Steve Fleming

It’s today! Looking forward !

Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club, Wed 19th at 11am UK time!

Jianghao Liu

A neural model of conscious mental imagery and aphantasia

All welcome!

For more info please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Wonderful news and hugely well deserved, Nadine is knocking it out of the park! 👏👏👏

Thanks so much @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award! 🤩

And a big thank you to @smfleming.bsky.social for the nomination!!

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.

Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …

Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.

MIT Consciousness Club The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

Join us Thursday Nov. 20 at 12pm (EST), Earl Miller will present at the MIT Consciousness Club: "Consciousness emerges from neural dynamics". Details available on the MIT Consciousness Club website: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....

Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …

1/2 if you found the Butlin et al report on consciousness in AI interesting, we hope you will enjoy this TiCS paper! We explain more about the indicators approach and how it can be applied when assessing C in AI.>>

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚀 We're hiring !

🕵️ Seeking a postdoc to study the development & individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting (in)flexible behavior in psychiatric populations.

🧠 Precision functional mapping, fMRI, normative modelling

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🗓️ Apply by Dec 10! Please RT 🙌

Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
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Today! 👇

Join us for tomorrow’s Consciousness Club - Yair Pinto (www.uva.nl/en/profile/p...) on “No easy solutions for the Hard Problem of consciousness”. Should be fun!

Wednesday Nov 5th, 11am-1230pm UK time

For more info and how to join see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Perceptual confidence has near perfect access to the existence of discrete representations, but only weak access to precision - PubMed Perceptual confidence describes the degree to which we believe our internal perceptual representations reflect the external stimuli that caused them. How confidence is derived from internal representations is currently debated, but answering this question is made difficult because the nature of inte …

Clever behavioural experiment exposing how confidence is formed in visual perception

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Systems Neuroscience PhD Programme at SWC - Applications now open. Deadline 3 November 2025.

Could SWC be the place where you launch your career in #neuroscience? 🧠

Don’t miss your chance! Apply to our PhD Programme before 3 Nov: www.sainsburywellcome.org/web/content/...

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New preprint! What happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent.

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Matthias Michel, Bet on functionalism - PhilPapers I argue that there is currently no alternative to functionalism. Functionalism explains the differences between types of mental states. No biological theory does. Functionalist theories account for th...

My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.

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Brain Stories Episode 22 Caswell Barry and Lucy Unwin talk about the neuroscience behind their new children’s book – Inside Your Brain Podcast Episode · Brain Stories · 15/10/2025 · 48m

New episode of @uclbrainstories.bsky.social is out! Me & @smfleming.bsky.social chat to our cohost @caswell.bsky.social & Lucy Unwin about their new book “Inside your Brain”. Have a listen & buy the book for any budding young neuroscientists in your life!

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UCL’s Consciousness Club series resumes tomorrow Wed 22nd Oct with Ken Paller @paller.bsky.social on “Two Sides of Sleep and Memory: Conscious and Unconscious”

3pm-430pm UK time

All welcome, for zoom details please see: metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

one of the best parts about working in the MetaLab!

Philosophy-science collaborations as rare chances to adjust the normal focus of the lens- zooming in and out to examine different levels of analysis

@smfleming.bsky.social, professor of cognitive neuroscience @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social on the surprising connections between music and science.
www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4631

Psychologist and neuroscientist, Professor @smfleming.bsky.social, reflects on metacognition – thinking about thinking – and how outside perspectives shape human experience.
www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4631 @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint! 🚨
Very happy to share our latest work on metacognition with M. Rouault, A. McWilliams, F. Chartier, @kndiaye.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social where we identify contributors to self-performance estimates across memory and perception domains 👇
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MIT Consciousness Club The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

The next session of the MIT Consciousness Club is on Thursday 16, 12pm-1:30pm. Rachel Denison will present “Attentional Distortions of Subjective Perception”. More information here: sites.google.com/view/mit-con....

Consciousness science as a marketplace of rationalizations

my commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's thought-provoking BBS paper, and more generally about the field.

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This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.

Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Principles for proper peer review

New post in @jocnforum.bsky.social by Early Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social: "Principles for proper peer review"

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Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds In a recent study, Goueytes and colleagues combined computational modeling with intracranial recordings to dissect the neural basis of confidence and changes of mind. They reveal a temporally organize...

Our spotlight article on Goueytes et al. (2025) study is now online at Trends in Neurosciences: "Pre- and post-decision signals of certainty in changing minds", by P. Barttfeld, @ncomay.bsky.social, I. Embon & @guillermosolovey.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.

See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...