Kadi Tulver

Postdoc @UniTartuCS tickled by Cognitive Science, Insights, Psychopathology, AI, Philosophy, and the art of creating by writing

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

Insight isn’t a single spark but a dynamic cycle🔁 tension builds, salience shifts, and constraints loosen, allowing new remote connections to emerge. This iterative process reveals alternative paths to breakthroughs, from small "ahas" to changes in core beliefs. @CognitionJourn

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

The bigger the conflict, the deeper the insight💡 🌩️

We propose a new theory of mental breakthroughs bridging insights from problem-solving, psychotherapy, psychedelics, and meditation.

out now in @CognitionJourn

led by @TulverK

https://t.co/jtXlmcKP69

[Ruben Laukkonen @RubenLaukkonen]

Insight as a toy model for mystical experiences.

Our new paper shows how Aha!, insight, Eureka, and mystical experiences can be modelled as realizations varying in intensity and size of the network affected. A small Aha! might restructure a local problem representation, whereas a mystical experience destabilizes a much larger self/world model.

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

@nickabrel Thank you😊 @nickabrel

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

Insight isn’t a single spark but a dynamic cycle🔁 tension builds, salience shifts, and constraints loosen, allowing new remote connections to emerge. This iterative process reveals alternative paths to breakthroughs, from small "ahas" to changes in core beliefs. @CognitionJourn

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

The bigger the conflict, the deeper the insight💡 🌩️

We propose a new theory of mental breakthroughs bridging insights from problem-solving, psychotherapy, psychedelics, and meditation.

out now in @CognitionJourn

led by @TulverK

https://t.co/jtXlmcKP69

[Carola Salvi @CarolaSalvi]

“ Insight et al.,” I have never seen so many insight researchers together! #ICT2024 hosted 4 symposia on problem-solving, insight and Creativity!!! What a momentum!!

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

@OlthofMerlijn @LeorRoseman @JasperFeyaerts @lisabortolotti @christinecheesy @Roger_Beaty @chrisletheby @fedebng These look very relevant, thank you for sharing!

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

Part II of restructuring insight - a new framework for understanding mechanisms of change in various belief structures: https://t.co/Sm8Zbmsuui with @KristjanKaup and @jaaanaru

All ideas and comments are extra welcome while we still await peers to review! 🤓

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

@fedebng @LeorRoseman @JasperFeyaerts @lisabortolotti @christinecheesy @Roger_Beaty @chrisletheby @OlthofMerlijn I hadn't yet, thanks a lot!

[Nick Kabrel @nickabrel]

Our paper is now live in BMC Psychiatry!

We suggest using mental navigation as a novel framework for understanding the process of psychotherapy and the transformative changes it brings about.

What a pleasure working with @jaaanaru @TulverK!

A thread 1\

https://t.co/km1hmZ8eBl

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

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.

w @m_kabrel @TulverK
https://t.co/gvjzSSWIKt

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

Psychedelic replications in virtual reality show potential in treating depressive symptoms https://t.co/mBRRAVcngQ

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

Finally out! Hopefully, this will prove to be a useful resource for everyone looking to develop a more integrative understanding of insight experiences💡

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

Aha!💡The phenomenon of insight may be more common than you think.

In our review, ♨️hot off the press♨️, we try to bridge the gap between insights in problem-solving, meditation, psychotherapy, delusions and psychedelics.

with @TulverK @RubenLaukkonen

https://t.co/qHV1OrJbFe

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

Some very funky research we're doing. First step ✔

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

📢In our new paper, we ask whether replicating the visual aspects of psychedelic experience in VR could have therapeutic effects.

While this is an open-label feasibility study with many caveats, we found promising effects of psychedelic VR on depression.
https://t.co/iAfKjA8sIc

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

Can you guess what's hidden in these images? How did you arrive at the solution? Can we build AI algorithms that solve it in a similar way?

We developed a new dataset to investigate the iterative generation and refinement of perceptual hypotheses.🧵

https://t.co/txm416mWfQ

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

A familiar doodle by our dear professor now in published form.

[Perception & i-Perception Journals @PerceptionSAGE]

Merry or worried?

A short note from Talis Bachmann on figures which seem to change emotion depending on how you group the facial features:

https://t.co/q2g0QxJad1

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

Have you ever had a moment of understanding: "aha!", "Eureka!"?💡

We review the phenomenon of insight in problem-solving, meditation, psychotherapy, primary delusions, and psychedelics.

Spearheaded by @TulverK, with Kristjan Kaup and @RubenLaukkonen

https://t.co/e35F4ZIFGl

[Kadi Tulver @TulverK]

Wrote a brief review and commentary on what we've learnt about the factorial structure of visual perception in recent years - tldr; there is no g factor in vision https://t.co/1CGQwI8UFD

[Science Trends @sciencetrend]

Our experiments illustrate that “hallucinating” some aspects of the visual scene is much more common than we might have previously thought. https://t.co/KhEQst5Zvc

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

Our work about the individual differences of the effects of priors is now out in Cognition. Take home message: different tasks and stimuli bring along different priors, so it is unfounded to make *general* claims about priors (e.g. in some patient groups). https://t.co/wlZjSjQ9Yq

[Jaan Aru @jaaanaru]

Which priors do you mean? We found that there is no general factor of "relying on priors" in different visual tasks: priors depend on the task. Hence, making general claims about a particular (patient) population having strong/weak priors seems unwarranted https://t.co/iP0JZmGWfg