Icelandic Vision Lab

Amplification from saliency affects explicit but not implicit ensemble representations - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics The visual system can encode multiple objects in the form of ensemble representations. Such representations can be accessed with either explicit or implicit reports, but depending on the type of repor...

New paper by @icevislab.bsky.social graduate Dr. Aleksei Iakovlev w. @khvo100v.bsky.social , @utochkin.bsky.social and Árni Kristjánsson.

link.springer.com/article/10.3...

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

I wrote this Cortex commentary in response to a recent fMRI study on the angular gyrus's role in segmenting continuous info (e.g., speech, music, film), reviewing key findings & discussing how human connectome research can illuminate neural event segmentation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Potential role of developmental experience in the emergence of the parvo-magno distinction - Communications Biology Developmentally-driven computational modeling study suggests that early sensory experience shapes distinct neuronal response properties in the visual system, providing a potential account of the emerg...

1/ New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com, led by @marinv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1038/s420...! Across several past studies, we showed how newborns' degraded vision may benefit human development and inspire more robust deep networks. We have referred to this as Adaptive Initial Degradations (AID).

Is aphantasia a neurodevelopmental condition? Evidence from face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gpnhc_v1

Explicit access to detailed representations of feature distributions - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review The human visual system can quickly process groups of objects (ensembles) and build compressed representations of their features. What does the conscious perception of ensembles consist of? Observersʼ...

Hot off the press:
Vlad Khvostov's work at the @icevislab.bsky.social on how the Feature Frequency Report method reveals rich and explicit representations of feature distributions.

doi.org/10.3758/s134...

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Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia

As a testament to the dire situation in the U.S., our university (Uni. Iceland) just sent an email on the risk of data (used or gathered by European institutions) stored in the United States being deleted, altered, or access to it restricted. #academia #waronscience #disinformation

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How can they ALL be different?! Worst visual search task ever ☹️😖 #visionscience

Our ability to recognize objects depends on prior experience - News New findings suggest neurons have much more functional dexterity than scientists previously realized.

Our ability to recognize objects depends on prior experience www.rockefeller.edu/news/37634-o... #neuroscience

🚨 Two open faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology (incl. visual perception) at University of Southern Denmark! 🚨
#PsychSciSky
#VisionScience
#neuroskyence
#compneurosky

#neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

screenshot of semantic distance R package information

New R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit

Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience"

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs.

#psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

Interesting preprint shows aphantasia is associated with a 20% increase in time it takes to read text. Suggests aphantasic students would benefit from similar reasonable adjustments in exam settings (e.g., extra time) as provided to other neurodevelopmental populations.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

Girls just wanna have funding for science

We do #science

In our latest paper @elife.bsky.social we show that we choose to move our eyes based on effort minimization. Put simply, we prefer affordable over more costly eye movements.

eLife's digest:
elifesciences.org/digests/9776...

The paper:
elifesciences.org/articles/97760

#VisionScience

Yeah that should do it.

Yes -- but ran into a lot of problems. ECVP people have been extremely quick at helping. -- Heida

Haha yes, why are your trains so weird? It is off brand.

These are Germans, Andrey. You should be on time -- Heida

We have confirmation that Iceland clearly takes the crown when it comes to registrations per capita at ECVP 2025. Remember to submit your abstracts this weekend -- we hope to see you all there 👀 @ecvp.bsky.social #ecvp #ecvp2025 #visionscience

Gabor patch earring

Some people just LOVE Gabor patches. Model: @antonlukashevich.bsky.social Maker: Dr. Tyurina #visionscience

Book cover: doodles of graphs and arrows

Statistics with JASP: First Steps for Psychology Students

by

Rebecca Denniss and Stanislava Naneva

https://sheffield.pressbooks.pub/help4jasp/

An open (free!) textbook guide to using the open source (free!) statistics software package

#OEM #Statistics #Psychology #JASP

Visual Cognition Teaching Sensation and Perception, Edited by Anna Kosovicheva, Julia Strand and Ben Balas. Volume 32, Issue 6 of Visual Cognition

Very pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!

How do Cognitive Computational Neuroscientists use our skills for good in today's volatile world? How do we deal with misinformation, AI ethics, behavior change, cognition and real-world impact.

With @tsonj.bsky.social and Ili Ma, we are planning a proposal on 'CCN for Social Good'. DM me to join!

*Vaguely gestures st everything*

Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute t...

Wow!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...