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This week on Sound Expertise: do we hear silence the same way we hear sound? A conversation with Chaz Firestone about his lab's groundbreaking new perception study, and the intersection of science and the humanities soundexpertise.org or wherever you listen!

What do illusions tell us about silence? In the latest podcast, Ian Phillips, Rui Zhe Goh, and Chaz Firestone of Johns Hopkins University explored whether we perceive silence or simply infer it when there is a lack of sound. Listen now: ow.ly/3Wrn50PFFcC

I'm looking for a post-doc to work on my #episodicmemory project! If you're interested in how we can use artificial implementations of episodic memory in AI to help us understand episodic memory in biological systems, hit me up :) More on the project here: lse.ac.uk/cpnss/research…

There is a super exciting postdoctoral opportunity here Johns Hopkins University JHU Philosophy, spearheaded by EJ Green in connection with our 'Foundations of Mind' group. Take a look, and watch this space for more! 👇 philjobs.org/job/show/25213

Can physics solve the problem(s) of consciousness? In our latest book review for Science Magazine, Chaz Firestone and I weigh in. (Spoiler: certainly not without help!) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

How good are we at knowing what we would think and do if our beliefs were different? In a new preprint with Chaz Firestone and Ian Phillips, we use pretense behavior to show that the answer is *remarkably good* osf.io/preprints/psya… A thread 🧵(1/7)

We are happy to announce the next NMO24 webinar 📣 Friday 22, h16-18 CET / h15-17 GMT Ian Phillips -- Awareness survives inattention Ian Phillips join at 👇 unito.webex.com/unito-en/j.php… more info here: neuralmechanisms.org

Today at NMO‼️ Ian Phillips (Johns Hopkins) -- Awareness survives inattention Ian Phillips h16-18 CET / h15-17 GMT join at unito.webex.com/unito-en/j.php…

Chaz Firestone & I are thrilled to present "phiVis: Philosophy of Vision Science Workshop," May 21 VSS Meeting! Philosophers talk, scientists comment. 2024's line-up: – Ian Phillips | Jeremy Wolfe – Rosa Cao | talia konkle – Tiina Rosenqvist | Bevil Conway phivis.org

It's VSS Meeting week! So excited to share this year's projects from the lab, including brand new research directions and some deep dives on foundational issues. More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/. See you on the 🏖! #VSS2024

Ian Phillips (Ian Phillips) introducing vision scientists to Sellars and the “manifest image”. Standing room only at #phiVis #VSS2024 VSS Meeting

Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness biorxiv.org/content/10.110… by Chaz Firestone Ian Phillips et al.; "the strongest evidence to date of significant residual visual sensitivity in IB, and even cast doubt on claims that awareness requires attention"

So long #VSS2024, and thanks for all the #phiVis!

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Star undergrad Hanbei Zhou representing the lab in Tokyo ASSC #ASSC27! Hanbei shared her new project, run in collaboration with Rui Zhe Goh Ian Phillips, on Event-Based Warping. Go Hanbei! ASSC27

Started reading my (free PDF!) of Nick Shea's Concepts at the Interface this morning. Already evident how deeply informed & deeply thought out a book it is -- philosophical cognitive science at its v best. Want to think about thinking? Download it here: global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Congratulations, Chaz! So well-deserved, and so lucky to have you as a colleague!