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Maybe interesting for German-speaking colleagues and friends?A radio programme on face perception with Rabea Weihser, Valentin Groebner and me on SWR Kultur.

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Really interesting work!

Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!

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Information Gained, Stored, and Transferred Without Brains — Biological Strategy — AskNature Despite the lack of a nervous system, slime molds can learn and share what they learn with other slime molds by joining together for a time.

An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system

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#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience

A top view of a coffee cup filled with coffee. The surface of the coffee features foam that resembles a smiling face, complete with two eyes and a wide mouth.

🧵 A bit late, but excited to share insights from our new publication in PLOS Comp Biol by Pranjul Gupta (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Here, we explored the phenomenon of face pareidolia—like seeing faces in our morning coffee! What might explain this effect?

Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can!

Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...

This looks really interesting!

Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"

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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 like how the perception of 3D structure in this starts and ends strong while devolving into interesting chaos in the middle. #VisionScience

Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving Memory and the Brain explores the fascinating psychology and neuroscience of human memory. Written by a world expert in the field, John P. Aggleton, this book covers learning and memory from the very ...

Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to
@braintumourrsch.bsky.social
20% discount from Routledge in January.
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Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.

New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature:

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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.🧪🧠

Congratulations, Artie and Levi!

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 visua…

Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Scope and Limits of Fine-Grained Image and Category Information in the Ventral Visual Pathway Humans can easily abstract incoming visual information into discrete semantic categories. Previous research employing functional MRI (fMRI) in humans has identified cortical organizing principles that...

Very nice work by the @martinhebart.bsky.social lab shows that many across-exemplar effects in early visual cortex can be explained by low-level visual features, whereas LOC appears, in addition, to exhibit higher order category-specific information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧪 🧠

This looks really interesting!

New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...

New paper from me & Soazig Casteau @durhampsych.bsky.social
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On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.

A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition A key challenge in understanding the functional organization of the visual cortex stems from the fact that only a small proportion of the objects experienced during natural viewing can be presented in...

First bluesky post... and also new paper alert! 🥳 With Tim Andrews & @yorkpsychology.bsky.social

A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition

Code: osf.io/scy2f/

Paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...

UK universities join retreat from Elon Musk's X, citing misinformation on platform Universities and other higher education establishments have joined a retreat among British institutions from Elon Musk's X social media platform, citing its role in spreading misinformation that fuelled race riots last year.

Reuters survey of over 150 UK universities and their colleges finds many are abandoning X over concerns about misinformation, content that promotes violence, and declining engagement.

#UKHE #AcademicSky

Over 60 German universities & research institutions have announced their #eXit from X today.

X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)

Very pleased to see the Experimental Psychology Society here. Their London meeting this week was great as always. Whether you’re a familiar or new member, or just a curious aspiring psychologist please follow the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social and check out their meetings and support!

Here, Koyano et al. show that 🐒 neurons in certain face patches barely react to pareidolia (illusory faces in objects).
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To those who have argued that the brain "obviously" processes stimuli that look like faces as faces—it's not that simple.

This absolutely rocks, and should be taught in genetics classes in schools. I have little hope it will be heeded by the geniuses of Silicon Valley, however.

POSTDOC OPENING in my lab & Jessica Payne’s (Notre Dame) at intersection of sleep & memory research with overnight PSG and innovative methods to alter sleep physiology to improve sleep and waking well-being #neurojobs #psychjobs [CV&cover letter to bruce.caughran@northwestern.edu] - please repost

The title page of the special issue, which reads "Introduction to the special issue on visual cognition and visuomotor control: A tribute to Mel Goodale" The authors of the Intro are: Jody C. Culham, Gavin Buckingham, Monika Harvey, Irene Sperandio, Ingrid S. Johnsrude

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...