Joel Snyder

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Is consciousness tied to biological brains?
Neuro&Philo Salon present+discussion with @anilseth.bsky.social of his BBS target paper!
October 23, noon USA eastern
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Jane Fonda relaunches McCarthy-era committee to defend free speech The actor said the Committee for the First Amendment — first backed by her father in 1947 — would fight the Trump administration’s attempts to silence critics.

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Also worth clarifying that our paper focused on what we consider the more phenomenologically interesting experiences of misophonia, ASMR, and misophonia. The Zhang study was more of way to imagine "what if we had such data from one of the phenomena we actually care more about?".

No shade taken 😁

Is your objection that they only allow for measuring emotion recognition in the listener, rather than actual induction of emotion in the listener?

What's "MAV"? I don't remember seeing that acronym.

#misophonia #ASMR #music #psychology #neuroscience #emotion #consciousness #interoception #auditory @eehannon.bsky.social

Of course there's messiness too, with plenty of inconsistent findings and too many underpowered studies. But I'm hoping the growing interest in this area leads to more and better studies using a variety of techniques.

The amygdala may be uniquely important for misophonia, while the default mode network may be important in explaining the experience of ASMR. I also wonder about the role of amygdala in the kind of musical chills linked to awe and intimidation, but I don't think there's evidence for that yet.

That's the birds-eye view, but the details about on the neural basis of misophonia, ASMR, and musical chills are interesting too... with many commonalities but also some key differences...

Of course the salience network idea that involves both the insula and anterior cingulate cortex is intriguing to think about in relation to emotion processing, not to mention the various other emotion-related divisions of the cingulate.

while a wealth of other studies and theoretical reviews strongly point to the insula as a site of multi-sensory integration and possibly an important seat of conscious emotional experience.

Zhang et al. used intracranial EEG and functional/structural imaging to show that the insula seems to transform auditory data into emotional experience...

The Roles of Subdivisions of Human Insula in Emotion Perception and Auditory Processing Abstract. Previous studies have shown insular activations involving sensory, motor, and affective processing. However, the functional roles of subdivisions

Boy did I learn a lot about certain parts of the brain, especially the insula. This one study from Zhang et al. was especially influential in my thinking...

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Look what I did this summer! I had the pleasure of writing a review paper on three kinds of multisensory-emotional experience, with Hirohito Kondo and Erin Hannon.

This is submitted to a special issue of @nconsc.bsky.social on Embodied and Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness.

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How detailed is the filling in though? Also, some of the filling in could come from higher resolution parts of the visual field. Doesn't the fact that people perceive color in the periphery suggest this is happening to some extent? But yeah, I see how it could be predictive etc.

My guess would be lateral connections. Even if there is feedback, wouldn’t lateral mechanisms be more efficient?

‘Shake it off’: Taylor Swift’s changing voice shows how our accents evolve An analysis of Swift’s interviews suggests her speech pattern has changed over her career.

“We cannot typically follow someone around with a microphone,” says audiologist Matthew Winn.

Enter Tay Tay.

@mohanabasu.bsky.social reports on the linguistics of #TaylorSwift for @nature.com 🧪

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Our open-access article - Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans - together with Yunkai Zhu, Carolina Fernandez Pujol, @dvwz.bsky.social, @jonescompneurolab.bsky.social, @tmarvan.bsky.social, and @danclab.bsky.social, was just published @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.

I’ve been converging on the notion for a few years that either emotion is a type of attention or emotion acts to amplify perception through attention mechanisms. I think these could both be true as well.

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Yes it matters because it raises the possibility of p-hacking if there’s a mismatch

Very low, a few % at most

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

my employer at the last minute decided to not provide Covid vaccines at a special vaccine even they organized. And we're a purple state 😤!

Great article, and I love some of the responses from leading thinkers. Nicole and @theamygdaloid.bsky.social in particular point out the importance of studying the phenomenon of conscious feelings as directly as possible.

Just gave my student the following writing advice, and I'm pretty proud of it:

please never use "utilize", it's not useful.

Thank! Sam did undergrad research with Nina Kraus and had post-bacc EEG experience too so she had a lot of skills with EEG before coming to UNLV.

At long last, we submitted our 2 experiment study failing to find EEG evidence that primary motor cortex is modulated by high-groove music. Wish us luck in peer review! Led by Samantha O’Connell.