Alejandro Lorca-Vyhmeister

Big seminar room, with people sitting in comfortable red seats. Three people (the organizers) are on the stage.

Slide titled "Questions". The text on the slide is: "1. Can we distinguish between real vs. fake zoom laughter? 2. Can a ferret learn to DJ? 3. Can statistical modelling predict the microwaves behaviour better than intuition? 4. Do coffee breaks transfer more knowledge than official meetings? 5. Can the cleanliness of someone's desk predict the prettiness of their figures?"

Last week we kicked off our first lab meeting of the new academic year. No scientific presentation this time. Instead, we were tasked with designing experiments to answer some *truly critical* research questions.

06.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

Philosopher John Searle has died.

28.09.2025 18:40 — 👍 146    🔁 79    💬 5    📌 31

As a humanities professor, I completely agree with this take. Students will occasionally say to me "I chose this class because I thought it would be easy"

I usually ask them, "why did you think that would be easy?"

I know the answer, but I think it's useful for them to feel comfortable answering

07.08.2025 11:05 — 👍 138    🔁 19    💬 13    📌 2

William James's take on psychophysics is *incredible*. Worth reading the whole quote. #psychSciSky #philsky #VisionScience

"But psychology is passing into a less simple phase. Within a few years what one may call a microscopic psychology has arisen in Germany, carried on by experimental methods,

17.03.2025 18:19 — 👍 82    🔁 22    💬 4    📌 5

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

22.07.2025 12:46 — 👍 45    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 2

This looks like it's gonna be great. For those who might want to break up their travel, I realize we're not the most popular invitation at the moment, but there ARE non-stops between Orlando and Santiago de Chile. 🙂

@theassc.bsky.social

www.assc2026.online

11.07.2025 13:04 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.

Powerful piece

"It would be a catastrophically unwise decision for humanity to abandon a key step in training young brains simply because they can now clack a few keys and produce something that sounds intelligent"

www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...

h/t @cianodonnell.bsky.social

21.06.2025 13:10 — 👍 26    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

relationship between sensory evidence and confidence evidence

If you work with perceptual confidence judgments, you may be interested in our CNCB model of confidence ratings. Joint work with Vincent de Gardelle.

Uncorrected proofs here:
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

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22.04.2025 13:51 — 👍 72    🔁 31    💬 1    📌 0

a man 's face is being measured by a device with wires attached to it ALT: a man 's face is being measured by a device with wires attached to it

Dans Severance, la dernière (super) série SF du moment, ça discute cerveau et oscillations ! ! L'occasion rêvée pour un article dans @france.theconversation.com, où neurosciences et science-fiction se mêlent ➡️ theconversation.com/severance-le...
Merci Aurélie Louchart, @bentonson.bsky.social !

19.03.2025 15:48 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 2

First row (from left to right): Gayatri Nerpagar, Tianqi Zhan, Kobe Desender, Pascal Mamassian, Elisa Filevich, Alessandra Loretani, Uta Noppeney, Janneke Jehee, Alejandro Lorca-Vyhmeister. Second row (from left to right): Francisca Campos Matias, Andrea Desantis, Jasper Uijttenboogaart, David Soto, Ruth van Holst, Luis Glenzer, Thomas Hawkins, Alexandre Lietard, Laura De Laere, Rodrigo Raimundo-Ramos.

The CODE Network Workshop on Computational Modelling in Leuven was a fantastic opportunity to explore up-to-date ideas on metacognition🤯. We had an excellent lineup of presenters and students enriched the event with their project presentations! #MSCA

17.03.2025 16:06 — 👍 10    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

What an incredible event! 🎉 so grateful and excited after the first workshop at UCL! It was such a privilege to hear from an incredible lineup of speakers and connect with everyone who joined us.

14.01.2025 12:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0