Predictive Brain Lab
@predictivebrainlab.bsky.social
Headed by Lucia Melloni. We care about the Brain, Consciousness, Cognition & work actively towards a better science culture.
If you want to learn more about what we do, visit our website here: https://www.brainsinthewild.com/
If you want to learn more about what we do, visit our website here: https://www.brainsinthewild.com/
🧠 Special lecture at RUB next week!
Michael Levin (Tufts University) joins our Predictive Brain Talk Series on 22 October, 15:00–16:30 CEST, to discuss diverse intelligence, from cellular collectives to synthetic beings and unconventional minds.
📍 MB 7/159 or online via Zoom (DM us for the link)!
Michael Levin (Tufts University) joins our Predictive Brain Talk Series on 22 October, 15:00–16:30 CEST, to discuss diverse intelligence, from cellular collectives to synthetic beings and unconventional minds.
📍 MB 7/159 or online via Zoom (DM us for the link)!
October 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM
🧠 Special lecture at RUB next week!
Michael Levin (Tufts University) joins our Predictive Brain Talk Series on 22 October, 15:00–16:30 CEST, to discuss diverse intelligence, from cellular collectives to synthetic beings and unconventional minds.
📍 MB 7/159 or online via Zoom (DM us for the link)!
Michael Levin (Tufts University) joins our Predictive Brain Talk Series on 22 October, 15:00–16:30 CEST, to discuss diverse intelligence, from cellular collectives to synthetic beings and unconventional minds.
📍 MB 7/159 or online via Zoom (DM us for the link)!
Please check out this recent preprint by our very own @zefanzheng.bsky.social and collaborators! It offers a fascinating perspective on structuralist explanations of phenomenal character.
Congratulations on this great work, Zefan!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Congratulations on this great work, Zefan!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
October 12, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Please check out this recent preprint by our very own @zefanzheng.bsky.social and collaborators! It offers a fascinating perspective on structuralist explanations of phenomenal character.
Congratulations on this great work, Zefan!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Congratulations on this great work, Zefan!
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
On October 1, we celebrated our 2 Year Lab Anniversary! 🎉 Reminiscing on our journey, both in terms of how much cozier and more lively our lab space got as well as how much we have grown in people... What a lovely occasion to reflect and also look forward to more to come! ✨
October 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
On October 1, we celebrated our 2 Year Lab Anniversary! 🎉 Reminiscing on our journey, both in terms of how much cozier and more lively our lab space got as well as how much we have grown in people... What a lovely occasion to reflect and also look forward to more to come! ✨
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How can we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? I'm super happy that the recordings of our last workshop on exactly this question are now online!
Speakers and links to talks below! 👇 #ConSci
Speakers and links to talks below! 👇 #ConSci
September 20, 2026 at 10:43 AM
How can we test for consciousness in infants, non-human animals, and AI? I'm super happy that the recordings of our last workshop on exactly this question are now online!
Speakers and links to talks below! 👇 #ConSci
Speakers and links to talks below! 👇 #ConSci
Congratulations Zefan! 👏💪
Published version: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
OSF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Kudos to @zefanzheng.bsky.social,
@robertchisciure.bsky.social, @annaeiserbeck.bsky.social, @jaanaru.bsky.social, @thomasandrillon.bsky.social, @bechir-jarraya.bsky.social, + others ✨💪
OSF: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Kudos to @zefanzheng.bsky.social,
@robertchisciure.bsky.social, @annaeiserbeck.bsky.social, @jaanaru.bsky.social, @thomasandrillon.bsky.social, @bechir-jarraya.bsky.social, + others ✨💪
Loops all the way up: Recurrency as an implementation-first primitive for consciousness
Consciousness science is fragmented, and empirical investigations are largely confined within the framework of each theory of consciousness (ToC). Pro…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 13, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Congratulations Zefan! 👏💪
Thrilled to welcome to our lab @pevianiv.bsky.social with her talk "From sensation to structure: inferring the body in space" 🚶♂️🧩 TODAY from 14:00 - 15:30!!
Join us for the talk and coffee & a little chat afterwards on site at MB7/159 or log on via zoom at: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6819376825...
Join us for the talk and coffee & a little chat afterwards on site at MB7/159 or log on via zoom at: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6819376825...
August 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
Thrilled to welcome to our lab @pevianiv.bsky.social with her talk "From sensation to structure: inferring the body in space" 🚶♂️🧩 TODAY from 14:00 - 15:30!!
Join us for the talk and coffee & a little chat afterwards on site at MB7/159 or log on via zoom at: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6819376825...
Join us for the talk and coffee & a little chat afterwards on site at MB7/159 or log on via zoom at: ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6819376825...
And yet another one! Find the wonderful talk Barbara Tversky gave in our lab this April on our Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgmE...
