Will Turner

I really like this paper. I fear that people think the authors are claiming that the brain isn’t predictive though, which this study cannot (and does not) address. As the title says, the data purely show that evoked responses are not necessarily prediction errors, which makes sense!

Mapping the position of moving stimuli. The top three panels show the three events of interest: stimulus onset, stimulus offset, and stimulus reversal (left to right). The bottom three panels show group-level probabilistic spatio-temporal maps centered around these three events. Diagonal black lines mark the true position of the stimulus. Horizontal dashed lines mark the time of the event of interest (stimulus onset, offset, or reversal). Red indicates high probability regions and blue indicates low probability regions (‘position evidence’ gives the difference between the posterior probability and chance). Note: these maps were generated from recordings at posterior/occipital sites.

It takes time for the #brain to process information, so how can we catch a flying ball? @renrutmailliw.bsky.social &co reveal a multi-stage #motion #extrapolation occurring in the #HumanBrain, shifting the represented position of moving objects closer to real time @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Fm83Fc

Mapping the position of moving stimuli. The top three panels show the three events of interest: stimulus onset, stimulus offset, and stimulus reversal (left to right). The bottom three panels show group-level probabilistic spatio-temporal maps centered around these three events. Diagonal black lines mark the true position of the stimulus. Horizontal dashed lines mark the time of the event of interest (stimulus onset, offset, or reversal). Red indicates high probability regions and blue indicates low probability regions (‘position evidence’ gives the difference between the posterior probability and chance). Note: these maps were generated from recordings at posterior/occipital sites.

It takes time for the #brain to process information, so how can we catch a flying ball? This study provides evidence of multi-stage #motion #extrapolation occurring in the #HumanBrain, shifting the represented position of moving objects closer to real time @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3Fm83Fc

Characterising the neural time-courses of food attribute representations Dietary decisions involve the consideration of multiple, often conflicting, food attributes that precede the computation of an overall value for a food. The differences in the speed at which attribute...

New preprint from the lab!

We used EEG⚡🧠 to map how 12 different food attributes are represented in the brain. 🍎🥦🥪🍙🍮

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Led by Violet Chae in collaboration with @tgro.bsky.social

Thanks Henry! All kudos really go to Charlie for the modelling! Hope all is well in Brissy :)

What are the organizing dimensions of language processing?

We show that voxel responses during comprehension are organized along 2 main axes: processing difficulty & meaning abstractness—revealing an interpretable, topographic representational basis for language processing shared across individuals

GitHub - bootstrapbill/neural-location-decoding: Contains scripts for decoding location of a moving object from EEG data. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590502v2 Contains scripts for decoding location of a moving object from EEG data. Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.22.590502v2 - bootstrapbill/neural-location-decoding

Code + data can be found here:
github.com/bootstrapbil...
osf.io/sn4a7/

New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉

We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!

tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📣cog neuro postdoc opportunity! Interested in studying attention & exploration w/ cutting edge M/EEG? 🧠care about making vision science a bit more naturalistic? 🌱LandauLab is hiring! We seek resourceful, curious and creative researchers who can join the newly forming London-based team@ucl.ac.uk! ...

I'm very pleased to share our latest study:
‘Emergence of Language in the Developing Brain’,
by L Evanson, P Bourdillon et al:
- Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub...
- Blog: ai.meta.com/blog/meta-fa...
- Thread below 👇

Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

In @elife.bsky.social: Stimulus dependencies—rather than next-word prediction—can explain pre-onset brain encoding during natural listening doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Check out the latest -From Our Neurons To Yours- podcast episode! I discuss my work using large speech and language systems as "model species" to understand how the human brain processes language 🧠

Very happy that this primer on software engineering principles for psychology and cognitive neuroscience is now out! This was a great joint project between my group (lead by postdoc Yunyan Duan) and @martinhebart.bsky.social's group (led by @rothj.bsky.social).

#psychology #cogsci #neuroskyence

PINEAPPLE, LIGHT, HAPPY, AVALANCHE, BURDEN

Some of these words are consistently remembered better than others. Why is that?
In our paper, just published in J. Exp. Psychol., we provide a simple Bayesian account and show that it explains >80% of variance in word memorability: tinyurl.com/yf3md5aj

GitHub - coryshain/parcellate: A library for parcellating individual brains based on functional correlation A library for parcellating individual brains based on functional correlation - coryshain/parcellate

Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Parcellate codebase: github.com/coryshain/pa...
Study-specific codebase: github.com/coryshain/la...
Data repository (under construction): openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...

A language network in the individualized functional connectomes of over 1,000 human brains doing arbitrary tasks A century and a half of neuroscience has yielded many divergent theories of the neurobiology of language. Two factors that likely contribute to this situation include (a) conceptual disagreement…

New brain/language study w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social! We applied task-agnostic individualized functional connectomics (iFC) to the entire history of fMRI scanning in the Fedorenko lab, parcellating nearly 1200 brains into networks based on activity fluctuations alone. doi.org/10.1101/2025... . 🧵

Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(

So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions Construction grammar posits that constructions (form-meaning pairings) are acquired through experience with language (the distributional learning hypothesis). But how much information about…

🚨 First preprint from the lab! 🚨 Josh Rozner (w/@weissweiler.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social) uses counterfactual experiments on LMs to show that word distributions can provide a learning signal for diverse syntactic constructions, including some hard cases.

i really enjoyed speaking at the LLMs, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Neuroscience workshop earlier this month!

New layer-fMRI manuscript describing the predictive processing across layers of auditory areas. By
Lonike Faes et al.
biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/1...

Cognitive psych is often traced back to the 1950s.
Psychology is often traced to Wundt's lab in 1879.
Textbooks speak of "proto-psychologists" like Fechner & Helmholtz in the 1800s... Westerners all.

Have you heard about Ibn al-Haytham, whose work predated them by 100s of years?

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Just realised Bluesky supports videos so here is our new visual illusion!

Fix your gaze on the grey dot. How many red dots do you see within the green frames? Many people consistently see two, despite only ever being shown one!

jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... w/ @renrutmailliw.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Active Perception Full time, 3 years fixed term position. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to work on cutting-edge research involving neuroimaging, virtual reality, and AI, at on...

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the University of Sydney for a project investigating how perception changes during walking (VR, psychophysics, EEG, AI). Full time, 3 years fixed-term position; full details here: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

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Excited to share my first paper: a novel visual illusion discovered by my co-authors Will Turner and Hinze Hogendoorn which we call the "Split-Stimulus Effect", in which a single flashed stimulus is perceived to be in two different locations simultaneously jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... [1/5]

An image-computable model of speeded decision-making - our latest in @elife.bsky.social combining a CNN with a response time model. TL/DR: Training to reproduce human RTs results in different kinds of representations versus purely task-optimized training.

🚨New preprint🚨 “Measuring Naturalistic Speech Comprehension in Real Time”

➡️ bit.ly/4iESDdV
w/ @kriesjill.bsky.social, Shiven Gupta, & @lauragwilliams.bsky.social

Do you use naturalistic listening paradigms, but wish you could record a continuous behavioral measure of comprehension?
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