Now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: our short response to @neurosteven.bsky.social & Edward de Haan's recent paper on the binding problem. We argue that the binding problem arises because of tradeoffs faced by any information processing system, including the brain and DNNs. shorturl.at/RGXzt

tangential, but one of the most remarkable episiodes in the history of science to me is that fact that people in the 19th century correctly inferred the basic facts about the physiology of color vision by doing math on our color phenomenology

Psychophysics has always been great.

Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.

Are we on the cusp of a Psychophysics renaissance?

super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD

MIT News article about our new paper providing a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound for consciousness research: news.mit.edu/2026/new-too... (Original article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41270981/)

Striking example characterizing a paradoxical decoupling between the retinal image and perception. Thanks @josiedangelo.bsky.social for all the hard work to get this paper past the finish line. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.

Nice article from Columbia News on our new paper about neural representations of places and remembered items - including a video of the creative VR environment made by @xrmasiso.bsky.social ! news.columbia.edu/news/places-...

Our new paper out in NHB! We started this back in @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social's lab when I was a postdoc and Rolando was a grad student, showing that stable fMRI representations of places (learned in Rolando's custom-made VR world) provide the best anchors for later item learning

What can cognitive science learn from AI? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-cogni... I outline how AI has found that scale and richness of learning experiences fundamentally change learning & generalization — and how I believe we should rethink cognitive experiments & theories in response.

Published @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social with @drewlinsley.bsky.social & @tonyfeng.bsky.social: As vision models scale to human/superhuman accuracy, they’re becoming worse models of primate vision—benchmark engineering isn’t neuroscience. @carneyinstitute.bsky.social @browncopsy.bsky.social

Our new paper in Brain Stimulation by Antonio Lozano et al.: NEUmap rapidly maps visual percepts for cortical visual prostheses using spontaneous neural activity. Validated in macaques and blind humans, with <1s of data. www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is accepting submissions for a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” The deadline has been extended until June 30! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association, and to present my talk "Experience Before Inference" as a Keynote at their Christmas Meeting. Video and preprint to follow soon!

Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association, and to present my talk "Experience Before Inference" as a Keynote at their Christmas Meeting. Video and preprint to follow soon!

Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social

Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social

Legit super excited about this work coming out. My amazing doctoral student @ben.graphics has been working on an idea to use physically based differentiable rendering (PBDR) to probe visual understanding. Here, we generate physically-grounded metamers for vision models. 1/4 arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307

This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host: Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness" Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience sites.google.com/view/mit-con...

This is HUGE! (Read it!!). I'll be cheering Doris and Astera Neuro on the entire way. Doris is a genius, both in the scope of her vision and in making things happen (that combination is rare). SO EXCITING! I can't wait to see what Astera Neuro discovers. astera.org/neuroscienti...

are better-performing face recognition models more human-like? turns out: NO in terms of how we see/treat different faces as similar/different to each other, there seems to be tradeoff: better models are LESS human-like so they already work in some 'alien' ways... osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧠📈🧠🤖🧠💻

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

In this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives. The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application. 🧠🤖

Excited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946

Recording of a talk on "Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-human Animals" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Pz...) at the University of Michigan. Based on the recent BBS paper on sensory horizons and consciousness w/ @smfleming.bsky.social.

The call for commentaries on our "Core Perception" paper is now live! We would love to know what you think about this new perspective on the nature of early emerging knowledge. Details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Proposals due Dec 29!

I will be at @neuripsconf.bsky.social Dec 2-8 to present our "Brain-like Variational Inference" paper 👇 Let's connect if you enjoy first-principles thinking and brain-inspired AI 🧠 🤖 Poster info: 📅 Wed, Dec 3, 11 AM — 2 PM 📍Exhibit Hall C,D,E #500 🔗 neurips.cc/virtual/2025... 🧵[1/4] 🧠🤖🧠📈

who wants to come to Korea to do some blindsight NHP fMRI?

All new ideas necessarily emerge ill-formed and less polished than pre-established ideas. That’s no surprise. Pre-established ideas often had a 20-30yr head start!

This! I endorse It all - from the historical perspective to the wide angle view illuminating the big gaps in the field. If you’re feeling up to it, take a few steps back for a good dose of humility but also inspiration.

Wow! I have to say that this is where the @elife.bsky.social model really shines. Super interesting paper that makes a very strong claim. Reviewers feel interpretation goes beyond what the results show. Paper published with both sides. We all benefit much more than just a publish or reject. Bravo!

Learn more about the origins of Neurotree and how you can use it to explore trends in neuroscience.

New paper: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception. With Dan Freeman, @brianodegaard.bsky.social, and Seung-Schik Yoo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

hello - we're looking for a postdoc / staff scientist to do NHP fMRI work at the center (cnir.ibs.re.kr). pls email cv to [email protected] to learn more

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant. 1/

Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.

I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience. Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...). Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3) 🧠🤖

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

It was a blast ‪@standehaene.bsky.social‬, with one fantastic talk after another, thank you so much for inviting me! And OMG the roof deck of the College de France!

@aaronhertzmann.com, a celebrated computer scientist, on his experience with vision science / psychology reviewers Whilst I've been lucky to have some great reviewers, Aaron's "only list flaws" experience is not uncommon No new idea emerges perfectly formed Even an oak tree 🌳 starts as an acorn 🥜!

Another addition to my #VisionScience teaching website: A new hands-on demo for DIY Binocular Rivalry! All you need are anaglyph glasses & matching colored pencils to watch your two eyes fight for your visual awareness. Students really like this one and it's super quick to do. #STEMEducation

Here is a news story from York University about our new Nature paper www.yorku.ca/news/2025/10...

Wednesday, November 5th at 11 AM CT: TTIC's Distinguished Lecture Series presents Aaron Hertzmann of Adobe Research with a talk titled "Can Computers Create Art?" Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.

Such a pleasure to discuss this with Lauren! Thank you Tev Naidu for the opportunity!

Here's a recording of my talk on the role of computers in making art, including so-called "AI", which was presented as the opening keynote of SIGGRAPH 2025, incorporating lessons from the history of computer graphics, photography, modern art, and philosophy of art. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2YR... 1/