Ever heard, 'visual working memory retention strategies are visual'? Ever heard, 'aphantasics use verbal strategies for VWM tasks'? The truth is more complex than either of these! A new preprint with Zoë Pounder, Elena Azanon, et al: osf.io/preprints/psya… via Center for Open Science

Now published: nature.com/articles/s4159…

16 years ago, Burr and Ross argued that number exhibits perceptual adaptation. In a new paper, Yousif, Clarke, and Brannon argue against this theory, providing new data that "undermine the number adaptation hypothesis on several fronts". Sami Yousif sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My preprint about representations of imaginary scenes in the alpha band (and first paper as first author ever) is now published in Scientific Reports. 😄 We show that our brains use alpha rhythms to reactivate scene-related visual contents during imagery. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Join us at our Roundtable talk tomorrow by Prof Hannah Keage CAIN on the topic: Delirium in late-life: why should cognitive neuroscientists care? Free, no registration needed! 🕚6 June 2024, 11am 🏫The University of Melb psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/research/hubs/…

Samantha Montoya et al. Sam Montoya University of Minnesota Neuroscience ask, What does visual snow look like? Quantification by matching a simulation, jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?a….

New preprint from the lab showing (another) lack of EEG expectation effects in a probabilistic cueing design 🧠⚡📈. No clear effects on ERPs or decoding performance biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Psychological Sciences Cognitive Neuroscience Hub

This is a fun collab with Ottmar Lipp where we looked at socio-emotional biases in the perception of #facepareidolia The upshot is that we categorise happy illusory expressions faster when the illusory face is perceived as feminine. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

🧠Unravel the mysteries of #FacialRecognition with us! We are seeking participants aged 30 to 65 years old for an #EEG study on how we perceive and recognise faces. Participants will be reimbursed $30/hour (up to $60). #ResearchStudies ✨ Sign up today: tinyurl.com/H15873

Join us in sunny Brisbane, Australia! ☀️🦘🧠 Our group has a 3-year postdoc position for someone with expertise (mainly) in EEG: More info here: seek.com.au/job/76582996?t… #Postdoc #EEG #Neuromodulation #Neurofeedback #Psychiatry

new preprint: Ali found that perceptual similarity judgements are, in a sense, metacognitive. when a subject judges two stims to be similar, they are in fact harder to discern - specifically for oneself. replication in progress but pilot looks promising biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What kind of visual input drives amygdala activity? Here we deliberately increased the complexity of a stimulus set to explore multiple theories of amygdala function in 🐵 The results suggest that the face of a stranger is not the amyg’s fav stimulus. doi.org/10.1093/cercor…

My review on neural adaptation in the visual system is now published in CORTEX! I'm particularly proud of this one. Featuring some new twists on classic visual illusions. doi.org/10.1016/j.cort… Psychological Sciences Cognitive Neuroscience Hub

What's the relationship between creativity and mental imagery vividness? We gave 194 participants (prolific, undergrads, art students) the VVIQ and the classic Alternative Uses Test (AUT) and found a correlation of: ...virtually zero! 1/6 #aphantasia #creativity #imagery

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We make a lot of eye movements. Several per second. Eye movements change the retinal image. A long-debated question in visual neuroscience is how do we track objects across eye movements?! We think it could be relatively simple… 🧵 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

We have a PhD scholarship available for an exciting project about #brains, #ai and #deepfakes. Apply by 30 Sep 2024. Join us at the The MARCS Institute in Sydney Australia! For more information, eligibility and selection criteria, see: westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/sc…

🚨 The European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 2025 call is open! #ECR #Funding More info👉🔗 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/aust…

Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al., 2007 osf.io/preprints/osf/… A study cited over 500 times couldn't be replicated, even in extreme imagery #aphantasia #hyperphantasia 1/6