VISHAL KAPOOR

PI at International Center for Primate Brain Research, Shanghai. Conscious vision and cognition, former PhD/postdoc at MPIBC (Tuebingen), photography

[VISHAL KAPOOR @vishneuro]

A major debate in research on conscious perception is whether its neural substrates include the prefrontal cortex or are limited to posterior regions of the brain.
Excited to share our recent work, which addresses this debate.
Now out in @NatureComms 🧵👇https://t.co/GyWaIf3ABs

[Fanis Panagiotaropoulos @fanispa]

Happy to share my review article on #prefrontal cortex and #consciousness just published in a special issue on consciousness at @NeuroCellPress

An integrative view of the role of prefrontal cortex in consciousness https://t.co/L6ItQWNk0j

[Bernard J. Baars, PhD @BernardJBaars]

Decoding Conscious Contents of the Brain

This recent paper by @fanispa @vishneuro et al., 2022 in @NatureComms @Nature is extremely careful experimental work that rules out alternative explanations, such as the possibility that voluntary report of the conscious event might be responsible for the observed brain activity.

A leading laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany has carefully ruled out the possibility that the voluntary reporting response could be responsible for the conscious neuronal code as expressed in the cellular activity in the prefrontal cortex.

This is the philosophical ideal finally achieved after many years of work: Dissociating the subjective percept for the monkey from other possibilities.

The philosopher Ned Block @De_dicto has argued that qualitative perception with colors and movements and personal meaning occurs in the posterior (rear) half of the brain, but that the front half is not necessary for rich subjective qualities.

These experimental results in two macaque monkeys demonstrated conclusively that conscious perception involves numerous parts of the cortex, not just the posterior visual projection area.

These results answer numerous questions that have bedeviled the field.

We finally have a clean, neural correlate of visual consciousness.

This evidence is consistent with Global Workspace Theory (GWT). (Baars, 2005; Deco et al 2021).

#prefrontalcortex #consciousness #OnConsciousness #cortex #perception #neuroscience #NeuroTwitter #psychology #subjectivity #BRAIN #Science

@NatalieGeld @theASSC @carlzimmer @heather_berlin @sbkaufman @DrSueSchneider @hakwanlau @smfleming @DrStevenLaureys @meganakpeters

https://t.co/Og0avX04hX
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[VISHAL KAPOOR @vishneuro]

An exciting new study by Watakabe et al, which reveals the anatomical organization of the marmoset prefrontal connectome published in @NeuroCellPress with a wonderful cover art.

You can read my preview highlighting this work here: https://t.co/RzVgRMdw0o

[Neuron @NeuroCellPress]

Check out our latest issue: https://t.co/ImgPc6z4Dp
A study identifying columnar and diffuse topographies in the marmoset prefrontal connectome is on the cover.
Find the paper here: https://t.co/0JBI0IB6nU
And a preview of this work by Vishal Kapoor https://t.co/0JBI0IB6nU

[Cory Miller @CoryMillerMarmo]

SimCo agenda is now up. Come join us in Chicago this September to hear about amazing NHP neuroscience, learn the Neuroethical issues critical to our community and how to be a NHP science advocate https://t.co/6RMADoYFqT @slimanjbensmaia @MIcheleABasso1

[Gal Vishne @neurogal.bsky.social @neuro_gal]

😀🎊 Woohoo! Now published in @CellReports! 🎆😀
https://t.co/1owQFAPkqw

How is ongoing visual experience represented?

Using intracranial recordings, we uncover distinct representation dynamics in the ventral stream and prefrontal cortex.

w @Deouell @edden_gerber BobKnight
1/7

[Zhiyong Liu-Hearing Group in NIBS, China @zhiyongliu10]

The team work about Single-cell spatial transcriptome reveals cell-type organization in the macaque cortex.

