Just published some work at Scientific Reports! We investigated visual adaptation following free viewing of a film (Casablanca) that had its oriented contrast altered. To our surprise, we found adaptation effects to be pretty negligible…

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

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...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ziyue Hu, Dominic M.D. Tran, and Reuben Rideaux:

Multimodal evidence challenges the effectiveness of probabilistic cueing for establishing sensory expectations

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

We just released a paper on using AI to autonomously conduct scientific research, from idea conception and (human) data collection to manuscript generation. We offer 3 example studies in cog psych. I think it indicates the current capacity of AI in autonomous research.

www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.13421

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months".
If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇

New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉

We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!

tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c

I’m not aware of data that speaks to this, but I expect that the strength of the illusion will vary with center-ring width and that there is a maximum point within that parameter space.

Agreed that we don’t need to find new jobs yet, but I’d be pretty surprised if I received a manuscript like this from an undergrad. Give it a quick read and let me know if you think.

I’m hoping that @vssmtg.bsky.social can clarify or reverse course on this quickly, because it looks a lot like capitulating to fascism from here.

People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions"

We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵

Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the University of Sydney for a project investigating how perception changes during walking (VR, psychophysics, EEG, AI). Full time, 3 years fixed-term position; full details here: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

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