Mind in Motion || Talk by Barbara Tversky
YouTube video by Predictive Brain Lab
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July 14, 2026 at 10:38 AM
And yet another one! Find the wonderful talk Barbara Tversky gave in our lab this April on our Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgmE...
In case you missed our conference "The Conscious Mind at 30" with David Chalmers from a few weeks ago, you can now find recordings of the talks uploaded on Tobias Schlicht's Youtube Channel, which you can find here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=te0Q...!
Tobias Schlicht
www.youtube.com
July 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
In case you missed our conference "The Conscious Mind at 30" with David Chalmers from a few weeks ago, you can now find recordings of the talks uploaded on Tobias Schlicht's Youtube Channel, which you can find here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=te0Q...!
Excited for the talk at our Predictive Brain Colloquium next week, when Chaz Firestone will be presenting his topic "Seeing 'How'". 👀
Looking forward to him coming to the lab and all the inspiring conversations that are bound to ensue! Feel most welcome to join! 🧠✨
Looking forward to him coming to the lab and all the inspiring conversations that are bound to ensue! Feel most welcome to join! 🧠✨
July 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Excited for the talk at our Predictive Brain Colloquium next week, when Chaz Firestone will be presenting his topic "Seeing 'How'". 👀
Looking forward to him coming to the lab and all the inspiring conversations that are bound to ensue! Feel most welcome to join! 🧠✨
Looking forward to him coming to the lab and all the inspiring conversations that are bound to ensue! Feel most welcome to join! 🧠✨
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Looking for a Python toolbox to analyze your mobile eye-tracking data collected with @pupil-labs.bsky.social Neon? Meet PyNeon, our open-source toolbox designed to streamline the analysis of such novel data! Check out the paper in @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social's BRM: doi.org/10.3758/s134... ...
PyNeon: A Python package for the analysis of Neon multimodal mobile eye-tracking data - Behavior Research Methods
Mobile eye-tracking has revolutionized the study of human behavior and cognition by enabling researchers to record eye movements in the real world. However, the dynamic and multimodal nature of mobile eye-tracking data also introduces significant analytical challenges, including the alignment, integration, and interpretation of complex data. To fill these gaps, we present PyNeon, a versatile, community-oriented Python package designed to streamline the analysis of mobile eye-tracking, motion, and video data from the Neon eye-tracking system (Pupil Labs GmbH). We describe how PyNeon provides accessible APIs for reading, preprocessing, epoching, and exporting Neon data. Furthermore, it supports advanced video processing such as mapping between eye movement data and real-world coordinates and dynamic scanpath estimation. PyNeon presents an open-source and extendable framework for analyzing mobile eye-tracking data and forms the foundation for higher-level applications.
doi.org
June 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Looking for a Python toolbox to analyze your mobile eye-tracking data collected with @pupil-labs.bsky.social Neon? Meet PyNeon, our open-source toolbox designed to streamline the analysis of such novel data! Check out the paper in @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social's BRM: doi.org/10.3758/s134... ...
Congratulations Tarana! Great collaboration between the two labs 😘
🎉 Excited to share one of my projects that I worked on with Caspar Schwiedrzik! Check out my latest preprint: Multiple task-demands flexibly optimize neural geometry in human ventral temporal cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (0/10)
Multiple task-demands flexibly optimize neural geometry in human ventral temporal cortex
A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to perform multiple tasks immediately upon instruction. Yet, the neural processes that implement such flexibility remain unclear. Using intracranial ele...
biorxiv.org
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Congratulations Tarana! Great collaboration between the two labs 😘
Congratulations Yuranny!
Our paper “Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness” is out in Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
Together with @talking-bat.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni, we suggest bringing Tinbergen’s framework into consciousness research.
Towards a neuroethological approach to consciousness | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Understanding consciousness remains a significant challenge in science. What distinguishes
conscious beings from unconscious systems, such as organoids, artificial intelligence
or other non-sentient e...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Congratulations Yuranny!
An amazing collaboration with @uclqsion.bsky.social spearheaded by @alexlepauvre.bsky.social! This is also one of the many spinoff initiatives in @arc-cogitate.bsky.social to build open, standardized open, standardized practices for cognitive neuroscience data collection and analyses. See others at:
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
An amazing collaboration with @uclqsion.bsky.social spearheaded by @alexlepauvre.bsky.social! This is also one of the many spinoff initiatives in @arc-cogitate.bsky.social to build open, standardized open, standardized practices for cognitive neuroscience data collection and analyses. See others at:
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Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
November 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]
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New paper alert🚨
1 + 1 only equals 2 during unconscious processing!
Out in JEP: General:
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
Here is a thread to explain 🧵
1 + 1 only equals 2 during unconscious processing!
Out in JEP: General:
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
Here is a thread to explain 🧵
APA PsycNet
doi.org
September 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
New paper alert🚨
1 + 1 only equals 2 during unconscious processing!
