Open tenure track the University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Question for my fellow vision researchers: anyone know of work where people looked at dynamic ensemble perception for lots of boxes on Zoom? Think "what's the average emotion of these people on a group call?"

Paper alert 💥 This project took considerable effort, great to see the first paper out! @bpitchford.bsky.social Hélène Devillez @heidasigurdar.bsky.social #dyslexia #visionscience #neuroskyence Free to read until November 2nd: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lmUB6TBG5...

Did you know @icevislab.bsky.social have curated and shared a list of Animal visual stimuli? Love finding lists like this when searching for visual stimuli for experiments 🦜 🐅 🐕 Thank you for sharing! #reproducible #science #openscience #replication #open

👀 IVL Wednesday ECVP 👀 12:15PM Talk: Atrium Maximum: Choose your own prosopagnosia index 3:30PM Poster: The role of memory load and inter-item similarity on serial dependence 3:30PM Poster: A conceptual replication of target selection during conjunction foraging #ECVP2025 #ECVP @ecvp.bsky.social

Tuesday After lunch at #ECVP Symposium Session 8 – Active vision in embodied interaction 14.30 – 15.30 (Audimax) Probabilistic attention templates guide visual selection Árni Kristjánsson #ecvp2025

👀 IVL Tuesday ECVP 👀 10 AM Poster: No Attention - No Ensembles 10 AM Poster: No Evidence for Enhanced Sensory Imagery in Synaesthetes using Psi-Q Assessment 12 PM Talk: Visual Search & Foraging HS 19: Object Discrimination is an Independent Predictor of Reading #ecvp2025 #ecvp @ecvp.bsky.social

👀 IVL Monday ECVP 👀 10 AM Poster: Foraging for Biological Motion 11:30 AM Talk: Development & Aging I RW 1: The Development of High-Level Vision 4 PM Poster: The Role of Priming and Distractor Suppression in Ensemble Perception #visionscience #ecvp2025 #ecvp @ecvp.bsky.social

The Icelandic Vision Lab in toto is coming to #ECVP2025 and will be reunited with prior lab members, honorary lab members, and lab friends from all around the world. Looking forward to lots of science and camaraderie @ecvp.bsky.social #ECVP #visionscience

Interested in starting EEG Research? Join Our Hands-On Workshop This December! ✍️ Before we finalise plans, we’d love to hear from you. Please fill out our short Expression of Interest form — even if you can't attend, your feedback will help shape future events. run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

New paper by @icevislab.bsky.social graduate Dr. Aleksei Iakovlev w. @khvo100v.bsky.social , @utochkin.bsky.social and Árni Kristjánsson. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

I wrote this Cortex commentary in response to a recent fMRI study on the angular gyrus's role in segmenting continuous info (e.g., speech, music, film), reviewing key findings & discussing how human connectome research can illuminate neural event segmentation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/ New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com, led by @marinv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1038/s420...! Across several past studies, we showed how newborns' degraded vision may benefit human development and inspire more robust deep networks. We have referred to this as Adaptive Initial Degradations (AID).

Is aphantasia a neurodevelopmental condition? Evidence from face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gpnhc_v1

Hot off the press: Vlad Khvostov's work at the @icevislab.bsky.social on how the Feature Frequency Report method reveals rich and explicit representations of feature distributions. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia

As a testament to the dire situation in the U.S., our university (Uni. Iceland) just sent an email on the risk of data (used or gathered by European institutions) stored in the United States being deleted, altered, or access to it restricted. #academia #waronscience #disinformation

How can they ALL be different?! Worst visual search task ever ☹️😖 #visionscience

Our ability to recognize objects depends on prior experience www.rockefeller.edu/news/37634-o... #neuroscience

🚨 Two open faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology (incl. visual perception) at University of Southern Denmark! 🚨 #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence #compneurosky

#neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

Interesting preprint shows aphantasia is associated with a 20% increase in time it takes to read text. Suggests aphantasic students would benefit from similar reasonable adjustments in exam settings (e.g., extra time) as provided to other neurodevelopmental populations. osf.io/preprints/ps...

We do #science

In our latest paper @elife.bsky.social we show that we choose to move our eyes based on effort minimization. Put simply, we prefer affordable over more costly eye movements. eLife's digest: elifesciences.org/digests/9776... The paper: elifesciences.org/articles/97760 #VisionScience

We have confirmation that Iceland clearly takes the crown when it comes to registrations per capita at ECVP 2025. Remember to submit your abstracts this weekend -- we hope to see you all there 👀 @ecvp.bsky.social #ecvp #ecvp2025 #visionscience

Some people just LOVE Gabor patches. Model: @antonlukashevich.bsky.social Maker: Dr. Tyurina #visionscience

Statistics with JASP: First Steps for Psychology Students by Rebecca Denniss and Stanislava Naneva https://sheffield.pressbooks.pub/help4jasp/ An open (free!) textbook guide to using the open source (free!) statistics software package #oem #statistics #psychology #jasp

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!

How do Cognitive Computational Neuroscientists use our skills for good in today's volatile world? How do we deal with misinformation, AI ethics, behavior change, cognition and real-world impact. With @tsonj.bsky.social and Ili Ma, we are planning a proposal on 'CCN for Social Good'. DM me to join!

Wow! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Neuropeeps! Is there a list somewhere of the intramural neuroscience researchers @ NIH who have lost their jobs? If not, could you reply to this thread or hit me up on Signal (tverstynen.64) if you happen to know of specific people? Please boost if you don’t mind.

This is an utterly amazing paper.

Sample sizes increased significantly over time "with median sample sizes being 40 in 1995, 56.5 in 2006, and 122.5 in 2019" and "journals with stronger open science policies reported larger samples".

THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11

What is happening?

Here is a cool new preprint on transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) tracing back to my time at @dondersinst.bsky.social. Tremendous work led by @sohafarboud.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Optimal placement of high-channel visual prostheses in human retinotopic visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #BCI #NeuroTech

goblin.tools breaks tasks into subtasks and subsubtasks with the degree of breakdown adjustable by brain spiciness (via its spice button). Lovely little tool for goblins and others.

In @elife.bsky.social: Proactive distractor suppression in early visual cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

The loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...

There is always some new WTF every day... #academia #science www.newsweek.com/french-scien...

We're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

This is worth thinking about. The anti-science movement is ongoing full force. #science #academia

Lower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are short-term memories just noisier versions of what we perceive? Are they fundamentally different? We (Chaipat Chunharas, @mjwolff.bsky.social, @meikehettwer.bsky.social and myself) delved into this in a paper out now in #elife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... For a quick summary, a 🧵 below: