I thoroughly enjoyed talking about our recent work on nested control systems for action, in which ancient subcortical visuomotor pathways are embedded within more recently evolved cortical pathways. A real team effort with @brian-corneil.bsky.social, @davidmekhaiel.bsky.social, and others🧠

Fresh views on recent research: "Conscious and Unconscious Vision." This term's final Fellows Seminar—opened by Barbara Faedda (Interim Director); moderated by Prof. Stefano Fusi; talks by Academy Fellows Paul Linton & Marco Tamietto. @lintonvision.bsky.social , @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....

Save the date 👁🧠🧪 Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2026 📅 Sep 24–27, 2026 📍 University of Rochester, NY (@cvsuor.bsky.social) A single-track meeting built for depth, discussion, and community in #VisionScience. #OpticaFVM #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #Vision #perception #eye #ophthalmology

check out the faculty supervising *funded fellowship projects*! (yes, me included!) you won't want to miss this opportunity folks. seriously, it will be fabulous.

Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🥁Now announcing the winner of the 2026 Stanton Prize: Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This honor will be celebrated at the upcoming meeting of the SPP

Looking for YOUR INPUT on what we've learned in neuro in the past 20 years. I've only heard pessimistic takes! Come on, grid cells, manifolds, optogenetics, connectomes, moving past the monoamine theory of depression and the Ab theory of AD, glymphatics and lymphatics, what is sleep?! We did stuff!

Absolutely wonderful talk by Roland Fleming on “Grasping: measuring and modeling how we use our hands to pick things up” at @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Still learning the ropes at YouTube, but I've got a new version of my Ames Room video set up as a Short now! Check out the #science of how linear perspective cues can lead you to make big errors when judging object size! #psychscisky #visionscience youtube.com/shorts/a0uPD...

Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New work from the lab led by @fatatai.bsky.social together with Dimitris Voudouris, @dominikstrb.bsky.social, Katja Fiehler as part of 'The Adaptive Mind' cluster

10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!

I had five wonderful years in Giessen, both scientifically and personally. The vision science research environment at JLU has gone from strength to strength. A really incredible opportunity if you're interested in experimental perception science!

The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

Tues, Mar 31, 4PM "Conscious and Unconscious Vision" Register here: tinyurl.com/bdet7a5c @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @lintonvision.bsky.social

I'm grateful for the opportunity to sit down with @davideagleman.bsky.social to spread optimism about the next steps in brain research & their impact on understanding brain and mental disorders. For a bolus of that excitement, start at 32:50, where David nails a summary of it (in 3.5 minutes).

Sorry for the wait (been to China for 4 weeks between the years), but I finally managed to update the pre-print with more results and the code is now also available on: github.com/ag-perceptio... If you run into issues, let me know.

My review of Michal Pollan's book on consciousness: www.science.org/eprint/FTJG7...

This debate goes back 20+ years, well beyond the scope of today's NeuroAI. I’m sure you know this classic www.nature.com/articles/nn1.... I'd love to hear where @nicolecrust.bsky.social @movshon.bsky.social stand on it today.

Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...

Marisa Carrasco's talk "Perception / Action Dissociations as a Window into Consciousness" at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available online: youtu.be/7g6wodPclqs.

I have news! After 4 fabulous years at Northeastern, this July I will be moving to Duke—with tenure! It’s hard to convey how grateful I am to everyone who has made this possible: from old professors in Mexico and mentors in the US to students, colleagues, and, of course, my amazing wife and family.

Happy to be part of this new paper analyzing lesion-induced aphantasia, now accepted in Cortex. One more reason to believe that the Fusiform Imagery Node is important for the conscious experience of mental imagery. Here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....

What does one call the point in front of the vantage point, when the vantage point is NOT the center of projection? It's like the principal point, but I'd like not to use the same terminology for both the point that goes with the camera and the point that goes with the eye viewing the image.

Psychophysics to understand the visual cortex: frontiersin.org/journals/sys... - another paper by a great group from Tehran whose webpage is gone now.

Grazie mille @floridi.bsky.social and Italy in New York!

🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨 With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Good news from NIH! Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...

As we were celebrating psychophysics the other day, here is a fun example in the multi-source auditory domain. So beautiful. So clean. Bayes all the way. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered. For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

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