Jakub Limanowski

Artificial intelligence and illusions of understanding in scientific research - Nature The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools in scientific research risks creating illusions of understanding, where scientists believe they understand more about the world than they actual...

if you need more frameworks for fighting this good fight, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I have you covered: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Gratulation!

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*13th MindBrainBody Symposium*

📆 Mar 9-11, 2026
🏠 #Berlin & virtual
(deadline: Jan 8, 2026)

Keynotes:
- @ulrikebingel.bsky.social
- Karl Friston (online)
- @tinalonsdorf.bsky.social
- Sonja Kotz
- Julian Thayer

...& so much more: prizes, posters, talks, food, drinks, encounters.

Let's meet!

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Vicarious body maps bridge vision and touch in the human brain - Nature A mode of brain organization that connects visual and bodily reference frames may translate raw sensory impressions into more abstract formats that are useful for action, social cognition and semantic...

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

Insular error network enables self-correcting intracranial brain-computer interface Error recognition is fundamental to adaptive behavior, enabling rapid compensatory action when outcomes deviate from expectations. Central to this function are neural circuits for performance monitori...

Insular neural interfaces

Cognitive error signals in the anterior insula propagate toward prefrontal cortex when a BCI fails to follow the user’s intention. Real-time integration enables a self-correcting neural interface that compensates for its own decoder misclassifications

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Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Understanding how the brain represents experienced time and how representations of space and time are integrated to form episodic memories has been a goal of much neuroscientific research. In this Per...

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Very cool work! Let's hear those other results :)

A hand playing a fretless guitar with movement sensors on

Our latest on motor metacognition, just … cooler than ever, arguably! Our meta-guitar task is a midpoint between a well-controlled task and ecological validity.

Proprioception as a sensory root for body and motor awareness Salvato et al. report that proprioceptive deficits predict both disturbed sensation of ownership and anosognosia for hemiplegia following right-hemisphere

The sense of ownership and agency stem from proprioception, the sensory root of self-awareness. In a group of 46 right-brain-damaged patients, the disruption of a bilateral parietal network underlies proprioceptive deficits leading to ownership disorders and anosognosia for hemiplegia.

Thanks, Pedro!

Just received some challenging but wonderfully constructive peer reviews that will really help the paper (well, we'll see I guess). SHOUT OUT to all reviewers who still dedicate time and effort to evaluate research in such depth! ✊

Congratulations!

New lab preprint: Searching for visuomotor matches vs mismatches biases confidence and visual sampling strategies, but not performance
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

(check out the paper for more results!)

There was, however, one region that *did* show different responses to delays depending on their behavioural relevance: the cerebellum. A nice support for its key role in adaptation as suggested by many others!

But, lo and behold, the usual suspects (i.e. temporoparietal and premotor cortices) responded strongly to delays—independently of behavioural relevance. Maybe visuomotor comparison is a basic process of self-other distinction that is not affected (much) by task demands!

We replicated key activations of posterior parietal, extrastriate, and cerebellar areas by visuomotor adaptation. The nice thing is: We show these activations compared with exposition to identical visual delays and movements, but in the absence of attempted adaptation.

So, we used an fMRI-VR visuomotor adaptation task with frequent changes in visual feedback delays. BUT half of the time, participants had to ignore the visual feedback (no adaptation).

That’s (relevant for) me: Task set dependent brain responses to delayed visual movement feedback Abstract. Bodily self-other distinction relies on the detection of (mis)matches between predicted and actual sensory movement consequences, but the brain c

New (i.e. finally published!) paper alert 🥳:
We asked whether unpredicted visual movement feedback is processed differently depending on whether it is behaviourally relevant or not.

MINI THREAD 👇

academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

Awesome, congratulations!

Yes, absolutely, good point! Several studies come to my mind here, e.g. academic.oup.com/scan/article...

(PDF) Cortical candidates for self-other distinction based on visual and action cues: Where do we stand? PDF | Perceiving myself as distinct from others rests upon distinguishing sensations that were generated by “me” from those that were not. Based on... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

Brief snapshop on cortical candidates for visuomotor based self-other distinction. This is stuck in peer review limbo since a while - but I'd be happy for more immediate feedback/thoughts!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Nur (m)ein kleiner Beitrag zu diesem ganz tollen interdisziplinären Magazin - unbedingt alle lesen! 👇

Our oscillations consensus paper is finally out as a preprint 🤩 thanks to everyone involved
arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

Feedback control undistorts body representations: A possible solution to the hand paradox

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

New theory paper with @pevianiv.bsky.social where we take a stab at reconciling the seemingly contradictory findings of distorted body representations & optimal motor control

🚨 We're now looking for contributions to our special issue in Brain Structure and Function - please consider submitting if you have related findings or thoughts: link.springer.com/collections/...

Feedback and literature suggestions most welcome, thank you (for your attention to this matter!)

AND: violations of visual kinematic invariants in spatially displaced feedback can be detected during observation (as in previous work e.g. by @royesal.bsky.social); but that even here, action enhances sensitivity through visuomotor comparisons.

We show that perception overall benefits from action (i.e., visuomotor comparisons); especially for delayed feedback.