If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...

Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing! Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.

Looking forward to joining #ECVP2025 tomorrow. CAP-Lab is well represented, with 3 talks (@lassedietz.bsky.social on Monday, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social and I on Tuesday), and 2 posters (by @danwang7.bsky.social on Tuesday, and @yichen-yuan.bsky.social on Wednesday). Please come by for a chat! 💜

How is it possible that you can hear "brainstorm" or "green needle" in the EXACT same audio fragment (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD...)? I wrote a short and accessible blog post about this with @samdekater.bsky.social for the @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/how... (in EN or NL)

Looking forward to @compcogneuro.bsky.social's #CCN2025, which takes place in my backyard this year. If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit @lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri. [1/2]

Happy to see this one out in BBS: a multi-lab collaborative effort toward achieving consensus on (10) best practices for researching unconscious processes, and a discussion of (9) outstanding issues. Kudos to Francois, Maor, Liad, & Nathan for leading this project. Looking forward to the responses!

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects! Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper with @peelen.bsky.social showing that objects in familiar configurations (e.g., 🍽️) facilitate one another by 200 ms of visual processing time. Out now in Cortex! 🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

Looking for a PhD in visual cognitive neuroscience, within a colorful lab with a very smart and fun PI? Rosanne is recruiting! I would apply if I wasn't this old.

This was loads of fun! Thanks @docdocdunk.bsky.social and @jthee.bsky.social for the invitation, and for letting us share some of our latest RIFT projects.

1/ Can AI be conscious? My Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article on ‘Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Thanks to the support of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and @knaw-nl.bsky.social , we're thrilled to announce the international symposium "Advances in the Encephalographic study of Attention"! 🧠🔍 📅 Date: June 25th & 26th 📍 Location: Trippenhuis, Amsterdam

New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨New paper!🚨 Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

While @andresahakian.bsky.social wraps up his thesis (and uploads a bunch of preprints) we share this paper here that came out a while ago, but remained under the radar: we investigated how penalties for external sampling and for making errors differentially affect (unrestricted) working memory use.

There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision. academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...

Through experience, humans can learn to suppress locations that frequently contain distracting stimuli. Using SSVEPs and ERPs, this study shows that such learned suppression modulates early neural responses, indicating it occurs during initial visual processing. www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

Good morning #VSS2025, if you care for a chat about the role of attention in binding object features (during perceptual encoding and memory maintenance), drop by my poster now (8:30-12:30) in the pavilion (422). Hope to see you there!

Tomorrow morning @pieterbarkema.bsky.social will present our 7T fMRI study revealing neural correlates of a postdictive illusion in V1. Very exciting about these results, feedback & Qs welcome! Talk 42.23 in session on multisensory processing, 10:45am - 12:15pm #VSS2025 #neuroskyence #visionscience

If you are at #VSS2025, come to @chrispaffen.bsky.social talk (room 2 at 3PM), where he discusses how binocular conflict in real-world vision may be resolved in an adaptive manner (favoring either nasal or temporal hemi-fields) to optimally perceive partially occluded objects of interest.

@vssmtg.bsky.social presentations today! R2, 15:00 @chrispaffen.bsky.social: Functional processing asymmetries between nasal and temporal hemifields during interocular conflict R1, 17:15 @dkoevoet.bsky.social: Sharper Spatially-Tuned Neural Activity in Preparatory Overt than in Covert Attention

While we are enjoying the Floridian beach, a paper came out in Cortex, spearheaded by killer EEG'er Lu (whith this amazing bunch of coauthors). We find that object size is initially derived solely from retinal image size, and combined with distance cues from the scene context about 150ms later.

With only a few weeks to go to wrap up his PhD, the amazing Andre publishes this very cool piece of work (the idea of which was fully his creative child), about the role of encoding and retention time on working memory performance. A 🧵 below:

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

😊🌟✒️ Trotse aankondiging! ✒️🌟😊 Het afgelopen jaar heb ik gewerkt aan het boek "Een wereld vol denkers". In dit boek ga ik op onderzoek naar de gedachten, de #gevoelens en het #bewustzijn van #mensen, #dieren, #planten en kunstmatige intelligentie (#AI). #psychologie #wetenschap 1/5

First paper from my PhD is now out @naturecomms.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Last Friday the irreplaceable @luzixu.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD (at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social). This has been an incredibly productive 3+ years, and we are sad to see her leave, but are very proud of her accomplishments (with @attentionlab.bsky.social, @chrispaffen.bsky.social)!

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

Our paper on how we use hearing and vision to localize(multimodal) objects, is now out in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0...)! See @yichen-yuan.bsky.social's thread below for a thread! #MultisensoryPerception #MotionTracking #MotionPrediction #WorkingMemory

There is a fully funded PhD position at the Donders Institute (Netherlands) on the neuroscience of imagery and perception. I can really recommend working with @peelen.bsky.social (I did a 4y postdoc there). He is one of those annoyingly smart and dedicated researchers, and is real fun to work with!

New paper out by the awesome Luzi Xu! 🧠👁️ We asked whether mere exposure to (currently disregarded) visual objects, expedites encoding of these objects into memory when we select them for action later. Our data show that we passively build up memory traces for (non-selected) items. #WorkingMemory

🚨New paper!🚨 Very proud of the awesome @danwang7.bsky.social for acing the first paper of her PhD. In a series of behavioral experiments we show that observers can flexibly alter the extent to which working memory content influences visual processing (e.g., in service of top-down search). TLDR below

🚨 My first Bluesky post 🚨 to announce a new cap-lab.net paper, just accepted in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. In the 1st paper from his PhD, @yichen-yuan.bsky.social investigated how we combine hearing & vision to perceive -and predict- the location of objects. TLDR & preprint below.

Since no one did it, here is a list of people doing research on working memory. The list is admittedly biased (based on the people I follow), so please help: don't hesitate to let me know of someone missing. I will happily follow and add them to the list! Please RT🙏 go.bsky.app/8ZsVgMo