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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 8d

Wait whut!? Doing science with the awesome RR?? Go for it y'all! Can heavily recommend :-)

Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 9d

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 8d

...or an alcoholic?

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 8d

If you are up for a nice academic battle, consider responding to our BBS paper "Studying unconscious processing: contention and consensus". The deadline is October 15th. Link below!

François Stockart @francoisstock.bsky.social · 8d

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Sep 4

That's incredible news Miles, albeit well-deserved. Congrats 👏 👏 👏

And I am also very much looking forward to the work that you will be putting out. Good luck kick-starting this thing :-)

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing!
Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 24

And now without bluesky making the background black...

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 24

Looking forward to joining #ECVP2025 tomorrow. CAP-Lab is well represented, with 3 talks (@lassedietz.bsky.social on Monday, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social and I on Tuesday), and 2 posters (by @danwang7.bsky.social on Tuesday, and @yichen-yuan.bsky.social on Wednesday). Please come by for a chat! 💜

Overview of CAP-Lab presentations at ECVP 2025:

Lasse Dietz: Anticipated relevance modulates early visual processing
Monday 14:45, talk @ Linke Aula Learning & Memory

Surya Gayet: Perceptual precedence for expected and dreaded visual events
Tuesday 8:30, talk @ RW 1 Using interocular suppression during consciousness research

Kabir Arora: Dissociating external and internal attentional selection
Tuesday 9:15, talk @ Atrium Maximum Object Recognition & Visual Attention

Dan Wang: Unraveling the time course of attentional capture: an EEG-RIFT study
Tuesday 15:30-17:00, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum

Yichen Yuan: Decoding auditory working memory load from alpha oscillations
Wednesday 10:00-11:30, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Also, perceiving a different image may evoke different (subtle) patterns of eye-movements, thereby even changing the actual retinal image between two (otherwise) identical physical stimuli.

All of this being said: cool project :-)

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Isn't this why bistable images are used? Then you actually have the same image on the retina.

Still, this only displaces the problem to some extent, because even then the "image" will be different from V1 or even LGN onwards, due to top-down processes. But perhaps that is what you are interested in

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 11

How is it possible that you can hear "brainstorm" or "green needle" in the EXACT same audio fragment (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD...)? I wrote a short and accessible blog post about this with @samdekater.bsky.social for the @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/how... (in EN or NL)

How is it possible that we can hear either ‘green needle’ or ‘brainstorm’ whilst the audio fragment remains the same?

Je hebt het misschien niet door, maar je brein is continu aan het gissen hoe de wereld om je heen nu eigenlijk in elkaar steekt. Wat we uiteindelijk bewust ervaren, is een combinatie van wat we van te...

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 11

Or check out their extended abstracts here:

Lasse Dietz: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1...

Liangyou Zhang: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=c...

Kabir Arora: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=N...

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looking forward to @compcogneuro.bsky.social's #CCN2025, which takes place in my backyard this year.

If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit
@lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and
@arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri.

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Overview of CAP-Lab presentations at CCN 2025.

Lasse Dietz: Anticipated relevance modulates early visual processing
Tuesday 12:30-16:30, poster A132 @ E-Hall Visual Processing & Computational Vision

Liangyou Zhang: Attention alters numerosity tuning in the human brain
Wednesday 12:30-16:30, poster B54 @ De Brug Object Recognition & Visual Attention

Kabir Arora: Tracking covert attention over space and time using RIFT
Wednesday 12:30-16:30, poster C144 @ E-Hall Object Recognition & Visual Attention

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jul 29

Happy to see this one out in BBS: a multi-lab collaborative effort toward achieving consensus on (10) best practices for researching unconscious processes, and a discussion of (9) outstanding issues. Kudos to Francois, Maor, Liad, & Nathan for leading this project. Looking forward to the responses!

Maor Schreiber @maorschreiber.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS.
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏

Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus

www.cambridge.org

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Maor Schreiber @maorschreiber.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS.
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏

Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus

www.cambridge.org

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks to (a.o.):

IRLab: @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, @giuliacabbai.bsky.social, @pazbartal.bsky.social, @dotproduct.bsky.social

CAP-Lab: @danwang7.bsky.social, @lassedietz.bsky.social, @andresahakian.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, @arora-borealis.bsky.social, @yichen-yuan.bsky.social

Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jul 24

I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects!

Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jul 24

Awesome work Nadine! Looking forward to diving into it.

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · Jul 23

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · Jul 21

New paper with @peelen.bsky.social showing that objects in familiar configurations (e.g., 🍽️) facilitate one another by 200 ms of visual processing time. Out now in Cortex! 🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

The timecourse of inter-object contextual facilitation

High-level vision is frequently studied at the level of either individual objects or whole scenes. An intermediate level of visual organisation that h…

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jul 15

Best bug hunter in town!

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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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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jul 1

Looking for a PhD in visual cognitive neuroscience, within a colorful lab with a very smart and fun PI? Rosanne is recruiting! I would apply if I wasn't this old.

Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · Jul 1

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

PhD position — Rademaker lab

www.rademakerlab.com

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · Jun 30

This was loads of fun! Thanks @docdocdunk.bsky.social and @jthee.bsky.social for the invitation, and for letting us share some of our latest RIFT projects.

theeuweslab.bsky.social @theeuweslab.bsky.social · Jun 30

Last week's symposium titled "Advances in the Encephalographic Study of Attention" was a great success! Held in the KNAW building in Amsterdam and sponsored by the NWO, many of (Europe's) leading attention researchers assembled to discuss the latest advances in attention research using M/EEG.

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · Jun 7

1/ Can AI be conscious? My Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article on ‘Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological

Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism

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