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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Apr 4

Maybe interesting for German-speaking colleagues and friends?A radio programme on face perception with Rabea Weihser, Valentin Groebner and me on SWR Kultur.

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SWR Kultur forum gesichter · Suche in der ARD Audiothek

Finden Sie Podcasts der ARD und des Deutschlandradios – egal ob Hörspiel, Wissen, Dokumentation oder Comedy.

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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Apr 2

This is great!

Uta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social · Apr 1

A treasure trove

The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · Feb 10

Have you visited the EPS YouTube channel?

If not, head over and take a look at prize lectures since 2018 and (re-)watch some fantastic lectures from prize winners in recent years!

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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Mar 25

Really interesting work!

Kristen A Baker @k-a-baker.bsky.social · Mar 24

🎉My new paper with Markus Bindemann that investigates whether face-matching decisions would change depending on the framing of response options, is now available in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (@apajournals.bsky.social), LINK: doi.org/10.1037/mac0....

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Katie Gray @drkatiegray.bsky.social · Mar 25

Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!

Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · Mar 25

Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!

Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK

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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Mar 14

This is great!

Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · Mar 14

An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system

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Information Gained, Stored, and Transferred Without Brains — Biological Strategy — AskNature

Despite the lack of a nervous system, slime molds can learn and share what they learn with other slime molds by joining together for a time.

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Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · Mar 14

An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system

asknature.org/strategy/bra...

#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience

Information Gained, Stored, and Transferred Without Brains — Biological Strategy — AskNature

Despite the lack of a nervous system, slime molds can learn and share what they learn with other slime molds by joining together for a time.

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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Feb 5

🧵 A bit late, but excited to share insights from our new publication in PLOS Comp Biol by Pranjul Gupta (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Here, we explored the phenomenon of face pareidolia—like seeing faces in our morning coffee! What might explain this effect?

A top view of a coffee cup filled with coffee. The surface of the coffee features foam that resembles a smiling face, complete with two eyes and a wide mouth.

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · Feb 5

Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can!

Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Feb 5

This looks really interesting!

Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · Feb 3

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"

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Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience

Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

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Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · Feb 3

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"

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Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience

Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · Jan 25

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · Jan 24

I like how the perception of 3D structure in this starts and ends strong while devolving into interesting chaos in the middle. #VisionScience

∞ Juan Carlos @jcponcemath.bsky.social · Jan 24

What are the #mathematics behind this animation?

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#mathart #geometry #recursion #complexnumbers

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British Neuroscience Association @britishneuro.bsky.social · Jan 17

Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to
@braintumourrsch.bsky.social
20% discount from Routledge in January.
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Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving

Memory and the Brain explores the fascinating psychology and neuroscience of human memory. Written by a world expert in the field, John P. Aggleton, this book covers learning and memory from the very ...

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jan 16

New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature:

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Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature

A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Jan 16

Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠

Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · Jan 16

The origin of color categories | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The origin of color categories | PNAS

To what extent does concept formation require language? Here, we exploit color to address this question and ask whether macaque monkeys have color ...

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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Jan 16

Congratulations, Artie and Levi!

The Experimental Psychology Society @exppsychsoc.bsky.social · Jan 16

We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS London 2025 meeting are Artie Graham and Levi Kumle.

Congratulations to Artie and @levikumle.bsky.social!

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President’s Commendation for Student Posters – EPS London 2025

We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS London 2025 meeting are Artie Graham and Levi Kumle. Artie’s Research Study Poster is entitled …

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Jan 16

Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents

Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Jan 15

Very nice work by the @martinhebart.bsky.social lab shows that many across-exemplar effects in early visual cortex can be explained by low-level visual features, whereas LOC appears, in addition, to exhibit higher order category-specific information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧪 🧠

The Scope and Limits of Fine-Grained Image and Category Information in the Ventral Visual Pathway

Humans can easily abstract incoming visual information into discrete semantic categories. Previous research employing functional MRI (fMRI) in humans has identified cortical organizing principles that...

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Holger Wiese @wieseholger.bsky.social · Jan 15

This looks really interesting!

Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · Jan 14

1/5 New study challenges modular view of visual processing! academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... Analysis of 307 stroke patients shows mid-level visual processing are distributed across neural networks rather than confined to specific brain regions.

Visual feature processing in a large stroke cohort: evidence against modular organization

Visual features form a crucial stage between sensory input and higher-level object recognition. The conventional model of visual processing posits that qua

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Jan 14

New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...

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Dan Smith @dansmithpsy.bsky.social · Jan 13

New paper from me & Soazig Casteau @durhampsych.bsky.social
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How does contextual information affect aesthetic appreciation and gaze behavior in figurative and abstract artwork? | JOV | ARVO Journals

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Tom Beesley @tombeesley.bsky.social · Jan 10

On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.

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David Watson @dmwatson.bsky.social · Jan 13

First bluesky post... and also new paper alert! 🥳 With Tim Andrews & @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition

Code: osf.io/scy2f/

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A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition

A key challenge in understanding the functional organization of the visual cortex stems from the fact that only a small proportion of the objects experienced during natural viewing can be presented in...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jan 9

Reuters survey of over 150 UK universities and their colleges finds many are abandoning X over concerns about misinformation, content that promotes violence, and declining engagement.

#UKHE #AcademicSky

UK universities join retreat from Elon Musk's X, citing misinformation on platform

Universities and other higher education establishments have joined a retreat among British institutions from Elon Musk's X social media platform, citing its role in spreading misinformation that fuelled race riots last year.

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Sébastien Martineau @martineauseb.bsky.social · Jan 10

Over 60 German universities & research institutions have announced their #eXit from X today.

X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)

Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Jan 10

Starkes Signal!!

Über 60 dt. Hochschulen & Forschungsinstitutionen haben heute ihren Ausstieg bei X bekanntgegeben, s.u. #eXit

X sei nicht mehr vereinbar mit ihren Grundwerten: „Weltoffenheit, wissenschaftliche Integrität, Transparenz und demokratischer Diskurs.“

Liste der Beteiligten hier:

Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft

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