Maria Luiza Iennaco

The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making Author summary Breathing is more than just a vital process for survival — it influences how we perceive and interact with the world around us. Recent research suggests that the rhythm of breathing, fr...

🧠 New paper on breathing and the brain, out now
@plos.org Computational Biology! 🫁
"The respiratory cycle modulates distinct dynamics of affective and perceptual decision-making"
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
We show how respiratory 'tidal computations' alter our decisons!

A good reminder that THE BRAIN 👏🏼 IS CONNECTED 👏🏼 TO THE BODY 👏🏼 100% OF THE TIME 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

(please repeat loudly for the people in the back)
#medsky #neuroskyence 🧠🧪

Living in Europe for 6 months now has made me slightly forget how difficult things are for Latin Americans. I was so excited about ASSC being in Chile, only to realize how expensive it would be for Brazilians to go. I truly hope they consider this on the value of the "low-income countries" fees.

Hoje abrem as inscrições para nosso curso de inverno, não percam!! #consciência #fflch #usp #neurociência

Our very special call for abstracts for the (En)Active Minds and AI Workshop 🫴🪼⚙️ is now open!
We'll explore themes from the work of
@tobiasschlicht.bsky.social.
Submit by Aug 20, decision letters will be sent within 3 days!
Join us Sept 5 in Porto! ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/w...

It‘s an honor and pleasure that Steven Gouveia and @mlflumic.bsky.social organize a workshop at the University of Porto on themes from my research areas. Come and join us Sept 5th!
Call for papers 👇👇👇👇

ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/w...

a visual illusion: what appears to be some strangely shaped pink pieces of cloth are actually the background on which several forks are laying

these are forks

Ok, I finished my series of conferences (ICCS, ASSC, Intrepid, CPConf, and ISH). It was incredibly intense and wonderful!

Now it is time to organize my thoughts, my reading lists, and my projects.

Tenho o prazer de anunciar nosso Curso de inverno da FFLCH-USP 2025:

Teorias Contemporâneas da Consciência 🧠🗣✨

O curso é introdutório, online e gratuito. Ocorrerá entre os dias 12/08 e 04/09.

O período de inscrição é do dia 30/07 ao dia 31/07!
Mais informações aqui: sce.fflch.usp.br/node/6277

How to think about the mind starting from biology? Our workshop with Eva Jablonka, Denis Walsh, Carl Craver and Hugh Desmond was incredible. I am honored and pleased to exchange ideas with brilliant minds now from the Biology field.

How to Study Animal Minds Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - How to Study Animal Minds

Cambridge Elements are free to download until 7/25-check out my little book How To Study Animal Minds. I had fun writing this one, and I'll never forget how nervous I was in front of a bunch of scientist friends, including Sara Shettleworth, hearing their thoughts on the draft! tinyurl.com/3yy6a52c

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, specially targeting conscious vs. unconscious processing, contact me. We are recruiting 🙏🧠 please RT

Philosophy of Biology Welcome to Cambridge Core

Here's your chance to download not only my book 'Slime Mould and Philosophy' , but download ALL the books in Cambridge Elements Philosophy of Biology series from the 20th to the 25th of July for FREE! I highly recommend Jan Baedke's (2025) book 'The Organism'.
cup.org/4kEgivL
#ISHPSSB #philosophy

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention Nobre and Gresch call for an upgrade of attention research by considering how the brain shifts its focus between contents in the external sensory stream and internal memory representations. They highl...

Neuron

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

www.cell.com/callback?red...

Exciting news! The DAAD is sponsoring a Guest Chair ‘Philosophy of Cognitive Science’ @ruhr-uni-bochum.de! 4 outstanding international lecturers offering 12 courses, starting this fall: Robert Clowes (winter25), Nico Orlandi (spring26), Rob Rupert (winter26), and Kristin Andrews (spring27)! 😎🤩🥳

I'm happy with the feedback on my poster at the Computational Psychiatry Conf. I felt that people enjoyed having someone looking at the broader implications of predictive models. I also felt that I made scientists critically think about their work today so my job is done.

I'd love to hear more!

I mean, it is interesting and looks promising. But I still don't understand what's the ultimate goal of modeling cog/behavior. I once thought it would be replacing animal data (and therefore end their forced role in science), but I don't think this is the case.

And we are live:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Philsky

My only current thought during the computational Psychiatry conference

If you're at my talk at UCL shortly, you'll hear all about my "AI consciousness centrism". But if not, maybe you'd like the slides, which are here: drive.google.com/file/d/1GerN...

Congrats!

🤯 Exciting episode. I'm looking forward to seeing the published version and the replies!

Workshop MIND AND COGNITION
Uni. Porto
22 July 2025 | 10h-18h30 WEST

Speakers:
Denis Walsh (Toronto Uni.)
Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv Uni.),
Carl Craver (Washington Uni.)
Hugh Desmond (Wageningen Uni.)

Zoom:
ID Meeting: 951 4581 2521
Passcode: 153248
More info: ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/w...

Yep, and the last author of this paper is Andre Bastos, the very one who tried to implement PC in the visual cortex!

Forms of life, forms of mind | Dr. Michael Levin | Learning to Be: how learning strengthens the emergent nature of collective intelligence in a minimal agent A description of our findings in a recent preprint on effects of training on causal emergence in a model of gene-regulatory networks

Final version is out:

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
"Associative conditioning in gene regulatory network models increases integrative causal emergence". 🧪

Described here:

thoughtforms.life/learning-to-...

Sensory responses of visual cortical neurons are not prediction errors Predictive coding is theorized to be a ubiquitous cortical process to explain sensory responses. It asserts that the brain continuously predicts sensory information and imposes those predictions on lo...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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O projeto de lei que proíbe o uso de animais vertebrados vivos em testes de cosméticos e perfumes, ingredientes ou produtos de higiene pessoal foi aprovado pela Câmara dos Deputados. Como o mesmo texto já havia sido aprovado pelo Senado em 2022, o projeto segue para a sanção tiny.cc/0b5p001

The illusionists
@keithfrankish.bsky.social

We just launched "Are Ant Colonies Conscious? Collective Minds and Philosophical Implications". First book fully focused on collective consciousness -with bold chapters by Luke Roelofs, E. Schwitzgebel, Rupert, Maria Iennaco, José Camilo, and more. Free access here: www.editorafi.org/ebook/c128-c...