Paul Linton

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

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

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...

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

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.

What about the "on-axis" point on the picture surface? Since everything else would be "off-axis"?

Frontiers | Early Visual Processing of Feature Saliency Tasks: A Review of Psychophysical Experiments Visual attention has an undeniable impact on our perception. Human brain is unable to process all of the information it faces with in a scene so, the most sa...

Psychophysics to understand the visual cortex: frontiersin.org/journals/sys... - another paper by a great group from Tehran whose webpage is gone now.

Grazie mille @floridi.bsky.social and Italy in New York!

🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨
With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Good news from NIH!

Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute

www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...

Perceptual clustering in auditory streaming Author summary Perceiving the world requires humans to organize perceptual stimuli according to the likely sources that generated them, requiring inference about these sources and their relationship w...

As we were celebrating psychophysics the other day, here is a fun example in the multi-source auditory domain. So beautiful. So clean. Bayes all the way. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.

For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...

Now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: our short response to @neurosteven.bsky.social & Edward de Haan's recent paper on the binding problem. We argue that the binding problem arises because of tradeoffs faced by any information processing system, including the brain and DNNs. shorturl.at/RGXzt

tangential, but one of the most remarkable episiodes in the history of science to me is that fact that people in the 19th century correctly inferred the basic facts about the physiology of color vision by doing math on our color phenomenology

Psychophysics has always been great.