Oliver Contier
@olivercontier.bsky.social
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Brains, minds, computers, cats and carbonara. 🚨 On the postdoc job market 🚨 PhD candidate at ViCCo group & Max Planck School of Cognition. Working on brain representation of the visual world 🌏→🧠❔ www.olivercontier.com
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🙋 Hello Neuro people! After switching platforms, I thought I should reintroduce myself: I’m a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience. I use fMRI to study how the brain represents the things we see.
#neuroskyence #neuroscience
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martinhebart.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to #CCN2025! Would love to see you at our lab's talks and posters, and meet me at the panel discussion in the Algonauts session on Wednesday!
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linateichmann.bsky.social
🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter
2025🚨
Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
olivercontier.bsky.social
🚨 Also, I’ll soon be looking for a job! Feel free to dm me if you know someone who knows someone who works on something cool. I’m excited to connect and learn about post-doc opportunities (in Europe and beyond)
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🌐 This work is part of the THINGS initiative founded by @martinhebart.bsky.social and @cibaker.bsky.social . It’s a collaborative effort to improve our understanding of object vision in minds, brains, and models through large, curated datasets.
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THINGS Initiative
Large-scale behavioral and neuroscience data for object recognition and understanding.
things-initiative.org
olivercontier.bsky.social
🌇 I work in @martinhebart.bsky.social ‘s lab at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany - A fantastic environment to learn and engage with like-minded scientists👩🏻‍🔬👨‍💻! I’m already sad I might have to leave eventually.
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olivercontier.bsky.social
🙋 Hello Neuro people! After switching platforms, I thought I should reintroduce myself: I’m a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience. I use fMRI to study how the brain represents the things we see.
#neuroskyence #neuroscience
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samnastase.bsky.social
Really happy to see this out! We show that behavioral judgments of the purpose and social content of observed actions capture a surprisingly large portion of variance in neural representational geometry throughout the action observation network and in ventral temporal cortex: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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martinhebart.bsky.social
I promised to write about my thoughts on the status of the field of neuroAI, some of the big challenges we are facing, and the approaches we are taking to address them. This is super selective on the topic of finding a good model but in my view it affects the field as a whole. Here we go. 🧵
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martinhebart.bsky.social
How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by @olivercontier.bsky.social w/ Chris Baker now out in Nature Human Behaviour provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system - Nature Human Behaviour
Contier et al. show that dimensions are superior to categories at predicting brain responses to visual objects.
www.nature.com