Henry Railo

New preprint: Did you hear what you said? Inattentional deafness of pitch shifts inself-producedvocalization osf.io/preprints/ps...

Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.

5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...

This was our first attempt to study this phenomenon (and you can see that if you look how noisy our ERPs are… 😬). We have more interesting data to report so stay tuned!

Conscious perception of the pitch shift correlated with auditory awareness negativity and late positivity in EEG. This replicates previous results of conscious perception of ”external” auditory stimuli - and suggests similar processes underlie conscious perception of errors in one’s own behavior.

We added a threshold level pitch shift to auditory feedback during vocalization. When participants reported not noticing the pitch shit, they still initiated a correction to their vocalization. When consciouly perceived, the correction to vocalization was modulated ~500 ms after the pitch shift.

Conscious and unconscious perception of pitch shifts in auditory feedback during vocalization: Behavioral functions and event-related potential correlates During vocalization, mismatches between expected and perceived auditory feedback are processed rapidly and automatically, suggesting that feedback con…

Does conscious perception play a role in auditory feedback control of speech? Our results suggest feedback control of speech is initiated by unconscious processes but modulated by conscious perception www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New study I was happy to be part of: Gestational Duration and Postnatal Age-Related Changes in Aperiodic and Periodic Parameters in Neonatal and Toddler Electroencephalogram (EEG) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #EEG #neuroimaging

Aperiodic parameters of the fMRI power spectrum associate with preterm birth and neonatal age While strong associations of structural magnetic resonance imaging (sMRI) with preterm birth and post-menstrual age (PMA) have been reported, such associations for functional MRI (fMRI) have been cons...

New preprint: We found that aperiodic prameters of fMRI power spectrum predict preterm birth and neonatal age www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #Neuroimaging

🎉 Our paper "Criterion placement threatens the construct validity of neural measures of consciousness" is now out in eLife! 🎉
TL;DR: Both simulations and empirical data show that you should not post-hoc sort neural data based on subjective measures of consciousness.
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A new experimentally-supported theoretical framework to analyze individual variability in biological and artificial systems performing flexible decision-making tasks

A fresh Nature paper from the Brody lab 🍾

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

On the bright side of blindsight. Considerations from new observations of awareness in a blindsight patient Abstract. Blindsight refers to the ability to make accurate visual discriminations without conscious awareness of the stimuli. In this study, we present ne

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Analysis of recordings of conversations with the only carefully studied bilateral human blindsight patient reveals that he knows he is seeing red without, apparently, perceptual phenomenology of redness. 1/

I just preprinted a little perspective piece / mini review on the history of the study of aperiodic neural activity - arguing there is more out there in literature than one might expect!

📜 A historical overview of the study of aperiodic neural activity:
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Abstract submissions for the Learning and Plasticity 2025 conference are open! Deadline December 2nd. lapmeeting.fi
* Dates: April 6-9, 2025
* Special Theme: Interventions to promote cognition and well-being
* Keynote speakers: Daphne Bavelier, Martin Lövdén, Tiia Ngandu

Moving Eyes Make the Ears Squeak Scientists can now pinpoint where someone is looking just by listening to their ears. Following Duke researchers’ initial discovery that the ears emit subtle...

(YouTube) Moving eyes make the ears squeak www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ge... "Scientists can now pinpoint where someone is looking just by listening to their ears"; #neuroscience

Nature

Wi-Fi for neurons: first map of wireless nerve signals unveiled in worms

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www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Peter Sekaer, Phrenologist's Window, New Orleans, 1936

I'd like a Lego set with cortical EEG setup from 1949 Jasper and Penfield paper, when they shown a sensorimotor beta. Pretty please. 🧠🟦 🧠🤖

Against cortical reorganisation A critical re-evaluation of some of the quintessential examples given as evidence for cortical reorganisation argues that, contrary to the prevalent view, any opportunities for functional change in co...

Against cortical reorganisation elifesciences.org/articles/84716 A case against sensory substitution? Does Nature fail to employ POTS-like functional rewiring (functional reorganization) in the brain to learn and adapt? #neuroscience

Towards a common conceptual space for metacognition in perception and memory - Nature Reviews Psycho... Metacognition is the evaluation, control, or representation of one’s own cognition. In this Review, Mazancieux et al. discuss whether metacognition is general or specific across domains, focusing on...

Recommended reading - comprehensive overview of domain-generality in metacognition by @audreymazancieux.bsky.social and colleagues. Concludes in favour of “weak” domain-generality (some shared processes) + lots of neat ideas for future work

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Are we ready to study consciousness in crabs and the like? | Aeon Essays Consciousness science should move past a focus on complex mammalian brains to study the behaviour of ‘simpler’ animals

My latest for Aeon. 30 years ago we gave up the assumption that language is needed for consciousness, with great results. But consciousness remains puzzling. I suggest we can make real progress into the nature of consciousness by giving up the assumption that it requires a complex brain.

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Research Council of Finland investigates merger of Academy Professor and Centre of Excellence fundin... The Research Council of Finland is currently assessing the Academy Professor and Centre of Excellence funding instruments. The aim is to find out whether it would be beneficial to merge the instrument...

Research Council of Finland investigates merger of Academy Professor and Centre of Excellence funding schemes.

Researchers and research organisations can have their say in November–December, call slated for late spring 2024.

If interested (as I am), take the survey.

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Investigation of contributions from cortical and subcortical brain structures for speech decoding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.12.566678v1 Language impairments often arise from severe neurological disorders, prompting the development of ne

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Enhanced Mind-Matter Interactions Following rTMS Induced Frontal Lobe Inhibition A major barrier to acceptance of psi is that effects are small and hard to replicate. To address this issue, we developed a novel neurobiological mode…

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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

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paper mill papers will increasingly make up "knowledge" in LLMs, especially as LLMs increasingly write those papers themselves and in less obviously predatory places (including preprint servers). so humans will be needed to label these as "not trustworthy". we still need human experts!

We suggest EPN may index selective attention towards threat-relevant stimulus features. If true, our result suggests that failure to disengage attention from the threat-stimulus may hinder withdrawal speed.