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Learning New Vocabulary Implicitly During Sleep Transfers With Cross-Modal Generalization Into Wakefulness Open
New information can be learned during sleep but the extent to which we can access this knowledge after awakening is far less understood. Using a novel Associative Transfer Learning paradigm, we show that, after hearing unknown Japanese wor…
Expectations boost the reconstruction of auditory features from electrophysiological responses to noisy speech Open
Online speech processing imposes significant computational demands on the listening brain, the underlying mechanisms of which remain poorly understood. Here, we exploit the perceptual “pop-out” phenomenon (i.e. the dramatic improvement of …
Expectations boost the reconstruction of auditory features from electrophysiological responses to noisy speech Open
Online speech processing imposes significant computational demands on the listening brain, the underlying mechanisms of which remain poorly understood. Here, we exploit the perceptual ‘pop-out’ phenomenon (i.e. the dramatic improvement of …
People confabulate with high confidence when their decisions are supported by weak internal variables Open
People can introspect on their internal state and report the reasons driving their decisions but choice blindness (CB) experiments suggest that this ability can sometimes be a retrospective illusion. Indeed, when presented with deceptive c…
What Is Consciousness, and Could Machines Have It? Open
The controversial question of whether machines may ever be conscious must be based on a careful consideration of how consciousness arises in the only physical system that undoubtedly possesses it: the human brain. We suggest that the word …
Sleepers Selectively Suppress Informative Inputs during Rapid Eye Movements Open
Sleep leads to a disconnection from the external world. Even when sleepers regain consciousness during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, little, if any, external information is incorporated into dream content [1-3]. While gating mechanisms m…
Developing a Reflective Mind: From Core Metacognition to Explicit Self-Reflection Open
Metacognition is the ability to monitor and control cognition. Because young children often provide inaccurate metacognitive judgments when prompted to do so verbally, it has long been assumed that this ability does not develop until late …
Implicit but not explicit extinction to threat‐conditioned stimulus prevents spontaneous recovery of threat‐potentiated startle responses in humans Open
Introduction It has long been posited that threat learning operates and forms under an affective and a cognitive learning system that is supported by different brain circuits. A primary drawback in exposure‐based therapies is the high rate…
Implicit but not explicit exposure to threat conditioned stimulus prevents spontaneous recovery of threat potentiated startle responses in humans Open
It has long been posited that threat learning operates and forms under an affective and a cognitive learning system that are supported by different brain circuits. A primary drawback in exposure-based therapies is the high rate of relapse …
Tracking difficulty in a helicopter simulator: EEG complexity as a marker for mental workload Open
Event Abstract Back to Event Tracking difficulty in a helicopter simulator: EEG complexity as a marker for mental workload Andreas T. Poulsen1*, Jean-maurice Leonetti2, Lars Kai Hansen1 and Sid Kouider2 1 Technical University of Denmark, D…
We wanted flying cars, instead we’re getting telepathy: the new boom in neurotechnologies Open
Event Abstract Back to Event We wanted flying cars, instead we’re getting telepathy: the new boom in neurotechnologies Sid Kouider1 1 École Normale Supérieure, France The field of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) started several decades ag…
Unsuppressible Repetition Suppression and exemplar-specific Expectation Suppression in the Fusiform Face Area Open
Recent work casts Repetition Suppression (RS), i.e. the reduced neural response to repeated stimuli, as the consequence of reduced surprise for repeated inputs. This research, along with other studies documenting Expectation Suppression, i…
Behavioral and Neural Indices of Metacognitive Sensitivity in Preverbal Infants Open
Humans adapt their behavior not only by observing the consequences of their actions but also by internally monitoring their performance. This capacity, termed metacognitive sensitivity [1, 2], has traditionally been denied to young childre…
Neural Markers of Responsiveness to the Environment in Human Sleep Open
Previous research has tempered the notion that sleepers are isolated from their environment. Here, we pushed this idea forward and examined, across all sleep stages, the brain's ability to flexibly process sensory information, up to the de…
Infants ask for help when they know they don’t know Open
Significance Although many animals have been shown to monitor their own uncertainty, only humans seem to have the ability to explicitly communicate their uncertainty to others. It remains unknown whether this ability is present early in de…
Using EEG to track consciousness, surprise and metacognition in the infant brain Open
Event Abstract Back to Event Using EEG to track consciousness, surprise and metacognition in the infant brain Sid Kouider1* 1 École Nationale Supérieure, France My talk will focus on whether and how infants 1) experience perceptual conscio…
Task relevance differentially shapes ventral visual stream sensitivity to visible and invisible faces Open
Top-down modulations of the visual cortex can be driven by task relevance. Yet, several accounts propose that the perceptual inferences underlying conscious recognition involve similar top-down modulations of sensory responses. Studying th…
Implicit memory for words heard during sleep Open
When we fall asleep, our awareness of the surrounding world fades. Yet, the sleeping brain is far from being dormant and recent research unraveled the preservation of complex sensory processing during sleep. In wakefulness, such processes …