David Soto
Studying awareness and metacognition at BCBL in Spain, formerly at U of Birmingham and Imperial College London. Eclectic music fan, husband and dad.
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- Reposted by David SotoSo happy this is finally out, almost 4 years in the making! academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... A celebration of open and collaborative science: 📜Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report Thank you so much to the 48 coauthors of the uWM project!🇬🇦
- 2 new papers on awareness and working memory "Replicating the unconscious working memory effect: a multisite Registered Report" academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @theassc.bsky.social @matthiasmichel.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social (1)
- and more results from a novel paradigm showing unconscious ensemble working memory for emotional faces in a 2IFC task osf.io/preprints/ps... great work by @nirmiteem.bsky.social
- Reposted by David Sotohello - we're looking for a postdoc / staff scientist to do NHP fMRI work at the center (cnir.ibs.re.kr). pls email cv to hakwan@skku.edu to learn more
- DecNef is a powerful tool for brain modulation, but it remains difficult to optimize; we built DecNefLab, a simulation framework using “virtual subjs” as ML generative models to prototype protocols before exps, & showed conditions in which DecNef fails to induce learning arxiv.org/html/2511.14...
- DecNef is a powerful tool for brain modulation, but it remains difficult to optimize; we built DecNefLab, a simulation framework using “virtual subjs” as ML generative models to prototype protocols before exps, & showed conditions in which DecNef fails to induce learning arxiv.org/html/2511.14...
- Reposted by David SotoClever behavioural experiment exposing how confidence is formed in visual perception pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41138620/
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- Reposted by David SotoGlad to see my first-year project is out! In two experiments, we manipulated multiple stimulus features in a perception task, yet their effects on confidence and accuracy fell into just two distinct behavioral patterns, offering a way to predict the effects of novel stimulus manipulations. 1/n
- Reposted by David SotoMy paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime doi.org/10.1126/scia...
- Reposted by David SotoThe call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇
- 📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by David SotoAbsolutely incredible work led by @patxelos.bsky.social and @dsotob.bsky.social - such a compelling case of unconscious perception! Privileged to have been a little part of this 🧠
- Great work by the unstoppable @patxelos.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @hakwan.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social @theassc.bsky.social
- Reposted by David Soto1/Preprint Alert🔔: Across two experiments plus a computational model, we show the visual system compresses complex scenes into summary statistics that can guide behavior without conscious access to the task-defining features. We term this the Ensemble Blindsight effect.
- Reposted by David SotoBBS just issued the call for commentaries, and we would LOVE to get yours!! The deadline is October 15th, and the reference number is BBS-D-24-00489R2. Looking forward to hearing what you think about our suggestions for how to study unconscious processes!
- 📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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- Reposted by David SotoNew Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below
- Reposted by David SotoA transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain. Intriguing new preprint by Roy & Naselaris et al for anyone interested in mental imagery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by David Sotodoes someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
- Invariant inter-subject relational structures in high order human visual cortex www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by David SotoHere's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)
- Reposted by David SotoOn the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°! In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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- Reposted by David SotoThis paper is making the rounds: arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734 A tiny (27M) brain-inspired model trained just on 1000 samples outperforming o3-mini-high on reasoning tasks. #MLSky 🧠🤖
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- Reposted by David Sotojust out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e
- Reposted by David Soto🧠 NEW PREPRINT Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- This is now out "Domain Adaptation-enhanced searchlight: enabling classification of brain states from visual perception to mental imagery" link.springer.com/article/10.1... @meganakpeters.bsky.social @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social
- Reposted by David SotoIf you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT
- Reposted by David SotoHeading to my very first ASSC! Quite excited to present my work, supervised by @dsotob.bsky.social on unconscious working memory in the concurrent session at Studio Theatre on Wednesday at 15:30! Please come drop by! : ) @assc28.bsky.social #ASSC28
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- Performance feedback triggers liberal detection andperceptual confidence biases inearly childhood: Implications formetacognitive training @kobedesender.bsky.social pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40555904/
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- Reposted by David Sotothere's still time to submit your abstract to the Metacognitive Science meeting in Amsterdam in August -- a satellite to @cogcompneuro.bsky.social ! sites.google.com/view/metacog...
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- Reposted by David SotoIf you work with perceptual confidence judgments, you may be interested in our CNCB model of confidence ratings. Joint work with Vincent de Gardelle. Uncorrected proofs here: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... (🧵 1/4)
- Reposted by David SotoVery happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
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- Reposted by David SotoThe IIT debate-debacle (also sometimes referred to as the "Consciousness Wars") continues with this letter: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Followed by a response by several IIT proponents: www.nature.com/articles/s41... And a rejoinder(?) by Gomez-Marin & Seth: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by David Sotoi used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT. inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina... so long, folks. the world is going nuts. pls take care. 🧠📈
- Co-adaptive training improves performance during fMRI decoded neurofeedback www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @hakwan.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social
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