Yizhi Li 李易知

Call for papers for the upcoming Rudolf-Carnap Lectures 2026 with L. A. Paul (Yale), May 27-29 at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Further details: www.pe.rub.de/carnaplectures.
L.A. Paul will present new work from her upcoming book, extending her work on the topic of Transformative Experience (OUP 2014).

Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺
Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
#neuroskyence
Register: umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Basic Principles of Cognition 1st Basic Principles of Cognition Conference. October 9-10 , Bochum, Germany.

We are organising the 1st Basic Principles of Cognition conference at RUB, Germany, 9-10 October 2025. Save the date! #MinimalCognition #BasalCognition #CognitiveScience #CogSci #Philosophy #Mind #Life #Organism #Evolution basicprinciplesofcognition.wordpress.com

#EPSA25 #ESPP #GAP12 #KogWiss

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆:
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹, 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Excellent review paper about reactive and anticipatory processes.
#neuroskyence
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Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training Abstract. Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes—like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.—w...

A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them.

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Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

@pessoabrain.bsky.social drops knowledge on us. Neuron spiking is highly coordinated. Waves of electric field influences are a great way to do that.

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings
aeon.co/essays/how-t...
#neuroscience

When your heart isn't in it anymore: Cardiac correlates of task disengagement Neuroscience is beginning to uncover the role of interoceptive feedback in perception, learning, and decision-making; however, the relation between spontaneous visceral and cognitive dynamics has rece...

Mind-wandering is associated with late modulation of the heartbeat-evoked potential; mind-blanking is associated with greater decoupling of heart-brain phase coupling.

New findings from our radically-revised study of spontaneous cognitive & physiological dynamics

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Here are some personal words from me about the Centre's goals: www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/b.... There will be jobs. First and most importantly, I'll be advertising for a Centre Manager to work closely with me on the Centre's agenda. More on this soon. Thanks to JCF for making this possible! 🐝🦀🐙 (2/2)

A presentation slide with the title: “Why is mind wandering effortless? Cognitive control in mind wandering.”

Wonderful talk by @li-yizhi.bsky.social on the dynamics of mind-wandering and the role of segmented control in resolving the effortless wandering paradox!

#philsky

Thanks Libby!

Dignity Is Distinct From Respect: How Treating Others With Dignity Entails Accounting for Their Self-Conscious Emotions - Milan Andrejević, Jakob Hohwy, Linda Barclay, 2025 Dignity is prominently endorsed in health care, organizations, and law. However, humanities research casts doubt over the utility of this concept, disputing tha...

Dignity is a very important ethical concept, but a dangerously fuzzy one, which puts into question whether and how we can honour our obligations to treat people with dignity! Our new study detangles dignity and respect, by showing dignity has specific ties to humiliation.

Macro-scale patterns in functional connectivity associated with ongoing thought patterns and dispositional traits Interactions between attention systems and the default mode network are linked to individual differences in trait and state-level experience and cognition.

Excited about this new paper in Elife where we show for the first time resting state patterns contain information about a participants states (e.g. their thoughts) as well as traits (e.g. personality).
Led by the awesome @hardigirl.bsky.social postdoc in THINC Lab
elifesciences.org/articles/93689

This paper is not that well cited, but still one of my favorite papers (I am not an author) showing that resting-state correlations (aka functional connectivity) is biologically meaningful.

Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials Free Neuroscience Textbooks and Online Tutorials (Compiled by Carlos Aizenman, Brown University, Dept. of Neuroscience) Maintaining a current list of digital educational resources is tricky. Softwar...

Do you teach neuroscience? Here’s a list I’ve compiled of mostly free online neuroscience textbooks, simulations and datasets you can use for your course! If I’m missing something, let me know so I can add it! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health:
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Thanks! It looks great! I will read it soon

Wow it looks so cool and beautiful