Anna Ciaunica @annaciaunica.bsky.social

Happy to see this one out ! Full follow up paper coming soon 😎 To understand consciousness one must look at the body in relation to other bodies (not just inside the brain alone) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Advancing a temporal science of behavior Opinion by Drew Abney, Caitlin Fausey, Catalina Suarez-Rivera, & Catherine Tamis-LeMonda (@TamisLeMondaNYU) Free access before Aug 13: tinyurl.com/5x5xja8w

Frontiers | Trapped in a Glass Bell Jar: Neural Correlates of Depersonalization and Derealization in Subjects at Clinical High-Risk of Psychosis and Depersonalization–Derealization Disorder frontiersin.org/journals/psych…

Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? – aeon.co/essays/was-ren… via @aeonmag

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Now published open access: Perceptual Control Theory and the Free Energy Principle: a comparison sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @Kihbernetics @AnnaCiaunica @mjdramstead @KordingLab @HenryYin19 @CyberneticsOrg @WiringTheBrain @drmichaellevin @micblackau @leafs_s @Neuro_Skeptic

Do you need a body to be somebody, a self ? Join us in Iceland in August to discuss intelligence and selfhood in biological and artificial systems. Thank you for having me ! 🙏 osf.io/preprints/psya…

Thanks for checking it out. It is free open access: direct.mit.edu/books/search-r…

Movement Matters by @MacrinePhD just landed on my Kindle 📘 As a STEM teacher working in a reform-oriented, highly inclusive school, I’m deeply intrigued by its focus on embodied cognition. Looking forward to fresh impulses – far beyond the sit-and-receive approach to learning!…

Incredible anonymous painter 😎

New preprint: "Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)" osf.io/preprints/psya… driven by: substack.com/@drtompollak @HamiltonMorrin @RicardoTwumasi and many others "Large language models (LLMs) are poised to become a…

Advancing a temporal science of behavior sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So cool😎 The Rubber Tentacles Illusion !

Octopuses are reported to fall for the "rubber hand" illusion. Very interesting new paper in @CurrentBiology by Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda. Links below. 1/

🚨 Fully Funded PhD positions Gonda Brain Institute, Sharp Lab We will explore how people build & deploy world models efficiently for planning & deciding. We will also investigate how world model construal & use is biased in anxiety. Deadline: 1 Sept 2025. Please share!

Study finds nearly 1 in 4 young adults with mood disorders show circadian misalignment via DLMO and body temp shifts. Light, hydration, and meds might play bigger roles than we think in mental health. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07… #MentalHealth #CircadianRhythm #Depression

🎓 PhD Opportunity: Multimodal Neuroimaging of Multisensory Perception (EEG + fMRI) 🧠 Join a top lab @LivUni with @nick_fallon & @Carl_A_Roberts. 📍 4-year @BBSRC and @Unilever funded + industry placement. 🗓️ Apply by 26 Sept 🔗 liverpool.ac.uk/courses/multim…

Why is behaviour so variable? How can we interpret our chaotic results, and what do they tell us about the function of the brain? Join us in Buenos Aires on Aug 9th to discuss the complexity, context-dependence, and robustness of behaviour on our Workshop of Ideas!

Breathe for your mitochondria 😀

Here is the link for the Artifical General Intelligence conference sign up. agi-conf.org/2025/ Also a good link to @AnnaCiaunica paper. doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Because we interact with objects through our bodies AI systems don’t .