Excited that this work with @serences.bsky.social and @timbrady.bsky.social is now out! Our Gabor-wavelet model better predicted voxel responses in scene regions than 3D models. Does this mean that scene areas aren’t “for” processing 3D scene structure? NO, we argue. 1/ dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

New preprint with @SamJung @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Here we uncover what might be driving the “meaningfulness benefit” in visual working memory. Studies show that real objects are remembered better in VWM tasks than abstract stimuli. But why? 1/

The Visual Learning Lab is hiring TWO lab coordinators! Both positions are ideal for someone looking for research experience before applying to graduate school. Application deadline is Feb 10th (approaching fast!)—with flexible summer start dates.

In case you don't know already, the journal Open Mind has a Bluesky account that automatically posts new papers: @openmindjournal.bsky.social The journal is diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) thanks to the support of MIT Press, Harvard Library, & MIT Library.

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be presenting my symposium talk at #ESCoP2025 titled "Meaningful and familiar stimuli support visual working memory for simple features"! See you there!

I and my lab are happy to be at #cogsci2025! Here's a shortcut to find work from the fabulous folks in my lab (and me) 😄

New paper with LaurenWilliams, @timbrady.bsky.social, and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in JEP: General! "Limits of verbal labels in cognition: Category labels do not improve visual working memory performance for obfuscated objects" psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

⭐ Out now in Developmental Science ⭐ "Sounds of Hidden Agents: The development of causal reasoning about musical sounds" (by Minju Kim and me) causal reasoning, music/auditory cognition, event reconstruction, kids' integration of information... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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

Proud to share the first preprint of my PhD w/ @barense.bsky.social & Mursal Jahed: “Putting the testing effect to the test in the wild: Retrieval enhances real-world memories and promotes their semantic integration while preserving episodic integrity” See thread! 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum

This is an unusual one: the project started in 2009, with Trevor Holland collecting data in an auditory-visual integration paradigm with many conditions within subjects. But modeling it remained challenging over the years until Luigi Acerbi and Shuze Liu took it on. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Fun new paper led by Sebastian Holt, training adults on artificial number systems. Most work tests only base-10 learning; we trained adults on a range of base systems & manipulated whether numbers were learned as part of a counting system, or unordered words. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Random self-promotion, but my hands-on #VisionScience textbook is available for <$50 at the moment! If you're excited about using analog demos of visual phenomena in your classroom, it's a great time to snag a copy! #STEMed

5.)A perspective arguing against the focus on 'category selectivity' (e.g. face v body v scene selectivity) in visual cortex and for a shift toward centering visual information needed for behavioral goals. The paper discusses how to re-interpret existing data in this light. arxiv.org/abs/2411.08251

Really great seeing all my #VisionScience friends at @vssmtg.bsky.social! Here's a link to my poster from the meeting, which is about our recent work looking at face pareidolia in adults and school-age kids. Enjoy and please be in touch if you have questions or comments.

A poster with @timbrady.bsky.social on a model that provides a unifying framework for generalizing from temporal to strength (repetition) manipulation effects on visual memory.

New paper with Kaira Shlipak and @violastoermer.bsky.social now out in Journal of Memory and Language! “Fluid intelligence correlates with working memory capacity for both real-world objects and simple-feature stimuli” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Brady Lab @timbrady.bsky.social will be at #VSS2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social this year! Here's a thread with some of the cool work we're coming to share:

#SRCD25, I and my lab are here! Come see @rtompkins.bsky.social on social reasoning from sleep arrangements-Th 10-11:20am talk 3, room 200B; R Santiago on how children use objects’ placements to learn about people-Fri 10:50 Poster 90; & K Han on the origins of dance in infancy-Sat 10:30, Poster 52!

New Preprint with @timbrady.bsky.social and @violastoermer.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here we show increased neural delay activity associated with remembering features as part of real-world objects. 1/

Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

If "Finding Nemo" had been biologically accurate, when his wife is eaten by predators, Martin should have turned into a female. Let's dive into hermaphroditism in teleost fish. 1st, let's talk about how COMMON this is: About 1% of all fish species on Earth practice some form of hermaphroditism.

In its ongoing mission to shrink the federal government, the Trump administration is now proposing a more than 40% budget cut to the National Institutes of Health - the crown jewel of American medical research. 60 Minutes, Sunday.

Very pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Just a little thread on (some) of my favourite charts I've made. 🧵

Psycholinguistics by Victor S. Ferreira: https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.8207aa16

Inspired by @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece about the importance of science funding in my education for my hometown newspaper. www.bakersfield.com/opinion/comm...

A short intro to MCMC in Cognitive Science in the excellent OECS

The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu

We are currently seeking nominations for a new Editor-in-Chief at @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social journal, AP&P, whether it be you or a colleague you'd like to nominate! For details, see our announcement at www.psychonomic.org/page/2025app...

🎓 4 PhD Fellowships at Warwick Psychology for 25/26 entry www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLI727/p... -3 for exciting projects led by Drs Alex Clarke, @gambichiara.bsky.social & @mmrobinson93.bsky.social -1 open to applicants with their own choice of supervisor/ proposal. Closing date: 16 March 2025 at 23:59

Taking advantage of some quiet office time to get my S&P assessments in order. I'm adding these to a public OSF repo so others can use 'em, so take a look if you'll be teaching a #VisionScience course! I'll highlight some of my faves as we get closer to Spring term - stay tuned. osf.io/w8thf/

for a while I daydreamed about starting a blog called THE PROBLEM WITH CARS and every post would start "the problem with cars is" and the gag would be that there are so MANY problems with cars I'd never run out of material. Anyhow was thinking this morning about how the problem with cars (cont'd) /

Great choice! @annaschapiro.bsky.social

I'm editing a special issue of i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social) on 3D objects and shape. Please consider us if you're currently wondering where to send that object recognition or mid-level shape project! And get in touch if you're interested but would need more time. bit.ly/ipe-objects

@fovea-vs.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! Follow FoVea to learn more about ways we can advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science!

🚨A four-year making @naturehumbehav.bsky.social with @UmitKeles @markthornton.bsky.social @Ralph Adolphs Across large sets of mental states, traits, situations, faces, & participants in five continents🌎 face impressions shape mental state attributions in various situations doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Happy VSS submission day to all who celebrate! #VisionScience

We found one of the most robust examples of cultural learning in an animal species! Over 30 years, humpback whales in the Gulf of Maine learned a feeding behaviour from one another and its spread through the population based on who spends time together. www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Presenting my poster @opam.bsky.social today 11:30am: “Can you remember them better because they are familiar or because they look real? Testing the contribution of object-ness in visual working memory with novel objects” See you all there!

Coming to Psychonomics? Come see @jamalamal.bsky.social and I’s work on how memory for objects is shaped — and not shaped — by semantic categories (spoiler: we think recognition induced forgetting isn’t a thing). Or just hang out with us if memory talks aren’t your vibe. #psynom24 #psychpsisky

If you're into awkward pacing, shaky voices, and entirely too much detail, then you're in luck! I'm super excited to give my first talk at #psynom24! This session features some fantastic talks and you should definitely come before and after mine!

The Special Issue on "the information exchange between working memory & long-term memory" at Memory & Cognition which I had the pleasure to Co-Edit with @keisukefukuda.bsky.social,@vmloaiza1.bsky.social and @edamizrak.bsky.social is out now! rdcu.be/d0GjA #workingmemory #cogSci #Psychology #psynom24

This is really cool and useful!

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

Now that there are more folks here, see below on the off chance you are interested in celebrating Gordon Logan’s contributions to cognitive psychology