Hear ye! Hear ye! Our own DOCTOR Vigdís Vala Valgeirsdóttir Vigdís Vala Valgeirs has successfully defended her thesis titled "Lower-limb Prosthetics in the Age of Advanced Solutions: Understanding People’s Needs and Future Benefits."😎🥳🦿🦾

We hereby announce our newest Ph.D. - DOCTOR Rafiei @mohsenrafiei8 - who successfully defended his thesis, "Attractive and repulsive serial biases in visual cognition". Here he is in this beautiful Reykjavik weather with his advisor Arni Kristjansson and committee Sabrina Hansmann-Roth Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social

Would you like to listen to some papers? Enter paper podcasts! Here you can listen to a review on words as visual objects, as well as a paper on how faces and words are both associated and dissociated: visionlab.is/paper-podcasts/ Thanks Sarah Rutherford (not on twitter) for reading.

Two three-year grants to IVL 🥳 "Probabilistic attentional selection in vision", PIs Arni Kristjansson Gerd Arnold / "Mapping and tracking visual object representations", PI @heidasigurdar collab. Tim Kietzmann Randi Starrfelt Inga María Ólafsdóttir Hélène Devillez Freyja Birgisdottir Dyrleif Fridriksdottir

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I'm so happy to announce our paper out in @nature today! We show that people who grew up in rural areas have better spatial navigation skills than those raised in cities, particularly for cities with grid-pattern streets. 1/12

Ertu andlitsblind manneskja? Ofurmannglögg? Eða kannski mitt á milli? Viltu leggja okkur lið og fá að vita hvernig þér gengur að þekkja andlit og hluti? RANNSÓKN: visionlab.is/thekkir-thu-an… (Endilega deilið. Study is in Icelandic only.)

Things today at #VSS2022 Join the Preregistration workshop today at 12:45 in Jasmine/Palm. Organized by Björn Jörges and Sabrina Hansmann-Roth Visual processing of faces and objects in dyslexic and typical readers (2:45pm-6:45pm Banyan 36.344) Hélène Devillez

Bye-bye #VSS2022. It was nice to be back in person. If you missed my poster, I’ll be presenting again at V-VSS.

Lab excursion!

Please RT: The Icelandic Vision Lab advertises a two-year postdoctoral position, potentially extendable for one year, on mapping and tracking visual object representations. PI: Heida Maria Sigurdardottir ([email protected]). Info: notendur.hi.is/heidasi/postdoc 1/2

Hello ECVP! Here is a thread about our presentations. Interested in joining our lab? We have an open postdoctoral position: notendur.hi.is/heidasi/postdoc See us at the conference? Come say hi :) #ecvp2022 #ecvp #visionscience #postdoc #postdocjobs

Join us in Iceland! I can only highly recommend working with @heidasigurdar

It is #PostdocAppreciationWeek so let's make postdocs a bit more visible. Thank you Hélène Devillez, Garance Merholz and Philippe Blondé for being with us here at the Icelandic Vision Lab, for all the science and camaraderie. Image credit: PHD Comics

Ph.D./postdoc position: Application deadline is on Monday. We (visionlab.is) are a friendly and enthusiastic bunch, I think you would like it here. #postdocposition #postdoc #PhDposition #PhDScholarships #phd #AcademicTwitter #visionscience

Celebrating the newest grant to the Icelandic Vision Lab, PI Sabrina Hansmann-Roth will explore the representation of material properies in the visual system. Hiring soon, stay tuned.

Please RT: I am looking for a PhD student (3 years) or a Postdoc (2 years) to work with me here in Iceland (Icelandic Vision Lab ). In the project we will study the encoding of mid-level visual features. More infos can be found here: visionlab.is/news/

You want to join the best lab ever?* We may have a position for you! *According to previous IVL member (N=1)

Today is my last day as a postdoc Icelandic Vision Lab. Thanks all for the great time and special thanks to my fantastic and inspiring PI @heidasigurdar (picture taken yesterday, 27th of April). Next adventure in CEA Grenoble starting soon.