Greg Cooper

Language-associated brain representations covary with disruption of selfhood under psilocybin

The paper uses fMRI to show that psilocybin increases similarity in language-associated brain activity, correlating with ego dissolution.

What is it like to be a blob? A distributed, decentred and context-sensitive neurobiology of consciousness

The paper analyzes neuroimaging studies of consciousness to challenge the idea of an invariant core, showing distributed and context-sensitive brain activity patterns.

Where the present gets remembered: Sensory regions communicate with the brain over the longest timescales.

The paper examines brain connectivity delays during movie watching, finding sensory regions have the longest delays and reveal new spatial organisation patterns.

The entire brain, more or less, is at work: 'Language regions' are artefacts of averaging

The paper shows that 'language regions' identified in neuroimaging are artefacts of averaging, as linguistic representations are distributed across the whole brain and coordinated by dynamic connectivity hubs.