What is the functional role of conscious experience? That question led me to approach Cyriel Pennartz about writing my literature thesis with him for my master's at the University of Amsterdam. A few years later, that project has evolved into a paper, now published in Consciousness and Cognition.

#VSS2026 delivered: exciting research, great conversations, and lots of fun. 👁️🏖️ If you are interested in our studies presented at @vssmtg.bsky.social , you can find our posters here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... For relevant preprints, please visit: www.danielkaiser.net/publications

If you're at #VSS2026 come check out our posters and talks! On Saturday 6:45 pm I'll present my talk on individual differences in scene perception.

We wrote a book! www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... Consciousness science is a fascinating but bewildering field: many competing theories, little consensus, and big open questions. If you are looking for an accessible guide through this complex landscape, this book is for you.

JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab! @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing.

New paper in Neuropsychologia 🎉 Patterns of functional connectivity differentiate individuals and individual regions in face and scene selective networks With @kiranoad.bsky.social @bartholomewquinn.bsky.social & Tim Andrews, @yorkpsychology.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1mhTF_fKKq...

⚠️New preprint out⚠️ Discrete episodes of conscious access revealed by the psychological refractory period Together with @michaengesee.bsky.social , @standehaene.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni (@predictivebrainlab.bsky.social) doi.org/10.31234/osf... #Consciousness #CognitiveNeuroscience

New preprint with @alexlepauvre.bsky.social, @standehaene.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni (@predictivebrainlab.bsky.social) on the temporal dynamics of conscious access: Discrete episodes of conscious access revealed by the psychological refractory period osf.io/preprints/ps...

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!

How segregated vs. integrated are face and body representations in human visual cortex? In this new preprint with @kathadobs.bsky.social, we use DNNs and fMRI to find out. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/n

New preprint! Why do people disagree about what looks beautiful, even when viewing the same stimulus? We show that shared aesthetic experience is linked to shared gaze during naturalistic viewing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/4

📢 Workshop announcement. We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser. 📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany 🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026. 1/4

🧨 Preprint alert Is it easier to find a ball than a shoe? The answer lies in how variable we think these objects are in the real-world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ the amazing @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & @luchunyeh.bsky.social 🦄 🧵1/8

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

🚨 New preprints out!🚨 Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social , Marius @peelen.bsky.social , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance. 👇👇👇 1/n

I’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project! Together with Daniel Kaiser (@dkaiserlab.bsky.social), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n

In this paper we present flexible methods for participants to express their expectations about natural scenes.