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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely fascinating video! m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGo...

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Ned Block @neddo.bsky.social · 14h

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 12h

Andrew has been building up a phenomenal body of work on space perception. Fantastic conceptual work!

andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · 1d

The unfathomable richness of seeing: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

The unfathomable richness of seeing

Many hold that visual experience is sparse and its richness illusory, relying on high-level summaries rather than detailed content. However, we argue here that seeing is more than this – it is unfatho...

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Mariana Babo-Rebelo @mbaborebelo.bsky.social · 12h

4 more days to apply!

Mariana Babo-Rebelo @mbaborebelo.bsky.social · 23d

📢Fully Funded PhD position in Barcelona!

I'm excited to announce that I’m opening a PhD position at @idibaps.bsky.social, Barcelona!
We'll investigate the role of bodily signals in autobiographical memory, using virtual reality, EEG and TMS, in healthy volunteers and patient populations.

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s a wrap for @optica.org's #OpticaFVM 2025. Thank you all for joining us and making it such a vibrant meeting! Below are some impressions, courtesy of Arathy Kartha.

Gordon Legge with his former trainees Denis Pelli and Susana Chung

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 5d

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Susana Marcos @marcoslabur.bsky.social receiving the Tillyer Award @optica.org Fall Vision Meeting in #minneapolis
Introduced by Steve Burns, her mentor from postdoctoral days.
@cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 2d

Austin Roorda @roordalab.bsky.social delivering the richly deserved Boynton Lecture @optica-fvm.bsky.social
@optica.org

A tremendous journey with an incredible cast of characters that brought the world high resolution retinal imaging, Oz Vision and olo

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations @leahgjohnston.bsky.social for winning the @optica-fvm.bsky.social YIA!
Most #visionscience folks know that stabilized retinal images fade. Fewer know that stabilized, but flickering, images also fade. Even fewer know that the flicker-fading doesn't take place in the retina.

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉

Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization"

Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"

Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for a photo with FVM organizing chair Alex Wade

Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for the YIA

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉

Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization"

Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 5d

It’s Five Illusions time at the Optica Fall Vision Meeting
(@optica-fvm.bsky.social) at the University of Minnesota

FiveIllusions.github.io

#OpticaFVM

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Jorge Morales @jorge-morales.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵

Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models

This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...

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Jorge Morales @jorge-morales.bsky.social · 9d

🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4

Laboratory Technician

About the Opportunity SUMMARY The Subjectivity Lab, directed by Jorge Morales, and housed in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University is excited to invite applications for a full-time L...

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Tessa Dekker @tessamdekker.bsky.social · 11d

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Research Assistant at UCL

Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Aaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · 12d

Here is my commentary on @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social's BBS paper. I point out deep parallels between topics in 2D and 3D human vision that are usually studied separately: summary statistics and attention in 2D, and 3D vision. This suggests studying them together. psyarxiv.com/dz3rx_v2

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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 13d

paper is up~

This study examines performance evaluation in perceptual detection tasks using response-time-based signal detection theory (SDT) analysis. A defining feature of detection tasks is the asymmetry between trials with stimulus presence and absence, often reflected in ....

hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 14d

detection d' is generally overestimated, coz we tend to be too lazy to collect the necessary data in order to correct for the unequal variance between target present vs absent distributions. turns out we can do this for free - using reaction times data. so, let's do it~

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 13d

A big win for @neuromatch.bsky.social and for our students, TAs, and mentors! So proud of the hard work that went into making this happen and grateful to the NIH for their support!

Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 13d

Just accepted at BBS - a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's Sensory Horizons article:
Reality monitoring decision policies and the slowness of consciousness
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 14d

Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025)

Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇

@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Paul Linton, ECVP 2025: "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience"

YouTube video by Kriegeskorte Lab

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks so much @gregorydavis.bsky.social 😊

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 14d

Project Website: fiveillusions.github.io

Talk: youtube.com/watch?v=RNmY...

Preprint (CCN): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Poster (VSS):

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 14d

Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025)

Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇

@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Paul Linton, ECVP 2025: "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience"

YouTube video by Kriegeskorte Lab

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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 15d

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

Neuronal signatures of successful one-shot memory in mid-level visual cortex

High-capacity, one-shot visual recognition memory challenges theories of learning and neural coding because it requires rapid, robust, and durable representations. Most studies have focused on the hip...

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 25d

Unconscious perception of ensembles, assessed with a bias-discouraging 2IFC task: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Great work by @patxelos.bsky.social, @dsotob.bsky.social et al.!

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Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Sep 8

smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/the-only-i...

The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having

(This is a niche post of interest to a relatively narrow community of scholars.

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