4 papers
How to set up a psychedelic study: Unique considerations for research involving human participants
Marcus J. Glennon, Catherine I. V. Bird, Prateek Yadav +18
Setting up a psychedelic study can be a long, arduous, and kafkaesque process. This rapidly-developing field poses several unique challenges for researchers, necessitating a range…
The age of spiritual machines: Language quietus induces synthetic altered states of consciousness in artificial intelligence
Jeremy I Skipper, Joanna Kuc, Greg Cooper +1
How is language related to consciousness? Language functions to categorise perceptual experiences (e.g., labelling interoceptive states as 'happy') and higher-level constructs (e.g…
Attention, not scale, drives human-AI alignment in multimodal language prediction
Viktor Kewenig, Andrew Lampinen, Samuel A. Nastase +5
Humans routinely draw on visual context to predict upcoming words. To what extent current vision-language models produce comparable behaviour is unclear. Here we placed five state-…
Separating Stimulus-Induced and Background Components of Dynamic Functional Connectivity in Naturalistic fMRI
Chee-Ming Ting, Jeremy I. Skipper, Steven L. Small +1
We consider the challenges in extracting stimulus-related neural dynamics from other intrinsic processes and noise in naturalistic functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Mos…