Paul Linton

Genuinely fascinating video! m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGo...

Can Only Meat Machines be Conscious? New paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, free download until November 26 with this URL: authors.elsevier.com/a/1luwh4sIRv...

Andrew has been building up a phenomenal body of work on space perception. Fantastic conceptual work!

4 more days to apply!

audience view of Austin Roorda's talk

Group picture of UMN folks

Gordon Legge with his former trainees Denis Pelli and Susana Chung

And that’s a wrap for @optica.org's #OpticaFVM 2025. Thank you all for joining us and making it such a vibrant meeting! Below are some impressions, courtesy of Arathy Kartha.

New paper: the ‘Double Ring Illusion’!
Does the visual system integrate *intuitive physics*? This new illusion developed by Brent Strickland and I offers a straightforward demonstration – one that you can experience yourselves!
Demos in thread👇
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Congratulations to Susana Marcos @marcoslabur.bsky.social receiving the Tillyer Award @optica.org Fall Vision Meeting in #minneapolis
Introduced by Steve Burns, her mentor from postdoctoral days.
@cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

Austin Roorda @roordalab.bsky.social delivering the richly deserved Boynton Lecture @optica-fvm.bsky.social
@optica.org

A tremendous journey with an incredible cast of characters that brought the world high resolution retinal imaging, Oz Vision and olo

Congratulations @leahgjohnston.bsky.social for winning the @optica-fvm.bsky.social YIA!
Most #visionscience folks know that stabilized retinal images fade. Fewer know that stabilized, but flickering, images also fade. Even fewer know that the flicker-fading doesn't take place in the retina.

Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for a photo with FVM organizing chair Alex Wade

Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for the YIA

Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉

Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization"

Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"

It’s Five Illusions time at the Optica Fall Vision Meeting
(@optica-fvm.bsky.social) at the University of Minnesota

FiveIllusions.github.io

#OpticaFVM

Artificial Phantasia: Evidence for Propositional Reasoning-Based Mental Imagery in Large Language Models This study offers a novel approach for benchmarking complex cognitive behavior in artificial systems. Almost universally, Large Language Models (LLMs) perform best on tasks which may be included in th...

Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵

🚨🚨🚨 The Subjectivity Lab is looking for a lab manager! The position is available immediately. We want someone who can help coordinate our large sample fMRI study, plus other behavioral work. Because *gestures at everything* the job was approved only now (ends in June 2026). Great opportunity! 🧵 1/4

Research Assistant at UCL Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Here is my commentary on @ruthrosenholtz.bsky.social's BBS paper. I point out deep parallels between topics in 2D and 3D human vision that are usually studied separately: summary statistics and attention in 2D, and 3D vision. This suggests studying them together. psyarxiv.com/dz3rx_v2

paper is up~

This study examines performance evaluation in perceptual detection tasks using response-time-based signal detection theory (SDT) analysis. A defining feature of detection tasks is the asymmetry between trials with stimulus presence and absence, often reflected in ....

A big win for @neuromatch.bsky.social and for our students, TAs, and mentors! So proud of the hard work that went into making this happen and grateful to the NIH for their support!

Just accepted at BBS - a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social and @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's Sensory Horizons article:
Reality monitoring decision policies and the slowness of consciousness
osf.io/preprints/ps...

YouTube video by Kriegeskorte Lab Paul Linton, ECVP 2025: "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience"

Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025)

Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇

@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Thanks so much @gregorydavis.bsky.social 😊

Project Website: fiveillusions.github.io

Talk: youtube.com/watch?v=RNmY...

Preprint (CCN): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Poster (VSS):

YouTube video by Kriegeskorte Lab Paul Linton, ECVP 2025: "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience"

Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025)

Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇

@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

Neuronal signatures of successful one-shot memory in mid-level visual cortex High-capacity, one-shot visual recognition memory challenges theories of learning and neural coding because it requires rapid, robust, and durable representations. Most studies have focused on the hip...

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

Unconscious perception of ensembles, assessed with a bias-discouraging 2IFC task: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Great work by @patxelos.bsky.social, @dsotob.bsky.social et al.!

The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having (This is a niche post of interest to a relatively narrow community of scholars.

smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/the-only-i...

In this short letter we explain why binding problems occur in the brain and why deep neural networks need to cope with them. We respond to Scholte and de Haan (TICS 2025), who claimed the opposite.

lnkd.in/euNaS6eu

‪@benhayden.bsky.social‬
@tyrellturing.bsky.social‬
@jmgrohneuro.bsky.social‬
@pessoabrain.bsky.social
I see a lot of talk on here about how we should avoid
"x does y" talk because the brain is "a dynamic, reverberant, reciprocally interconnected system".
But this does not follow.
A thread...

Wearable TCD brain scanner a 'gamechanger' for research
www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
@trinityneuro.bsky.social

Michael was my undergraduate thesis advisor. I have been moved to write some reflections on his life, and my time with him open.substack.com/pub/alexholc... #visionScience A hashtag seems gauche, but Michael should be more widely known - he didn't attend conferences much.

End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested!
@ecvp.bsky.social