Liad Mudrik

Mid-level perceptual features, and not ambiguity, accelerate access to awareness Abstract. Current theoretical accounts of perception and high-level cognition suggest that awareness plays an active role in disambiguating incoming sensor

🚨New paper alert!! 🚨
In this work by Nadav Amir, with Uri Maoz, we fail to find evidence for ambiguous objects emerging slower/faster to awareness, but do find support for more symmetrical stimuli enjoying preferential access
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And now @shaifischer.bsky.social presents his beautiful work on consciousness and expectation violation! #ISCOP

This should be great - would love to see you all there!

I wouldn’t go that far, @ronyhirsch.bsky.social ;-)))

And don’t miss this super cool website that @ronyhirsch.bsky.social created for you to be able to explore the data yourself!

Another beautiful work from @ronyhirsch.bsky.social , now with @niccolonegro.bsky.social : they find that contrary to may philosophical stands, public views do not consider consciousness to be neither necessary nor sufficient for moral status! Find this, and many other interesting results, below 👇

We delve into 37 studies that examined NCCs at the level of populations of neurons and single neurons in humans. 🤓 Most used the contrastive approach, where neural activity is compared between trials where the same stimulus is consciously perceived or not (we discuss limitations of this approach).

If it doesn’t work, send me an email and I’ll send it to you! Happy holidays 🎉

Which paper? Both should be open access now

My own experience was of a change in experience, not in confidence(I was confident first of not hearing anything and then similarly confident that I actually did)

In our experiment it was a pretty strong subjective experience of having realized you actually heard something before, despite denying it with high levels of confidence in real time

Thanks for asking! If I am not mistaken, this refer to this earlier work of mine:

www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...

Now I think that what happened there was that noticing the change allowed for retrospective access to the phenomenality of the sound, which made it consciously experienced

2/2 With the great @nfaivre.bsky.social @schurger.bsky.social and Michael Pitts.
Your thought and comments are greatly welcomed!

1/2 🎉🎉🎉 New paper alert!!

Read this to see why we don’t think P and A are two *types* of C, but two conditions for C. And why we think this can truly advance the field and solve controversies. Open access until Feb 5th:

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>> Huge thanks to Lucia Melloni, Marcello Massimini and Bob Kentridge for organizing, and to CIFAR and TWCF for making it happen!

A wonderful experience - meeting and interacting with the next generation of consciousness researchers. So many great ideas and outstanding people from all over the world. Join us next year for the #CIFARwinterschool 2026!
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Wonderful and inspiring opening session at the CIFAR/TWCF Winter School for the Neuroscience of Consciousness, here in beautiful wintery Montebello, in Quebec. All of the participants gave 60 second intros to themselves and their interests. What a great group of people.

Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there? Join me, @axc.bsky.social, @liadmudrik.bsky.social, @lucinauddin.bsky.social & @metzinger.bsky.social for a Frontiers Deep Dive at 3pm GMT. Registration link is below

Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join me, @anilseth.bsky.social, and @axc.bsky.social in this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb

2/2 Thank you, Patrick Butlin, and the entire group for this journey 🙏

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...

Scientists on ‘urgent’ quest to explain consciousness as AI gathers pace As AI - and the ethical debate surrounding it - accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever.

Gratitude to the @erc.europa.eu for supporting my work and that of @anilseth.bsky.social and @liadmudrik.bsky.social

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Advancing consciousness science Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics

1/🧵 Out today in @frontiersin.bsky.social : “Consciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?” By @axc.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social, & me (a CIFAR & @erc.europa.eu production 🧠). www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Advancing consciousness science Defining new directions in consciousness research and exploring implications for medicine, technology, and ethics

In an article for Frontiers in Science that ended up taking almost five years to compose, @anilseth.bsky.social @liadmudrik.bsky.social and I take stock of consciousness science, consider avenues of progress, and ask “what if we succeed?”

www.frontiersin.org/journals/sci...

Very proud of this great piece of multi-lab work by Kabir & Husta, et al.

Want to measure attention across the visual field (without interfering with ongoing perceptual/attentional processes)? Use RIFT!

Here we share our how-to-RIFT knowledge, including analysis code, quantitative comparisons, ..

A bit overdue, but it’s still 2025 so the lab’s 10 years anniversary is on! It’s been such an amazing evening with the lab’s members and alumni, and the messages from afar. I love you all and thankful for your presence in my life and for everything I’ve learned from you over the years 🙏❤️🙏

Sorry - I missed this comment! And indeed, we are talking about all comparisons that are meaningful, which is defined by the questions. We recommend constructing the prediction tree a priori. Sorry if that wasn’t clear

Thank you Johannes 🙏

I was once told: "never try EEG+fMRI!"

It was sound advice... but we did it anyway!

Thrilled to share our first preprint, where we explore the neural signatures of mind blanking, linking the sleep-like slow waves seen in #EEG to patterns of hyperconnectivity in #fMRI.

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3/3 See the preprint here, using the data from @briannosek.bsky.social’s reproducibility project: arxiv.org/pdf/2006.11585