Axel Cleeremans
@axelcleeremans
Brain, minds, & consciousness. Also interested in design, visual arts, biology, space, typography, and anticipation. Also known as “Axel from Belgium”.
I’m pleased to chair a panel discussion on “Mobility of Research and Researchers” in an upcoming event at the @BritishAcademy_ co-hosted by @ERCGrantees I’d love to hear personal opinions (from your personal experience) about dis/advantages of mobility aerg.eu/the-european-r…
What an extraordinary day at #ASSC2025! So inspiring today’s presentations and meeting brilliant minds from around the world. Look out for Josh Kellie, our Senior Journal Manager, he’d love to chat about open access publishing, open science, and ways to get involved with us.
five excellent talks from the NYU workshop on functions of consciousness last month. speakers: dylan ludwig (who also organized), joshua shepherd (@ERC_Conscious), @MatthiasMichel_, marisa carrasco (@carrasco_lab), and @axelcleeremans. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
🧠 A key neurocognitive process for decision-making is the so-called sense of agency (SoA), which refers to the perception that we are the authors of our actions and their consequences. To assess whether the neural basis of SoA differs between the civilian and military…
Don’t miss it!! We are eager to discuss consciousness with you there 🙏
#CIFARWinterSchool applications are now open! Learn from top researchers studying the neuroscience of consciousness in a fully-funded, 3-day event for senior PhD and post-doctoral fellows, hosted by CIFAR and @TempletonWorld. Apply by June 23! cifar.ca/next-generatio…
Our newest article: Collective Decision Making by Embodied Neural Agents Available open-access from PNAS Nexus: doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… Congratulations and thanks to all our co-authors, especially @CouckeNicolas who initiated and led the study!!
Check out this community note🔥 👌
The @ERC_Research is simplifying funding by reducing reporting burdens for researchers & host institutions. This aligns with calls for "radical simplification" and the "Trust Researchers" petition. A trust-first approach can lead to transformative changes. aerg.eu/news/Simple%20…
Donald Trump is making a deliberate attempt to overwhelm the system, and to overwhelm you. It can be difficult to keep up. And that’s by design. But we can keep up – and respond. Here’s what he’s doing, and what it means for you. Just the facts. 🧵⤵️
« Il n’y a qu’une seule bonne recherche, et elle innove en permanence » Entretien avec Maria Leptin, la présidente de l’ERC. 🖊️@MariusGilbert @leSoir « L’innovation par la quête du savoir »: lesoir.be/650946/article… 🇪🇺
An absolutely exciting event! @ERCGrantees @BritishAcademy_
Join us for our next Science & Society webinar "From Nazism in Europe to European Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Memory, Identity, and Other Engagements Across a Continent." by Prof. Philippe Sands on 22 January! The lecture will be livestreamed via vimeo.com/event/4850726
This work is the result of my amazing research stay with @introspection at @ppsp_team . Also thanks to my other great co-authors: @mktheinrich @axelcleeremans and Marco Dorigo. Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.18498
🎉 The @AERG congratulates the winners of the 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant! 🏆 Welcome to the #ERCgrantees community. We invite you to join us in championing and safeguarding fundamental research across Europe. erc.europa.eu/news-events/ne…
1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
My first monograph is going to the printer next week! For those interested in William James, pragmatism, decapitated frogs, mechanical automata, hemipelegic patients, self-experimentation involving wads of putty shoved into one's own eyeball sockets, etc; the usual fare.
I highly enjoyed reading this recent paper by @noraabradford, Shen, @BrianOdegaard2 & @meganakpeters about funding consciousness research - very important and helpful! It was also great to see the usage of the ConTraSt database >> nature.com/articles/s4200…
This was an amazing collaboration between psychologist and roboticists, all driven by the incredible energy of the inimitable @CouckeNicolas
Can we make good decisions together when only communicating through our movements? This is what we investigated in our recent iScience paper. 🧵 cell.com/trends/cogniti…
Which is more amazing: the fact that America has vastly outperformed other advanced economies without higher inflation, or the fact that Biden gets no credit?
I am going to Lund to speak at the Natural and Artificial Cognition III meeting and it's all looking great but I am really curious to find out what the "Swedish Government breakfast" consists of.
