wow, massive illusory motion effect here

"We find mixed results" = my theory almost survived contact with reality

A beautiful painting from Georges de la Tour where the coat’s grey paint appears blue because of the dominant yellow colour in the canvas. It took another two centuries for Eugène Chevreul to describe the laws of simultaneous contrast, used later by Vincent van Gogh, Sonia Delaunay, and others.

could it be my life description?

amen to that! it's easy to forget that at some point there was no unified data storage for psychology and cognitive science, so hunting the data was much more problematic

I'm not quite sure why they are better but looks cool =)

it's only science if it comes with a sample size <40 otherwise it's just data mining

Thanks to @achetverikov.bsky.social my #ECVP ended with a wonderful night at Mainzer Weinmarkt 🍷Thanks everyone for a fantastic conference and for really good conversations. See you next year!

While summer isn’t over yet, I’d like to thank #ECVP for an amazing week of talks, knowledge, science, songs, parties, discussions, and more. It was a wonderful mix of science and friendship. Thank you all! #ecvp2025 PS: I’m (not) seriously considering opening a glitter booth next year ✨

Our PhD student Ekaterina Andriushchenko presents her poster "Beyond the Noise: The Complex Interplay of Past and Present Uncertainty in Serial Dependence" in afternoon poster session at #ECVP2025 today. Stop by if you are around and interested in serial biases and noise!

Three days full of science in Frankfurt visiting @bledowski.bsky.social and @rademaker.bsky.social. Very happy to chat with the amazing students and colleagues in both labs! Now off to @ecvp.bsky.social in Mainz.

this is actually very cool!

wait, really? low-level visual features are important to control for when you talk abt. high-level perception? who might have thought.

Very cool! Wonder if the ease of percept changed could be modulated by size-based contextual cues (eg blade of grass in background scene vs full-sized tree in background scene)

Meet the Visual Attention Lab! We are a lab researching Visual Search directed by PI Dr. Jeremy Wolfe, affiliated with Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

I wish there were more replications in Cog & Emo field. I did my PhD on the topic of how emotions affect cognition and vice versa, and teach on the topic, but I often have doubts about the replicability of some studies.

In fairness, everyone knows that approximately 110% of the human brain is devoted to vision. #VisionScience

Updated edition (August 2025) of the coverage table of the major bibliometric databases (millions of records). GS reindexing period

In the thread there people suggest openalex.org as an alternative. Seems like a good one, but will definitely require some getting used to. One thing I immediately miss is the excerpts from the paper where the search terms appear.

ECVP schedule is up! I already see a lot of very cool talks and posters. But as usual, the schedule is a bit random =) The symposium on serial dependence is in parallel with a session with talks on serial dependence. converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/ind...

“Altman has said it’s better to talk about levels of progress toward this state of general intelligence rather than asking if something is AGI or not.” 2022: AGI in a year 2023: AGI in a year 2024: AGI in a year 2025: stop asking about AGI!

New paper by @icevislab.bsky.social graduate Dr. Aleksei Iakovlev w. @khvo100v.bsky.social , @utochkin.bsky.social and Árni Kristjánsson. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I think ScienceDirect implies that my interest in vision research is unhealthy

Interesting work! I guess behaviorally there is nothing new (we know that biases grow stronger with delay - it is typically explained by uncertainty increasing) but I'm looking forward to reading the warped memory manifold part.

I like the quotes from this book so much! Must read.

EWOMS (European Working Memory Symposium) Lyon, France 26-28 August 2026 The 2026 theme — Working Memory, Strategy, and Consciousness — aims to bridge traditional cognitive perspectives and neuroscientific approaches to working memory. Abstract submission deadline: 13 March 2026

Great to see this important topic covered in the Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Sciences! I hope they cover (Statistical) Power Rangers next.

Our paper hot from the press in Journal of Vision! Check it out if you are interested in repulsive and attractive biases, visual working memory, response trajectories, and also individual differences. Paper: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... Thread here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

I was busy yesterday but definitely try to join today!

Today is day 2 of #WMS2025 🤩 Day 1 was an amzing success with facinating talks and tones of inspiring #workingmemory discussions! But fear not if you missed it - there are 3 more days to come + you can find recordings of all the talks in the updated program: drive.google.com/file/d/1cSrp...

The sycophantic tone of ChatGPT always sounded familiar, and then I recognized where I'd heard it before: author response letters to reviewer comments. "You're exactly right, that's a great point!" "Thank you so much for this insight!" Also how it always agrees even when it contradicts itself.

That moment when you need to review a paper and suddenly get interested in the intricacies of the pension scheme in Norway

Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT! www.wmsymposium.org/home

🚨 Hey #WorkingMemory folks! 🚨 #WMS25 is coming up next week! Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge science, featuring amazing work by #ECRs. ✅ No registration – join our Slack and tune in via Zoom! 👉 More info: www.wmsymposium.org If you’re interested in WM, this is the event you can’t miss!

Except: "we did not compare with any domain-specific cognitive model ..., because it is unclear how to construct a model that would make any meaningful transfer from training data that does not include any related problems." So basically it predicts performance on related decision-making tasks.

Curious about the visual human brain, a vibrant and collaborative lab, and pursuing a PhD in the heart of Europe? My lab is recruiting for a 3-year PhD position. More details: www.rademakerlab.com/job-add

In our preprint "Limited evidence for reduced learning rate adaptation in anxious-depression, before or after treatment", led by @stephsuddell.bsky.social and Lili Zhang, we fail to find a robust association between anxious-depression and learning rate adaptation osf.io/preprints/ps...

I think science exists in a gray area, where the common practices are not strictly following the various regulations. Preprints, hosting and sharing papers, data ownership and sharing, not to mention stuff like work hours. We close our eyes on this unless someone tries to force the regulations.

Rewatched the first episode of Father Ted yesterday (30 years!) and I can't help thinking about the fellow imagery researchers when seeing this wonderful diagram. Isn't Father Dougal McGuire a great example of hyperphantasia? #imagery #fatherted

Wow, Wiley showing its true colours, apparently

Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here: visionbook.mit.edu We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs. Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!

Can aphantasia be identified with a single question?: "Visualise a place that you know very well in every possible detail (e.g., your workplace, your bedroom or your favourite bar). How vivid is the picture that comes before your mind's eye?" from Merlin Monzel &c Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Done with grading this semester! (well, 1 master thesis to read and the grade adjustment to be done, but still) About 180k words of exam answers read in the past weeks. I'm more happy than when I get a paper accepted =)

What does our conscious perception of this set of berries consist of? If you heard about Ensemble perception, you could say: “It’s too much info for our poor attention/working memory systems, so instead of storing all the individual features, people just represent the average and variability.” 1/5

Excited to deliver my Inaugural lecture as Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience - 4pm (UK time), 2nd July, in-person and online. Title: Can I be bothered? Uncovering computations in the brain that (de) motivate us. www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/c...

Now published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social Open Access link: doi.org/10.3758/s134...

I guess... I could have led people into hating everything by forcing them to fail again and again in simple cognitive tasks? But then the same could be said about most people doing experiments in psychology.