Please refer to:
https://t.co/jyRueMaG8Z

[hakwan lau 🇺🇦 @hakwan.bsky.social @hakwanlau]

our paper on a neural network model of perceptual confidence is finally our

it reconcils some pretty puzzling and apparently conflicting previous findings

[Anil Seth @anilkseth]

1/2 New! Dynamical Independence: Discovering emergence macroscopic processes in complex dynamical systems. Out today in @PhysRevE, led by @LionelBarnett2 #emergence #informationtheory https://t.co/I3oxxSVPv0 .@erikphoel .@_fernando_rosas .@C4COMPUTATION .@stevenstrogatz

[Fanis Panagiotaropoulos @fanispa]

One of the major questions addressed by the adversarial collaboration on #consciousness is the role of prefrontal cortex. The findings were mixed since visual stimulus category but not stimulus orientation could be decoded from macro and mesoscale signals https://t.co/f8rQ9YxS9z

[Abhilash Dwarakanath @abhidwarakanath]

1/Hello all! Our article dealing with prefrontal mechanisms of conscious access is now online in Neuron

https://t.co/Wz38CSe4GW
With @vishneuro @fanispa et al.
We investigated the prefrontal dynamics of no-report binocular rivalry. We found that beta activity signifies percept

[Fanis Panagiotaropoulos @fanispa]

New paper out in @NeuroCellPress. With @abhidwarakanath, @vishneuro et al. we found local field potential signals that control access to consciousness in the prefrontal cortex
https://t.co/ZmQYQV583J

[Biyu Jade He @BiyuHe]

So excited that my review on consciousness is now available online @TrendsCognSci ! This paper summarizes my thoughts on the neural basis of conscious awareness over the past few years, and lays out a vision for consciousness research ahead.

https://t.co/iHaX0k8FXl

[Hamid Ramezanpour @HamidRamezanpou]

New paper co-authored w/ Maz Fallah out @ELSneuroscience
Here we discuss the idea of a temporal cortex attention network (TAN), its functional properties, connectivity, & how it can be beneficial for social interactions 1/2
@CentreforVisio1 @vistayorku
https://t.co/sYv76lmn0G

[Consciousness - tlab @conscious_tlab]

Our latest pre-print!

How much can we differentiate at a brief glance: Revealing the truer limit in conscious contents through the Massive Report Paradigm (MRP) https://t.co/AYRC8v8xqr

@LiangQianchen 's first first-author paper! Partial registered report! Stage 2 manuscript.

[Jakob Hohwy @hohwy]

"An active inference model of conscious access: How cognitive action selection reconciles the results of report and No-Report paradigms"
@chrisjackwhyte @hohwy @RyanSmith_LIBR
Now in Current Research in Neurobiology
Open Access 👇

[VISHAL KAPOOR @vishneuro]

@Dick_retired @NatureComms Important point. In the present study, the kind of decision-making, which we refer to is the one associated with making perceptual reports.

[VISHAL KAPOOR @vishneuro]

A major debate in research on conscious perception is whether its neural substrates include the prefrontal cortex or are limited to posterior regions of the brain.
Excited to share our recent work, which addresses this debate.
Now out in @NatureComms 🧵👇https://t.co/GyWaIf3ABs

[ASSC25 Amsterdam @assc25]

LAST CALL LAST CALL!
Abstract submission for ASSC 25 in Amsterdam ends tomorrow (22nd of March)!
https://t.co/SfN9XatZcl

[Pieter Roelfsema @Pieters_Tweet]

We released a data set on resting state, with 1,000 electrodes in V1 and V4 of the visual cortex of monkeys. The data should be of interest for the study of e.g. travelling cortical waves. Great work by Xing Chen, Aitor Morales-Gregorio and the teams https://t.co/KKrAJm1rwM

[VISHAL KAPOOR @vishneuro]

@theASSC , @MPICybernetics , @uni_tue , @TueNeuroCampus

[VISHAL KAPOOR @vishneuro]

A BIG thank you to all the collaborators: @abhidwarakanath, @neuroprinciples, Joachim Werner, @MichelBesserve, @fanispa, Nikos Logothetis.