Steve Fleming @smfleming@qoto.org
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL
| Author #KnowThyself (2021)
| Dad of two mini humans 🇬🇧🇭🇷
Joined Nov 2022
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this is mind-blowing work; it looks at one of the most robust effects in cogsci, takes a super intuitive theory that some (i.e., me) assumed to be true, and carefully introduces controls to falsify it. please read! https://twitter.com/sparuniisc/status/1606639090862260224
RT @StePalminteri
Two open positions to work with us
(we are gathering applications till mid-January): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pkTinPufd7tBxhS5i9IqCxtqjHt9JGVp3ePiNEMi36M/edit?usp=sharing
RT @corradosinigagl
Contextual and pure time coding for self and other in the hippocampus | Nature Neuroscience https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01226-y
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Neuroscience Trend Forecasters
As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least — exciting research fads for the New Year.
https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/12/neuroscience-trend-forecasters.html
RT @PickardJE
millennials aren’t getting more right-wing as they age: fascinating statistics via @jburnmurdoch
https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767cf4
RT @quiltydunn
this is mind-blowing work; it looks at one of the most robust effects in cogsci, takes a super intuitive theory that some (i.e., me) assumed to be true, and carefully introduces controls to falsify it. please read! https://twitter.com/sparuniisc/status/1606639090862260224
RT @pgmid
Mariam @mariam_s_aly discusses the many faces of the hippocampus, and how memory and attention and perception shape each other.
We also talk about the mental health challenges she faced during graduate school. I'm grateful she shared her story.
https://braininspired.co/podcast/156/
RT @JohnDraper8
It is with great pleasure that I share this year's @UCLPALS Xmas video. Another @jakefairnie epic #PALSXMAS22 https://twitter.com/UCLPALS/status/1605231749222498304
RT @DrAPitman
Applications for the @ucl @wellcometrust 4-year #PhD in #mentalhealthscience close at 23:59 GMT on Monday 9 Jan 2023. You can read more about the course here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/study/ucl-wellcome-4-year-phd-mental-health-science & hear from our fantastic #interdisciplinarian students here https://www.mentalhealthscience.org/ https://twitter.com/jonroiser/status/1324744414250606593
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RT @KathaSchmack
📢We are looking for a research technician!
Join us for an exciting translational project on autoimmune psychosis. I promise that we will refrain from wearing silly party props (until the next @TheCrick holiday party).
RT @KathaSchmack
📢We are looking for a research technician!
Join us for an exciting translational project on autoimmune psychosis. I promise that we will refrain from wearing silly party props (until the next @TheCrick holiday party).
RT @sophiescott
in 1992 I organised the first UCL Psych dept Christmas pantomime, starring @JohnDraper8 @tom_hartley @CeliaHeyes and many many more (e.g. Tim Shallice is the pantomime cow). @TomManly1 and I did the music. And lo! just 30 years later I have scored a copy of the video.
RT @Aman_sal
I guess I'll be kicked off the platform for this ... See you on the other side. https://twitter.com/Aman_sal/status/1593522695169269761
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RT @patrickmineault@twitter.com
Neuromatch soft-launched its mastodon instance last week. We already have a great local feed, you should totally join our merry neuroscientist/hacker spaceship 🚀 http://neuromatch.social
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/patrickmineault/status/1603461934719897604
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Looks like the WSJ is going all in on moving to Mastodon, with this little tutorial available without a paywall.
https://www.wsj.com/story/how-to-use-mastodon-the-social-media-platform-blocked-by-elon-musks-twitter-7751455f
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@smfleming @neurocritic I don't know if this counts as rumination & replay, but when parenting a toddler I had more than one distinct experience of having vivid imagery of a plausible danger to the toddler come into my mind, seemingly out of nowhere. And that would obviously prompt me to take action. i did wonder if my brain were somehow unconsciously computing possible events and throwing the 'danger' ones into awareness for action. But I've never devised a way to experimentally test it.
@neurocritic I guess it depends on the definition of replay- if by replay we mean a sequence of decodable internal states, then this could accommodate distortions with respect to world states / veridical memory etc. I agree unconscious rumination doesn’t make much sense. But unconscious replay seems to exist… so interesting to figure out what makes the difference
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RT @criticalneuro
Question about replay & rumination:
Some assume rumination = replay.
But it seems to me that rumination content reaches consciousness but replay need not be.
Does someone study/model that difference?
If rumination = replay + X,
what is X? Conscious, cortex-driven, self-related?
RT @toby_wise
@Wokkinho @smfleming @criticalneuro @behrenstimb @YunzheNeuro Also just remembered this interesting paper that describes slow and fragmented "replay", which could better reflect what's going on in rumination https://elifesciences.org/articles/64505
RT @criticalneuro
Question about replay & rumination:
Some assume rumination = replay.
But it seems to me that rumination content reaches consciousness but replay need not be.
Does someone study/model that difference?
If rumination = replay + X,
what is X? Conscious, cortex-driven, self-related?
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL
| Author #KnowThyself (2021)
| Dad of two mini humans 🇬🇧🇭🇷
Joined Nov 2022
