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33 views Finally, we figured out the new identity and the lab logo. I hope we nailed it …👇 And here’s a new paper to illustrate our work: we compare Theory of Mind processes in natural and artificial intelligence. Out now in Artificial Intelligence Review: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10462-023-10401-x arxiv version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.16540.pdf #AI #lab #introduction

Look at the figures below.
Both of them have two interpretations.
On (a) you can see two emotions.
On (b) you can see either meaningless dots or an object.
Two interpretations = bistability? But only (a) is bistable. With the dotted image, once you see the object, perception doesn’t fall back to the interpretation of meaningless dots. Why not?
We don’t know, but we think it is worth figuring out

7 views Look at the figures below. Both of them have two interpretations. On (a) you can see two emotions. On (b) you can see either meaningless dots or an object. Two interpretations = bistability? But only (a) is bistable. With the dotted image, once you see the object, perception doesn’t fall back to the interpretation of meaningless dots. Why not? We don’t know, but we think it is worth figuring out

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0.19 / week

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🔥 Top post Serotonin is such an enigma. In a fresh paper by the lab of Mark Andermann it is shown that serotonin gates the information flow from retina to thalamus. https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)01079-0 Trying to understand the bigger picture, we have recently propose… ★ 112

👋The new breed of reviewer 2 we all need 🥳 "this is a seminal article for a framework that absolutely deserves to be developed in contemporary psychiatry /.../.I can only encourage this type of original, bold and brilliant research." https… ★ 2 Is machine consciousness just around the corner? In our new paper, we approach this question from the neuroscientific perspective and explain why this is unlikely to be the case. just out in @TrendsNeuro with @macshine https://authors.el… ★ 17 How does psychotherapy work? We suggest that psychotherapy could be understood as mental navigation. We analyzed transcripts and found that concepts related to navigation are more prevalent in psychotherapy than in other contexts. https:/… ★ 13 💡Aha-moments💡are the culmination of mental navigation and are supported by the same machinery as spatial navigation. Free version of our recent TINS paper : https://psyarxiv.com/d4rz7/ ★ 2 The problem with consciousness research is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval theories, and god-like technology (to paraphrase E.O. Wilson) Let's use the data provided by this technology to develop new theories of consciousness. O… ★ 7

Look at the figures below. Both of them have two interpretations. On (a) you can see two emotions. On (b) you can see either meaningless dots or an object. Two interpretations = bistability? But only (a) is bistable. With the dotted imag… ★ 7

Finally, we figured out the new identity and the lab logo. I hope we nailed it …👇 And here’s a new paper to illustrate our work: we compare Theory of Mind processes in natural and artificial intelligence. Out now in Artificial Intelligenc… ★ 33 How does our brain come up with new ideas and insights? We propose that insights happen during mental navigation and correspond to the rapid emergence of new concept fields in the #hippocampus Out now in @TrendsNeuro https://authors.els… ★ 55 Slowly figuring out how predictive coding happens in the brain ... A beautiful piece by @ViolaPriesemann and her team. Out now in TINS https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(22)00186-2 ★ 32 People say Mastodon is better than Twitter for serious discussion, so let me try this: Sure, predictive processing is a nice theory, but are there any papers that would directly demonstrate prediction errors or predictions traveling *sever… ★ 11 as a mastodon newbie, I forgot to add those hashtags to my #introduction so here we go: I work on #AI, #vision, #consciousness, #VR, #prediction, #insight, #smartphones, #psychedelics, #intracranial, #computational models, #thalamus, #co… ★ 27

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👁️Averages 27 views per post.

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97%

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Raising two kids, running a lab & trying to do some funky research on the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and AI. Currently, I'm an associate professor at the University of Tartu in my home country Estonia.

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