Guess who's celebrating a 30th anniversary? With massive thanks to years of support from @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social @lhsccanada.bsky.social @braincanada.bsky.social @innovation.ca @brukercorporation.bsky.social Siemens Healthineers, Gov. of Ontario www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news-e...

New preprint (doi.org/10.64898/202...) shows that where you look next is an economic decision. Saccades trade off effort-costs (measured via pupil) against monetary rewards. 1) By default, participants have strong saccade direction preferences (e.g., cardinal over diagonal, up over down) (1/4)

I encourage everyone to show up and make your voice heard at upcoming town halls and via any other channels: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/45096.html • Bilingual session: Thursday, May 28 at 1:00 p.m. ET • English session: Wednesday, June 24 at 1:30 p.m. ET • French session: Thursday, June 25 at 1:30 p.m. ET

Excited to share my latest postdoc article with Melissa Võ and Katja Fiehler! Using a memory-guided placement task in VR, we tested how semantic and spatial scene relationships shape allocentric coding of objects. Here, spatial factors played a stronger role. Read it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New preprint! Older adults' anticipatory motor responses scale less with object speed when they rely on peripheral vision — but scale normally when they actively track the object. A selective behavioural signature of magnocellular aging. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Also, I’ll be giving a workshop on the first day about early vision theory and modelling. visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience

For those going to @ncmsociety.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come check out our posters! @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org. I know that @mnlmrc.bsky.social @sivanjo.bsky.social @alighavampour.bsky.social @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social and Amin are excited show you what they've done.

#JNeurosci: When playing in a band, notes must be efficient yet flexible to tempo, dynamics, or other musicians’ actions. Using a sequential finger‑pressing task, Nazerzadeh et al show this balance comes from integrating sensory input & sequence memory https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1797-25.2026

Wonderful work by Amin!

Funded PhD position at the @exeter.ac.uk with your time split between Exeter and Queensland (Australia) Digital Haptics and Proprioceptive Learning in Surgery www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (warning, slightly gory VR surgery video from our industrial partner)

If you're around on Tuesday at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Newcastle, you can see the outcomes from our @pci-regreports.bsky.social project led by David Harris looking at how #VR affects perception or heaviness and sensorimotor prediction in an object lifting task

Final version: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

out today, enjoyed writing this w/ @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social !

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience? Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory. Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Two new papers on the sounds our ears make when our eyes move coming soon to biorxiv! Stay tuned....

Today at 4pm I’ll be presenting some scary psychophysics results at the University of Queensland, room 215 of Chamberlain. Come join if you’re around. @brisepsi.bsky.social

I’m delighted to present our (@jdcrawford.bsky.social) review on transsaccadic vision in the brain! Check out the link in the post below 👇

The in-press version of our (@bbaltaretu.bsky.social) review 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

I'm looking for a skilled PhD student who doesn't want to work too hard but still do great science: unisc-cp.enquire.cloud/round/RND-00...

10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!

It’s out!

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...

Mark Goldman will present computational models of interacting cortical and nuclear plasticity and propose a metaplasticity mechanism that adaptively tunes spike-timing-dependent plasticity at the parallel fiber–Purkinje cell synapse. This is a zoom talk: all are welcome

NeuroBridges brings together students from the countries of the middle east to learn about the brain, and each other. Applications are now open. neurobridges.net/upcoming

🧨 Preprint alert Is it easier to find a ball than a shoe? The answer lies in how variable we think these objects are in the real-world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ the amazing @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & @luchunyeh.bsky.social 🦄 🧵1/8

Check out our new preprint! 🎉 We demonstrate that real-world object search is shaped by both objects’ inherent variability and searchers’ individual priors, using a new approach that combines human drawings with DNN representational similarity analysis. ✍️🖥️👀

Check out our latest preprint: In naturalistic (virtual) scenes, we tested how spatial (proximity to anchor) and cognitive (scene semantics) factors influence allocentric representations of local target objects in a memory-guided placement task: 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Final paper of my PhD 🤗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making. However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested bsky.app/profile/simo...

Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

I’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project! Together with Daniel Kaiser (@dkaiserlab.bsky.social), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

For the oculomotor nerds out there… we’re excited to share our paired papers on precerebellar circuitry! These two studies look at how internuclear pathways talk to the cerebellum and what that means for eye movement control. 👀🧠 #neuroskyence #science

We have a great group of speakers lined up for our @yorku-cian.bsky.social / CSBBCS satellite symposium on 'Cognition and Action', June 4,5 '26 in Toronto. Calls for poster abstracts coming soon. www.yorku.ca/research/cia...

Also it's time to keep pushing. Sign our open letter and adapt it for your university and country! Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia 6/n openletter.earth/open-letter-...

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

Our (@jdcrawford.bsky.social) new preprint review of 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now up! Check it out: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Our (@jdcrawford.bsky.social) new preprint review of 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now up! Check it out: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Check out our preprint review of 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating', based largely on the PhD work of @bbaltaretu.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Last day of #ECVP tomorrow (Thursday). And at 8.30 I’ll be introducing what promises to be a coherent and lively symposium on how visual representations are held in mind. In the Audimax, with Maria Servetnik, @tbchristophel.bsky.social, Clay Curtis, and @bradpostle.bsky.social

Sara finished her 2nd week of radiotherapy. She’s felt a few side effects, and there’s always a lurking anxiety about complications. Sara’s sister has written a short piece on some of the challenges we’ve been facing, and how you can help also beyond our specific case. ♥️ medium.com/@Susana_hawk...

The Research Office at my university wrote about @applylab.bsky.social’s ERSTPP grant!

Come and join our team in this fabulous project 🧠👇

I just gave a lecture on "Higher visual cortex" to undergrads and I covered the 5 topics below. Now I need to suggest readings. Arghh. All I have is for grad students or beyond! Any suggestions for an undergrad textbook? I loved "From Neuron to Brain" and "Neurons and Networks" but they're old.

Really looking forward to discussing the operation of size constancy in visual perception and visually guided action as part of the Psychonomic Society's One World Seminar Series on Feb 26 at 11:15am to 1pm Eastern Time. 🧪🧠 Abstract and registration here. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#neurojobs #neuroimaging #neuroskyence 🧠 NEUROIMAGING POST-DOC 🧠 Do you have (or will have in a year) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Do you want to live in gorgeous Norwich? Then apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... Join the SIGHT project: www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...

Sara’s awake brain surgery on Wednesday was tough but is done. She’s been released from the hospital already and we are planning the next steps. Please keep sharing/donating, and thank you deeply for the love and support! gofund.me/357afe0a