Icelandic Vision Lab

New Paper! w. Léa Entzmann and Árni Kristjánsson

TL;DR: Endpoint deviations are determined by current target-previous distractor difference, but do not reflect the shape of the previous distractor distribution. Saccadic latencies do reflect these distributions.

jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx...

The newly minted Dr. Dr. (medical and now Ph.D.) @antonlukashevich.bsky.social is pictured here with his proud advisor @heidasigurdar.bsky.social -- not pictured is the newly minted Ph.D.'s advisor @utochkin.bsky.social and doctoral committee member @shansmann-roth.bsky.social Congratulations!🥳🥳🥳🥳

Open tenure track the University of Akureyri, Iceland.

Question for my fellow vision researchers: anyone know of work where people looked at dynamic ensemble perception for lots of boxes on Zoom? Think "what's the average emotion of these people on a group call?"

Paper alert 💥 This project took considerable effort, great to see the first paper out! @bpitchford.bsky.social Hélène Devillez @heidasigurdar.bsky.social #dyslexia #visionscience #neuroskyence Free to read until November 2nd: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lmUB6TBG5...

Animals – Icelandic Vision Lab Icelandic Vision Lab

Did you know @icevislab.bsky.social have curated and shared a list of Animal visual stimuli?

Love finding lists like this when searching for visual stimuli for experiments 🦜 🐅 🐕

Thank you for sharing!

#reproducible #science #openscience #replication #open

👀 IVL Wednesday ECVP 👀

12:15PM Talk: Atrium Maximum: Choose your own prosopagnosia index

3:30PM Poster: The role of memory load and inter-item similarity on serial dependence

3:30PM Poster: A conceptual replication of target selection during conjunction foraging
#ECVP2025 #ECVP @ecvp.bsky.social

Tuesday After lunch at #ECVP

Symposium Session 8 – Active vision in embodied interaction

14.30 – 15.30 (Audimax)

Probabilistic attention templates guide visual selection
Árni Kristjánsson

#ecvp2025

👀 IVL Tuesday ECVP 👀

10 AM Poster: No Attention - No Ensembles

10 AM Poster: No Evidence for Enhanced Sensory Imagery in Synaesthetes using Psi-Q Assessment

12 PM Talk: Visual Search & Foraging HS 19: Object Discrimination is an Independent Predictor of Reading
#ecvp2025 #ecvp @ecvp.bsky.social

👀 IVL Monday ECVP 👀

10 AM Poster: Foraging for Biological Motion

11:30 AM Talk: Development & Aging I RW 1: The Development of High-Level Vision

4 PM Poster: The Role of Priming and Distractor Suppression in Ensemble Perception

#visionscience #ecvp2025 #ecvp @ecvp.bsky.social

The Icelandic Vision Lab in toto is coming to #ECVP2025 and will be reunited with prior lab members, honorary lab members, and lab friends from all around the world. Looking forward to lots of science and camaraderie @ecvp.bsky.social #ECVP #visionscience

Interested in starting EEG Research? Join Our Hands-On Workshop This December!

✍️ Before we finalise plans, we’d love to hear from you. Please fill out our short Expression of Interest form — even if you can't attend, your feedback will help shape future events.

run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...

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...

Please note!

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

Black socks

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