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Susan Ajith @suzibot.bsky.social · 16h

How can we characterize the contents of our internal models of the world? We highlight participant-driven approaches, from drawings to descriptions, to study how we expect scenes to look! 🤩

Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 16h

From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋
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Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...

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Micha Engeser @michaengesee.bsky.social · 16h

In this paper we present flexible methods for participants to express their expectations about natural scenes.

Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 16h

From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 16h

Time to expand how we study natural scene perception! 🌅
w/ @michaengesee.bsky.social , @suzibot.bsky.social l, Ilker Duymaz, Gongting Wang, Matthew J. Foxwell, Radoslaw M. Cichy, David Pitcher & @dkaiserlab.bsky.social

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 16h

From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Aug 25

Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

Go Lu!! Congratulations 💜

Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · Jun 26

Honored and thrilled to receive the GGN Early Career Award @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🏆 Huge thanks to my awesome supervisors Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & Marius @peelen.bsky.social , all my collaborators, and the amazing colleagues from both labs — couldn’t have done it without you! 💗

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Jun 26

We had an awesome time discussing the role of feedback in perception @unil.bsky.social 🧠 and exploring the beautiful city of Lausanne! 💜🏞️ Thanks to @icepfl.bsky.social @davidpascucci.bsky.social

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Jun 6

All-topographic ANNs! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com , led by @zejinlu.bsky.social , in collaboration with @timkietzmann.bsky.social.
See below for a summary 👇

Zejin Lu @zejinlu.bsky.social · Jun 6

Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · May 28

Don’t miss out again! If you are interested in our studies presented at @VSSMtg , you can find our posters here: 👇
drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · May 23

Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · May 22

#VSS2025 was a blast - great science, fun people, beach vibes. We‘ll be back! @vssmtg.bsky.social

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Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · May 17

How fast do we extract distance cues from scenes 🛤️🏞️🏜️ and integrate them with retinal size 🧸🐻 to infer real object size? Our new EEG study in Cortex has answers! w/ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social @suryagayet.bsky.social @peelen.bsky.social
Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The neural time course of size constancy in natural scenes

Accurate real-world size perception relies on size constancy, a mechanism that integrates an object's retinal size with distance information. The neur…

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · May 15

We are at @vssmtg.bsky.social 2025. 🏖️☀️🍹come check out our studies!

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · May 11

Great talk on Beauty and the Brain at CMBB Day in Marburg! 🧠👁️

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · May 10

Time to celebrate a new ANR-DFG funded project in collaboration with the stellar @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
Stay totally tuned!!! 😎

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Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · May 7

Glad to share our EEG study now is out in JNP. 🎉 We showed that alpha rhythms automatically interpolate occluded motion based on the surrounding contextual cues! 🚶‍♂️🏞️
@dkaiserlab.bsky.social

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Cortical alpha rhythms interpolate occluded motion from natural scene context | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

Tracking objects as they dynamically move in and out of sight is critical for parsing our everchanging real-world surroundings. Here, we explored how the interpolation of occluded object motion in nat...

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · Apr 14

Representational shifts from bottom-up gamma to top-down alpha dynamics drive visual integration, highlighting the crucial role of cortical feedback in the construction of seamless perceptual experiences.
@lixiangchen.bsky.social @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08011-0

Representational shifts from feedforward to feedback rhythms index phenomenological integration in naturalistic vision - Communications Biology

Representational shifts from bottom-up gamma to top-down alpha dynamics drive visual integration, highlighting the crucial role of cortical feedback in the construction of seamless perceptual experien...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Mar 26

Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! Check out Gongting Wang's EEG work on individual differences in scene perception: Scenes that are more typical for individual observers are represented in an enhanced yet more idiosyncratic way. Link:
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Enhanced and idiosyncratic neural representations of personally typical scenes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Previous research shows that the typicality of visual scenes (i.e. if they are good examples of a category) determines how easily they can be perceived and represented in the brain. However, the uniqu...

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · Mar 11

We search for an object in an array just like we search for a person in a crowd. Or no? Here the performance in visual search suggests distinct algorithms or implementation in social vs. non-social scene perception. With N. Goupil & @dkaiserlab.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Mar 16

TeaP 2025 - It was a pleasure! 🤓😎

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hey hey! We‘re on the Cover of @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social.
-check out our article on rhythmic representations in the visual system below. 👁️🧠🌊

Trends in Neurosciences @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social · Mar 11

March 2025 issue of TINS:
www.cell.com/issue/S0166-...

Free featured articles & more:
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Cover article: ‘Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents’, by Rico Stecher & colleagues @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Mar 12

We make about 3-4 fast eye movements a second, yet our world appears stable. How is this possible? In a preprint led by @lucakaemmer.bsky.social we test the intriguing idea that anticipatory signals in the fovea may explain visual stability.
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a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator in a store .

ALT: a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator in a store .

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Marius Peelen @peelen.bsky.social · Feb 20

In this review article, I summarize some of our recent work on the neural basis of visual search in scenes, showing how attention and expectation interactively drive preparatory activity in visual cortex and jointly modulate the visual processing of potential target objects. doi.org/10.1177/0963...

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Aurelio Bruno @aurelio-bruno.bsky.social · Jan 17

🔔🗣️NEW #PhD opportunity in #Psychology and #Neuroscience with Prof Neil Roach (Nottingham) and me (Leicester):

This ESRC-funded project aims to use individual differences to study the socially relevant components of time perception.

Application deadline: 24 February

PhD Studentship: Using Individual Differences to Investigate the Socially Relevant Components of Time Perception at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership

Explore a PhD Studentship: Using Individual Differences to Investigate the Socially Relevant Components of Time Perception on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
If you're interested in applying, feel free to get in touch beforehand - happy to informally answer any questions you may have.
Feel free to forward, too!

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