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Nature is Amazing ☘️ Better version

New preprint from the lab, led by Katrin Reichenbach: Anterior insula activates when sensory signals are at odds with the context in which they are detected. This is true for temporal and spatial forms of context! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Excited to share that my recent publication with Hossein Adeli and Greg Zelinsky is featured as the cover article for PLOS Comp Biol! Check out our findings on the potential functional connection between object reconstruction and attention journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/i…

It was an honor and joy to chat with Sean Carroll. We talked about vision, consciousness, the bridge between sensory and symbolic processing, and a few other little things in this preposterous universe...

Over the moon to be awarded a 2024 NARSAD Young Investigator Grant! The support from the BBRFoundation will allow us to build bridges between artificial and biological hallucinations. We hope to develop neurotech that improves the lives of people living with schizophrenia.

New preprint on bistable perception, led by @FritschMerve: In people with a stroke in the inferior frontal cortex, conscious experience is slower to update in response to conflicting sensory signals biorxiv.org/content/10.110…. This suggests that IFC gates access to consciousness!

Story of my life

It's grant season again. No rejections, only delays!

I moved to California and couldn’t help but go to Burning Man, pretend I surf, wonder about conscious robots, and start a company. This week, the team and I launched pixelblot.ai: a fast, privacy-first way to prove you’re human online. We’d love to hear your thoughts!