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Fernanda Ribeiro

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🇧🇷 🇦🇺 Marie Curie Fellow at JLU Giessen 🇩🇪 | Vision | Neuroscience | Deep learning Slowly becoming a capoeirista 🤸‍♀️. Views are my own.

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b

Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!

Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 12d

Very happy to see this work from Thuy and the Neurodesk team published! We provide 4 example use cases to highlight the versatility of Neurodesk for open, reproducible, and scalable workflows 🙌🏽

Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 12d

Extending their earlier work, Dao et al. showcase Neurodesk applications for open neuroimaging data sharing and usage: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@neurodesk.org @sbollmann.bsky.social
#OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 15d

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.

The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.

From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 27d

To wake up with such great news! Wow, as a Brazilian it was hard to see justice coming, but there is hope for true accountability! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil

Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

www.theguardian.com

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ESMRMB @esmrmb.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌟🚀 Want to boost your MRI Together 2025 experience? Join our Mentor Matching Session! Submit your poster idea by Sept 15 and connect with experts worldwide. 🌍✨
#MRITogether2025 #MentorMatching

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Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · Aug 11

If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the @universityofotago.bsky.social are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀 www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...

Psychology Jobs in All Otago, Job Vacancies - Aug 2025 | SEEK

Find your ideal job at SEEK with 104 Psychology jobs found in All Otago. View all our Psychology vacancies now with new jobs added daily!

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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Jul 27

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

We have had great help from reviewers to make it clearer, which is not a simple task when you aim for wide coverage of the field (>150 references!). Enjoy and please cite our work 😅

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

🧮 Then, we discuss how the rich history of empirical retinotopic mapping has been leveraged along the way to inform models of the retinotopic organization in human visual cortex.

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

🔬 Following that, we review empirical retinotopic mapping experiments using fMRI, highlighting the impact of phase-encoding designs and population receptive field (pRF) modeling on human brain mapping.

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

What we cover: 📖
🕰️ First, we give an overview of the history of retinotopic mapping (spoiler alert: the way we represent retinotopic maps goes back >100 years! 📜)

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

and its implications for understanding interindividual variability in retinotopic organization and uncovering its links to human perception.

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

While these retinotopic maps follow consistent patterns across people, there's fascinating variability in how each individual's visual cortex is organized. Here we focus on exploring recent advances in modeling the retinotopic organization of the human visual cortex...

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

Our brain's visual cortex creates detailed 2D maps of what we see, much like how a cartographer maps the world around us 🗺️.

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 17

Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · Jul 8

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions.

Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy

arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 9

Congratulations 🤩🤩👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you have 10-20 minutes (depends on how fast you are), would you please consider doing this online study on #mentalimagery? It contains a survey & an experiment where you look at pictures and you respond what you see:
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #visionscience

tstbl.co/820-917

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 3

I will try that!

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jul 3

I think I have a logo for deepRetinotopy! Little eyes are the cutest thing and were my husband's idea xD

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jun 28

SciComm done right 🤣

Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jun 25

Today we had the first “First Nations People in Neuroimaging Research” at OHBM and it was beautiful to see and hear of the pioneering work from New Zealand and Australia #OHBM2025

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jun 24

Good to be back home with great people 😍🥰 #OHBM2025

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Jun 23

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence

An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...

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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Jun 18

How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · Jun 21