Thanks!! That means a lot ❤️

How reality is simulated by your brain | Surgya Gayet | TEDxEindhoven YouTube video by TEDx Talks

My first TEDx talk just came out. It's always fun to talk about your own research area to the general audience, and its even more fun when you are lucky enough to be supported by such a platform. Happy to hear your thoughts :-)

youtu.be/UyUclyHx8d8?...

It has been cooking in the oven for quite some years, but I am very proud of this work that just got published in Science Advances - spearheaded by the awesome Giacomo Aldegheri:

Thanks for the kind words and the interesting points that you raised. I would be very curious to find out whether people also organize abstract concepts in a spatial manner, when maintained in memory!

Looking forward to talk about our recent rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) work as part of the Conscious Club - online talks organized by @smfleming.bsky.social, @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, and others at UCL.

Tune in tomorrow (note the time below is in UK time)!

This includes all the amazing people: @lassedietz.bsky.social, @arora-borealis.bsky.social, Koert Stribos, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, @yichen-yuan.bsky.social, @andresahakian.bsky.social, @danwang7.bsky.social and the whole @attentionlab.bsky.social 💜

Looking forward to seeing everyone again at NVP (@brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social) today.

The CAP-Lab is well represented, with 4 posters and 4 talks.

(Also, check the CAP-Lab website, www.cap-lab.net, for a number of recent publications.)

Ending the year with a BANG. See you all there 💜

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. This is thought to occur in part by recruiting early...

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas.
www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Both of you can be very proud of this accomplishment Axel & Pietro (and especially Pietro of course). Sorry for asking whether your decision making model was conscious, you should have just thrown your laptop at me. Thanks for letting me be a part of this & I hope you enjoy the rest of the eve :-)

Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses Communications Biology - Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors....

Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology!
Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability?
Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi

Celebration time 🥳 @liangyouzhang.bsky.social publishes the 1st empirical paper of his PhD!

We show that numerosity adaptation (a seemingly high-level stim property) suppresses neural responses in early visual cortex; these adaptation FX increase as we progress thru the visual processing hierarchy.

PROFANE, ME?! I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!

JK, thanks for sharing :-)

PS: you'll probably like the "beste buurvrouw" track

Thanks for sharing! Much appreciated :-)
Disclaimer: it is in Dutch though

Very proud of this great piece of multi-lab work by Kabir & Husta, et al.

Want to measure attention across the visual field (without interfering with ongoing perceptual/attentional processes)? Use RIFT!

Here we share our how-to-RIFT knowledge, including analysis code, quantitative comparisons, ..

Wait whut!? Doing science with the awesome RR?? Go for it y'all! Can heavily recommend :-)

...or an alcoholic?

If you are up for a nice academic battle, consider responding to our BBS paper "Studying unconscious processing: contention and consensus". The deadline is October 15th. Link below!

That's incredible news Miles, albeit well-deserved. Congrats 👏 👏 👏

And I am also very much looking forward to the work that you will be putting out. Good luck kick-starting this thing :-)

If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...

Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing!
Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.

And now without bluesky making the background black...

Overview of CAP-Lab presentations at ECVP 2025: Lasse Dietz: Anticipated relevance modulates early visual processing Monday 14:45, talk @ Linke Aula Learning & Memory Surya Gayet: Perceptual precedence for expected and dreaded visual events Tuesday 8:30, talk @ RW 1 Using interocular suppression during consciousness research Kabir Arora: Dissociating external and internal attentional selection Tuesday 9:15, talk @ Atrium Maximum Object Recognition & Visual Attention Dan Wang: Unraveling the time course of attentional capture: an EEG-RIFT study Tuesday 15:30-17:00, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum Yichen Yuan: Decoding auditory working memory load from alpha oscillations Wednesday 10:00-11:30, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum

Looking forward to joining #ECVP2025 tomorrow. CAP-Lab is well represented, with 3 talks (@lassedietz.bsky.social on Monday, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social and I on Tuesday), and 2 posters (by @danwang7.bsky.social on Tuesday, and @yichen-yuan.bsky.social on Wednesday). Please come by for a chat! 💜

Also, perceiving a different image may evoke different (subtle) patterns of eye-movements, thereby even changing the actual retinal image between two (otherwise) identical physical stimuli.

All of this being said: cool project :-)

Isn't this why bistable images are used? Then you actually have the same image on the retina.

Still, this only displaces the problem to some extent, because even then the "image" will be different from V1 or even LGN onwards, due to top-down processes. But perhaps that is what you are interested in

How is it possible that we can hear either ‘green needle’ or ‘brainstorm’ whilst the audio fragment remains the same? Je hebt het misschien niet door, maar je brein is continu aan het gissen hoe de wereld om je heen nu eigenlijk in elkaar steekt. Wat we uiteindelijk bewust ervaren, is een combinatie van wat we van te...

How is it possible that you can hear "brainstorm" or "green needle" in the EXACT same audio fragment (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD...)? I wrote a short and accessible blog post about this with @samdekater.bsky.social for the @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/how... (in EN or NL)

Or check out their extended abstracts here:

Lasse Dietz: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1...

Liangyou Zhang: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=c...

Kabir Arora: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=N...

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Overview of CAP-Lab presentations at CCN 2025. Lasse Dietz: Anticipated relevance modulates early visual processing Tuesday 12:30-16:30, poster A132 @ E-Hall Visual Processing & Computational Vision Liangyou Zhang: Attention alters numerosity tuning in the human brain Wednesday 12:30-16:30, poster B54 @ De Brug Object Recognition & Visual Attention Kabir Arora: Tracking covert attention over space and time using RIFT Wednesday 12:30-16:30, poster C144 @ E-Hall Object Recognition & Visual Attention

Looking forward to @compcogneuro.bsky.social's #CCN2025, which takes place in my backyard this year.

If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit
@lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and
@arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri.

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Happy to see this one out in BBS: a multi-lab collaborative effort toward achieving consensus on (10) best practices for researching unconscious processes, and a discussion of (9) outstanding issues. Kudos to Francois, Maor, Liad, & Nathan for leading this project. Looking forward to the responses!

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS.
The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏

Check out the full ms👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thanks to (a.o.):

IRLab: @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, @giuliacabbai.bsky.social, @pazbartal.bsky.social, @dotproduct.bsky.social

CAP-Lab: @danwang7.bsky.social, @lassedietz.bsky.social, @andresahakian.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, @arora-borealis.bsky.social, @yichen-yuan.bsky.social