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Studying natural vision at JLU Giessen using psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational models, PI: Daniel Kaiser. danielkaiser.net

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🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨
Check out @suzibot.bsky.social's preprint: β€œVisual search is constrained by the variability of object-category templates.”
Includes some neat findings on individual differences in search πŸ‘€

09.02.2026 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re happy to announce that Gongting Wang has successfully defended his PhD thesis at Freie UniversitΓ€t Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Wang! πŸŽ‰

27.01.2026 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨

16.12.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Check out @michaengesee.bsky.social 's preprint on individual differences in expectations about natural scenes and how they shape how we perceive and neurally represent scenes. πŸ‘οΈπŸ§ πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦±πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦°πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³

08.12.2025 10:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2025 - Christmas Party Crew! πŸŽ„

08.12.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Gießener Graduiertenkolleg erforscht Wahrnehmung von Materialien und Objekten im Alltag JLU bietet ideales Umfeld für die Forschungsprojekte der Promovierenden

Here's a press release (in German):
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...



And here's tagging some of the great people involved: @kathadobs.bsky.social , @martinhebart.bsky.social , @haplab.bsky.social, @peelen.bsky.social .

03.12.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Super happy to announce that our Research Training Group "PIMON" is funded by the @dfg.de ! Starting in October, we will have exciting opportunities for PhD students that want to explore object and material perception & interaction in Gießen @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! Just look at this amazing team!

03.12.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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I am very excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, w/ @peterkok.bsky.social and others: β€˜An attempt to push mental imagery over the reality threshold using non-invasive brain stimulation’

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

27.11.2025 10:53 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visual brain rhythms also serve a key function in the r...

Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience

30.10.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Micha’s farewell gathering before his temporary leave πŸ’« - he’ll still be missed!

22.10.2025 12:24 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A few snapshots from this year’s Kaiser Lab retreat 🌿🧠✨

14.10.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Together with @seeingxie.bsky.social , @singerjohannes.bsky.social , Bati Yilmaz, @dkaiserlab.bsky.social y.social , Radoslaw M. Cichy.

10.10.2025 14:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...

By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

10.10.2025 14:36 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

How can we characterize the contents of our internal models of the world? We highlight participant-driven approaches, from drawings to descriptions, to study how we expect scenes to look! 🀩

08.10.2025 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

In this paper we present flexible methods for participants to express their expectations about natural scenes.

08.10.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Time to expand how we study natural scene perception! πŸŒ…
w/ @michaengesee.bsky.social , @suzibot.bsky.social l, Ilker Duymaz, Gongting Wang, Matthew J. Foxwell, Radoslaw M. Cichy, David Pitcher & @dkaiserlab.bsky.social

08.10.2025 09:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...

From line drawings to scene perception β€” our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. πŸ‘οΈβœοΈπŸ›‹
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

08.10.2025 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎

25.08.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Go Lu!! Congratulations πŸ’œ

26.06.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We had an awesome time discussing the role of feedback in perception @unil.bsky.social 🧠 and exploring the beautiful city of Lausanne! πŸ’œπŸžοΈ Thanks to @icepfl.bsky.social @davidpascucci.bsky.social

26.06.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All-topographic ANNs! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com , led by @zejinlu.bsky.social , in collaboration with @timkietzmann.bsky.social.
See below for a summary πŸ‘‡

06.06.2025 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don’t miss out again! If you are interested in our studies presented at @VSSMtg , you can find our posters here: πŸ‘‡
drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

28.05.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster β€žThe Adaptive Mindβ€œ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. πŸŽ†βœ¨πŸ₯‚

23.05.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#VSS2025 was a blast - great science, fun people, beach vibes. Weβ€˜ll be back! @vssmtg.bsky.social

22.05.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The neural time course of size constancy in natural scenes Accurate real-world size perception relies on size constancy, a mechanism that integrates an object's retinal size with distance information. The neur…

How fast do we extract distance cues from scenes πŸ›€οΈπŸžοΈπŸœοΈ and integrate them with retinal size 🧸🐻 to infer real object size? Our new EEG study in Cortex has answers! w/ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social @suryagayet.bsky.social @peelen.bsky.social
Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.05.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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We are at @vssmtg.bsky.social 2025. πŸ–οΈβ˜€οΈπŸΉcome check out our studies!

15.05.2025 09:04 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Great talk on Beauty and the Brain at CMBB Day in Marburg! πŸ§ πŸ‘οΈ

11.05.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Time to celebrate a new ANR-DFG funded project in collaboration with the stellar @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
Stay totally tuned!!! 😎

10.05.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cortical alpha rhythms interpolate occluded motion from natural scene context | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society Tracking objects as they dynamically move in and out of sight is critical for parsing our everchanging real-world surroundings. Here, we explored how the interpolation of occluded object motion in nat...

Glad to share our EEG study now is out in JNP. πŸŽ‰ We showed that alpha rhythms automatically interpolate occluded motion based on the surrounding contextual cues! πŸšΆβ€β™‚οΈπŸžοΈ
@dkaiserlab.bsky.social

journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

07.05.2025 06:57 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Representational shifts from feedforward to feedback rhythms index phenomenological integration in naturalistic vision - Communications Biology Representational shifts from bottom-up gamma to top-down alpha dynamics drive visual integration, highlighting the crucial role of cortical feedback in the construction of seamless perceptual experien...

Representational shifts from bottom-up gamma to top-down alpha dynamics drive visual integration, highlighting the crucial role of cortical feedback in the construction of seamless perceptual experiences.
@lixiangchen.bsky.social @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08011-0

14.04.2025 14:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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