Ran across this interesting research today (I forget what the original search was for). Wishing everyone many joyful screams in 2026. www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...

Many things in the world move, and can even move behind other things. When will the cat reappear? To predict this, remembering the cat’s speed will likely help. But... how do people remember something like speed, which is defined by displacement over both (🤯) space and time? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵1/n

What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out! rdcu.be/eSyjz

The new Art & Perception issue with all VSAC2025 abstracts is out! Hosted in the stunning MRE Wiesbaden, VSAC brought 227 contributors, 20+ artists, and immersive art–science events together. Dive into the talks, posters & performances that made VSAC2025 unforgettable: brill.com/view/journal...

Score 1 for Aesop's town mouse: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interesting paper investigating posing biases in pope portraiture: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

Another #VisionScience demo for your Halloween over at my teaching website. This time, a very basic version of the Gelb Staircase. This one has a reputation for being tricky, but I've found it to be pretty successful.

A quick webpage update to showcase my textbook PRACTICAL VISION SCIENCE! If you're thinking about options for your Spring course in #visionscience, check it out! sites.google.com/view/hands-o...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Advocating for vision research on Capitol Hill! With the National Alliance for Eye & Vision Research + Research to Prevent Blindness + fellow vision scientists. Thanks to Congress for currently planning to maintain NIH & NEI funding! #seewhatmatters @corticalcavanaugh.bsky.social www.rpbusa.org

Tomorrow (Thurs) at 9am in HS19, Marina Pace will present a series of studies that she ran with Tessa Bury, to test whether observers perceive *implied motion* in accessibility icons. #ECVP2025

#ECVP2025 In addition to yesterday's Illusion Night we would like to mention the contribution of @elinevg.bsky.social and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social about Open-Source Toolboxes for aesthetics and perception.

Hey #VisionScience friends - If your work has connections to topics like #dataviz, art, computer vision, or applied vision, consider submitting to HVEI 2026! The deadline was extended to Sept. 12 & it's a really wonderful conference. Happy to answer questions if you want to know more.

At 9:15 in HS19, hongbnguyen.bsky.social will present her work demonstrating an advantage predicting the behavior of simple shapes which look alive and goal-directed! #ECVP

Spotted some appropriate public art in Wiesbaden on the way from VSAC to ECVP. #ECVP #VSAC2025

Maya Theresia Laughton presenting a beautiful film weaving together ideas from science and Hindu spirituality, called ‘Noumenon’. She made the film in collaboration with Janna Kyllästinen, as part of the Science New Wave Festival. #VSAC2025

Maarten Leemans using image aesthetic mapping to explore the impact of details on the visual inspection of art photographs and paintings. #VSAC2025

Dirk Walther presenting his lab’s work demonstrating an inverse relationship between the metabolic cost of visual processing and aesthetic judgments. #VSAC2025

Branke Spehar discussing individual differences in how image features drive aesthetic preferences. #VSAC2025

Anna Miscenà discussing the use of connoisseurs to determine the provenance of a painting. #VSAC2025

VSAC is a teen! Claus-Christian Carbon getting ready to give a presentation surveying VSAC’s first 13 years. #VSAC2025

Johan Wagemans gives the Visual Science of Art Conference a taste of the latest results from his lab’s impressive Gestalts Relate Aesthetic Preferences to Perceptual Analysis (GRAPPA) project. #VSAC2025 @gestaltrevision.bsky.social

Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social speaking about perceptual animacy and predictive processing at the Visual Science of Art Conference. #VSAC2025

@dididu.bsky.social presenting her Celebrity EYE-Q card game at the Visual Science of Art Conference poster & demo session: #VSAC2025

Ronald Hübner on Gustav Fechner’s origins: #VSAC2025

Peggy Gerardin discussing the perception of line drawings: #VSAC2025

A roundtable discussion on the provocative question, ‘What Makes a Good Artwork?’ - with Claus-Christian Carbon, Ida-Marie Corell, Aaron Hertzmann and Angela Kohlrusch. #VSAC2025

