Anikó Kusztor
Research fellow at Monash University, Australia; interested in consciousness & open science
Website: https://www.aniko-kusztor.hu
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorNew #preprint out! In this paper @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and I take a look at the current debate on theories of #consciousness from a #meta-theoretical standpoint, and we argue that there is an ongoing process of #schismogenesis in consciousness science. [1/n] www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- Have you ever felt like your surroundings look unreal? Our new Registered Report (accepted in Neuroscience of Consciousness) studied derealisation and shows that altered visual experiences don’t change how we assess vividness. To find our more: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
- If you want to dive deeper into dissociation research, I recently discussed this study and some other upcoming work on the Minds Matter Podcast: Show notes: www.mindsmatterpodcast.com/s4-ep-16-you... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3EBE... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
- Last but not least, I am very grateful for my excellent co-authors on this project! @nirmiteem.bsky.social, @hohwy.bsky.social, @qualiastructure.bsky.social and Makiko Yamada!
- Thank you so much for having me!! I always have a blast chatting with @bethfisher.bsky.social and this time was no different! 💕 Also I loved your reflections in the end and how both of you have change your mind perhaps a bit through sharing your experiences with each other. So cool and precious!
- We had a really cool chat about the Olo color and its implications for consciousness research. If you’re after an excellent summary of this paper, look no further! Angus did an excellent job 😎
- A new installment of our (never ending) journal club on YouTube! youtu.be/z_xmNALhbUs?...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorVery happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris). doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorAge-related differences in 1/f aperiodic EEG/MEG signals can be driven by cardiac rather than brain activity 👇 #interoception 🧠🫀 #neuroskyence elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorLaunching our new "Never Ending" Journal Club series from T-lab! In our debut episode, we dive into the fascinating psychological geometries of musical pitch explored in Marjieh, Griffiths & Jacobi (2023). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm9-...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorNew preprint! 🗞️ Lucy Whitmore and I discuss the many potential challenges in using the brain age prediction framework in children and adolescents, and make recommendations for future directions. 🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorThe latest paper from the Qualia Structure is published in PNAS! Do you think children have similar color qualia as adults? Please see our paper to find it out! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorLast year IIT was branded as pseudoscience. Not with arguments or evidence, but with a now infamous letter. I believe that IIT is an important research program, but everyone can judge by themselves: Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? By Tononi et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Anikó Kusztor⚠️🚨New @qualiastructure.bsky.social publication, by @gen21ka.bsky.social @arielzj.bsky.social @takeda @naotsuchiya.bsky.social and @oizumi! I think that the intuition to apply GWOT to Qualia will have significant and impactful consequences! Please share and follow the authors!
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorCheck out @shawnprest.bsky.social’s new preprint on Modelling meditative deconstruction via letting go. @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
- Check this out and share it widely!! #neuroskyence #Consciousness
- [Trailer] Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU... produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
- Reposted by Anikó Kusztor[Trailer] Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU... produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents! www.youtube.com/@astonishing...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorLittle reminder that I am adding all new publications from Neuroscience of #Consciousness in this thread! Check it out! 🧠🧪
- Reposted by Anikó Kusztor🗣️ Language is widely distributed throughout the brain 🧠 In a recent correspondence in @natrevneurosci.bsky.social, we suggest that there is no 'language network' in the brain. What appears as such is an inevitable illusion created in part by the methods we use. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Really amazing work from the wonderful @bethfisher.bsky.social et al !!
- Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorCheck out this fabulous paper led by @bethfisher.bsky.social with @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social on optimism bias! @monash-m3cs.bsky.social
- Excited to have our new paper out in @cpsyjournal.bsky.social 🎉✨ with my amazing co-authors @christopherjwhyte.bsky.social @hohwy.bsky.social We develop an active inference model of the optimism bias to model development, belief updating and optimistic action. cpsyjournal.org/articles/10....
