Francisco Garre-Frutos (@frangfr.bsky.social)

New paper out! Here we show that attentional biases induced by reward history depend on awareness of such reward history (w/ @jlupiane and @mavadillo). link.springer.com/article/10.375… 👇🧵

🔴🔴 Primer evento de la SPRN (Spanish Reproducibility Network 🔴🔴 Panel de gente súper interesante, incluyendo a @Flavio_Azevedo_ y muchos más! También llevamos representación de @ReproTeaUM Inscribios y difundid!!

1/2 Why AI is unlikely to become conscious – my 2026 @TEDTalks is now online. What do you think about the prospects for 'conscious AI'? ted.com/talks/anil_set…

Awareness as the heart of working memory Review by Richard Allen, Alan Baddeley, & Graham Hitch tinyurl.com/5v87awss

New preprint: How to analyze a replication study. osf.io/preprints/psya… Following methodological falsificationism, claims in replications should follow the original test (so typically p<0.05). We also discuss some consequences a coherent philosophical approach to statistics. >

Learning reinforces curiosity for related information pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Learnt trainable bio-RNNs for this: to test unconscious working memory in a model bridging levels, from cells to behavior

A computational theory of Aha! moments! New paper explaining why Aha! moments occur and why they feel so good. TLDR: They are a form of meta-cognitive prediction errors i.e. they occur when we surprise ourselves about our own abilities! @cocosci_lab sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I just published Cognitive Modelling Research in the Era of Agentic Large Language Models medium.com/p/cognitive-mo…

The conceptome: a compositional, interpretable, feature-based representation of semantic concepts, constructed by leveraging large language models osf.io/preprints/psya…

What if the brain has more representational capacity than it needs Call for commentary proposals on "Excess Capacity Learning" by @dubova_marina & @sabinasloman! Propose your comment here: cambridge.org/core/journals/… Preprint: cambridge.org/core/services/…

📣⭐️New @PNASNews paper alert! “The Brain Computes Dynamic Facial Movements for Emotion Categorization Using a Third Pathway” from @SchynsPhilippe lab Read more: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New paper out in @NatureHumBehav led by @LafolletteKyle & Doroteja Rubez. Challenging the mechanism for the implicit association test (IAT) rdcu.be/fdKtb

Integrated information theory - the good, the bad, and the misunderstood. New preprint, a long time in the making, led by Adam Barrett alongside a terrific crew: @MilinkovBorjan @PedroMediano @_fernando_rosas @DanielBor Lionel Barnett, & me. arxiv.org/abs/2604.11482

Reward signals typically capture human attention in an inflexible and automatic manner, yet new evidence demonstrates that verbal instructions can instead trigger model-based revaluation processes. osf.io/preprints/psya…

New open access release from @MITPress How does the concept of a "pattern" bridge the gap between information science, biological evolution, and the deep questions of philosophy? Real Patterns—the first book dedicated to the roadmap laid out by Daniel Dennett—is out now. Read it for free here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edite… #OpenAccess #AI #Philosophy #DanielDennett #PhilosophyOfScience #InformationTheory #CognitiveScience #MachineLearning #MITPress h/t @PhilipLaughlin

Part 2 of my shrinkage estimator series is now out! We only looked at univariate methods before—next we dive into multivariate techniques, which are needed to better estimate correlations between noisy measures 🤓 haines-lab.com/post/how-to-es…

Human behavior is fundamentally generative because people create pictures, write stories, compose music, and engage in conversation rather than just reacting within constrained settings. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

Sleep restores the brain's natural rhythms after learning disrupts them overnight. Perturbations in aperiodic activity caused by new information are reversed during non-REM sleep by morning, and this specific reset predicts successful memory consolidation. tinyurl.com/BarnesNg

Is The Brain an Analog Computer? Consciousness as Dynamic Brainwave Organization | Earl Miller Mind-Body Solution podcast. youtu.be/vZ1B-MvGMgw?si… #neuroscience

Although reward signals are believed to capture attention in an inflexible and automatic way, in this preprint we demonstrate through three experiments and some computational modelling that verbal instructions can trigger model-based revaluation processes. osf.io/preprints/psya…