Wonderful talk today by Ilker Yildirim on “How to Model the Mind Simultaneously Across the Computational, Algorithmic, and Neural Levels“

Can’t wait for his VSS talk!!

🧵Excited to announce—

"Reimagining the binding problem(s) for the 21st century": A VSS Symposium

St. Pete Beach
@vssmtg.bsky.social

May 15th, 10:30am

Presenters: Peter Tse, JohnMark Taylor, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Ana Chica, Anne Sereno, & Jake Quilty-Dunn

visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...

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

Melvyn Goodale - Linking Past and Present Worlds in the Visual Control of Behaviour YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club

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!

Chris Peacocke: www.columbia.edu/~cp2161/Onli...

Thanks Niels. Unfortunately not, but I think this requires Roland to give the talk (at least virtually) to the Thousand Brains Project!

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

A big optical #illusion in a tiny room! The #science of the Ames Room. YouTube video by SeeingScience

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!

Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.

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.

The elusive nature of consciousness A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem

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

In praise of artifice - Nature Neuroscience Nature Neuroscience - In praise of artifice

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.

Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...

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 - Perception/Action Dissociations as a Window Into Consciousness YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club

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.

Amazing congratulations Jorge! That’s so awesome 😊 You’re really carving out such an incredible path

Lesions Causing Aphantasia are Connected to the Fusiform Imagery Node The absence of visual mental imagery, called aphantasia, occurs congenitally in up to 3% of the general population, but the brain regions responsible for aphantasia remain uncertain. Rare cases of acq...

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....

Diagram shows the top-down view of a linear perspective camera rendering a 3D scene onto a 2D image. Text asks what to call the point directly opposite the true vantage point, when the vantage point is NOT at the center of projection used to project the scene.

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.