silent
- An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettAn open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettMeet 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
- beautifully written essay exploring how modern therapy may be built on castles made of sand - and what might be a better path to inner peace aeon.co/essays/i-am-...
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- Come work with us 😎😎!!
- JOB 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/...
- Reposted by Benjy Barnett🚨 Preprint Alert! Neural correlates of unconscious and conscious visual processing - with Michael Herzog & @davidpascucci.bsky.social 🧠📈 #EEG #consci www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettI’ve written personal things before, but never about my feelings for someone else. So I’m nervous to have this out today, about a romantic relationship when I was 17. It had a huge impact on me, for a long time, & I hope this can start a conversation about the significance of teenage love affairs
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettI am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵
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- A really nice write up of the recent studies looking at how the human brain handles the unique number zero! Featuring some words and work by me and @smfleming.bsky.social, as well as many others. Check it out👇0️⃣🧠 #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettWe are now on Bluesky! 🧠 While we have appreciated the capacity to engage with colleagues on X, we have collectively decided to leave the platform because we feel Bluesky will be a more optimal platform for our scientific discourse.
- Reposted by Benjy BarnettVery happy to report that this paper is out now in Cognition! Expectations about stimulus presence and stimulus content work together to influence perceptual judgments. authors.elsevier.com/c/1joLo2Hx2x... #neuroskyence #compneuro #VisionScience
- Will I see something, and if so, what will it be? I am excited to share my very first paper, in collaboration with @jhaarsma.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social and @peterkok.bsky.social. 🧵https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.22.581334v1
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