Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research

We are a team of interdisciplinary researchers from two leading universities in Victoria, interested in the scientific study of consciousness.

[Cognitive Neuroscience Hub @CogNeuroUnimelb]

Don't miss out on @CompCogNeuro's talk at the upcoming Roundtable talk series on 31st Aug 11am! Details via the link. https://t.co/UxQ4Y4RhlF

[Toby Woods @TobyJWoods]

What is the deepest stillness/silence people report experiencing in meditation, and are there differences across practices? My new paper with Jennifer Windt, Lydia Brown, @OCarterUoM, and @ntvandam, out now in Mindfulness! https://t.co/G8YtcuMjap @Monash_M3CS @ContemplateUoM 🧵

[Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies @Monash_M3CS]

'We think of personal transformations as big, loud and sudden, but sometimes it builds from a whisper'
Our very own Jenny Windt explores this idea in a must-read article via @psyche_the_mag 👏

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

Some beautiful results from recent transdisciplinary projects on the topic of selfhood. We all had an incredible time at the symposium!

[Andrew Corcoran @mr_corcorana]

@JonnyRobinson6 & Porphyria Lu presenting their collaborative project applying Bayesian modelling to the visual arts as part of the @MMConsciousness workshop on the self in philosophy art & science

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

Fascinating and collaborative MMCR effort at answering profound questions of the embodied aspects of cognition in a predictive processing framework! Well done team!

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

This paper, led by @mr_corcorana and our collaborative team at @MMConsciousness, looks at how heart rhythms in utero may scaffold other cognitive processes, as a diachronic embodied account from predictive processing. Lots of food for thought thanks to my brilliant coauthors!

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

A wonderful evening with @hohwy, @tenzinchoegyal, @BrigidHains and Maria Moles discussing and improvising with all things concerning self and the predictive mind at Sophia Club Melbourne tonight @brunswickballroomaus @sophiaclub_live @aeonmag @Monash_M3CS

[Aeon Magazine @aeonmag]

@hohwy and @BrigidHains untangle our ‘self-evidencing’ selves at Sophia Club Melbourne today @brunswickballroomaus @sophiaclub_live
@tenzinchoegyal

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

Our paper “Foraging for the self: Environment selection for agency inference”, more fondly known as the Beach study 🏖️🩴, is out today in Psych Bull & Rev! OA: https://t.co/G8iC3lvRG0 @JonnyRobinson6 @hohwy @cogphillab @Monash_M3CS A thread 🧵:

[Adeel Razi @adeelrazi]

DishBrain paper is out out now today in Neuron. It is such a great collaboration with @CorticalLabs and @ANeuroExplorer

“In vitro neurons learn and exhibit sentience when embodied in a simulated game-world”

https://t.co/8UTfP9oRxb

@turnerinstitute @CIFAR_News

[Adeel Razi @adeelrazi]

We're hiring a postdoc.

The project is about understanding principles of learning in biological & artificial neural networks, a collaboration w @anilkseth, Yoshua Bengio @tyrell_turing

https://t.co/61X327Q3xN

@CIFAR_News @turnerinstitute @CorticalLabs @Mila_Quebec

Please RT

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

MMCR’s @HinzeHogendoorn & Anthony Burkitt get an honourable mention in Charlie Sexton’s talk. @UniMelb @Psychunimelb

See below! 👇

[Dr Astrid Zeman @astrid_zeman]

Charlie Sexton presenting work with Anthony Burkitt and ⁦@HinzeHogendoorn⁩ ⁦@ecvp2022⁩
On spike-timing dependant plasticity among multiple layers of motion-sensitive neurons.
@unimelb represent!
#visionscience #neuralnetworks ⁦@VisionSciBot⁩

[Consciousness - tlab @conscious_tlab]

I will give a talk at
@Mon_Bio_Imaging
webinar "Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness"
📅Wed 31 Aug 2022
⏰12:30pm
For zoom, please register https://t.co/rnQ2NG19qt
For Youtube live it's here https://t.co/OI7E06c2K8

[Adeel Razi @adeelrazi]

New work from the lab - the first empirical paper from Devon's PhD thesis (@dpsyc42) which looks at the neural basis of LSD-induced ego-dissolution.

https://t.co/UCen224Aql

A short thread 🧵 1/5

[Monash Biomedical Imaging @Mon_Bio_Imaging]

MBI Webinar - Integrating theory-guided and data-driven approaches for measuring consciousness with Prof Nao Tsuchiya
📅Wed 31 August 2022
⏰12:30pm
More info and register https://t.co/OzoOshSaVD
@NaoTsuchiya @Monash_FMNHS

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

@HilaryKHarper We enjoyed it exponentially. A charismatic and thought-provoking meeting of minds.

[The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre]

Ahead of tonight's Colour and Consciousness panel with @MMConsciousness, we spoke to film colourist @cj_dobson who has helped set the mood for some of Australia’s favourite TV shows, including Love Me and The Newsreader. https://t.co/lkytmJ6LPR

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

And.. we’re on!

Present Sense: Colour and Consciousness panel discussion begins.

@wheelercentre @HilaryKHarper @conscious_tlab @vca_mcm

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

The last day of @assc25 starting with an excellent symposium - presented by @ADemertzi, Antoine Lutz, and @MMConsciousness's @thandrillon and Jennifer Windt - bringing together their fascinating work on contentless experience! @theASSC

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

If you're at @assc25, make sure to check @niccolo_negro's poster on matching in IIT (Thu, 1:30pm) and @DemsarEma's talk on lucid dreaming (Fri, 3:30pm). And don't miss tomorrow's symposium on contentless experience featuring our own @thandrillon and Jenny Windt (Fri, 9:00am)!

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

@jasmine_walter_ presenting her fascinating work on multimodal assessment for disorders of consciousness @assc25 @theASSC.
Consciousness research from Melbourne is going strong at this exciting event! ✨️