We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1

Movie-trained transformer reveals novel response properties to dynamic stimuli in mouse visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676524v1

A mouse model for cerebral/cortical visual impairment (CVI) impairs vision and disrupts the spatial frequency tuning of neurons in visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.19.677390v1

Resting-State fMRI and the Risk of Overinterpretation: Noise, Mechanisms, and a Missing Rosetta Stone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676611v1

Spatial predictive coding in visual cortical neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.676794v1

Our article is out in Annual Review of Vision Science: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation” We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Distinct growth regimes govern crowding in foveal and extrafoveal vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.17.673105v1

“The results show that neural reactions to colors are somewhat standard and don’t seem to vary much from person to person. But these neuroanatomical findings can’t answer the question of how it feels to see red…” #scicomm #neuroskyence www.sciencenews.org/article/red-... 🧪 🧠

Information, Movement and Adaptation in Human Vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.05.674315v1

Cool work by Arash Afraz's lab using a dual AI system to be able to reverse-engineer the perceptual experience of receiving visual cortex stimulation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enhancing experience-dependent plasticity accelerates vision loss in a murine model of retinitis pigmentosa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.02.673825v1

Shared texture-like representations, not global form, underlie deep neural network alignment with human visual processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.29.673066v1

Eye movements, vision and memory through the lens of Sherlock - awesome collaborative project led by @matthiasnau.bsky.social

🚨 New preprint: Invisible neural frequency tagging (RIFT) for the underfunded researcher: 👉 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... RIFT uses high-frequency flicker to probe attention in M/EEG with minimal stimulus visibility and little distraction. Until now, it required a costly high-speed projector.

Why was Newton so sure that if you just did his optical experiments you’d *have* to believe him about light? Kirsten Walsh, Tom Roberts and I use 4E cognition to suggest an answer. Anachronism? You be the judge… (also i’m real proud of this paper) www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... #philsci

Enjoying this 1884 paper by CS Peirce and Joseph Jastrow on whether perception exhibits a hard threshold - the idea that as stimulus intensity increases, at some value it goes from unconscious to conscious, rather than following a smooth probabilistic curve. psychclassics.yorku.ca/Peirce/small...

ssVEP-Based Estimates of Contrast Sensitivity, Visual Acuity, and Orientation Sensitivity Do Not Correlate with Each Other or with Psychophysical Measures in Healthy Individuals: https://osf.io/fr72q

Development of Perceptual Grouping Ability after Longer Periods of Post-operative Visual Experience: https://osf.io/vq9gp

Why can we decode visual mental contents from primary visual cortex when all evidence points at the absence of sustained spiking in this part of the brain? Today at #CCN25 poster C104, Noa will present a tentative answer from her work with attractor models. Wish I could’ve been there!

Network dynamics for sensory prioritization: Functional connectivity related to individual sensory weighting of vision versus proprioception during upper limb control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667932v1

Delighted to share this paper, now published in @arvoinfo.bsky.social. With @spk3lly.bsky.social‬ and Anna Geuzebroek we explored differences in visual cortical responses for pattern pulses and pattern reversals. Here's the link: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Visual stimulus-evoked blood velocity responses in individual human posterior cerebral arteries measured with dynamic phase-contrast functional MR angiography https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.20.665220v1

Don’t miss our upcoming CCN satellite event, Applying Computational Models to Clinical Disorders (August 11th). This session will showcase how computational methods are transforming our understanding and treatment of sensory disorders dlwiki.nin.nl/ccn_2025 #CCN2025 #CompNeuro #VisionScience

Opinion piece now published as part of special issue in Neuropsychologia: #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #illusions doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... Also, this happens to be my 100th publication. Join me for 🍺in OGH on Friday afternoon! 🙂

Surely you know about eye dominance. You probably don’t know it’s not a unitary phenomenon: in this paper I show that sensory eye dominance varies over the visual field. In the Discussion I propose an explanation for why this variation might exist. Curious? Read it here: doi.org/10.1167/jov....

Who doesn't like a good model of the brain? Yet, from simple regression to neural nets, some limitations keep popping up (e.g., overfitting) @mjwolff.bsky.social & I saw some cool but puzzling data, ran a quick analysis & found one such limitation: model mimicry. Now in #naturecommunications &🧵below

Rod photoreceptors control the ON vs OFF polarity of cone-signaling neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661749v1

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...

A connectomics-based analysis of lamina monopolar cells reveals mechanisms of spatial processing in insect motion vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.19.660550v1

Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in human visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.18.660183v1

Retinotopic mapping Fans Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry! Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.

Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision: Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025 Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...

How is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/n

Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision: https://osf.io/rynbz

This month in @arvoiovs.bsky.social, read about the importance of assessing multiple distortion types to fully characterize perceptual deficits in #amblyopia. iovs.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... @arvoinfo.bsky.social #VisionResearch #VisionScience #ophthalmology #ARVOJournals #OpenAccess

Defining a functional hierarchy of millisecond time: from visual stimulus processing to duration perception https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.06.658257v1

🎉New paper! Expectations bias conscious visual experience more at the fovea than in the periphery. (Who knew vision could teach us a little Zen?) 👉https://tinyurl.com/yfw93tsw With Tim Gastrell, Matt Oxner and David Carmel @lsp-ens.bsky.social #Consciousness #VisionScience #PredictiveProcessing

This group did visual receptive field mapping in the octopus occipital lobe and now I'm obsessed with studying the computations involved in cephalopod vision. www.cell.com/current-biol...

How can we resolve ambiguous visual input? To answer this question, Mooney images meets THINGS and large scale behavior! Amazing effort by an amazing crew in Granada, and happy to play a small part in it!

Amplifying and ameliorating light avoidance in mice with photoreceptor targeting and CGRP sensitization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.24.655946v1

Excited to share some new results that show how retinotopic mapping of disparity in mouse visual areas totally falls apart with monocular deprivation (MD). We also show how that disorganization results in depth discrimination deficits in the MD mice. #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#visionresearch #glaucoma #amblyopia

Gezocht: volwassenen met amblyopie (‘lui oog’) of glaucoom Heb je amblyopie of glaucoom? En ben je benieuwd hoe jouw visuele aandoening invloed heeft op de hersenen? Doe dan mee aan ons fMRI onderzoek in Amsterdam en help de wetenschap vooruit! Meer info en aanmelden: dlwiki.nin.nl/Participate

Tomorrow at 6 pm, I will be presenting my work on pre-saccadic remapping in the human visual cortex, revealed by voxel-wise encoding model on fMEI data (Talk 55.13 at Talk room 1). Please visit and share your thoughts 😊 @juliedgolomb.bsky.social

New #neuroskyence #visionscience by my excellent colleague Ecem Altan: We study higher-level processes in Ponzo-like illusions. In brief, inversion reduces the illusion & V1 activity reflects that difference, suggesting the V1 effect isn't just from feedforward processing: doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

I just heard a terrific talk by @marlenecohen.bsky.social about this preprint (MT/PFC comparison) - very relevant! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share a new preprint from my lab giving a way to break up fMRI searchlight maps into sub-networks! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience #fMRI #neuroimaging #methods #preprint 1/5

Dissociating stimulus encoding and task demands in ECoG responses from human visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.23.648016v1