Mateusz Wozniak

New paper out in iScience 🚀

Does controlling a robot change how honest we are?

Read here 👉 www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

w/ @mmwozniak.bsky.social, Marina Scattolin, Luca Provenzano, Davide De Tommaso, Salvatore Aglioti, @awykowska.bsky.social @iitalk.bsky.social

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.

@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social

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NEW PREPRINT: Explicit measures of sense of control are psychometrically robust: A systematic comparison of response scales

...and much more, including metrics for measuring individual differences

Joint work with Janeen Loehr, Robrecht Van Der Wel & @awykowska.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Painting Orfeo & Euridice, Frederic Leighton 1864. Book cover on musical meaning by Tomasz Szubart.

My first book (in Polish) is out: "Music and Mind: The Problem of Musical Meaning in the Light of Contemporary Cognitive Aesthetics of Music". Historical & contemporary philosophical accounts mapped on neuro/cog/evo takes. Musical representation is structural, neo-mechanistic and teleosemantic.

Cecilia Roselli presented "The Duration of Robot Gaze Affects People’s Attitudes towards Humanoid Robots", showing that longer robot gaze durations lead to more positive attitudes from participants.

@mmwozniak.bsky.social presented "We-Information Can Facilitate Performance in Joint Teleoperation Over a Humanoid Robot", demonstrating that providing information about co-actors can improve joint control and increases self-other overlap.

Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...

This! 👉 Inter-Brain Neural Dynamics in Biological and Artificial Intelligence Systems
www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Social #NeuroAI #Hyperscanning

Amanda Askell (Anthropic's in-house philosopher) now has more career citations than Dan Dennett. Not bad for a 2019 PhD.

We had an inspiring time at the sense of self meeting in London, where we talked about the interpersonal self and sense of agency!

Thanks to organisers @tonyjprescott.bsky.social, @awykowska.bsky.social, @sarahgarf.bsky.social, Paul Verschure, and to the @royalsociety.org for hosting

New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al.

Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability

48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social

🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...

New layer-fMRI manuscript:
V1 superficial layers create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex for attentional guidance.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

By Liu at al.

Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup | TechCrunch AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount.

Huggingface buys Pollen Robotics and plans to sell its Reachy 2 humanoids: techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/h...

Clinical neurocardiology: defining the value of neuroscience‐based cardiovascular therapeutics – 2024 update Abstract figure legend Clinical neurocardiology: pathophysiology, diagnostics and therapeutics. Illustrated is a summary of bidirectional interactions between the heart and nervous system, with a pat...

New paper alert—this is a master class on interdisciplinary collaboration updating the basic understanding and clinical outlook for neurocardiology. Led by Olu Ajijola Kalyanam Shivkumar and a cardiology dream team. #interoception

physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...

Rhythms and communication in the brain
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Averaging brain responses is not a great idea...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Common octopus

I've written a free and accessible guide to Cephalopod Sentience with Alex Schnell, Piero Amodio and Peter Morse, stunningly illustrated by Roksolana Tkach. Please download and share! It's worth it for the illustrations alone! 🐙 thebrooksinstitute.org/sites/defaul...

The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations - Nature Neuroscience Sensory experience transforms endogenously structured cortical networks with diverse and unreliable visual responses into reliable representations. This process is proposed to involve the alignment of feedforward and recurrent networks.

The developmental emergence of reliable cortical representations

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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Join our Igor pack to discuss and share a specific topic and interest related to open science, bio/cognitive/psychopy & neuroscience - even job/ grant opportunities! go.bsky.app/7GAoP8i

Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learning - Nature Machine Intelligence Humans continuously acquire knowledge and develop complex behaviours. Meng, Bing, Yao and colleagues present a robotic lifelong learning framework using a Bayesian non-parametric knowledge space, enab...

Preserving and combining knowledge in robotic lifelong reinforcement learning

#compneuro #MLSky

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

What I should read published recently along these lines?(Bonus if it uses examples I could know something about...)

Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fascinating paper by Claudia Goldin on drivers of low fertility in advanced economies.

Countries where economic progress outstrips social progress (in particular, gender equality in household division of labour) see the most rapid falls in fertility..

www.nber.org/papers/w33311

Looks really nice! I might have some more specific comments after I read it

Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development The foetal period constitutes a critical stage in the construction and organisation of the mammalian nervous system. In recent work, we have proposed …

'Visceral afferent training in action: The origins of agency in early cognitive development' is here from the future (March 2025)

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Computational Brain & Behavior | Volume 7, issue 4 Volume 7, issue 4 articles listing for Computational Brain & Behavior

Just ready before Christmas: a new issue of Computational Brain and Behaviour on what is a good theory: link.springer.com/journal/4211...

What does it mean for something to be Turing complete?

I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post.

samwho.dev/turing-machi...

Applied research is the path to legitimacy in psychological science

Comment by Judith P. Andersen

Web: go.nature.com/41qmccZ
PDF: rdcu.be/d2XLq

Some learning resources on Reinforcement Learning in no particular order.

- UCL Course on RL ( www.davidsilver.uk/teaching/ )
- UC Berkeley's Deep Reinforcement Learning ( rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/ )
- Lil's Reinforcement-Learning ( lilianweng.github.io/tags/reinfor... )

Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect - Computational Brain & Behavior In many scientific fields, sparseness and indirectness of empirical evidence pose fundamental challenges to theory development. Theories of the evolution of human cognition provide a guiding example, ...

📝 New paper: Woensdregt, M., Fusaroli, R., Rich, P. et al. Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect. Comput Brain Behav (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...

Registration now open for this fantastic event next year 👇🏼

The sense of self : one body, multiple mechanisms

Thank you for the invitation and honoured to be part of this rockstar line up 😎🔥