i like wemby vs chet because it looks like waluigi had his own waluigi in mario party

What a cool result!

I always admire when folks publish their papers accompanied by a supplementary-style page on their website - such a high-value and potentially more accessible #openscience way to directly communicate research (plus I imagine it improves peer-review, is there data on that somewhere?)

"for example, participants who find simple shapes aesthetically pleasing also find simple melodies pleasing" the science is clear: you are not not qualified for a SRE team if you don't enjoy hyperpop, breakcore, djent, etc.

Excited to have been wrong about this! A few years ago, Tal told me he was working on intuitions about complexity. I knee-jerkily said, “but surely that’s not a natural kind! Why think that people have intuitions about complexity across domains?” Good thing this is the last time I’ll ever be wrong!

Super excited about this paper by the amazing @talboger.bsky.social, now in press @ @nathumbehav.nature.com! Before you ask: No, it has no corresponding lab merch (cf www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...). But yes, it has deep questions, creative experiments, and foundational implications!

Complexity is ubiquitous in the world around us. But different stimuli are complex for different reasons. Does the mind nevertheless represent a ‘unified’ notion of complexity across domains? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show the answer is: yes! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to have this preprint out, from the amazing Zekun Sun! "Motor abstraction training generalizes to the refinement of specific movement patterns" In brief, across 8 experiments we found evidence of a causal role for abstract representations in motor learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The program for the 52nd meeting of the SPP is now available ✨ Taking place at Johns Hopkins University, June 17-20:

Come join us at #phiVis #VSS2026!

in ONE HOUR we close out #VSS2026 with the 6th iteration of #phiVis! Ft. talks and commentaries by @matthiasmichel.bsky.social Wilma Bainbridge, Will Davies, @vivianpaulun.bsky.social, Frédérique de Vignemont, and Bill Warren! 1pm-3pm in the Banyan/Citrus Room

How opaque is our own visual processing to us? Our final lab presentation at #VSS2026 is by Noa Perlmutter, whose talk (w/ @ianbphillips.bsky.social) reports a surprising degree of awareness of our own visual biases. 11:30am in Talk Room 2!

how fat free is the gelato? wrong answers only #vss2026

at last, I have assembled all 4 of the Boger Coasters. The power of exactly matched low-level features is MINE

Here's an airplane. And here's a duck. But wait — they're the very same image, just rotated! Right now in the Banyan Breezeway, @talboger.bsky.social shows how these and other 'visual anagrams' can be used to study the perception of animacy. (This is also your chance to grab your lab merch) #VSS2026

Is the person in this video stepping over a real box? Or are they only pretending one is there and performing a convincing pantomime? At 6pm today in Talk Room 2, Sholei Croom presents their latest work on naive intuitions about perception and action! #VSS2026

Once upon a time, representational momentum seemed to be about motion. Then Alon Hafri + @jorge-morales.bsky.social + others extended it to other continuous visual properties. Can we go even further? At 2:45pm in the Banyan Breezeway, @talboger.bsky.social reports repmo for written phrases! #VSS2026

Excited for the lab's presentations at #VSS2026!

Lana in action! #VSS2026

How well-calibrated are we to the difficulty of the (mental) actions we are about to take? *Right now* in the Banyan Breezeway, undergraduate Lana Milman explores the perception of "mental affordances", using countability as a case study! #VSS2026

not saying we have the best lab but…we have the best lab 🤩❤️ #vss2026

Free wine (and free philosophy) at the #phiVis opening reception table! Stop by :) #vss2026

This project is so interesting, both for thinking about the political dimensions of social cognition, and for thinking about the architecture of basic level categorization in general

Rui Zhe in action! @ruizhegoh.bsky.social #vss2026

What categories come to mind for these people? All kinds of answers would do. But at #vss2026, @ruizhegoh.bsky.social (w/ Jiayi Li & @ianbphillips.bsky.social) report an androcentric bias in image classification—Jolie is called a "woman" more than DiCaprio is called a "man". 345pm, Banyan Breezeway!

Vision Science's Christmas is almost here! Our lab will present work —including collaborations with the one and only @meganakpeters.bsky.social — on mental imagery & vividness, LLMs, advanced decoding of reality monitoring signals in fMRI, pupillometry of fake light & visual discomfort! #vss2026

It's #VSS2026! SO excited about the projects we've brought with us this year, and of course #phiVis to close things out. Come say hi, and don't forget to grab your lab 'merch' 👀 perception.jhu.edu/vss/

Heading to #vss2026? Check out the presentations from our lab @vssmtg.bsky.social

it sounds dumb but i honestly love my tal boger coaster and i'd make tal's poster a priority to ensure i got one if i were at VSS lol

no one tells you the hardest part of packing for VSS is the lab merch (come get one at my poster monday morning!)

I would have thought experiments are … for many different things, depending on the context.

did not expect to get this emotional at the toy store today

whatever janna is talking about here must be awesome, you should click through!

fresh batch of lab merch, just in time for VSS!

I was privileged to get to interview Dr. Hanna Pickard about her new book. It's smart, punchy, and a must-read for people who work on, think about, or suffer from addiction and its consequences. Our conversation is now up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/hann...

paul noth does it again

today’s talk is about top-down effects on perception (it’s back!), so of course i ate an el greco burrito beforehand

FINALLY met the great @chazfirestone.bsky.social!! Tomorrow, we rule the (Midwestern psychology) world! 🇨🇦

FINALLY met the great @kimberlyquinn.bsky.social!! looking forward to our all-canadian session tomorrow #flairgoals

@noamchompers.bsky.social is right that we are right about him being right about perceived animacy. (more on this project coming soon!)

something a little different: i took a leap and played a house party for some friends last month! maybe your friends will like it too? set now up on soundcloud: on.soundcloud.com/UI3r7KrwfuU2...

Conundrum of the day: The references section for your accepted-in-principle manuscript has an obvious typo in it ('absract' should clearly be 'abstract'). But no, the typo is in the original paper title! WHAT DO YOU DO

The new semester has begun in the Year of the Horse! We’re honored to have @dorsaamir.bsky.social l and @chazfirestone.bsky.social share their recent *Psychological Review* paper: Is visual perception WEIRD? Read the paper: doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

A few years ago, my favorite website (@puddingviz.bsky.social) put out this great piece analyzing a study of how randomizing ability changes with age. It includes demos where readers produce sequences of random coin flips, dice rolls, and locations in a 3x3 grid. pudding.cool/2022/04/rand...

Huge congrats to @monicarosenb.bsky.social, an amazing scientist and even better friend

When something doesn't work properly, can your dog tell if the object is broken or if you just don't know how to use it? I'm pleased to share my group @jhu.edu's first study with pet dogs (!!), now out in @plosone.org Led by Amalia Bastos: Do dog rationally infer the causes of failed actions? 1/4

Introducing “Pretend Battleship”: you’re told where all the ships are but then have to play like you never got that information. Could you do it? And what would your performance reveal about your understanding of your own mind? A joy to be part of this creative project led by @matanmazor.bsky.social

Very happy to see "Pretending not to know reveals a capacity for model-based self-simulation", a collaboration with @chazfirestone.bsky.social and @ianbphillips.bsky.social, out in Psych. Science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177... 🧵

❤️ the best news!! For Jorge, Duke, and the field as a whole. Jorge & his work are absolutely incredible, not least because he sets an example for the rest of us of how to do deep & impactful work across disciplines. Jealous of Duke phil+psych+neuro community for scoring such an excellent colleague!!

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko