Why do some people think LLMs are conscious, but nobody (to my knowledge) thinks that AlphaFold is conscious? officechai.com/ai/interesting…

Excited to present at SRCD in Minneapolis! I'll be speaking in the 'Developmental Dynamics Between Higher-Order Cognitive Control and Bottom-Up Statistical Learning' symposium. I'm going speak about our new longitudinal study. Join me Thursday at 10:00 AM in Room 203AB! #SRCD2025

I'm honored and delighted that I was elected to the National Academy of Sciences today! nasonline.org/news/2025-nas-…

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 Interesting review on spontaneous activity and predictions. Idea of "predictions" is natural (could it be otherwise?) but emphasis on constructing models of world not persuasive. Bayesian motivation is vague imo. doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

Our recent study on mind wandering and local sleep has received additional media coverage. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experi… Teodóra Vékony, Ph.D. Petersimor Bianka Brezóczki #neuroscience #cognition #learning #memory #statisticallearning

'The illusion of Conscious AI' - new short piece of Big Think bigthink.com/neuropsych/the… (for the longer version, see my Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article, which is now accepting commentary proposals: cambridge.org/core/journals/…) 🧠

This article misses the point. AI falls short because it relies on digital computing while the human brain uses wave-based analog computing, which is more powerful and energy efficient. nytimes.com/2025/05/16/tec… #neuroscience

If you're an international PhD student at Harvard working on learning and memory in cognitive neuroscience or psychology—and your visa has been cancelled—don’t lose hope. Get in touch with me. I’m confident we can find you an inspiring place to continue your research and thrive.

the long-awaited video for the "25 years of consciousness" event at the 2023 ASSC conference has now been posted at youtube.com/watch?v=M6DHCQ…. this event was framed as a resolution of a 1998 bet between christof koch and me about whether we'd know the neural correlate of

This is an excellent and very clear piece from Sergey Levine about the strengths and limitations of Large Language models. sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-mod…

Excited to see our Centaur project out in nature. TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.

Our new preprint: Mind wandering is a cognitive trade-off. Our study shows MW impairs executive control but BOOSTS implicit learning of hidden patterns. We found the weaker the control, the greater the learning gain. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0… #Neuroscience #Learning #Psychology

New preprint! Inhibiting the right or both dorsolateral prefrontal cortices with rTMS boosts unsupervised statistical learning. Likely by shifting toward a more exploratory processing style. Teodóra Vékony, Ph.D. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #neuroscience #predictiveprocessing

Electromagnetic waves enable low-energy, parallel computation. Your brain has them. If humans can figure this out, 4 billion years of evolution can Programmable wave-based analog computing machine: a metastructure that designs metastructures nature.com/articles/s4146… #neuroscience

In our new preprint, we move beyond studying goal-directed & habitual control in isolation — instead, we examine their interaction in unsupervised learning. OC tendencies tip the balance toward rigid habits over flexible goals. #predictiveprocessing #OCD doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Our new paper is out! How do executive functions shape our ability to rewire habits / update predictive models? ✔️ Better inhibition = easier habit change ❌ Strong semantic fluency = harder to update old patterns because of the long-term memory access. doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Neural plasticity had a good run. I knew it was overblown. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excited to share our latest paper! We show that autistic traits are associated with a different speed-accuracy strategy when the environment changes. This highlights the power of a dimensional approach over rigid categorical views. doi.org/10.1038/s41598… #Autism #Learning

CogNeuroLanguage: new by Laura Williams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…