Devin Terhune

Really excellent work by @nayapol.bsky.social on this project in @psychscience.bsky.social Incredibly important implications for how we measure mind wandering and think about the link between performance and experiential state reports (whether mind wandering or other types of introspective reports).

In this paper led by @madelinestein.bsky.social we outline how suggestion effects can act as a salient confound in psychedelic experiments/trials (eg one certain NEJM trial ... see paper). We also note how suggestion effects can be harnessed in valuable ways in this domain.

Hristo’s presenting his poster today and tomorrow at #NCMPan25! Come and check out his work on information content in sensorimotor cortex in controls and people with amputations at 2-F-72 @ncmsociety.bsky.social

6 Arms, 3 Thumbs: I Tested The Future of Robotic Limbs | Superhuman | WIRED Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Great video by @wired.com showcasing the Third Thumb! 👍👍👍We're super grateful to be able to work with the amazing Dani Clode and investigate how our brains 🧠 accomodate motor control of an extra robotic finger! The segment on the Third Thumb starts at 6:02 - you can watch here: rb.gy/t8gdhs

Check-out our latest research! 🧠 @lucydowdall.bsky.social's PhD work looking at the sensory representation of an artificial limb is now up on bioRxiv! doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.16.658246 🦾 see her thread below highlighting some of our key findings

Nancy, France

🧠New postdoc position - come work with us in France! 🥐👩‍🔬

Two-Year Postdoc Position on the Role of Temporal Integration in Visual Attention Using Human Intracerebral Recordings | EURAXESS euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/351721

📆Starting Date: October 2025
⏱️Application deadline: 31 Aug 2025

Our lab had a fantastic time this week presenting our current work at @uksensorimotor25.bsky.social in Oxford 🧠

Having a great time in Utrecht at #BRNet2025! Today, our very talented postdoc @celiafoster.bsky.social and amazing PhD student Ema Jugovic presented their posters. Really great work showcasing our new Third Thumb studies 🧠

Our PhD students @maggieszymanska.bsky.social and Julien Russ ready to present their posters today at #BRNet2025! Find them in the poster room at 2pm, talking about phantom limb pain and using EMG to control the Third Thumb 🧠

Thrilled to share our most recent work led by our brilliant PhD student @mariamolinasan.bsky.social, exploring generalisation of motor learning with a robotic limb, featuring The Third Thumb 🦾

Exciting day at the fascinating UN #AIforGood summit! @daniclode.bsky.social presented on designing for augmentation and the Third Thumb, Tamar then presented our research looking at the neural embodiment of robotic limbs! Smashing it 🦾

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The balance between neural excitation (E) and inhibition (I) shapes cognition, development and brain-based disorders. Electroencephalography and magnetic resonance spectroscopy allow non-invasive quan...

Rethinking excitation/inhibition balance in the human brain — a Comment article by Roi Cohen Kadosh

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Can humans use artificial limbs for body augmentation as flexibly as their own hands?
🚨 Our new interdisciplinary study put this question to the test with the Third Thumb (@daniclode.bsky.social), a robotic extra digit you control with your toes!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Hi everyone! I’m researching how people with functional seizures understand & cope with their condition.

If you're 18+, UK-based, diagnosed by neurologist (no additional epilepsy), please take 20-30 mins to complete this survey:
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#functionalseizure#fnd

🎉 Stefanie Meeuwis, who used to be a postdoc in my lab, has just received the @sipsplacebo.bsky.social Early Career Award! Huge congratulations – so well deserved! 👏🥳

Thank you to @przemekbabel.bsky.social and the organising comittee for a great #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025. As was announced at the closing ceremony, we'll be hosting SIPS 2027 in Sydney, Australia!

Follow us for updates, news, and more! ⭐️

@sipsplacebo.bsky.social

Huge thanks to my amazing Pain Research Group from @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @filozoficznyuj.bsky.social for all the hard work and dedication in organizing the 5th International Conference of @sipsplacebo.bsky.social — couldn’t have done it without you! 💪🧠👏 #SIPS2025 #SIPSplacebo2025

Great question. Not directly and we have to be careful when making translating induction results to treatment. To speculate, targeting the NMDA receptor might be interesting for reducing dissociative symptoms.

Had a great time at @sipsplacebo.bsky.social 2025 w/ my supervisor @devinterhune.bsky.social 🥳 i presented two meta-analyses on responsiveness to verbal suggestions (REVS) in #placebo and #nocebo responding & one experiment looking at suggestion effects & REVS in placebo #psychedelic responding.

The Induction of Dissociative States: A Meta-Analysis Plain Language SummaryWe conducted a meta-analysis of studies that measured state dissociation (e.g., feeling detached from one’s environment) in different clinical groups and in response to different...

Our new paper is out in BP:GOS. A large team including @lillianwieder.bsky.social‬, @susannahpick.bsky.social‬, ‪@sunjeevkamboj.bsky.social‬. We found that #dissociation can be reliably induced using a range of methods and drugs, most notably #mirror-gazing and #ketamine. t.ly/qOme3 t.ly/cK-YI

Tonight we welcome Professor Marta Di Forti for her inaugural lecture as Professor of Drugs, Genes and Psychosis. Her lecture tonight is “A journey from Sicily, through Curry to Cannabis.”

The full lecture will be available online at a later date.

Revisiting the domain of suggestion: A meta-analysis of suggestibility across different contexts Trait responsiveness to verbal suggestions (suggestibility) is relevant to a diverse array of clinical and experimental psychological phenomena. An un…

we have another new #meta-analysis out now in Personality & Individual Differences. 🎉 Hopefully this work will put to rest ongoing debates about the nature of #hypnotic vs non-hypnotic #suggestibility.

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

I'm giving a talk on #suggestion and #suggestibility next week at the University of Ljubljana as part of a series on #DemandCharacteristics. Should be really fun and is being hosted by the Laboratory of Empirical Phenomenology. 😊

If you're based in #Ljubljana feel free to stop by!!

Please, spread!

🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇

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@c-brains.bsky.social

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
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Interested in participating in lab research on #nitrousoxide and #EEG? Consider taking part in this interesting experiment at King's College London.

Really important study on #FND Please distribute @fndportal.bsky.social @fndsociety.bsky.social @timnicholson.bsky.social

This should be really great for anyone interested in time perception and related topics.