Guillaume Dumas

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Dad · Husband · Associate Professor of Computational Psychiatry at the University of Montreal · PI of the Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology team at CHU Ste Justine · Researcher in Social Neuro AI at https://Mila.Quebec AI Institute · Co-founder of 2 nonprofit organization: ALIUS (https://aliusresearch.org) & HackYourResearch (https://hyr.science) · He/Him

Topics: #CogSci, #Consciousness, Social #Neuroscience, #Psychiatry, #SysBio, #NeuroAI, #SciML, #OpenScience, #Commons

🌎 Websitehttps://www.extrospection.eu
👥 Labhttps://www.ppsp.team
🎓 Publicationshttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TakXk9MAAAAJ
🐦 Birdsitehttps://twitter.com/introspection
Guillaume DumasMar 21, 2023

Freshly out: "A Novel Model for Novelty: Modeling the Emergence of Innovation from Cumulative #Culture" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28719-0_16

— Kudos to Natalie Kastel for her first work with our Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology team! — She will soon start a PhD with us, exploring Social #NeuroAI in #Multiagent Systems... 🚀

A Novel Model for Novelty: Modeling the Emergence of Innovation from Cumulative Culture

While the underlying dynamics of active inference communication and cumulative culture have already been formalized, the emergence of novel cultural information from these dynamics has not yet been understood. In this paper, we apply an active Inference framework,...

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Guillaume DumasMar 20, 2023

👉 "Missing links in #AI governance"

📘 New book by Mila & UNESCO, #OpenAccess in both English & French: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000384787

🌐 Live discussion with Yoshua Bengio & Kate Crawford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2MXh1LY3o

Guillaume DumasJan 2, 2023

Thanks for all your birthday messages. Wishing to all of you a wonderful new year, full of wonder and serenity to live every moment, plenty of strength and lucidity to achieve your dreams, and, of course, good health!

2022 has been full of challenges, with many losses, struggles, again a huge load of uncertainty… it reminds us how we cannot escape reality, and thus must enjoy all the bright aspects of Life and cease the good moments. (1/3)

Guillaume DumasDec 29, 2022

Cortico-Cerebellar Neurodynamics during Social Interaction in #Autism https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4305310

— Our last preprint of 2022 with both high temporal and spatial resolution of neural dynamics during social interaction by combining real-time human-avatar interaction, high-density EEG, and sources reconstruction!

Guillaume DumasDec 28, 2022

👋 Hey, #cogsci & #philosophy colleagues into #consciousness research! Does anyone get counter-arguments to the illusionist point made by Graziano in his Attention Schema Theory?

Of course, a different one than “I know I have an experience because, Dude, I’m experiencing it right now” ;)

— Source: Toward a standard model of consciousness: Reconciling the attention schema, global workspace, higher-order thought, and illusionist theories https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31556341/

Toward a standard model of consciousness: Reconciling the attention schema, global workspace, higher-order thought, and illusionist theories - PubMed

Here we examine how people's understanding of consciousness may have been shaped by an implicit theory of mind. This social cognition approach may help to make sense of an apparent divide between the physically incoherent consciousness we think we have and the complex, rich, but mechanistic consciou …

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Guillaume DumasNov 13, 2022
Great issue of Phil Trans R Soc B on whether the neural basis of ‘perceptual #consciousness’ is independent of the neural basis of cognitive access mechanisms that make reporting and reflecting on conscious experiences possible https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/373/1755 #BrainCandy
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 373, No 1755

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Guillaume DumasNov 12, 2022

🧘‍♂️ Mindfulness-based stress reduction as a well-tolerated treatment option with comparable effectiveness to a first-line medication for patients with #anxiety disorders

#RCT #Meditation #SSRI https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2798510

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction vs Escitalopram for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

This randomized clinical trial evaluates whether mindfulness-based stress reduction is noninferior to escitalopram in the treatment of anxiety disorders.

Guillaume DumasNov 12, 2022
📖 Started reading “Projections” by Karl Deisseroth and can’t put the #book down! On top of a pionnier of biotechnology for neuroscience (optogenetics & CLARITY), he is a compassionate psychiatrist and a stunning writer. His clinical takes on patients are really moving and inspiring!
Guillaume DumasNov 3, 2022
So this #TwitterMigration is an ideal occasion to get another shot at #Mastodon and get an updated view of the #Fediverse !