Cognition and Philosophy Lab

Tweets collated by lab members - now @Monash_M3CS

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

Our paper about the sense of self in first time pregnancy is out now in @Nature_NPJ npj women's health! 🪞🤰 With @SharnaJamadar and @sbectacular, at @Monash_FMNHS @Mon_Bio_Imaging @Monash_M3CS @turnerinstitute
Check it out: https://t.co/WbRR6eQkGc
#WomensHealth #babybrain

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

If you’ve seen me give a research talk in the past two years you’ve probably seen me talk about this one - we’re very excited to share it with you! https://t.co/c5N5A3s1SY @JonnyRobinson6 @hohwy @cogphillab @Monash_M3CS

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

This is the first time that this task has been used online, and the presentation code is freely available with the paper: https://t.co/op8X3zacW4 @JonnyRobinson6 did a fabulous job translating my @MATLAB scripts to work on Pavlovia using @psychopy and psychojs

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

As in my previous research (https://t.co/6lRJrhiQJG) we found that participants with higher autism traits reacted to rising prediction error earlier than those with lower autism traits.

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

We found that participants slightly but significantly preferred the sand environment (noisier but simpler), and switched environments when uncertainty was increasing.

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

In the sand environment there was greater irreducible noise but the water was more complex to accurately model. We looked at environment *selection* and environment *switching* behaviours.

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

In our online study, participants had to figure out which square they controlled with their mouse and they could freely travel between two environments on screen to do so.

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

Classically, environment selection is conceptualised as serving either pragmatic (acquiring reward) or epistemic goals (information about where rewards are), but there’s a more fundamental reason for action - to figure out what you can do (reduce uncertainty about your agency)

[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 🧵:

[Minds Matter Podcast @mindsmatterpod]

We are back for season 2! Very excited to share our first ep where we interviewed the amazing @kelseyperrykkad a post-doc at @cogphillab and @Monash_M3CS 🧠🧠Kelsey chats to us about ways we can understand and study the self.

https://t.co/9ejIg0Ek8V

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

Are you interested in cognitive processes related to the self or dimensional approaches to psychiatric conditions? You might be interested in my new paper with @hohwy and out now in #BMCPsychology! @Monash_M3CS @Monash_Arts @cogphillab https://t.co/eykMtUBTy2 A 🧵… 1/7

[Jakob Hohwy @hohwy]

Congratulations to Dr Kelsey Perrykkad for winning the Emerging Researcher Award from the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society @ACNS_Official. Hugely well-deserved. Such a privilege to have you in @cogphillab and @Monash_M3CS 🥳
@Monash_Arts

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

I’m honoured to have won an Emerging Researcher Award from @ACNS_Official this year! Thank you to the society for everything you do in bringing such an inspiring group of people together - see you at the conference next month!

[Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes @cdutilhnovaes]

✨Cool online event coming up!✨

On June 15th we get together to discuss @NeilLevy10's awesome book 'Bad Beliefs'.

Discussants are @danwilliamsphil, @stephen_gadsby, @lisabortolotti & myself. All welcome, registration through link below.

(Please RT!)
https://t.co/KxHP8GUYVp

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

New preprint, out now on @PsyArXiv!! My followers may know me for my work in understanding the self and agency – in this paper we look at whether believing that your actions are inefficacious acts as a barrier to acting compassionately 🤝 https://t.co/7jF3YPDv1f
A 🧵...

[Cognition and Philosophy Lab @cogphillab]

New paper from lab alumni @stephen_gadsby, defending the rationality of eating disorders.

[Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research @MMConsciousness]

It was great to host two thought-provoking keynotes. But most importantly, nice to meet you @LorinaNaci and @rhodricusack!
We hope Melbourne was enjoyable.
@Mon_Bio_Imaging @MonashUni
@UniMelb @Monash_M3CS @Psychunimelb @Monash_Arts @cogphillab

[Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies @Monash_M3CS]

"...bizarreness is a common, non-deficient feature of spontaneous offline simulations occurring across the sleep-wake cycle..." New paper on dreaming and mindwandering from @KirbergManuela
@cogphillab

[Dr. Kelsey Perrykkad @kelseyperrykkad]

Another fab publication from @cogphillab by my wonderful friend @KirbergManuela who reconceptualises dream bizarreness and develops the idea that 'bizarre' conscious experiences lie on a continuous spectrum through sleep and waking states including mindwandering -- Check it out!

[Jakob Hohwy @hohwy]

Lectureship in Philosophy of Mind! Come work with us at Monash Philosophy.
@Monash_M3CS @cogphillab
https://t.co/C4RHyD0hkv