NEWS
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LAB UPDATES
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Jan moves to industry
01.11.2025
Jan Gabriel Hartel joins industry to develop eye-tracking applications for performance prediction in professional sports, starting with baseball. An exciting new chapter at the intersection of neuroscience and real-world decision-making — well done, Jan!
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Yuranny becomes a permanent researcher
01.09.2025
Yuranny Cabral-Calderin starts a permanent researcher position at Freie Universität Berlin, pursuing the neuroethology of consciousness. Her work bridges brain function and natural behavior — congratulations Yuranny on this well-deserved achievement!
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Darinka begins her faculty journey
01.09.2025
Darinka Trübustchek joins Maastricht University as Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, where she will establish her own laboratory on the foundations of conscious thought. A wonderful milestone — congratulations, Darinka!
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Alex earns his doctorate
27.06.2025
Dr. Alex Lepauvre successfully defended his dissertation “Temporal Crossroads: Proving the Dynamics of Experienced Refined Theories of Consciousness” at Radboud University Nijmegen. His work advances our understanding of the temporal architecture of consciousness. Congratulations to Alex on an outstanding defense and his new postdoctoral adventure at TU Dresden’s Department of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience!
EVENTS
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Jan moves to industry
01.11.2025
Jan Gabriel Hartel joins industry to develop eye-tracking applications for performance prediction in professional sports, starting with baseball. An exciting new chapter at the intersection of neuroscience and real-world decision-making — well done, Jan!
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Yuranny becomes a permanent researcher
01.09.2025
Yuranny Cabral-Calderin starts a permanent researcher position at Freie Universität Berlin, pursuing the neuroethology of consciousness. Her work bridges brain function and natural behavior — congratulations Yuranny on this well-deserved achievement!
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Darinka begins her faculty journey
01.09.2025
Darinka Trübustchek joins Maastricht University as Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, where she will establish her own laboratory on the foundations of conscious thought. A wonderful milestone — congratulations, Darinka!
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Alex earns his doctorate
27.06.2025
Dr. Alex Lepauvre successfully defended his dissertation “Temporal Crossroads: Proving the Dynamics of Experienced Refined Theories of Consciousness” at Radboud University Nijmegen. His work advances our understanding of the temporal architecture of consciousness. Congratulations to Alex on an outstanding defense and his new postdoctoral adventure at TU Dresden’s Department of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience!
PRESS COVERAGE
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The time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come
08.05.2025
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Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness
30.04.2025
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Where Does Consciousness Come From? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head
30.04.2025
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Two Theories of Consciousness Faced Off. The Ref Took a Beating
30.04.2025
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Lucia Melloni on why adversarial collaboration matters in consciousness research
17.01.2025
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The consciousness wars: can scientists ever agree on how the mind works?
17.01.2025
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Philosophy meets experiment
25.12.2025
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The Consciousness Debate: Round Two
10.12.2023
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What is Consciousness?
02.10.2023
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What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved
24.08.2023
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Finding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness Is Still a Good Bet
05.07.2023
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2 Leading Theories of Consciousness Square Off
01.07.2023
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'Adversarial' search for neural basis of consciousness yields first results
27.06.2023
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25-Year Academic Wager Settled As The Mystery of Consciousness Remains Elusive
27.06.2023
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25-Year Search For The Source of Consciousness Ends – And Neuroscience Lost This One
27.06.2023
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How does consciousness arise? A 25-year-old bet has now been decided
26.06.2023
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A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled
26.06.2023
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Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0
24.06.2023
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The $30 Million Gamified Search For Consciousness
20.02.2022
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Two rival theories of consciousness are put to the test
17.11.2020
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Rival theories face off over brain’s source of consciousness
01.10.2019
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Neuroscience Readies for a Showdown Over Consciousness Ideas
06.03.2019
ONLINE APPEARANCES
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Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain | Stanislas Dehaene
02.10.2025
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Lucia Melloni - How to Evaluate Theories of Consciousness?
01.09.2025
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HBM 2024 Keynote, Advancing science and theory development through open science adversarial collaboration
22.09.2024
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Adversarial Collaboration featuring Lucia Melloni, Christof Koch & Daniel Kahneman
17.01.2024
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The Great Consciousness Debate ASSC25 Amsterdam
13.07.2022
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The Dissenter : Lucia Melloni: Consciousness, Language, and Neuroplasticity
30.12.2022
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Accelerating Research on Consciousness with Lucia Melloni and Christof Koch
12.07.2021
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Lucia Melloni, Liad Mudrik, and Michael Pitts Live!
10.07.2021
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Panel discussion: Consciousness in Brains and Machines
01.12.2020
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Lucia Melloni - The 3Cs Project: Collaborating to Crack Consciousness
14.10.2019
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Debate: "Does Hierarchical Predictive Coding Explain Perception?"
08.05.2018