Andrew Corcoran

'bad metaphysical hangover' on the other hand...

A Predictive Processing Framework for Joint Action and Communication Humans act together to achieve feats they could never achieve alone and communicate to ensure alignment of meaning and understanding across different …

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Preprint! “Bayesian surprise tracks the strength of perceptual insight” - Work with @lindedomingo.bsky.social & @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

Ever wondered what factors influence the subjective experience of suddenly understanding a previously unclear input?

Click below:
doi.org/10.64898/202...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses

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

#neuroskyence

Happy to share our new Opinion now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Anthony Clément!

A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling

Full access:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1miOLbotqB...

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what is thinking, actually?

Seems an ideal discussion paper for many of us here who experimentally nudge around the margins of thought while assuming people are doing it

🧠🤣 #neuroskyence

Spatial Filters—In Search of the Virtual Electrode A spatial filter combines signals from multiple sensors to create a virtual channel that emphasizes specific brain activity while reducing interference. Spatial filters range from simple, fixed config...

Spatial Filters—In Search of the Virtual Electrode

www.jneurosci.org/content/46/7...

Beyond metaphor: quantitative reconstruction of Waddington landscape and exploration of cellular behavior Abstract. Originally proposed as a conceptual metaphor, the Waddington landscape was used to illustrate the directional nature of embryonic development and

Beyond metaphor: quantitative reconstruction of Waddington's landscape and exploration of cellular behavior academic.oup.com/bib/article/... - really nice review of how big data and new computational methods and reviving an old conceptual framework

Mathematical Methods in Computational Neuroscience Summer school in Eresfjord, Norway (July 8th - 26th, 2024)

Applications are now open for the summer school: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞

🧠 Apply before March 15: www.compneuronrsn.org

📍 Located in beautiful Eresfjord 🇳🇴
🗓️ Between July 6-24

Supported by the @kavlifoundation.org
In collaboration with @kavlintnu.bsky.social

'Why the polyvagal theory is untenable. An international expert evaluation of the polyvagal theory and commentary upon Porges, S.W. (2025). Polyvagal theory: current status, clinical applications, and future directions.'

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social, out now in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NYAS Publications From birth, respiration constitutes an intrinsic rhythm. We suggest that vocalizations and bodily movements are interactively coordinated with this respiratory rhythm, providing a temporal framework ...

Toward a Fuller Integration of Respiratory Rhythms Into Research on Infant Vocal and Motor Development

From @susfuchs.bsky.social Elina Rubertus, Laura L. Koenig, Aude Noiray

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Diagram showing four phases of methodological research (Theory, Exploration, Systematic Comparison, Evidence Synthesis) with an arrow indicating that preregistration usefulness increases from early to late phases. Each phase lists its aim, elements, outcome, and an example from factor retention research.

Does it make sense to preregister simulation studies?
This question has sparked a lot of debate.

▶️We* work through the why, when, and how
▶️We discuss different phases of methodological research to clarify where preregistration might (or might not) add value

📝 Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The Impact of Non-Neural Sources on Aperiodic EEG Activity

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

there's no 'deciding to act' in predictive coding (let alone self, consciousness, wisdom, etc etc)

Wow!! Kanzi ❤️

it's not about predictive coding

A copy of "The Self-Evidencing Agent: Mind, Existence, and Predictive Processing" by Jakob Howhy on a plain background. The cover features a simple one-line illustration of a profile of a character painting a line that stems from their foot.

Jakob @hohwy.bsky.social unravels how we understand the mind, cognition, and existence in "The Self-Evidencing Agent," analyzing how human agents perceive and make sense of the world, decide to act, and act of their own volition: bit.ly/4sXomMq

What is the brain for? Active inference is widely discussed as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet its empirical status remains debated. Our review identifies core predictions across the action-perception cycle and evaluates their empirical support: osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨 Preprint altert 🚨

**Opposite Effects of Alpha Oscillations on Mind-wandering With Eyes Open and Closed**

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Led by Esther Thielking and Luca Iemi!

New preprint with Nicolai Wolpert and Catherine Tallon-Baudry !

Reaction times across three distinct perceptual tasks (total N = 90) varied with the electrical rhythm of the stomach.

#neuroskyence

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap.
dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D...

Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...

No evidence for the modulation of the readiness potential by respiratory phase
osf.io/preprints/ps...

FDA guidance on Bayesian clinical trials
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/15/f...

I am happy to share that our preprint “𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮: 𝗔 𝗧𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵” is now out.

Huge thanks to @bayslab.org, Julie de Falco, Zahara, @cjungerius.bsky.social, @ivntmc.bsky.social, Adam, and Xiaolu for the lovely collaboration.

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Sleep-dependent infraslow rhythms are evolutionarily conserved across reptiles and mammals - Nature Neuroscience Bergel et al. show that an infraslow rhythm connecting the brain and body during sleep is shared by lizards, mammals and birds, revealing an ancestral process and reshaping our understanding of the ev...

Infra-slow brain rhythms found in sleep in lizards, humans, rats and pigeons!

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

Congrats @antbergel.bsky.social!

🚨 New paper in @pnas.org to end 2025 with a bang!🚨

Behavioral, experiential, and physiological signatures of mind blanking
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

with Esteban Munoz-Musat, @arthurlecoz.bsky.social @corcorana.bsky.social, Laouen Belloli and Lionel Naccache

Illustration: Ana Yael.

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as in autonomy is necessary but not sufficient for agency. see the paper I linked

with the free energy principle :)

Defining Agency: Individuality, Normativity, Asymmetry, and Spatio-temporality in Action - Xabier E. Barandiaran, Ezequiel Di Paolo, Marieke Rohde, 2009 The concept of agency is of crucial importance in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, and it is often used as an intuitive and rather uncontroversial...

lots of discussion of these concepts in enactivism, where (as I understand it) autonomy -- read as something like self-preservation or autopoiesis -- is a condition of agency
e.g., doi.org/10.1177/1059...