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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 15d

Some people are unable to consciously picture images in their mind's eye – they have aphantasia. What have scientists learned about aphantasia over the past 10 years?

This paper reviews subtypes of aphantasia, its potential functions, and ongoing debates.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A decade of aphantasia research – and still going!

Aphantasia, a term coined in 2015, refers to the lack of wakeful visual imagery. Research since then has clarified the nature of this intriguing varia…

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · 18d

Can we all agree that the use of emojis in Chatgpt's replies is one of its worst features?

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · 21d

Nice! I was wondering whether you also assessed if participants were faster at recognizing the objects from different points of view in the congruent condition?

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · Sep 6

While writing a grant proposal, I thought a lot about visual imagery and mathematical transformations…that’s how I found this book, which connects very different topics: poetry and numbers! Common denominator: imagination. Highly recommended. A way to day dream while staying grounded

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · Sep 5

Rediscovering hidden pearls...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Is memory for remembering? Recollection as a form of episodic hypothetical thinking - Synthese

Misremembering is a systematic and ordinary occurrence in our daily lives. Since it is commonly assumed that the function of memory is to remember the past, misremembering is typically thought to happ...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Sep 4

A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.672180v1

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · Aug 29

I don't know if this might be interesting, but reading this I was reminded of Humphreys' work on action relationships and their effects on visual attention link.springer.com/article/10.3..., bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Action relations facilitate the identification of briefly-presented objects - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

The link between perception and action allows us to interact fluently with the world. Objects which ‘afford’ an action elicit a visuomotor response, facilitating compatible responses. In addition, pos...

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Ella Striem-Amit @striemamit.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to share our (Flo Martinez Addiego @yuqiliu1179.bsky.social @culhamari-lab.bsky.social) paper, now published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
(or an easier read on medicine.georgetown.edu/news-release... )

Action-type mapping principles extend beyond evolutionarily conserved actions, even in people born without hands | PNAS

How are actions represented in the motor system? Although the sensorimotor system is broadly organized somatotopically, higher-level sensorimotor a...

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Caro Hautekiet @carohautekiet.bsky.social · Aug 12

New preprint alert! 🤩 Together with Klaus Oberauer, I wrote a review article on how focused attention in #workingmemory affects long-term memory formation. osf.io/preprints/os...

OSF

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iBBA @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social · Jul 4

🌟 Exciting news from iBBA! 🌟

This year, we've launched the brand new "iBBA Recognition of Excellence Award", celebrating outstanding contributions to scientific knowledge in the field of Brain and Behavior by early-career researchers within iBBA.

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congrats Matthias!! very well-deserved 👏

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iBBA @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social · Jun 12

We just wrapped up an amazing workshop: "Vision as Prediction: Learning, Action & Biases", organized by Dr. Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida & funded by iBBA.

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · May 20

Looking forward to it!!

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · May 14

PS I highly recommend his book "A Student's Guide to Bayesian Statistics". I think that thanks to his book I might finally have the courage to fully transition to Bayesian stats.

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · May 14

Sentence of the day: "[...] So events that are impossible have zero probability. However, the converse is not true: some events that are of zero probability are still possible." Ben Lambert

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · May 8

@ciaragreene.bsky.social @gillian-murphy.bsky.social
Wonderful work 🧠

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · May 7

Happy to finally start this! Listened to Brain Inspired episode with Ciara Greene and absolutely loved it! 🫶

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iBBA @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social · May 2

📣 Vote now to support:
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🗳️ Cast your vote for the VU nominees:
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Vote for your favourite ideas of AmSIA 2025Vote for your favourite ideas of AmSIA 2025 – IXA

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iBBA @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social · May 2

🎉 Excited to share that iBBA researchers are finalists in the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award (AMSIA), which highlights the most impactful, research-based innovations in Amsterdam! 🧠💡

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · Apr 23

Science is a process of discovering how our minds work.. of figuring out what we're drawn to.. there are things that if I force myself to read, I don't retain very well. And other things, I read the first word and I'm riveted, and I just soak it up. – Martin Schwartz on the Night Science Podcast

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Şahcan Özdemir @sahcan.bsky.social · Mar 7

Preprint Alert!!

In our latest study, we describe a novel relationship between action planning and working memory. Our results show that action-item associations affect how working memory maintains the fidelity of sensory information during a task.

Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Motor control processes moderate visual working memory gating

Gating processes that regulate sensory input into visual working memory (WM) and the execution of planned actions share neural mechanisms, suggesting a mutual interaction. In a preregistered study (OS...

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Freek van Ede @freekvanede.bsky.social · Mar 10

Bringing together our findings on microsaccade biases during rehearsal and selection in visual working memory, suggesting a 'silent spatial scaffold' for working memory whereby spatial organisation stays preserved even if active space-based rehearsal has ceased

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Microsaccades reveal preserved spatial organisation in visual working memory despite decay in location-based rehearsal

Space provides a foundational scaffold for retaining and selecting visual information in working memory. It remains unclear, however, whether and how …

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · Mar 8

Women’s day ✊

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iBBA @ibbamsterdam.bsky.social · Mar 4

Following our successful 2025 iBBA colloquium with Prof. Martin Rolfs, we’re thrilled to announce the next one on April 10th! The talk will be “Interoception and Cognition” by Prof. Catherine Tallon-Baudry, from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
All details in the image below 👇

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Cate Trentin @trentincaterina.bsky.social · Feb 18

Suggestions needed! Do you know of any 3D perceptual similarity space for shapes? Or cool perceptual similarity spaces for objects - not embedded within a picture? I know of the 2D validated circular space by Li et al. (2019), but I am looking for a 3D one...thanks!