Danila Shelepenkov

Thrilled to share this work, spearheaded by the Danc lab (led by James Bonaiuto) @danclab.bsky.social, in collaboration with us, especially Matteo Maspoli @mattgmasp.bsky.social and Danila Shelepenkov @shpen.bsky.social, and other groups who share the belief that MEG still has untapped potential!

15/ I don't like all the modern elegant (more like tiaras or EEG) systems in the movies, so we'll finish here with one MRI like, TOTAL RECALL!

14/ This Canadian Robocop (Vindicator) is really scary, besides, I don't think you can just put your brain in plastic

13/ Perhaps a couple more invasive ones, for example, how can you sleep with this in your head? And how to wear a hat?

12/ Looks brutal(Johnny mnemonic 1994). This and the matrix are my favorite loaded designs (lots of wires, hardware and other stuff)

11/ This is opposite, good style, you can see right away that only the frontal lobes are needed (Surrogates 2009) I also think this is a reference to Schwarzenegger's BCI from the movie 6th day

10/ Want to dive into VR and become a genius in your garage? This is Lawnmower Man movie, pure trash

9/ Back to the early OPM era, the bulb lights inside make everything cooler pls add them to real MEG

8/ Brainstorm (1983) - this according to the plot records experiences and memories, cool and stylish but I have a question why two staples on the sides?

7/ It's a head drying or maybe brainwashing, who knows, but it looks cool for 50s

6/ Old and clean. They were able to transfer consciousness in Metropolis using only 3 electrodes and this was in 1927, impressive

5/ My top 1, legend from Ghostbusters, you can still make pasta using this

4/ According to the description from neurafutures.com, most often such devices are used in science fiction to control memory or transplant consciousness. Well, I don't think that anyone is working on this now, but what is definitely cool in these films is the design of the devices. Below is my top

3/ As a database I used bciwiki.org/index.php/Br... add some info from the excellent project www.neurafutures.com and also posts on Reddit and from my own memory (cool device photo starting from 5/ )

2/ Well, quite a few movies use BCI or something similar, and I didn't include magical objects like the sorting hat from Harry Potter

1/ There is a private cinema museum in Lyon, the owner collects various artifacts from movies. Among them is a part of Johnny Depp's (fake) head with electrodes from the Transcendence. I wondered how often BCI devices like this are used in sci-fi films and series (and my own top of them below)

20/ More important that, predictive coding was able to elegantly combine perception, learning, and attention (and sensory attenuation) into one model. Also while it did change the idea of ​​what a neural signal is, we're still 25 years later trying to figure out how exactly error signals are encoded

19/ So what about the strange inversion? From my point of view It wasn't really a real inversion from stimulus–cognition–response towards prediction. Although the concept of predictive error was new to psychology and neuroscience

18/ Finally, there were no studies pointing to suppression in the visual cortex, a key element in pioneer predictive coding papers. For example see, Predictive coding: A fresh view on inhibition in the retina (1982) and Rao & Ballard's work, both mention end-inhibition neurons

17/ Additionally, the mathematical foundation were not on the table (like in 90s). Ideas related to optimal information processing, developed within cybernetics and information theory, only emerged in the 60s-70s (when a New Look approache was drowned in criticism).

16/ Also because many early cognitive psychologists in the 50s-60s were reluctant to work with "set," which was seen as a garbage term tied to psychoanalysis and Gestalt psychology. New Look failed to formalize this correctly

15/ I think this happened because it was the simplest interpretation of experimental results (e.g., faster reactions to expected stimuli and slower to unexpected ones) Occam's razor slaughtered the theory's growth

14/ These concepts assumed “directive factors, given a stimulus input of certain characteristics, operate to organize the perceptual field in such a way as to maximize percepts relevant and expectations and to minimize percepts inimical to such needs and expectations”

13/ What's even stranger is that the opposite happened. New Look proponents developed concepts like Perceptual Defense and perceptual vigilance.

12/ Even experiments from the 20th century, like Bruner & Postman's card experiment, closely resembled the oddball paradigm, a classic in predictive coding?

11/ So, describing the 20th century solely as stimulus–cognition–response is inaccurate. But why didn’t we get a fully developed precursor theory of predictive coding 50 years earlier? After all, the "set" also includes prediction

10/ And apparently for quite a long time, Gibson's 1941 classic review of the "set" concept revealed that, with its almost infinite subdivisions (mental set, motor set, neural set, etc.), including ideas like "neurotic anxiety," "incubation process in reasoning," "time error in psychophysics."

9/ It also pointed out that the concept of “set” was a “traditional wastebasket construct until recently” (mid-70s article).

8/ article A new look at the new look: Perceptual defense... 1974 shows : “It is not particularly instructive... to review the various studies showing that expectations about input do indeed affect thresholds... for this would be merely to document the existence of a well-accepted phenomenon.”

7/ They also clearly stated: “its perception represents a violation of expectation” and “when well-established expectancies fail of confirmation, the organism may face a task of perceptual reorganization.”