Value theorists (very broadly understood): Hopkins philosophy is hiring! philjobs.org/job/show/29818

Adam Zeman's response to a quartet of letters regarding his brilliant review of aphantasia research. As he says, wonderful how much energy this young field has right now. Hats off to Adam himself for lighting the spark!

€3,000 essay prize on 'The philosophical implications of aphantasia/hyperphantasia', just announced by @bencenanay.bsky.social. Open to anyone who got their PhD after May 2018 and current PhD students. Deadline: Dec 1, 2025. Announcement and details: listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A....

Our new paper explores an analogy between representations of objects and representations of events, finding that similar illusions arise for both! Check it out 👇

Great to have another paper with @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ianbphillips.bsky.social and the brilliant Hanbei Zhou out! In this paper we demonstrate that stimuli within events are perceived further apart in time — an event-based analog of “object-based warping”. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

You will definitely not regret reading this fantastic new paper by my (and @chazfirestone.bsky.social, Hanna Pickard and Monique Wonderly's) brilliant student, Rui Zhe Goh. I learned a huge amount working with him on it.

Visual adaptation is viewed as a test of whether a feature is represented by the visual system. In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Nice piece on our inattentional blindness paper.

Short new piece on aphantasia just out in TiCS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Key idea: aphantasia often involves a lack of *visual-object* imagery (explaining subjective reports & objective correlates) but selectively spared *spatial* imagery (explaining preserved task performance).

This is indeed a very cool preprint!

Delighted to be the opening chapter of this brilliantly conceived (and beautifully covered!) new interdisciplinary collection on Space, Time, and Memory edited by the wonderful Lynn Nadel and Sara Aronowitz. Even better, the whole thing is free to download here: library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

Out now: the first episodes of our new six-part @theguardian.com‬⁩ podcast series about Dom and Bruno and the Amazon. Please do listen and share. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

CIFAR invites applications for senior PhD and postdocs to participate in the Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School, held in Montebello, Canada Dec 10-12, 2025. The Winter School is hosted by members of CIFAR’s Brain, Mind, and Consciousness program. Please repost. cifar.ca/next-generat... 🧠🧪

Super interesting, fresh way of thinking about dorsal/ventral streams, object tracking & aphantasia. View that aphantasia involves 'unrendered' amodal geometric imagery fits v nicely w/ what I've argued in recent work too, e.g., onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/..., philarchive.org/rec/PHISSI-5.

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...

Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style? In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

Fascinating new paper about bilateral blindsight patient, TN, reporting seeing colour, sometimes spontaneously: “Yes there it is, I see the red colour now” “I have to find the correct angle ... until ‘paf!’, it stung, it pierced my eye and I saw it.” 1/5

Johns Hopkins is now the best* place in the world to study philosophy of cognitive science, according ratings by members of the discipline. Such a privilege to be connected to this community of scholars!

Can physics solve the problem(s) of consciousness? In our latest book review for Science, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I weigh in. (Spoiler: certainly not without help!) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...