- Ohh i have my fun fact tor the day! 😎
- As expected: "Despite ChatGPT reportedly outperforming 99.9% of humans in a Verbal IQ test, it falls short of passing the Turing Test. In 9 out of the 10 tests conducted, the interrogators successfully identified ChatGPT-4 and the human participant." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorNew preprint! ⬇️🤩 We find a reduced self-other distinction in psychosis 😶🌫️, including increased neural activity during self-touch 🧠, reduced latency differences already at the *spinal cord* level 😲, and diminished interoceptive accuracy 🫀. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
- It’s so great to see Ariel giving this talk at the Royal Institution! He’s put so much thought and effort into writing his book and now it’s getting out there. Incredibly cool stuff
- 'Could Science Abolish Death?' My book condensed into a 50 min lecture at @ri-science.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYKD...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorFull PhD scholarship + stipend (for an Australian or international student) to join our group and study the nonlinear dynamics of sleep (or related topics in time-series analysis of complex dynamical systems). Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorI understand there’s been a surge in Russian bot activity on Bluesky. A telltale sign of Russian bots is that they ignore the punchline of joke posts and write an earnest response to the joke setup. Please block anyone you see doing this on sight
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorIt really was a pleasure to work with Will on this. Fascinating stuff, and I can only hope it keeps developing! So many more questions yet to be answered, and the ones we touched on here can surely be improved further. Can't wait to see where it leads 😊 Happy new year!
- Research on infraslow oscillations during NREM sleep is definitely a hot topic ! 🔥 New paper making the link between norepinephrine oscillations and glymphatic clearance 🧠🚿 @cellcellpress.bsky.social @nataliehauglund.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorResearch on infraslow oscillations during NREM sleep is definitely a hot topic ! 🔥 New paper making the link between norepinephrine oscillations and glymphatic clearance 🧠🚿 @cellcellpress.bsky.social @nataliehauglund.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorMy first Christmas Paper 🎄😅 doi.org/10.1093/nc/n...
- Reposted by Anikó Kusztor📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮 doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorHuman cortical pyramidal neurons are larger, with more elaborate branching, and distinct nonlinear biophysical properties compared to rat cortical pyramidal neurons. Are they more functionally complex? Could that boost the human brain’s computational power? and is that what makes us human? (1/11)
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorI co-edited a special issue on dreaming and mind wandering for @phimisci.bsky.social The first papers are now online. Check them out! And don't hesitate to follow/read this amazing, free & open access journal! 🔬🧠💤💭
- As part of our special issue on dreaming and mind wandering, a new article has been published #OpenAccess on #PhiMiSci: "Minimal states of awareness across sleep and wakefulness: A multidimensional framework to guide scientific research" by Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez:
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorSalon article on my new book about brain preservation for life extension, including pushback from some neuroscientists/philosophers. Touches on the necessity of ongoing neural dynamics for survival, panpsychism, definitions of self, and more www.salon.com/2024/12/16/s...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorA Timeline in Whole Brain Modelling: John Griffiths, Sorenza Bastiaens & Neda Kaboodvand link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorJust published🔈 "Structurally informed models of directed brain connectivity" Read: rdcu.be/d3dC4 We review how structural connectivity constrains directed connectivity models 🧠 Lead by @matthewdgreaves.bsky.social w/ @novelli-leo.bsky.social, @sinamansourl.bsky.social and Andrew Zalesky
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorFriends don't let friends make bad graphs repo has been updated! Friends don't let friends use boxplot for binomial (bimodal) data. Is your box plot hiding something from you? #DataVisualization github.com/cxli233/Frie...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorSample sizes in most studies are at least in part based on resource constraints, and this should be acknowledged. The next step is to evaluate the informational value, given resource constraints. Will we learn enough? The answer sometimes should be 'no'. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...
- Reposted by Anikó Kusztor🎉 Our paper "Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness" is now out in eLife! 🎉 TL;DR: Both simulations and empirical data show that you should not post-hoc sort neural data based on subjective measures of consciousness. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorA new experimentally-supported theoretical framework to analyze individual variability in biological and artificial systems performing flexible decision-making tasks A fresh Nature paper from the Brody lab 🍾 #neuroskyence #neuroAI www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorI made this for a 2nd-year cognition guest lecture at MAC and asked the class "How many of you see the dog?" and half the students raised their hands. I can't claim the idea as my own as I swear I had heard someone else had done it before but couldn't locate the image in 2002.
