Mel Goodale

The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms Insights from human brains might inform how scientists search for awareness in other animals and AI.

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Monarch chrysalis.

Recently emerged adult Monarch butterfly hanging from the husk of the chrysalis.

An hour later and the wings are almost fully extended.

Hope! We have Milkweed growing in our yard, which attracts Monarch butterflies. We were pleased to see a Monarch chrysalis hanging from the top of a basement window a few days ago. Today, a beautiful butterfly emerged.

Butterfly Milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa)

View of the Old Ausable Channel in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario.

Fragrant White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata) in the Old Ausable Channel in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario.

Canoeing in the Old Ausable Channel in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario.

Revitalizing walk in Pinery Provincial Park. We are lucky to have this wonderful resource so close to where we live.
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Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:

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Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association @theava-uk.bsky.social

Looking forward to my talk “Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience”

Thanks so much to NOMIS Foundation,
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@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Big beautiful white peonies with yellow centres.

Our peonies are doing well with all the rain we've had in London ON.

Worth looking again at this refreshing approach to understanding the biological significance of cognition. "The premise of this two-part theme issue is simple: the cognitive sciences should join the rest of the life sciences in how they approach the quarry within their research domain." 🧠 🧪 #consci

What songs get us up on the dance floor? New work by Riya Sidhu from the @neurobeats.bsky.social lab shows that it's the nostalgic throwback songs from our teenage years that are most likely to get us moving. 🧪 🧠

Yes. Students going into the 3rd year of their PhD in Septmber 2025 are welcome to apply to the CIFAR Winter School on the Neuroscience of Consciousness.

Dog-sled going past the Le Château Montebello.

Main public room in Le Château Montebello decorated for Christmas. The building is the world's largest "log cabin".

Le Château Montebello is situated on the banks of the Ottawa river, separating Quebec and Ontario.

Group photo the school of 2018 at the Winter school on the Neuroscience of Consciousness

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost.
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Congrats, Frank. So well-deserved.

Indian paintbrush

Prairie Smoke

Red Columbine

Chickweed

Great walk in Carden Alvar - Couchinging Conservancy today. Lots of native plants thrive in this flat limestone habitat. Indian paintbrush, Prairie Smoke, Columbine, and Chickweed - and many others. couchichingconserv.ca/what-we-do/c...

Poster describing the upcoming Seeing and Acting Workshop, September 25-27, 2025 at the University of Coimbra: Speakers: Cristina Becchio, Marlene Behrmann, Katja Doerschner, Russell Epstein, François Osiurak, Marco Tamietto, and Wim Vanduffel.

Come to Coimbra, Portugal, this September for SAW (Seeing and Acting Workshop). A wonderful meeting in a beautiful place. Submit your poster abstracts by July 31. Registration deadline is Aug 31. Check out the great lineup of speakers. Website here: www.uc.pt/cogbooster/s...
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Hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps and cortical motor system represent action plans and their outcomes - Nature Communications When interacting with the environment, humans are able to weigh and select between multiple alternative actions. Here, the authors show that this ability is supported by map-like representations of th...

Nice work by @barnaveliirina.bsky.social‬ & colleagues showing that hippocampal-entorhinal cognitive maps play a role in action selection. Furthermore, the hippocampus and the supplementary motor area appear to play complementary roles in action evaluation.

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Pretty leaf buds.

Skunk cabbage leaves poking through the dead leaves covering the ground.

Turtle sunning itself on a log floating in the pond.

Empty bench beneath some trees on the edge of Mill Pond.

Signs of spring at Dorchester Mill Pond Eco Trail, a short drive from London Ontario. So good to see after all the snow and ice we had this past winter. Beautiful walk.
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Senior Research Associate in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience at University of East Anglia Recruiting now: Senior Research Associate in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Three year postdoctoral position available in my lab @psychologyuea.bsky.social to work on neuroimaging and deep learning studies of multimodal material perception!

with @timkietzmann.bsky.social @stephanierossit.bsky.social - funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk

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The #consciousness debates continue!

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YouTube video by Psychonomic Society Psychonomic Society's One World Seminar Series presents Mel Goodale (February 26, 2025)

Next was an amazing talk by @action-brain.bsky.social on differences in size constancy for perception and action at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social. Highly recommend www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc5t... (3/8)

#fluorescencefriday brings you a cleared AD mouse 🧠 stained for Abeta (green) and vasculature (magenta). Colocalization is white. #lightsheetmicroscopy
👀 for Abeta in blood vessels to test for CAA or micro bleeding. Courtesy of @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social Luke Smolders and Arash Salahinejad

Not science fiction. Wonderful work by Adrian Owen and crew. 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence

‘Pioneering’ study scans babies’ brains as they form memories Baby-friendly imaging challenges long-standing assumptions about “infantile amnesia”

Great commentary on the article by @tristansyates.bsky.social from @franklandlab.bsky.social nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Absolutely delighted to see that one of my favorite researchers, longtime colleague, and friend, Jody Culham, @culhamari-lab.bsky.social is the recipient of the 2025 Davida Teller Award from the Vision Sciences Society @vssmtg.bsky.social. So well-deserved. 🧪🧠
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Individual variation in spatial reference memory influences cache site choice in a wild bird #ProcB #OpenAccess royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

If you are beyond a certain age and interested in neuroscience, there is an old story about handedness and the corpus callosum. Here's our new effort to update that story: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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Home This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...

We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam!

For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...

Canadian Beers That are Actually Made in Canada This article highlights some of the delicious Canadian beers that are made in Canada and available at a liquor store near you.

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Great opportunity to work with some great researchers in great country. Join us at @westernuwin.bsky.social

Moving tribute to Canada by Tim Thompson. I urge everyone to take a look and listen.

Human echolocation can be taught Neuroscientist Lore Thaler explains why she thinks people with visual impairments should be taught to explore the world through mouth-click sounds.

Echolocation: "It’s very learnable"

"Neuroscientist Lore Thaler runs workshops to teach people how to echolocate."