🧠 The official website of the Neuroscience of Dreaming Summer School (4–8 May 2026, IMT School, Lucca, Italy) is now live: nodsummerschool.imtlucca.it 👉 Check out the confirmed speakers + our program overview. Detailed schedule and registration coming soon!

New Speculative Article — I'm happy Andrew Budson invited me to write an article with him. We wondered what happens in our minds when we're sleeping? --> Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐑 𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭 2025 is live 🙌 Miss the in-person? Explore our rebuilt 𝐎-𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐤 in 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐕𝐑 (WebXR). 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞-𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 of all talks + special: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥. 20 Oct. Desktop/VR/Mobile. More: vrs.rub.de/virtual-vrs/ #VRSummit2025 #XR #WebXR

Years later (and many polygons fewer) we finally ported Becoming Homeless to the Meta Quest for free. www.meta.com/experiences/... Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival (2017), VHIL's most studied piece on VR empathy. Samples in the 1000s, behavioral measures, longitudinal outcomes months later.

“They’re so used to dying they don’t care." By Erik Hoel

If you do work using VR as a method for experimental psychology, make sure you submit an abstract for our free @exppsychsoc.bsky.social Immersive Virtual Reality to Understand Human Cognition, Perception and Action workshop down in beautiful Exeter www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...

Well study authors finally admit they have no stance on whether measuring more or less "brain activity" within the context of their task measurement is good or bad despite previous quotes about brain health. Pitchforkers can issue their apologies via my venmo. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What is on your mind when you are about to fall asleep? Help us unravel the diverse ways humans experience this mysterious transition! Please share your unique experiences by filling up this short online questionnaire: redcap.link/DriftingMinds

‘The brain is doing a lot of something when we appear to be doing nothing…’ I met Dr Joseph Jebelli, author of ‘The Brain at Rest’ @torvabooks.bsky.social Repost for your chance to win a copy! www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

📣 Call for Submissions: VRS Conference 2025! 🗓️ October 20–21 | 📍 Bochum, Germany 🧾 Deadlines: Talks — June 30 | Posters/VR Demos — July 30 Join us to explore cutting-edge developments in extended reality, human cognition, and health at the third edition of VRS!

Our new paper just dropped: we tested whether people confuse virtual reality with reality. Spoiler: They do! Some even tried to sit on virtual chairs. The full story is now out in iScience: doi.org/10.1016/j.is... #VRcademicSky

Today is publication day! A new edition of Francisco J. Varela's (long hard-to-obtain) 1979 classic Principles of Biological Autonomy in a new annotated edition by Ezequiel Di Paolo and Evan Thompson, with a Foreword by Amy Cohen Varela. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255140...

Reposting this - still looking for more participants! Especially if you (think you) have #aphantasia or #hyperphantasia, we are very interested in hearing from you... Also if you have experience of #prophantasia (cc @kerblooee.bsky.social) #mentalimagery #visionscience #psychscisky

Using virtual reality to "induce Virtual Hallucinations (VH)" to study the Sense of Reality (SoR) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... It looks like they use techniques similar to many horror video games

We have a new position for someone with a strong computer science VR background to work on the PRESENCE project. This would be at the Event Lab, Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona. If you are interested, you must apply through this website: lnkd.in/d6QYQKYA #VRcademicSky

Come and do a funded PhD in our department at @exeter.ac.uk Exploring the efficacy of Virtual training for x-ray scanning image interpretation in aviation security (please RT) www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

📢 The PhD call for "Mind, Brain, and Human Thought" (track: "Experimental Psychology and Psychophysiology") at the IMT School, Lucca is now open! Join us in the Sleep, Plasticity, and Conscious Experience (SPACE) Lab to explore the science of sleep and dreaming. 🧠💤 Apply here 👉 mbht.imtlucca.it

Not done a giveaway in a while, so if anyone wants a 12x8 Severance print like/repost/follow and I'll pick a winner in a few days. If you don't want to risk not getting it you could simply buy a copy of course.

Luria's work in Uzbekistan (USSR) 60+ years ago, which also included visual illusions:

Paper🚨 "Objects, Faces, and Spaces: Organizational Principles of Visual Object Perception as Evidenced by Individual Differences in Behavior" by @heidasigurdar.bsky.social & @ingamariao.bsky.social JEP:G editor's choice ->free to read psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #visionscience #psychscisky 🧵1/13

The XR Digest was on it before I did! New paper from me and Thanos Vourvopoulos! tldr; we believe a multimodal approach (EEG, eye-tracking, behavior) is a good candidate for detecting visual attentional states, much needed for the timely and correct diagnosis of spatial neglect.

