The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@UCL using #neuroimaging + #psychedelics to study the #neurobiology of language, inner speech & #consciousness 🧠 Also see our UNITy Project @PsychedelicUNIT 🍄

[The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab]

🗣️🛜🟰🧠: 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: https://t.co/dRiLAinZGS

[Egor Levchenko @egorlevchenko_]

🆕 Neuroimaging dataset released!

I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!

ISC maps attached :)

[The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab]

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis

https://t.co/4fDHQOYeHR

[SciencesNetwork @SciencesNetwork]

Inner speech and the neurobiology of psychosis
https://t.co/s06icMBDfM

[Oris Shenyan @oshenyan]

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @GeorgiaMNeuro Laura Haye @mlisi6 @j_greenwood @thelablab @TesDekker
https://t.co/mwUMdGi8Bd

[Fernando Rosas @_fernando_rosas]

Preprint time:
“Compatibilist emergence for the science of consciousness”
https://t.co/I7Zhno9UVW

How a multifaceted understanding of emergence can illuminate the link between consciousness and life!

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work.
Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT
https://t.co/gTsDvDLBdI
#neuroscience

[Cell Reports @CellReports]

Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT https://t.co/stkRq0M32O

[Cell Reports @CellReports]

The void and the brain https://t.co/FVbtQWWPGO

[Joanna Kuc @joanna_kuc]

Speech as a psychedelic 'biomarker'? 🧵
In our new preprint, we analysed voice journals before & after 5-MeO-DMT using NLP + acoustic features.

📄https://t.co/Y6mc2q161w

w/ @rosmcalpine @milly_sellers @rhizoqualia @danlametti @thelablab

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[Viktor Kewenig @ViktorKewenig]

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!

https://t.co/lBl0Pc2r9g

[Oris Shenyan @oshenyan]

New preprint! With @GeorgiaMNeuro Laura Haye @mlisi6 @j_greenwood @thelablab @TesDekker

https://t.co/okaQ0xpdBV

We explored the tendency to experience complex hallucinatory imagery in older-age adults using experimental techniques (Ganzfeld/ganzflicker)

[The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @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 👏🎉.

[Joanna Kuc @joanna_kuc]

Speech as a psychedelic 'biomarker'? 🧵
In our new preprint, we analysed voice journals before & after 5-MeO-DMT using NLP + acoustic features.

📄https://t.co/Y6mc2q161w

w/ @rosmcalpine @milly_sellers @rhizoqualia @danlametti @thelablab

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[Closer To Truth @CloserToTruth]

"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.

https://t.co/Q77uAKYdYJ

[The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab]

@erikphoel Many of my better analyses in published research came to me in dreams.

[Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall]

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. https://t.co/JnIPLUgL3G

[Tony Sobrado @TonySobrado]

Cognition, language and the overlap with conscious states: Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper » IAI TV: https://t.co/rUWFOhWqCz @IAI_TV @mitbrainandcog @anilkseth @WiringTheBrain @AllenInstitute @drmichaellevin @davideagleman @NeuroscienceNew

[The LAB Lab 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelablab]

@donalddhoffman Silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

Rumi as quoted by your goodself in The Case Against Reality, a book I adored.

[Donald Hoffman @donalddhoffman]

"Ultimately, language is both an enhancement and a constraint, a double-edged sword that structures thought while simultaneously obscuring other modes of being."

https://t.co/WaBWQzbUYp

[Bastiat Partners @bastiatpartners]

Highly recommend this article via ⁦⁦@thelablab⁩ Language creates an altered state of consciousness | Jeremy I Skipper » IAI TV https://t.co/ncPQsIYSJh

[Institute of Art and Ideas @IAI_TV]

“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. | https://t.co/PGMD1hcusa

Tap to read more about how we can dismantle the scaffolding of the mind.