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Brian Odegaard

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UF Associate Professor. Attention, Perception, Consciousness.

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 22/09/2026
So… we just found out that GPT sol can complete a complex online behavioral/cognitive study producing nearly indistinguishable behavior and subjective reports… right as we are about to launch. Is this doomsday for online cognitive testing?
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Wiktoria Kozyra @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I’m very grateful to @smfleming.bsky.social for his supervision and @kevingoneill.github.io for a great collaboration. We show that the PE bias in confidence judgments can be a Bayes-optimal consequence of inference in high-dimensional spaces, and in CNNs, the bias also increases with dimensionality
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa
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Wouter Kool @wouterkool.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I expect to recruit a PhD student this cycle! The Control and Decision Making Lab at WashU studies control, effort, and decision making, combining behavioral experiments with modeling and neuroimaging. If that sounds cool, check out our work: cdmlab.wustl.edu. How to apply: psych.washu.edu/apply
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our paper “Confidence is detection-like in high-dimensional spaces” is now published in Open Mind, led by @wiktoriakozyra.bsky.social and @kevingoneill.github.io direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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Confidence Is Detection-Like in High-Dimensional Spaces
Abstract. Confidence estimates are often “detection-like”—driven by positive evidence in favour of a decision. This empirical observation has been interpreted as showing that human metacognition is li...
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Derek Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A recent paper argued that there is no visual binding problem. I disagree, and wrote a response... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Related demonstrations can be found here... staff.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqdarnol/JS...
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Connecting the Corridor: A state-supported land conservation effort is trying to save remaining #Florida green spaces before development creeps in. www.floridatrend.com/feature/2026... via @floridatrend.bsky.social
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Connecting the Corridor
A state-supported land conservation effort is trying to save Florida’s remaining green spaces before development creeps in.
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Lots of cool stuff in the current issue of @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social - commentaries and discussion on the phenomenal / access consciousness distinction, origins of geometric thought, homogenising effects of AI on thinking... multiple papers being printed! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
osf.io/preprints/ps... Centaur (Nature paper from last year) May Have Learned a Shortcut that Explains Away Psychological Tasks apparently, the said shortcut is mainly just the history of responses over trials
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Melanie Tschiersch @mtschiersch.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Our paper "Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands" is finally out in Nature Communications! We combined bilateral PFC recordings, modeling and human data to ask: How do the hemispheres work together to store information?1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Redundant prefrontal hemispheres adapt storage strategy to working memory demands - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying spatial working memory are not fully understood. In this manuscript, simultaneous bilateral monkey recordings and attractor networks show how weakly coupled, redundant pre...
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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A pre-release version of DataPipe's new storage provider system is ready for testing. If anyone would like to help beta test it I'd love to have some extra eyes looking it over. It is deployed to a sandbox right now so you would just need to go to a provided URL and try things out.
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Doing science with Claude Code (Fable 5) is fascinating. I give it open-ended, complex tasks and it will go off for 30min and execute very successfully. Sometimes it find much better solutions to my problem than what I suggested.
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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The journal version is out! www.cell.com/trends-open/... AI is turning machine consciousness into a societal issue. Biological Naturalism (BN), the idea that only biological systems can be conscious, is gaining traction. We argue: either BN is untestable, or it is compatible with functionalism.
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What biology can and cannot tell us about conscious AI
Progress in artificial intelligence is turning machine consciousness from a philosophical curiosity into a societal issue, and has led to criticism of the widespread computational functionalist framew...
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Nicholas A. Coles, PhD @nicholascoles.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New semester. New me. New PhD recruitment ad.
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@arthurpr4t.bsky.social has a new preprint with important results on a famous psychophysical law (Weber's law). It isn't, in fact, a law, because it can be broken. A more fundamental principle (efficient coding) shows when and why Weber's law holds true. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Efficient coding makes and breaks Weber's law
Weber's law is a rare quantitative regularity in psychology, yet its origins remain debated. Here we provide causal evidence that it arises from the more fundamental principle of efficient coding. Thi...