Out in JEP: General:
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
Here is a thread to explain 🧵
1 + 1 only equals 2 during unconscious processing!
Out in JEP: General:
doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
Here is a thread to explain 🧵
Check out this collaborative theory synthesis project involving @zefanzheng.bsky.social, Lucia, and many wonderful collaborators!
📜 ¡New preprint! 📜
𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧪🧠
With amazing alumni from @mesec-community.bsky.social and including:
@zefanzheng.bsky.social
@robertchisciure.bsky.social
@jaanaru.bsky.social
@bechir-jarraya.bsky.social
𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧪🧠
With amazing alumni from @mesec-community.bsky.social and including:
@zefanzheng.bsky.social
@robertchisciure.bsky.social
@jaanaru.bsky.social
@bechir-jarraya.bsky.social
OSF
osf.io
September 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Check out this collaborative theory synthesis project involving @zefanzheng.bsky.social, Lucia, and many wonderful collaborators!
A wonderful summer party 🌞 at Lucia & Caspar’s place in Dortmund! We were thrilled to welcome many new members -Lea (a.k.a. party master), Marina, Maksim, Marta - excited to see how the group is growing in Bochum!
September 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A wonderful summer party 🌞 at Lucia & Caspar’s place in Dortmund! We were thrilled to welcome many new members -Lea (a.k.a. party master), Marina, Maksim, Marta - excited to see how the group is growing in Bochum!
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Excited to share that our iEEG dataset from the @arc-cogitate.bsky.social is publicly available!
📄Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
📁Data: arc-cogitate.com/data-release
💻Code: github.com/Cogitate-con...
Huge thanks to the team & co-first authors Alia Seedat, Urszula Gorska and Jay Jeschke🙌
📄Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
📁Data: arc-cogitate.com/data-release
💻Code: github.com/Cogitate-con...
Huge thanks to the team & co-first authors Alia Seedat, Urszula Gorska and Jay Jeschke🙌
Open multi-center intracranial electroencephalography dataset with task probing conscious visual perception - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Open multi-center intracranial electroencephalography dataset with task probing conscious visual perception
www.nature.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Excited to share that our iEEG dataset from the @arc-cogitate.bsky.social is publicly available!
📄Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
📁Data: arc-cogitate.com/data-release
💻Code: github.com/Cogitate-con...
Huge thanks to the team & co-first authors Alia Seedat, Urszula Gorska and Jay Jeschke🙌
📄Paper: nature.com/articles/s41...
📁Data: arc-cogitate.com/data-release
💻Code: github.com/Cogitate-con...
Huge thanks to the team & co-first authors Alia Seedat, Urszula Gorska and Jay Jeschke🙌
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🤔 Ever wondered what it really takes to pull off a global, preregistered, adversarial collaboration on consciousness?
🎙️ Out now @braininspired.bsky.social episode is a BTS peek into the ideas, challenges, science & team dynamics of our just-published Nature paper.
🔗 braininspired.co/podcast/211/
🎙️ Out now @braininspired.bsky.social episode is a BTS peek into the ideas, challenges, science & team dynamics of our just-published Nature paper.
🔗 braininspired.co/podcast/211/
May 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🤔 Ever wondered what it really takes to pull off a global, preregistered, adversarial collaboration on consciousness?
🎙️ Out now @braininspired.bsky.social episode is a BTS peek into the ideas, challenges, science & team dynamics of our just-published Nature paper.
🔗 braininspired.co/podcast/211/
🎙️ Out now @braininspired.bsky.social episode is a BTS peek into the ideas, challenges, science & team dynamics of our just-published Nature paper.
🔗 braininspired.co/podcast/211/
Special lab lunch in Frankfurt to celebrate @alexlepauvre.bsky.social's #PhDone 🎉Alex started as a lab manager and was a key member of the COGITATE's iEEG team. We're thrilled to honor his excellent work and dedication. Wishing him all the best for his formal defense at @dondersinst.bsky.social!🎓🍾
March 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Special lab lunch in Frankfurt to celebrate @alexlepauvre.bsky.social's #PhDone 🎉Alex started as a lab manager and was a key member of the COGITATE's iEEG team. We're thrilled to honor his excellent work and dedication. Wishing him all the best for his formal defense at @dondersinst.bsky.social!🎓🍾
Hey BlueSky community!🆕Ever felt like you needed a change of scenery? Well, we did too! After dodging a few too many algorithmic asteroids over on X, we decided it was time to find a cozier corner of the internet🏖️. You might know us as the NCC Lab, but we decided to do a rebrand as we move to RUB🎓!
March 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hey BlueSky community!🆕Ever felt like you needed a change of scenery? Well, we did too! After dodging a few too many algorithmic asteroids over on X, we decided it was time to find a cozier corner of the internet🏖️. You might know us as the NCC Lab, but we decided to do a rebrand as we move to RUB🎓!