Maybe interesting for German-speaking colleagues and friends?A radio programme on face perception with Rabea Weihser, Valentin Groebner and me on SWR Kultur. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

This is great!

Really interesting work!

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!

This is great!

An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system asknature.org/strategy/bra... #GeneralSystemsTheory #EnergyNetworkScience

🧵 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?

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...

This looks really interesting!

👉 "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" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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):

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

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. routledge.com/Memory-and-t...

New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.🧪🧠

Congratulations, Artie and Levi!

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...

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... 🧪 🧠

This looks really interesting!

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...

New paper from me & Soazig Casteau @durhampsych.bsky.social jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

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.

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/ Paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

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

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)

Very pleased to see the Experimental Psychology Society here. Their London meeting this week was great as always. Whether you’re a familiar or new member, or just a curious aspiring psychologist please follow the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and check out their meetings and support!

Here, Koyano et al. show that 🐒 neurons in certain face patches barely react to pareidolia (illusory faces in objects). doi.org/10.1016/j.pn... To those who have argued that the brain "obviously" processes stimuli that look like faces as faces—it's not that simple.

This absolutely rocks, and should be taught in genetics classes in schools. I have little hope it will be heeded by the geniuses of Silicon Valley, however.

POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to [email protected]] - please repost

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Failure is a cornerstone of scientific research, but it still feels bad. Here is a short article I wrote on how to mentally deal with "failed" experiments. Does a truly "failed" experiment actually exist?? @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky #microsky elisagranato.com/phd-tips-dea...

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

Real-Time Dialogue Between Experimenters and Dreamers during REM Sleep — the one publication from my lab that received more online attention than all the others combined: www.cell.com/current-biol... new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-sup...

'Automated face recognition assists with low‐prevalence face identity mismatches but can bias users'- our new paper funded by the EPS Graduate Bursary to Melina Mueller and Anna Bobak is now online! @rjwatt42.bsky.social @pjbhancock.bsky.social bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Check out the full paper to dive deeper into our findings and their implications! 📄🔗 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Happy to share a new paper from our group on differences of the #magnocellular #LGN subdivision in visual perception in #autism in #PNAS by Stefanie Schelinski et al. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New review paper on familiar face recognition with Gyula Kovács and Stefan Schweinberger. We review recent EEG/ERP findings and present an updated theoretical approach. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...