Karim Jerbi

Karim Jerbi

@karimjerbi.bsky.social

Professor @ Université de Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Comp Neuroscience & Cog Neuroimaging. Director of the Quebec Neuro-AI research center (UNIQUE Centre) | Biological & Artificial Cognition | Consciousness | Creativity | 🧠🤖 he/him

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Communications Biology
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Source-resolved MEG reveals that #LSD speeds up and weakens alpha and beta brain rhythms while increasing neural signal complexity across sensory and emotion networks @venkateshness.bsky.social @karimjerbi.bsky.social PDF available: doi.org/10.1038/s420...

doi.orgLSD reconfigures cortical dynamics through faster brain rhythms and increased fractal dimension - Communications BiologySource-resolved MEG reveals that LSD speeds up and weakens alpha and beta brain rhythms while increasing neural signal complexity across sensory and emotion networks.
Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

🚨 MAIN 2026 is nearly SOLD OUT! Last chance to grab your seat (and T-shirt!) at Montréal’s flagship Neuro-AI gathering! 🧠🤖 4 🔥 keynotes: Tom Griffiths (Princeton) Jody Culham (Western) Yann LeCun (NYU/AMI) Catherine Stinson (Queen’s) 👉 www.main2026.org

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The Transmitter
@thetransmitter.bsky.social

Phenomena such as blindsight remind us that intelligent, even emotionally attuned behavior does not imply conscious experience or genuine agency, write Vanessa Hadid, @karimjerbi.bsky.social and John W. Krakauer. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

thetransmitter.orgThe illusion of AI consciousness: Lessons from humansComplex, goal-directed and emotionally responsive behavior can unfold without awareness, providing a useful lens for interpreting artificial systems.
Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

Excited to share our essay out today in The Transmitter, with John W Krakauer & Vanessa Hadid On The illusion of AI Consciousness: 👉 AI can seem emotionally attuned without caring or having consciousness. The risk is not conscious AI, it’s treating AI as if it were! / Lessons from neuroscience. 👇

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social

Complex, goal-directed and even emotionally responsive behavior can unfold without awareness, providing a useful lens for interpreting artificial systems, write Vanessa Hadid, @karimjerbi.bsky.social and John W. Krakauer. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

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Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

✨ Key result #1: LSD speeds up brain rhythms Across the cortex, intrinsic alpha & beta #oscillations shift to faster frequencies. 👉 What often looks like reduced spectral power is largely explained by shifts in peak frequency, not just a loss of rhythmic structure.

Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

✨ Key result #2: Under LSD, the Higuchi fractal dimension (HFD) of MEG time series increases, indicating greater scale-invariant temporal complexity in neural dynamics. (The spatial maps of these changes overlap with areas showing significant flattening of the 1/f slope!)

Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

Quick note from the CoCo Lab: As a lab director, currently mentoring students from Venezuela & Iran, I’m reminded how heavy things can be for international students when events back home bring uncertainty & concern for loved ones. This is a moment for solidarity, simple check-ins & mutual support.

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Editors of Neuroscience of Consciousness
@nconsc.bsky.social

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @karimjerbi.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

academic.oup.comMeditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEGAbstract. While the beneficial impacts of meditation are increasingly acknowledged, its underlying neural mechanisms remain poorly understood. We examined

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Université de Montréal - News
@umontreal-en.bsky.social

#AI Good news ... for now. "Even the best AI systems still fall short of the levels reached by the most creative humans," according to our @karimjerbi.bsky.social & @yoshuabengio.bsky.social. #ScientificReports @natureportfolio.nature.com nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

nouvelles.umontreal.caCreative talent: has AI knocked humans out?Can artificial intelligence rival human creativity? A large-scale study compares 100,000 humans with leading generative AI models.
Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

📣 Out Today! Have AI systems surpassed human-level creativity ? Excited to share that our large-scale study comparing the #creativity of #LLMs to 100,000 humans was published today in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Curious? 👀 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

nouvelles.umontreal.caCreative talent: has AI knocked humans out?Can artificial intelligence rival human creativity? A large-scale study compares 100,000 humans with leading generative AI models.
Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

A high-level teaser of our recent paper on the impact of Samatha + Vipassana #meditation on the brain! 🧠 🧘 Work led by @annapasca.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with @lauramrz.bsky.social Vittorio Pizzella Antonino Raffone @robertoguidotti.bsky.social @jordanobyrne.bsky.social + many more!

Université de Montréal - News@umontreal-en.bsky.social

"Turn off your mind / Relax / Float downstream ... ?" Not quite so simple, @karimjerbi.bsky.social and co-researchers in Italy find. @annapasca.bsky.social #magnetoencephalography #Buddhism #meditation nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

nouvelles.umontreal.caMeditation doesn’t rest the brain, it reshapes itMeditation doesn’t 'empty the mind', as some imagine. In fact, brain scans reveal that the meditating mind is not in a resting state at all, but is highly active – and that's good for you.
Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

✈️ Heading to #Boston today for the #DREAM #ENGINEERING Symposium this weekend at the @medialab.bsky.social an inspiring mix of scientists, multimedia artists & filmmakers! 👉 I’ll present a teaser of our unpublished work on the neural basis of dream recall, combining sleep #EEG 🧠💤 and #AI. 1/2🧵

Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social

Analyses by our “dream team” 😁Arthur Dehgan, @arnaghosh.bsky.social & Anirudha Kemtur, with EEG data from collab with Dr P Ruby & Dr Eichenlaub. The symp is supported/organized by @medialab.bsky.social @umontreal-en.bsky.social @reseausommeil.bsky.social + Dust Systems dxe.framer.website

dxe.framer.websiteDream x Engineering SymposiumA gathering of world leaders in sleep and dream science exploring how we can influence dreaming with precision to improve well-being, accelerate learning, and treat clinical conditions.

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Université de Montréal - News
@umontreal-en.bsky.social

#NEUROSCIENCE “Criticality offers a powerful framework for understanding #brain function and dysfunction,” says UdeM's Karim Jerbi. He's in the cover story of this week's @newscientist.com. #psychology #chaos www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

newscientist.comThe crucial role of chaos in our brain’s most extraordinary functionsThat the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity

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Blake Richards
@tyrellturing.bsky.social

Very cool looking paper out today from Jess Thompson and Chris Summerfield, showing how to get rapid (zero-shot) generalization in counting behaviour with a dual stream deep network: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧠📈 #NeuroAI

cell.comZero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network modelHow does the brain represent the structure of a visual scene (the relations among items, e.g., the cardinality) independent of scene contents (the objects in the scene, e.g., item identity)? Thompson et al. propose a dual-stream neural network model based on the parallel pathways of the primate visual system.

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