📢New blogpost for the Meta-Research Center, by our PhD student Iris Willigers. Her key point: we should be talking more about the measurement crisis in psychology. Validate your measures! #metascience #psychology #methodology #psychometrics #statistics #openscience metaresearch.nl/blog/2025/1/...

Interview participants needed: VR while lying down has been researched for non-disabled users, but nothing is known about disabled people's needs and preferences when using VR while reclining on a chair, or lying on a couch or bed.

A very solid job board for people entering or progressing in XR-AI industry or research adjacent fields. www.xrjobsboard.com

Does #VirtualReality need #VirtualAcoustics? We say yes! we found that binaural sound renderings improved both localization accuracy and social presence acta-acustica.edpsciences.org/articles/aac...

I'm a guest editor for a Frontiers in Virtual Reality special issue with @fatresearchcat.bsky.social "Enhancing Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Communication in Virtual Collaborative Environments". We invite submissions on various methods that enhance communication in VR. #VRcademicSky

⚠️ New preprint ! « Social determinants of cognitive aging trajectories across 39 countries » Some people in their 80s have cognitive abilities similar to many 30-year-olds, others are severely diminished. 
How comes?
 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... A short 🧵👇 1/7

Instant virtual worlds in VR?

For peeps based in or around Barcelona!

Great resource!

A starter pack I found missing 👓🖥️🌍🧠🩺 Immersive technologies - #VR, #AR, #XR, #spatialcomputing, #CG - for research (e.g., psychology, neuroscience) & medicine (diagnostics, therapy). go.bsky.app/E9bhHvQ Please let me know if you wanna be added - especially undergrad, grad, predoc researchers!

Do dreams serve a biological function? If so, why do we forget most of them? Here we propose a solution for this apparent paradox: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Wow one of the best videos of basic hippocampal anatomy for the human brain. Very helpful for those curious to see where memories for events and episodes are first stored in the brain:

I have created a starter pack for #dream research 🧠🧪💤 go.bsky.app/DCNDUtJ I don't have a lot of contacts yet so let me know if you want to join or if I should add someone in particular!

We are hiring! Interested in developing our VR game for AI-supported neurological diagnosis? Check out the link below! klaeslab.de/wp-content/u... #vrcademicsky

Registrations open now! Sign up for free through eventbrite.de/e/vr-summit-... See you all in Bochum, September 27-29. #VRSummit #VRacademicSky

It's coming! #VRSummit #VRcademicSky

🚨New research from our lab, out now at JEP:G! 🚨 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Our sense of presence is shaped by the subjective intensity of our emotional state (in this case, fear), not by changes in physiological arousal. #VRcademicsky #psychscisky #science #academicsky

Anyone interested can download the project from this link: gitlab.com/NeuroVR/vr_r... The project is entirely composed of CC0 assets and is available without any restrictions. Feel free to incorporate it into your projects. #VRcademicSky

New paper! Lead by the amazing Lily Cheng, we found behavioral evidence for a travel direction signal in humans - independent of head direction. Now out in JEP General, we used a vision science paradigm to show adaptation to travel direction psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

Just sharing this amazing-looking VR experience made almost 30 years ago now! I had no idea this existed until this morning. #VRcademicSky #virtualreality #vr

We have an open position at the event_lab. More Info: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/203789 If you are applying please let also write a notification to [email protected]

This week, I'm taking over the @realscide.bsky.social account to talk about my work, VR, and much more. If you speak German, following is a must. Hope to see you there! #VRcademicSky

This ticks several personal boxes for me: VR ✅ Mazes ✅ Surreal/dreamlike elements ✅ Excited for this one! #VRcademicSky #virtualreality #VR

A brief history of the terms we've used to refer to "other" realities #VRcademicSky #virtualreality #VR

Jaron Lanier's take on the future of VR er... I mean Spatial Computing #VRcademicSky #VR #virtualreality #spatialcomputing

Can relate... Source: www.reddit.com/r/virtualrea... #VR #virtualreality #VRcademicSky

Is anyone here from Barcelona looking for a cool study to participate in? If so, I've got just the opportunity for you! #VRcademicSky

Nice free course on XR development (for Meta devices) from XR Bootcamp using code REALITYHACK for the next few days #VRcademicSky

Excited to share a preprint on sleep + memory transformation with co-first author Stephanie Simpson & @brianlevine.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