Also, I’ll be giving a workshop on the first day about early vision theory and modelling.
visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

For those attending @ncmsociety.bsky.social this week, come check out posters and talks from the Physical Intelligence Lab! #NCM #MotorLearning #CognitiveNeuroscience

For those going to @ncmsociety.bsky.social annual meeting next week, come check out our posters! @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social @gribblelab.org. I know that @mnlmrc.bsky.social @sivanjo.bsky.social @alighavampour.bsky.social @arminpanjehpour.bsky.social and Amin are excited show you what they've done.

#JNeurosci: When playing in a band, notes must be efficient yet flexible to tempo, dynamics, or other musicians’ actions. Using a sequential finger‑pressing task, Nazerzadeh et al show this balance comes from integrating sensory input & sequence memory
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1797-25.2026

Wonderful work by Amin!

Funded PhD position at the @exeter.ac.uk with your time split between Exeter and Queensland (Australia)

Digital Haptics and Proprioceptive Learning in Surgery

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

(warning, slightly gory VR surgery video from our industrial partner)

If you're around on Tuesday at @exppsychsoc.bsky.social in Newcastle, you can see the outcomes from our @pci-regreports.bsky.social project led by David Harris looking at how #VR affects perception or heaviness and sensorimotor prediction in an object lifting task

Final version: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

out today, enjoyed writing this w/ @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social !

How does the cerebellum contribute to cognitive functions? The role of the cerebellum in motor functions is well understood. But why is the same circuitry engaged in functions such as working memory, language, and social cognition? This Unsolved Mystery looks...

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution....

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Repeated Viewing of a Film Clip Changes Event Timescales in The Brain Many everyday experiences share a recurring structure: routines, familiar routes, rewatched films, and replayed songs. How do repeated encounters with such structure alter the brain’s representations ...

How do the brain’s event representations change as we gain familiarity with an experience?

Brain regions’ representations can become coarser or finer as events become familiar. Slow-timescale structure predicts memory.

Excited to share this work w/ Narjes Al-Zahli & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social!

Two new papers on the sounds our ears make when our eyes move coming soon to biorxiv! Stay tuned....

A ghostly face

Today at 4pm I’ll be presenting some scary psychophysics results at the University of Queensland, room 215 of Chamberlain. Come join if you’re around. @brisepsi.bsky.social

I’m delighted to present our (@jdcrawford.bsky.social) review on transsaccadic vision in the brain! Check out the link in the post below 👇

Figure 8: Cortical sites implicated in updating / integrating visual features across saccades.

The in-press version of our (@bbaltaretu.bsky.social) review 'Cortical Mechanisms for Transsaccadic Vision: Extrinsic and Intrinsic Feature Updating' is now available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Screenshot of job ad: How do Bayesian brains acquire priors? APPLICATIONS CLOSE 20/4/2026 11:55 PM Summary of the Project This project explores how the brain constructs perceptual experience from visual input, focusing on the role of Bayesian models in perception. A key challenge in vision science is understanding how humans interpret complex scenes from the limited information available in retinal images. Modern theories suggest that perception involves probabilistic inference, where the brain integrates sensory signals with prior expectations to make sense of the world. However, the origins and nature of these expectations remain poorly understood. This research aims to advance our understanding of perceptual experience by examining how structured patterns in visual input can inform models of perception. The work spans computational modelling and experimental approaches to uncover principles that explain how visual systems interpret properties such as shape, material, and lighting from images. By addressing fundamental questions about perception, this project will contribute to psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, offering insights into how biological and artificial systems can learn to interpret complex environments.

I'm looking for a skilled PhD student who doesn't want to work too hard but still do great science:
unisc-cp.enquire.cloud/round/RND-00...

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...
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It’s out!

A 2D Gabor-wavelet baseline model out-performs a 3D surface model in scene-responsive cortex Author summary To gain a more complete picture of human visual processing, it is critical to understand the precise format of representations of naturalistic visual scenes. Recent work has approached ...

Excited that this work with @serences.bsky.social and @timbrady.bsky.social is now out! Our Gabor-wavelet model better predicted voxel responses in scene regions than 3D models. Does this mean that scene areas aren’t “for” processing 3D scene structure? NO, we argue. 1/
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Mark Goldman will present computational models of interacting cortical and nuclear plasticity and propose a metaplasticity mechanism that adaptively tunes spike-timing-dependent plasticity at the parallel fiber–Purkinje cell synapse.
This is a zoom talk: all are welcome

NeuroBridges brings together students from the countries of the middle east to learn about the brain, and each other.
Applications are now open.
neurobridges.net/upcoming

🧨 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 🦄

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Check out our new preprint! 🎉 We demonstrate that real-world object search is shaped by both objects’ inherent variability and searchers’ individual priors, using a new approach that combines human drawings with DNN representational similarity analysis. ✍️🖥️👀

Check out our latest preprint: In naturalistic (virtual) scenes, we tested how spatial (proximity to anchor) and cognitive (scene semantics) factors influence allocentric representations of local target objects in a memory-guided placement task: 👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Misspecified models create the appearance of adaptive control during value-based choice - Communications Psychology In a new computational analysis of previous work, this study shows that a control-free mechanism better accounts for value-based decisions than an account that assumes top-down control invigorating th...

Final paper of my PhD 🤗

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

There is growing interest in how cognitive control may improve value-based decision making.

However, we find that a recent paper overestimated the role of control in their task, leading to erroneous interpretations of dACC recordings.

🚀🎓We have exciting opportunities at the PhD and Postdoc level, including in the new Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience, a 10-year initiative spanning a powerful international network of labs working across species and disciplines - please reach out if interested
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Great news! We are looking for an NHP neuroscientist as the assistant professor level. We have no preconceived ideas -- looking for the most exciting research going. If you have any questions, please reach out. universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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...
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For the oculomotor nerds out there… we’re excited to share our paired papers on precerebellar circuitry!
These two studies look at how internuclear pathways talk to the cerebellum and what that means for eye movement control. 👀🧠 #neuroskyence #science