Recently published in #JNeurosci: Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social & @leylaisi JHU Cognitive Science Durham Psychology image human brains to reveal how neural networks quickly process physical touch as a social & emotional cue for communication & interaction. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

Our study on social touch observation has been published in JNeuro. We showed that the brain detects the social-affective significance of observed touch at an early stage, within the time frame of feedforward visual processing through social perceptual brain regions.

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postdoc 🚨 please RT! Exciting postdoc position with Richard Mann modeling collective reasoning and rationality in animal decision-making. This is part of a large project involving Dora Biro and myself, and data from apes, birds, fish, etc alongside theoretical work!

First ever image of another multi-planet solar system captured by ESO Telescope

Next, Manasi Malik discusses research applying graph neural networks to model interaction perception in the PHASE dataset and in naturalistic videos.

A phone in a basket looks very different from a knife in a cup. Would you ever confuse them? In a new paper @ Open Mind, Chaz Firestone Mick Bonner Barbara Landau and I show that you would — with implications for the relation between language & vision. osf.io/preprints/psya…

📢 Excited to announce our latest pre-print: “Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans”! 🌟 w/ Emalie McMahon, Colin Conwell, Mick Bonner, and @leylaisi🧵 #NeuroAI #CognitiveScience [1/7]

What do artificial and biological vision have in common? Shared architectures? Shared task objectives? In this preprint, we suggest a more general explanation: they share universal dimensions of natural image representation.

Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.

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Had an amazing time at the Winter School on the Neuroscience of Consciousness!🧠 Met some really cool people and gained fresh perspectives that will inspire my own research. Grateful to the organizers for such a great experience! 🙌

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Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2025. Application deadline: Mar 24, 2025 mbl.edu/education/adva… See more information here: cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/…

How do different brains create unique visual experiences from identical sensory input? New preprint w/ @MichaelFBonner: "High-dimensional structure underlying individual differences in naturalistic visual experience" 🧠 arxiv.org/abs/2505.12653

Excited to share new work with Haemy Lee Masson @hleemasson.bsky.social, Ericka Wodka, Stewart Mostofsky and Leyla Isik! We investigated how simultaneous vision and language signals are combined in the brain using naturalistic+controlled fMRI. Read the paper here: osf.io/b5p4n 1/n

Forget modeling every belief and goal! What if we represented people as following simple scripts instead (i.e "cross the crosswalk")? Our new paper shows AI which models others’ minds as Python code 💻 can quickly and accurately predict human behavior! shorturl.at/siUYI🧵

🚨New preprint w/ Leyla Isik! Aligning Video Models with Human Social Judgments via Behavior-Guided Fine-Tuning We introduce a ~49k triplet social video dataset, uncover a modality gap (language > video), and close via novel behavior-guided finetuning. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2510.01502