” Consciousness or pseudo-consciousness? A clash of two paradigms.” – a rebuttal to ” What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific?“. See also ” A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness” for another contribution to the debate.

Brock Carlson defended his doctoral thesis with flying colors.

We look forward to presenting at the 2025 EMBO Workshop on ” Subcortical sensory circuits: From perception to behavior“, organized by Santiago Rompani.

It was true joy to participate at this year’s Qualia Structure Summer School, by Nao Tsuchiya. If you could not make it, stay tuned to his YouTube channel for the release of talks presented throughout.

We were honored to present at the ICPBR summer school in Shanghai, organized by Nikos Logothetis.

Blake Mitchell defended his Ph.D. with fanfares, and has already started a postdoc with John Reynolds at the Salk Institute.

We are proud to have contributed as co-authors to the latest publication by the Bastos lab that is forthcoming in Nature Neuroscience.

Blake Mitchell‘s latest paper on his discovery of a functional role of the enigmatic neuronal property of ” ocular dominance” just appeared online ahead of print at Current Biology.

The Vanderbilt Vision Research Center ( VVRC) awarded Brock Carlson a meritorious T32 training grant sponsored by the National Eye Institute ( NEI).

Blake Mitchell has first been awarded this grant two years ago, and he was bestowed a full extension until his expected graduation.

Jake Westerberg‘s latest paper on our neural data showing feedforward computation of attention is now in press at Nature Communications. A collaboration with the Schall and Woodman labs.

Brock Carlson‘s paper on the role of single neurons in primary visual cortex for the initiation of binocular rivalry flash suppression was accepted for publication at iScience.

Jake Westerberg received the 2023 Jum C. Nunnally Dissertation Award.

Loïc Daumail‘s paper on LGN adaptation – a collaboration with Drs. Frank Tong and Paul Martin – was accepted for publication by the Journal of Neurophysiology.

Now free to download on bioRxiv: ” Near-field potentials index local neural computations more accurately than population spiking“. A collaboration with David Tovar, André Bastos and Mark Wallace.

We will present our latest work at this year’s Special Advanced Course in Venice on Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness: From Explanations to Implications, organized by Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi.