This @cp-neuron.bsky.social neuroview paper of the brilliant @ji-joan-lin.bsky.social on the neural basis of aesthetics provides a conceptual cornerstone for an ongoing series of impressive empirical studies in which we unveil the multidimensional nature of aesthetic experience.

Quick #visionscience YT short to demonstrate some neon color-spreading effects. Enjoy! #science #psychology

🧵Excited to announce— "Reimagining the binding problem(s) for the 21st century": A VSS Symposium St. Pete Beach @vssmtg.bsky.social May 15th, 10:30am Presenters: Peter Tse, JohnMark Taylor, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Ana Chica, Anne Sereno, & Jake Quilty-Dunn visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...

🎟 Registration is now open for ECVP 2026 🗓 23–27 August 2026 📍 Bournemouth, UK Join the vision science community for five days! We look forward to welcoming researchers from across Europe and beyond. 🔗 Register here: ecvp2026.uk/index.html #ECVP2026 #VisionScience #PerceptionScience

Our reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!! featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social #visionscience www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

New preprint: Do expectations about how a face moves depend on its shape? Using reverse correlation and generative face models, we show that face shape changes expectations of natural expression dynamics. osf.io/preprints/ps...

When you look around, you see a world full of objects. But can you fully identify multiple objects at once? In this new study, we revived and updated a classic experimental test: the redundant target paradigm. link.growkudos.com/1elj6rh9o8w doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...

Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I've got a new #visionscience video for you! Today I'm showing off how to see the hidden object in Magic Eye stereograms without worrying about getting your eyes lined up the right way. If you're interested in reading why this works... <1/2>

❗New paper published in Cognition❗ "A common signal-strength factor limits awareness and precise knowledge of multiple moving objects across the adult lifespan" from Iris Wiegand, Igor S. Utochkin, Ava Mitra, Chia-Chien Wu, and Jeremy M. Wolfe authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

This past weekend, I was excited to visit @museumofscience.bsky.social to start my work as a Science Communication fellow. Now that I'm back home, the #scicomm begins, starting with a new YouTube channel! Just published my 1st video & stay tuned for #visionscience content coming soon.

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>