Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills. Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience. #WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory

It is our great honour to announce the APCV Keynote at #epc-apcv-2026: Prof. Hakwan Lau from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea! The call for member-initiated symposia & abstracts is now open: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026 #psychscisky #visionscience #neuroskyence

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41... We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵

Please sign. This stupid decision needs reversing actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...

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...

Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate

If you're a #visionscience or #psychscisky person starting to think about student dissertation projects, you might be interested in our visual search/foraging experiment code at github.com/scienceanna/.... You can configure everything via CSV files (lots of options!) and it all runs on Psychopy.

As #ECVP2025 wraps up, I’m delighted that #ECVP2028 in Paris was accepted at the Business Meeting! ECVP will meet again before but the Parisian organizing committee is already planning an unforgettable 50th anniversary!

Enjoying this 1884 paper by CS Peirce and Joseph Jastrow on whether perception exhibits a hard threshold - the idea that as stimulus intensity increases, at some value it goes from unconscious to conscious, rather than following a smooth probabilistic curve. psychclassics.yorku.ca/Peirce/small...

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new preprint... ...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳ We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning. These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception. tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre

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/

The University of Sydney is recruiting senior and mid-career academics "within the top 5–10% of academics in their field, with a strong track record and availability to relocate to Australia within 6-months". If you're a psychologist/neuroscientist and are interested, get in touch with me soon.

Cool article about our recent paper by @nature.com 🤩 @peterkok.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Franz Treichler guides David Stubbs through the archives of the Swiss trio who repurposed the sampler to give rock a new, industrial lease of life in the 1980s, before venturing into space influenced by ambient and techno The Strange World Of… The Young Gods buff.ly/lRU8gbM

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...

The second study of my PhD is out as a preprint, exploring experimentally-induced hallucination proneness across the lifespan! w/ Laura Haye @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social l @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Current mood

This university bookstore is a giant Stroop test

I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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

Dutch academia at a crossroads: Academic communities - not politicians - should decide teaching languages. Language barriers will damage world-class psychology programs. International education breeds innovation and develops future talent. Please consider supporting #AcademicFreedom !

Many processes from industry are not appropriate or overkill for an academic setting, but we can and should be doing better than we currently are. Our paper tries to give practical advice on how you can improve your scientific workflow, without being a coding guru. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If GPT-4o walked into a neuro-opthalmology clinic, what would it be diagnosed with? Here we administered 51 tests from 6 clinical and experimental batteries to assess vision in commercial AI models. Very proud to share this first work from @genetang.bsky.social's PhD! arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

The three stages of responding to referee comments: Draft 1: letting it rip. Draft 2: removing all the rip. Draft 3: adding a dash of courteous language that would not be out of place in the gentile drawing rooms of Bridgerton.

The development of visual acuity and crowding: Finding the balance between fine detail and 'gist' processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645750v1

Cognitive scientists who work across levels of analysis should be called Marr's Rovers

Come join us at Experimental Psychology at University College London - we're looking for a lecturer in computational cognition. Great place to work! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l...

Hey there #visionscience and #psychscisky friends! I wanted to take a moment to (finally) do a proper promo 🧵 about my new textbook: Practical Vision Science, which is now available from Routledge books. <1/n> www.routledge.com/Practical-Vi...

Come join us at Experimental Psychology at University College London - we're looking for a lecturer in computational cognition. Great place to work! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l...

Hey @vssmtg.bsky.social, do you no longer support diversity and inclusion? Looks like your policies were quietly removed from your website? #VSS2025 #VSS

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Our new preprint ‘Preferred spatial frequency covaries with cortical magnification in human primary visual cortex' is now online. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The dynamic version is even more disturbing...

You just need to trust me and read this entire thread today.

@arvoinfo.bsky.social is joining @standupforscience.bsky.social on March 7 in Washington, D.C., for its National Day of Action, advocating for science as a public good and a pillar of social/political/economic progress. RSVP to attend the DC rally or one in your local area. bit.ly/3EWYJqC

Some people see spontaneous faint flickering flashes in their visual field, a condition known as Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS, not to be confused with @vssmtg.bsky.social). Maybe a visual equivalent of the auditory tinnitus? Here is a very nice study from the lab of @sengelweb.bsky.social.

It is the end of an era at Cortex. As the irreplaceable Sergio Della Sala has now stepped down as EiC, Rob McIntosh is taking over the reign, with a wholly reorganised editorial board. I'll try to do my best to support this new chapter: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⭐ Do you have experience with #psychedelics 🍄 or #meditation 🪷? ⭐ 🆘 Please help us understand how these practices shape the experience of emotions in our bodies. 🔬 Contribute to science by taking part in a quick, 20-min anonymous online experiment. 🖱️ Click here to participate: bit.ly/3DYMEkb

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s. Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879. Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all. Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years? 1/4

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):

I agree that the coming and going of 3D perceptions makes this animation interesting! A nice development on the “stereokinetic effect” of Cesare Musatti a century ago, and more recently of the work of Zili Liu (UCLA): doi.org/10.1016/j.vi... original post here: bsky.app/profile/jcpo...

This week in S&P we had our first hands-on lab session of the term. The goal for this week is to get the students acquainted with some basic optics, including reflection, refraction, and diffraction. A quick 🧵 about how I try to do this. <1/n> #VisionScience

Friendly reminder from your local infant vision scientist. It's an oversimplification to say that infant vision is too poor to do X. Infant vision IS poor (~20/600), but distance matters Newborns can see a 12cm stimulus clearly 60cm away (about arms length) and are nearly adult-like by 6 months

ICN is hiring at Prof / reader level. Come and join the best and most fabulous cognitive neuroscience department anywhere www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/.... Please share

Are you not a fan of journals' "enhanced online PDF viewers"? Me neither. I put together a little Firefox add-on that helps you skip the "enhanced" reader and download the PDF directly.

We're hiring!! We are looking for a Postdoctoral research fellow to study how early vision loss & sight-rescuing treatments shape brain development 🧠✨. Join our Wellcome-funded project using cutting-edge neuroimaging & behavioral methods! Start: flexible, as soon as possible. t.ly/2Yoel #neurojobs

If you know how to cross-fuse, then try these...taken en route from Frankfurt to Ljubljana (dolomites?). Stereo pairs like these are easy to take from aircraft. Just wait a few seconds between snaps. #stereovision #visionscience