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorI really enjoyed reading this world view in Nature about the importance of exploratory research in the social sciences by @balazsaczel.bsky.social and am wondering what people think. Do you generally agree with his point? 🧪@natureportfolio.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Amazing work from the team of Anita Lüthi! Infraslow noradrenergic locus coeruleus activity fluctuations are gatekeepers of the NREM–REM sleep cycle www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💤🧪🧠
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorOur account over here is still quite small but has been active >1 year. In the last couple of months, we appear to have seen about 10x more views from Bluesky than Threads, but Twitter still generates about 15-20x that again. However, we've really enjoyed seeing the quality engagement over here!
- Amazing work from Brendan! Congrats @bendfulcher.bsky.social et al
- We're attempting to make short explainer videos to accompany our main published research papers. Here is the first, by Brendan, on our recent paper on tracking the distance to a critical point from a noisy time series. #criticality #complexsystems www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_rI...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorThis is fun. More of this please!
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorInspired by @mariaa.bsky.social's custom feed for NLP papers, I created a custom feed for philosophy papers posted on BlueSky. It's not perfect, but it works decently well: bsky.app/profile/did:...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorA very nice write up of our study on PsyPost!
- A single psilocybin dose increased optimism and engagement in rats for two weeks by enhancing reward processing and reducing loss aversion. These findings suggest psilocybin may help address depressive symptoms like withdrawal and… #psilocybin #optimism #animalstudy #mentalhealth #rewardprocessing
- Reposted by Anikó Kusztornow out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece, "Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience" #neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
- All of these to my reading list 🤓
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorHonored to coauthor this fMRI study on cardiac #interoception in FND. Disrupted insula, ACC activity during interoceptive attention underscores the neural basis of altered body-brain signaling in FND, bringing the field one step toward targeted interventions. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39558709/
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorA potential role for the thalamus in demixing cortical signals while providing a low-dimensional pathway for cortico-cortical communication New paper from Halassa lab in Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- @joemelling.bsky.social et al has discovered a new illusion! How cool is that? 😁 check this out:
- Excited to share my first paper: a novel visual illusion discovered by my co-authors Will Turner and Hinze Hogendoorn which we call the "Split-Stimulus Effect", in which a single flashed stimulus is perceived to be in two different locations simultaneously jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... [1/5]
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorAnd we just hit the 100-member mark with the addition of @clarepress.bsky.social! You can be the 151st! Just let me know and don't hesitate to share this with your consciousness contacts!
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorHelpful general purpose feeds! 👇 bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... 1/2
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorI have created a starter pack for #dream research 🧠🧪💤 go.bsky.app/DCNDUtJ I don't have a lot of contacts yet so let me know if you want to join or if I should add someone in particular!at://did:plc:veij3um2dpavwxxnzzwil2da/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lavitp742w2w
- Very cool work from Lars Sandved-Smith!
- BREAKING NEWS: Lars Sandved-Smith wins The 2024 Computational Phenomenology of Pure Awareness Prize, with this contribution: preprints.org/manuscript/2... mpe-project.info/wp-content/u...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorAbsolutely thrilled to share my postdoc work in the Axel lab. We found odor-evoked representations of the intrinsic value of information in mouse orbitofrontal cortex and showed that mice desire knowledge as its own reward. Now on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Follow this lovely human for the funniest and most thoughtful takes!
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorThe talk recordings from the "Causality in Minds and Machines" workshop are live now. sites.google.com/view/causali... Thanks again to all the speakers and to the Society for Mathematical Psychology for sponsoring the workshop!
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorAbraham Wald: *sighs, removes glasses, and bows head while pinching the bridge of his nose* I don't know how many more times I have to explain it to you, Elon. This means you need to put more armor over the windows and tires.
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorFantastic blog from Christopher Peters bridging iterative modeling perspectives from Box to our recent work. "By championing iterative methodologies and model-centric paradigms, we have the tools to navigate the intricate challenges of our era." 🔥 #stats 🧪 statwonk.com/beyond-hypot...
- Reposted by Anikó KusztorHello skies! I have 0 followers but I want to share our latest lab publication on how aging influences self-generated and externally generated touch perception! Project by Lili Timar, Xavier Job and @jjodx.bsky.social Read our publication here: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
- Corcoran et al. never disappoints! 🤩 give it a read
- Out today: Our (post-Popperian) Bayesian approach to Adversarial Collaboration. Applies to all AC, from Eddington, over Kahneman, to multiexperiment ACs a la TWCF Cogitate. Check lead-author Andrew Corcoran's X-🧵 (+Free-print on SSRN) www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
