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@UCL using #neuroimaging + #psychedelics to study the #neurobiology of language, inner speech & #consciousness 🧠 Also see our UNITy Project @PsychedelicUNIT 🍄
🗣️🛜🟰🧠: Language regions are hubs that aren't fixed. They are spatiotemporally dynamic, connecting w/ 44% of peripheral brain regions at any moment. These are averaged and thresholded away, leaving 'the language network' ONLY in the aggregate over time: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Speech as a psychedelic 'biomarker'? 🧵 In our new preprint, we analysed voice journals before & after 5-MeO-DMT using NLP + acoustic features. 📄biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ @rosmcalpine @milly_sellers @rhizoqualia @danlametti @thelablab 👇
First mobile phone based study tracking longitudinal changes in language & voice around #psychedelics 📱🗣️⏲️👽🍄. We show a shift from external focus to introspection, predicting psychological transformations, e.g., in #wellbeing ❤️🩹. Beautiful work @joanna_kuc & company 👏🎉.
Speech as a psychedelic 'biomarker'? 🧵 In our new preprint, we analysed voice journals before & after 5-MeO-DMT using NLP + acoustic features. 📄biorxiv.org/content/10.110… w/ @rosmcalpine @milly_sellers @rhizoqualia @danlametti @thelablab 👇
We think of language as a transparent tool for expressing thoughts & describing reality. Philosophers agree that “the map is not the territory”. Recent thinkers argue that language plays a fundamental role in shaping our perception of the world & of self. iai.tv/articles/langu…
A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work. Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT doi.org/10.1016/j.celr… #neuroscience
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT dlvr.it/TM3GR1
Our multimodal transformer tool for automating word-concreteness ratings is published today 📝 C-ratings are used in research across Cognitive Science 💶 They take time and money to collect ⚙️ Automation solves this + we get in-context ratings for free! nature.com/articles/s4427…
New preprint! With @GeorgiaMNeuro Laura Haye @mlisi6 @j_greenwood @thelablab @TesDekker biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We explored the tendency to experience complex hallucinatory imagery in older-age adults using experimental techniques (Ganzfeld/ganzflicker)
"Only by losing language can we start to dismantle the scaffolding that supports our notion of the world and the self." Read more from @IAI_TV about language as an altered state of #consciousness. bit.ly/4iepWTT
Cognition, language and the overlap with conscious states: Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper » IAI TV: iai.tv/articles/langu… @IAI_TV @mitbrainandcog @anilkseth @WiringTheBrain @AllenInstitute @drmichaellevin @davideagleman @NeuroscienceNew
"Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being." iai.tv/articles/langu…
Highly recommend this article via @thelablab Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper » IAI TV iai.tv/articles/langu…
“Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being,” argues Jeremy I Skipper. | iai.tv/articles/langu… Tap to read more about how we can dismantle the scaffolding of…