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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If you’re a PI who’s written documentation about values, expectations, or practicalities of your lab AND you don’t mind this being referenced in an upcoming article (with Christine Pfund and @weijima.bsky.social), I would ❤️ it if you shared your 📄 with us. Thanks!
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Josh de Leeuw @joshdeleeuw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
With the upcoming changes to OSF, DataPipe (pipe.jspsych.org) is migrating to a multi-backend model. We're currently developing support for Zenodo, Dataverse, and Google Drive. If there are other providers that you'd like to see as options please get in touch.
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yikes “Starting November 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF. After February 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only.” www.cos.io/osf-changes
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 11/08/2026
I'm happy with Zenodo for sharing final publication-supporting artifacts, but OSF's anonymous artifact views were the best solution I knew for sharing data at peer-review. Zenodo doesn't seem to have something comparable. Is there a good alternative (besides the weird GitHub proxy)?
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
US scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1
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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There are 17 different methods to measure whether confidence tracks accuracy, and these do not include Bayesian or Information Theory based measurements. We present MetaSignal with @makwana.bsky.social @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social to have common platform to access them.
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Ben Beilharz @engramm.ing · 03/08/2026
Happy to announce that MRD got accepted by the Journal of Vision (marks the first submission of my phd). Thanks to all editors and reviewers making the paper better over time. If you don't want to wait for the official JoV version, I updated the preprint & repo with the latest code and results.
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Saurabh @saurabhr.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Can an AI tell its own words from yours? This is "reality monitoring." In humans, failing at it is linked to hallucinations and delusions. In this work we investigated reality monitoring in 6 LLMs of different sizes in collaboration with @lazyneuron.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social.
Diagram of the word-pair task, external words given to the model vs. internal words the model generates itself, then judged as
internal or external.
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Darius Valevicius @dariusliutas.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Excited to share my first doctoral paper which was just published at Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences! doi.org/10.1111/pcn.... In this research letter, we showcase our take on the "Synthetic Image Evolution" method, in which we use genAI and evolutionary algorithms to... #neuroskyence
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Synthetic image evolution for affective science
Click on the article title to read more.
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026
calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!
I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.
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Brian Odegaard @brianodegaard.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I am excited to announce that I have received tenure at the University of Florida! Thanks to my current & former lab members, scientific mentors, collaborators, letter writers, and funding sources that have made it all possible. Looking forward to the work ahead. Onwards!
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The NYU department of psychology is also reinstating the GRE as a requirement for PHD admissions. I heard Yale and Harvard are as well. Now Penn too. If you are applying to psych PHD programs this year be sure to take the exam.
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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.
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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...
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Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are hosting a special issue on "Is There More to Consciousness Than Computation?" in @nconsc.bsky.social. Full information here: academic.oup.com/nc/pages/cal... With @krysdolega.bsky.social and Yair Pinto.
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Call for Papers | Neuroscience of Consciousness
Neuroscience of Consciousness (NCON) is a peer-reviewed, fully open access journal that provides a unique forum for the interdisciplinary fields of consciousnes
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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Finally out in Psychological Review (psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...), our update to Signal Detection Theory. We show that contrary to the prevailing Gaussian assumption, evidence distributions in recognition memory are likely minimum extreme Gumbel!
Figure 7: Illustration of the Gumbel-min Signal Detection Model
Figure consists of three panels.
Bottom-left panel: The Gumbel-min latent-strength distributions associated with SIGNAL (old) and NOISE (new) items. Top-left panel: The log likelihood ratio (log-LR) for the two latent-strength distributions. Right panel: The receiver operating characteristic function produced by the two latent-strength distributions. pH = hit probabilities; pFA = false-alarm probabilities.
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... maybe there's a way to study metacognitive monitoring w/o collecting confidence? could be handy for studying animals and infants?
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Response Time as a Proxy for Decision Confidence: Insights From Type-2 ROC Analysis
Abstract. This study explores the use of response time (RT) data in type-2 receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis, a method traditionally used to examine the relationship between confidence ...