Also on Friday, Elisabeth Van der Hulst is part of the symposium "Temporal dynamics of cognitive processes underlying aesthetic experience" organized by @bvb373.bsky.social and @hongbnguyen.bsky.social with her talk: "In pursuit of movement: Choreographic complexity and viewing behavior in dance"⬇️

Zsofia Pilz discusses her study of how information in labels influences visitors’ viewing patterns and experiences of artworks the Rijksmuseum. #VSAC2025

Christopher Linden comparing viewers’ experiences of the same art exhibit in real life, as a virtual tour, and as static images: #VSAC2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social @gestaltrevision.bsky.social

Aaron Hertzmann giving an inspiring keynote address to kick off the Visual Science of Art Conference in Wiesbaden: #VSAC @vsac-social.bsky.social

Eye movements are cheap, right? Not necessarily! 💰 In our review just out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com, Alex Schütz and I discuss the different costs associated with making an eye movement, how these costs affect behaviour, and the challenges of measuring this… rdcu.be/eAm69 #visionscience #vision

Check out Didi’s interesting new paper on memory biases for facial age! #CogSci

The OPAM 2025 Abstract deadline has been EXTENDED! Due to demand we will now accept submissions until the end of this Friday. But if you are planning to submit we still encourage you not to wait until the alst minute! Hope to see you all in Denver!🏔️⛷️

New Balas Lab preprint! This paper describes our recent work examining face pareidolia in school-age children and adults. What makes pareidolia more or less frequent in natural images? We looked at the impact of reversing contrast on face pareidolia rates with an unconstrained task. <1/n>

Thanks to all at #vss2025 who stopped by tonight to play @dididu.bsky.social’s tabletop card game, Celebrity EYE-Q! Didi developed this game as a fun way for people of all ages and backgrounds to learn about holistic face processing. You can follow updates about the game on instagram @celebeyeq!

We've already seen several inspiring presentations at #VSS2025! Two New School perception folks will present work in the Pavillion tomorrow (Sat): 1. In the morning, Didi Dunin @dididu.bsky.social will present her research on memory distortions for facial age (in collaboration with Joan Ongchoco).

Calling all those working at the intersection of visual art and vision science — Submit an abstract to the Visual Science of Art Conference, and join us in Wiesbaden, Germany, Aug 21-23!

Head on over to our brand-new website opamconference.com to create a free account and register for our first free online workshop taking place later this month!

Excited to share a new paper accepted to @cogscisociety.bsky.social 2025 on the cognitive representation polysemy and their use in reasoning! Pre-print here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Thread below! (🧵1/9)

Feeling shaken by the attacks on science + education? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to face it alone. Join us for a Scientists in Solidarity Action Hour 🗓️ Mon, April 17 ⏰ 7–8PM ET / 4–5PM PT 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4iXU2vN Make meaning. Build power. Take action—together.

📣 #ECVP DEADLINE EXTENSION !! The deadline for Abstract Submission and Early Bird Registration has been extended by two weeks! 🗓️ New deadline: April 20th at 11:59 PM (latest time zone on earth)

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!

We are excited to welcome three new organizers joining our team this year: Hong Nguyen, Giovanna del Sordo, and Sisi Wang! They will be joining Dock Duncan, Noah Britt and William Narhi-Martinez to lead OPAM 2025 this year. Stay tuned for more announcements regarding our new website and workshops!

The dynamic version is even more disturbing...

Public protests are important for solidarity & signaling. But the real work having impact right now is in the courts. So if you've attended protests and are thinking 'what's next?' here are some legal funds to donate to: statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/ democracyforward.org ldad.org/letters-briefs

Thinking a lot about how to promote good #scicomm locally. If any of my #VisionScience friends have ideas for things to do or want to work together on making stuff to this end, let me know. I'd love to find more outlets for just describing what our lab is doing to non-scientists.