8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).
Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.
We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.
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22.09.2025 19:34 — 👍 66 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1
Looks great! Can be really helpful in aesthetics research where we find it difficult sometimes to do a PCA and break down low level characteristics. Looking forward to the results of the fMRI study
23.09.2025 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Had a great time at SRIP conference this week in Liverpool. Learned a lot about perinatal mental health, saw inspiring talks, was able to present my own work and met many other researchers. It was a success, thanks for organizing and having me @thesrip.bsky.social!
30.08.2025 11:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It was great to be part of a symposium at @escaponline.bsky.social on Parental Adversity in the Perinatal Period. I shared a project of my (almost-finished) PhD on how infant crying links to child behavioral problems and maternal trauma and attachment. Thanks for having me! #ESCAP2025
02.07.2025 11:01 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My amazing winning team from the @odissei.bsky.social Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations Workshop benchmark challenge with our project “Green talk, brown walk: Computing the gap between firms polluting & sustainability discourse.”
#linguistic-features #greenwashing
27.06.2025 18:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good luck!!
23.06.2025 05:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do aesthetic experiences require real sensory input, or can mental imagery evoke them just as powerfully?
Our study shows that vivid mental imagery alone can trigger aesthetic experiences nearly indistinguishable from those caused by real sensory input! doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112588
19.05.2025 08:23 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins
08.05.2025 16:55 — 👍 29906 🔁 8474 💬 552 📌 1422
A comparison of art engagement in museums and through digital media - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A comparison of art engagement in museums and through digital media
When cherished beliefs and intuitions turn out to not be confirmed. Not a lot of difference in the impact of art seen in museums versus on a screen in the lab. Reasons to actually test intuitions. With @kohinoordarda.bsky.social and others. 🧪 #sciart www.nature.com/articles/s41...
17.03.2025 18:39 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia
An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology
openletter.earth/against-lang...
28.04.2025 22:46 — 👍 70 🔁 59 💬 3 📌 6
Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
06.03.2025 19:15 — 👍 537 🔁 309 💬 51 📌 104
Aesthetics 2025
Submission period: 10 February 2025 - 31 March 2025
Interested in fresh new #neuroaesthetics research? Want to hear from brilliant keynotes @neurobea.bsky.social, @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social & Fredrik Ullén from @ae.mpg.de, and an all-⭐ cast of speakers? Then submit your abstract & join us in Ascona🇨🇭 this Sept! Plz share! sbs.ethz.ch/conference.h...
05.03.2025 13:10 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Associate professor @ Industrial Design Engineering TU Delft, director of Pictorial Research Lab
Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
I study brains and sometimes use one.
https://www.alylab.org/
Postdoctoral researcher in the CoCoSys & Temporal
Attention Labs, Leiden University
phijoh.github.io
Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
Visual artist
Represented by Molesworth Gallery, Dublin | Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Free 🇵🇸
https://www.helengblake.com/
PhD Candidate at the Predictive Brain Lab @DondersInstitute | MSc in Brain and Cognitive Sciences @UvA_Amsterdam.
CogNeuro PhD. VU Amsterdam. was bad at twitter, will be bad at this too
Mexican Historian & Philosopher of Biology • Postdoctoral Fellow at @theramseylab.bsky.social (@clpskuleuven.bsky.social) • Book Reviews Editor for @jgps.bsky.social • #PhilSci #HistSci #philsky • Escribo y edito • https://www.alejandrofabregastejeda.com
Hindustani Raga Musician. Early Career Ethnomusicologist/Music Historian of Senses and Citizenship in Bengali Britain at the University of Durham. Part-time Fountain Pen Collector. Part-time Art Enthusiast. Passionate Cook.
PhD scholar in Music Psychology at Durham University.
Interested in Cross-Cultural Studies, Rhythm Perception and Synchronisation.
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neuroaesthetics.med.upenn.edu
Visual perception, psychology, aesthetics, open science! Postdoctoral researcher @gestaltrevision.bsky.social. Creator of the #octatoolbox
Web: http://evg.ulyssis.be/evg/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eline__VG
Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@ElineVG
PhD Researcher in Cognitive Psychology
GestaltReVision Lab, Leuven, Belgium @gestaltrevision.bsky.social
Interests: Experimental Psychology, Visual Perception, Consciousness, Aesthetics, EEG, Eye-Tracking
neuroscientist, musician, question asker, mom. associate professor of #creativity @northeastern #psychology #cognition #musicscience 🇭🇰 she/her
PhD Candidate - University of Sydney | rhythm, timbre, mental imagery 🎶🧠
PhD student @gestaltrevision.bsky.social @KU_Leuven | Interested in Aesthetics, Visual Perception, Perceptual Organization, Psychophysics and Multistability
We aim to understand which factors can shape the aesthetic experience and the learning process, from knowledge transfer to episodic memories, to epistemic emotions.
🌐 https://iwm-tuebingen.de/en/research/labs/ag3_specker
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Cognitive Neuroscientist working on perception attention and consciousness using cognitive psychology, EEG, MEG and fMRI. Professor at Université Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social and CNRS @cnrs.fr. Website : https://sergent-consciousness-lab.u-paris.fr/
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
