Nadine Dijkstra

@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social

PI of the https://imaginerealitylab.org/ @uclbrainscience.bsky.social where we investigate the neural and computational mechanisms of mental imagery and reality monitoring. Activist about mental health and EDI in academia. She/her.

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This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!

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I am SO excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @aozsu.bsky.social! We use ANNs to show that the brain might build internal models of the world by learning to distinguish imagery from perception, and that this could explain why imagination seems so vivid in children ✨

Ataol Burak Ozsu@aozsu.bsky.social

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘Building world models by learning to distinguish imagination from reality: why childhood imagination feels so real’ with Nora Petrova, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Nadine Dijkstra@nadinedijkstra.bsky.social

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

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The saga continues: significant decoding of voluntary imagery in early visual cortex *during aphantasia* - but a lack of cross-decoding with perception, maybe suggesting different sensory formats?

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cell.comImageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decodingChang et al. report that during imagery attempts, those with validated aphantasia have decreased perceptual BOLD response and higher ipsilateral imagery response. Imagery content could be decoded usin...