This @cp-neuron.bsky.social neuroview paper of the brilliant @ji-joan-lin.bsky.social on the neural basis of aesthetics provides a conceptual cornerstone for an ongoing series of impressive empirical studies in which we unveil the multidimensional nature of aesthetic experience.
Quick #visionscience YT short to demonstrate some neon color-spreading effects. Enjoy! #science #psychology
🧵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...
🎟 Registration is now open for ECVP 2026
🗓 23–27 August 2026
📍 Bournemouth, UK
Join the vision science community for five days!
We look forward to welcoming researchers from across Europe and beyond.
🔗 Register here: ecvp2026.uk/index.html
#ECVP2026 #VisionScience #PerceptionScience
Our reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!!
featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social
#visionscience
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...
New preprint:
Do expectations about how a face moves depend on its shape?
Using reverse correlation and generative face models, we show that face shape changes expectations of natural expression dynamics.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
When you look around, you see a world full of objects. But can you fully identify multiple objects at once? In this new study, we revived and updated a classic experimental test: the redundant target paradigm. link.growkudos.com/1elj6rh9o8w
doi.org/10.1037/xhp0...
Congratulations to @lillianbehm.bsky.social, Nick Turk-Browne, and a huge team for putting together this paper (out today) on lessons from a decade of attempts to study awake infants with fMRI:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I've got a new #visionscience video for you! Today I'm showing off how to see the hidden object in Magic Eye stereograms without worrying about getting your eyes lined up the right way.
If you're interested in reading why this works... <1/2>
❗New paper published in Cognition❗ "A common signal-strength factor limits awareness and precise knowledge of multiple moving objects across the adult lifespan" from Iris Wiegand, Igor S. Utochkin, Ava Mitra, Chia-Chien Wu, and Jeremy M. Wolfe
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
This past weekend, I was excited to visit @museumofscience.bsky.social to start my work as a Science Communication fellow. Now that I'm back home, the #scicomm begins, starting with a new YouTube channel! Just published my 1st video & stay tuned for #visionscience content coming soon.
Ran across this interesting research today (I forget what the original search was for).
Wishing everyone many joyful screams in 2026.
www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...
Many things in the world move, and can even move behind other things. When will the cat reappear? To predict this, remembering the cat’s speed will likely help. But... how do people remember something like speed, which is defined by displacement over both (🤯) space and time? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵1/n
What makes visual stimuli memorable? Wilma Bainbridge, @keisukefukuda.bsky.social, Lore Goetschalckx, and I investigate the role of processing fluency for memorability in a new review paper in Nature Reviews Psychology. Check it out!
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The new VSAC logo. © Marella Campagna. Citation: Art & Perception 13, 4 (2025); 10.1163/22134913-bja10072.
The new Art & Perception issue with all VSAC2025 abstracts is out!
Hosted in the stunning MRE Wiesbaden, VSAC brought 227 contributors, 20+ artists, and immersive art–science events together.
Dive into the talks, posters & performances that made VSAC2025 unforgettable:
brill.com/view/journal...
In case it's of interest, here we argue that subjective reports are OK for studying perception — but only if the reports conflict with what subjects reason they should say (e.g. when not directly perceiving the stimulus and just imagining it):
tinyurl.com/ym5k96dt
(see also: tinyurl.com/amu9kbfd)
We read that paper in lab meeting this semester and found it compelling. Addressing the strengths and weaknesses of subjective reports in emotion research sounds like a very worthy writing project...
Interesting paper investigating posing biases in pope portraiture: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
Another #VisionScience demo for your Halloween over at my teaching website. This time, a very basic version of the Gelb Staircase. This one has a reputation for being tricky, but I've found it to be pretty successful.
A quick webpage update to showcase my textbook PRACTICAL VISION SCIENCE! If you're thinking about options for your Spring course in #visionscience, check it out! sites.google.com/view/hands-o...
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
Group of people in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building
Group of people in business attire in front of the office of Senator Schumer
Four vision nerds in front of the US Capitol Building
Advocating for vision research on Capitol Hill! With the National Alliance for Eye & Vision Research + Research to Prevent Blindness + fellow vision scientists. Thanks to Congress for currently planning to maintain NIH & NEI funding! #seewhatmatters @corticalcavanaugh.bsky.social
www.rpbusa.org
This 'sense of motion' may be desirable sometimes, but it could cause trouble in situations where the icon is meant to indicate that the *present* location is accessible. Come to Marina's talk to hear more reflections about her collaboration w/ Tessa linking vision science, design and public policy!
Marina finds that these icons — especially the increasingly popular Accessible Icon Project icon — are strong directional cues. For example, they automatically orient spatial attention in the direction that they are facing.
Tomorrow (Thurs) at 9am in HS19, Marina Pace will present a series of studies that she ran with Tessa Bury, to test whether observers perceive *implied motion* in accessibility icons.
#ECVP2025
#ECVP2025 In addition to yesterday's Illusion Night we would like to mention the contribution of @elinevg.bsky.social and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social about Open-Source Toolboxes for aesthetics and perception.
