Alex Gokan

Newest Optica color vision issue is open access for 30 days. Lots of great stuff in there, download while you can!

Had an amazing time at my first @vssmtg.bsky.social !

Got lots of amazing feedback on my poster, met many new friends, and have a ton of new ideas I can’t wait to get started on!

I read through ~half of Greg Schwartz’s “retinal computation” book (excellent btw), and I don’t recall it touching on this but it may have, and is definitely where I would start looking

The Gestalt Principle of Goodest-boy Continuation at work. #VisionScience

It went super well! Woo!

About to teach my first class! Gratings, baby vision, and V1 processing!

Computational modeling of eye evolution: completely wild

eyes.mit.edu

Just found out my abstract was accepted at @vssmtg.bsky.social ! So excited to attend my first conference in May!

Just generated a literature review with the new openAI deep research model. Consider me extremely impressed

I can’t wait until something similar is open-sourced

Have been reading this wonderful book on gamut mapping by @janmorovic.bsky.social

Definitely recommended for any color scientists

Awesome! I can’t wait to read it!

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

I think there is maybe something interesting to teach there about perceptual uniformity, but that’s a bit more in the weeds. But it is a good way to introduce a concept of color difference/deltaE since it makes the computation so easy, by laying everything out on a grid

Despite being the color scientist, I did the worst out of my student cohort when we played! I lost by a mile! Must have been the lighting grumble grumble…..

I honestly think it’s more interesting linguistically than color wise, but I was surprised how good our agreement was generally

Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠

Interesting - I know Jasna Martinovic gave a talk last month with some interesting new research on this topic as well. Excited to read it