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Gerhard Jocham @gjocham.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wow, that went fast! The PhD position is already filled - still accepting applications for the postdoc position! Feeling sorry for all the really promising candidates we had to turn down - the quality of applications has been unusually high in this round!
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Gal Vishne @neurogal.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Arrived @ #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social 😎🌴 If you're here - come check out my talk on Monday! Revisiting Iconic Memory with a New Experimental Paradigm Room 2 May 18th, 10:45 (1st talk) Super fun collaboration with @johnmorrison.bsky.social & my 1st study from @michaelshadlen.bsky.social lab 🤩
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Robb Rutledge @robbrutledge.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🎉New positions!🎉 Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app
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Postdoc and Research Technician Positions — Rutledge Lab
Now hiring a postdoc and a research technician with an interest in neuroeconomics or computational psychiatry.
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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How fast agentic AI has changed our work is head-spinning and there's been a lot of debate in our lab. So we drafted guidelines to help navigate this new reality. Sharing here in the hope it’s useful for others & curious to hear thoughts schucklab.gitlab.io/ai-policy.html #AcademicSky #compneurosky
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Schuck Lab — AI Policy
Schuck Lab policy on generative and agentic AI
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Kevin O’Neill @kevingoneill.github.io · 01/05/2026
In a new preprint w/ @tianqizhan.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social, we developed a new measure of metacognitive bias (over/under confidence in individual decisions)! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Mengting Fang @mtfang.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
🎯New preprint! The resource-rational dynamics of evidence accumulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Evidence accumulation isn’t stationary. It is dynamically controlled to trade off information gain against cognitive effort. With Jiang Mao, Tobias Donner @donnerlab.bsky.social, Alan Stocker
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Stefano Palminteri @stepalminteri.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Cognitive Modelling Research in the Era of Agentic Large Language Models From equations to fitted models in minutes: how LLMs are changing computational cognitive science and how we should adapt My latest post on Medium medium.com/@stefano.pal...
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Cognitive Modelling Research in the Era of Agentic Large Language Models
From equations to fitted models in minutes: what LLMs are changing in computational cognitive science and how we should adapt.
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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561
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6 Positions - Assistant, Associate, Full Professional Researcher
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Many claim memory biases toward percepts reflect corruption in sensory signals. We challenge this view by showing that ppl adapt their integration rationally w/ experience. w/ @timbrady.bsky.social Humans adaptively integrate memory and perception based on stimulus history | osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 17/04/2026
If you're interested in doing a 2 year Schmidt "AI in science" postdoc fellowship in neuroscience/AI stuff with me starting in July or Oct 2027 take a look at this and get in touch soon. We've had a lot of luck recently getting these fellowships. www.imperial.ac.uk/electrical-e...
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Fellowships
We welcome applications from outstanding researchers applying for external fellowship funding.
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"we show that [the lateral prefrontal areas] 8Av/45 encodes the color of a visual stimulus, regardless of its behavioral relevance." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The lateral prefrontal cortex of primates encodes stimulus colors and their behavioral relevance during a match-to-sample task - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The lateral prefrontal cortex of primates encodes stimulus colors and their behavioral relevance during a match-to-sample task
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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
On the inseparability of the prior and neural resources in behavioural bias www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Phil Corlett @philcorlett.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Top-down effects (of knowledge) on perception observed under ambiguous (low-light) conditions psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature
Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face&nbsp;identities.
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... very nice paper on a mice model of blindsight i'm not sure if i'm fully convinced by their saliency control, but maybe i'm just picking hair let me explain: (a thread to follow)
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Acute requirement for the hippocampus in putatively conscious vision revealed by a mouse model of blindsight
The phenomenon of blindsight provides a unique opportunity to uncover brain areas important for conscious vision. Patients with blindsight lose the co…
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Joey Saito @jsaito25.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Linking working memory maintenance and readout in monkey sensory and prefrontal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
can i repost this 1000x please? learning to develop "good" research questions is so important, and so undercut by the "move fast break things" vibe coding mentality. (yes, i also vibe code... for weekend projects!) shameless plug for my recent paper on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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