Liangyou Zhang
@liangyouzhang.bsky.social
PhD candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention and Numerosity (number of objects)
Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology!
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses
Communications Biology - Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors....
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November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology!
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi
It's excited to share my first Article paper to you.
Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation effects begin in early sensory stages of processing.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses - Communications Biology
Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation ef...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
It's excited to share my first Article paper to you.
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Looking forward to @compcogneuro.bsky.social's #CCN2025, which takes place in my backyard this year.
If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit
@lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and
@arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri.
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If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit
@lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and
@arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Looking forward to @compcogneuro.bsky.social's #CCN2025, which takes place in my backyard this year.
If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit
@lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and
@arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri.
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If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit
@lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and
@arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri.
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I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects!
Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜
Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜
July 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects!
Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜
Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜
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Writing a scientific paper or thesis? Over the years, I’ve gathered my favorite practical writing tips. I hope you find them helpful!
Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_...
#AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠
Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_...
#AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠
Scientific writing tips
In scientific writing clarity is of utmost importance. Thoughts on writing, including figures, to get your results published - and reach your audience!
dlwiki.nin.nl
May 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Writing a scientific paper or thesis? Over the years, I’ve gathered my favorite practical writing tips. I hope you find them helpful!
Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_...
#AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠
Check them out: dlwiki.nin.nl/Writing_and_...
#AcademicWriting #SciComm #WritingTips 🖊️🧪 🧠
I'm really glad to have this chance to share our numerosity adaptation work at #MCLS2025. Thanks for our organizers.
We hope you are enjoying all these amazing talks! Lots of photos being taken today at #MCLS2025
June 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm really glad to have this chance to share our numerosity adaptation work at #MCLS2025. Thanks for our organizers.
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Preparing overt eye movements and directing covert attention are neurally coupled. Yet, this coupling breaks down at the single-cell level. What about populations of neurons?
We show: EEG decoding dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention at the population level:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We show: EEG decoding dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention at the population level:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
May 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Preparing overt eye movements and directing covert attention are neurally coupled. Yet, this coupling breaks down at the single-cell level. What about populations of neurons?
We show: EEG decoding dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention at the population level:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We show: EEG decoding dissociates preparatory overt from covert attention at the population level:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Psilocybin alters visual contextual computations
Psilocybin alters perception and brain dynamics. Contextual computations are ubiquitous in the brain. Here, we investigate the effects of psilocybin using psychophysics, ultra-high field functional MR...
www.biorxiv.org
February 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Psilocybin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, alters perception and induces hallucinations. In this preprint, we show through visual illusions, fMRI and modeling that psilocybin affects contextual computations, a potentially general mechanism of psychedelics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Carlien Roelofzen, Serge O. Dumoulin, et al:
Modeling neural contrast sensitivity functions in human visual cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Modeling neural contrast sensitivity functions in human visual cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
February 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Carlien Roelofzen, Serge O. Dumoulin, et al:
Modeling neural contrast sensitivity functions in human visual cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
Modeling neural contrast sensitivity functions in human visual cortex
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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🧠 🤝 DI and @nin-knaw.bsky.social have awarded €500,000 to five research projects. The goal of this DI-NIN Fund is to support new and innovative research and to strengthen collaboration: 👉
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
DI-NIN funding for five projects | Donders Institute
The Donders Institute and the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have awarded €500,000 from the DI-NIN Fund to five research projects. There were 13 applications, and after a careful review,...
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January 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🧠 🤝 DI and @nin-knaw.bsky.social have awarded €500,000 to five research projects. The goal of this DI-NIN Fund is to support new and innovative research and to strengthen collaboration: 👉
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...
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There is a fully funded PhD position at the Donders Institute (Netherlands) on the neuroscience of imagery and perception. I can really recommend working with @peelen.bsky.social (I did a 4y postdoc there). He is one of those annoyingly smart and dedicated researchers, and is real fun to work with!
A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)
PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a PhD Position: Neural Mechanisms of Imagery and Perception at the Donders Centre for Cognition at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
January 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
There is a fully funded PhD position at the Donders Institute (Netherlands) on the neuroscience of imagery and perception. I can really recommend working with @peelen.bsky.social (I did a 4y postdoc there). He is one of those annoyingly smart and dedicated researchers, and is real fun to work with!
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Together with the Netherlands eScience Center (@esciencecenter.bsky.social) and led by Tomas Knapen (@tknapen.bsky.social), we're redesigning and developing a open-source, validated pRF software package to drive innovations in psychology and neuroscience!
www.esciencecenter.nl/news/escienc...
www.esciencecenter.nl/news/escienc...
eScience Center awards eight projects from 2024 open call - eScience Center
The Netherlands eScience Center is pleased to announce eight winning projects proposals. The awarded projects from the Open eScience Call (OEC) in 2024 and will officially kick-off in 2025. The annu...
www.esciencecenter.nl
November 21, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Together with the Netherlands eScience Center (@esciencecenter.bsky.social) and led by Tomas Knapen (@tknapen.bsky.social), we're redesigning and developing a open-source, validated pRF software package to drive innovations in psychology and neuroscience!
www.esciencecenter.nl/news/escienc...
www.esciencecenter.nl/news/escienc...