Marek Pedziwiatr

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

Shifting research focus comes with the risk of reduced impact An analysis of millions of scientific papers and patents shows that the further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be.

The further a researcher or inventor moves from their previous work, the less cited their latest work will be

https://go.nature.com/44VjEW9

Does anyone know of open datasets where people have asked participants to explicitly define non words? We are pulling together an experiment now and hoping to r/o iconicity and wordlikeness as content drivers

(PDF) Statistical patterns in male and female names in a non-gendered language cue native speaker judgements of the semantic gender of pseudonames PDF | Native speakers of languages share implicit knowledge about wordlikeness of previously unknown words, allowing them to judge whether those belong... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

Your question reminds me of my first-ever serious conference poster (entitled 'Statistical patterns in male and female names in a non-gendered language cue native speaker judgements of the semantic gender of pseudonames';
www.researchgate.net/publication/...). Unfortunately, I do not have the data.

curious what real outcomes this transformation is associated with. is the overall research quality better? do people ask better questions or design better studies? are more results reported in titles, abstracts, & media valid or measured? do fields move forward faster or more effectively? etc.

A new paper spearheaded by Sophie Heer, to which I contributed when working at @qmul.ac.uk. 'Event knowledge and object-scene knowledge jointly influence fixations in scenes'.
Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Two common findings from sleep research are that 1) short sleep durations predict worse health outcomes, and 2) people from some cultures sleep much less than those from others. Do people from cultures with short sleep durations have worse health outcomes? 🧵

Our research shows that ~50% of mothers globally decline at least half of opportunities to participate in conferences after becoming parents (N=3995). We understand the barriers and are offering Travel Grants to help overcome these challenges.
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Happy to share our paper on the #AestheticsToolbox around the #QIP-Machine has been published #OpenAccsess in Behavior Research Methods!

It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

an orange cat is laying on a white blanket ALT: an orange cat is laying on a white blanket

Do you or anyone you know have a template/code for an e-prime experiment that integrates with a Smart Eye eye-tracker?

I just realized I may save a lot of time if one of you just happens to have any example I can borrow from. Also: any leads would be appriciated.

GIF of cat tracking for attention

Not only in Australia, the UK or USA! Where in the world is the higher education system doing well, I wonder?

In this review article, I summarize some of our recent work on the neural basis of visual search in scenes, showing how attention and expectation interactively drive preparatory activity in visual cortex and jointly modulate the visual processing of potential target objects. doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Abstract: Vision science largely ignores the fact that rural visual environments typical of our species’ history differ radically from urban zones from which almost all samples are drawn: Only a handful of paradigms have been used to investigate rural-urban differences in visual perception, and some show limited effects or suffer from limited methodologies. Here we more than double the total number of paradigms in this literature, including visual illusions assumed to rely on universal mechanisms (e.g. Gestalt shapes, Cafe wall, curvature blindness). Results reveal profound differences in visual phenomenology, with rural Namibian participants often failing to see percepts obvious to UK/US participants and vice versa. In sum, what is universal and what is culturally-constructed in human visual perception remains a wide-open area of research.

Does cultural experience shape visual perception?

New research finds "profound differences in visual phenomenology, with rural Namibian participants often failing to see percepts obvious to UK/US participants and vice versa."

Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Symposium Announcement! 🧠✨ @katarzynaraczy.bsky.social and I are organizing a symposium for the @imrf.bsky.social, focusing on neuroplasticity in blindness. We’ve lined up some fantastic speakers and still have one slot available! If you’re interested in joining us, we’d love to hear from you!

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Can anyone point me to a resource of open datasets from psychology? I am looking for ways to improve a psychology stats course for next year (based on Statistical Rethinking by @rmcelreath.bsky.social), and one way might be to offer more psychology-specific examples for the practical sessions.

Long time coming, but crazy to read nevertheless: The Vision Sciences Society Meeting is leaving Florida! 😮

Goodbye St. Pete Beach! Hello downtown Seattle! #VSS2027

🚨We're very excited to share our latest study, by Pablo Diego and team:

"A polar coordinate system represents syntax in large language models",

📄: Paper arxiv.org/abs/2412.05571
🪧: Poster tomorrow: neurips.cc/virtual/2024...
🧵: Thread 👇

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... First in depth theoretical and empirical investigation of non-decision time, essential read to all researchers using evidence accumulation models! Plz repost if at least 1 of your followers uses them and thinks that non-decision time capture sensory and motor delays

Please repost! Open PhD position on curiosity and metacognition across childhood and adolescence with the amazing @yanafandakova.bsky.social at the University of Trier (Germany). The project is part of a cool international collaboration. :-) #DevPsych #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #neurojobs

Dear visual neuroscientists, our department of Medical Neuroscience at Dalhousie University (in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) is seeking an Assistant Professor in visual sciences. Ad below. Please repost. #neuroscience 🧪

dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/16403

"Perception" and "i-Perception" are on Bluesky!

For those who don’t know Perception, this is where Horace Barlow published his neuron doctrine:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/...

Disclosure: I’m currently one of the editors-in-chief of these journals.

A student asked me the other day whether I had major career ambitions like winning a big award. I told him that my goal was to do interesting things and have fun. I worry that young scientists don't see their jobs as fun... too much pressure. But then what's the point, really?

Humans use language to express thoughts primarily built around the basic agent-patient causal structure
*who does what to whom*
Is this a structure of language or a structure of thought? Does it exist outside language? A new wave of exciting papers speak to this question. A 🧵👇

I am not attending #VSS2024, but I am joining the trend of advertising one's work under this hashtag! In the recent JoV paper (jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...), we used Hitchcock's films to show 1️⃣ how disrupting a visual narrative alters gaze and 2️⃣ why using hidden Markov models is tricky. #VSS

a heatmap of fixations on the image smoothed over with a gaussian kernel.

Predictions of eye movements when viewing images should work well for all. Do they? We studied this with gaze data from >2,000 participants collected
in the Nemo museum Amsterdam! Out in Communications Psych
t.ly/Y1-Ty tldr: models do well, especially if you are a psychology student More:

Harry Potter and the Risk of Algorithmic Censorship 🤪

🟦INVITATION CODES NEEDED! 🟦

If you have a spare bluesky invitation code, please post it in the comments here! Some people in the Old Place asked me for the codes, but I ran out of mine.

We used these frames to study how prior knowledge about the present visual input influences how this input is sampled, but one can put them to many different uses. E.g. given that the stories are about people, it can be used to study the perception of social information. 5/5

I was unsure if I could share the frames themselves on OSF (because of copyright issues), so I wrote an R script for downloading them – you can download this script from the OSF webpage of our project (or simply message/email me). 4/5