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@dkaiserlab.bsky.social
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Studying natural vision at JLU Giessen using psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational models, PI: Daniel Kaiser. danielkaiser.net

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨New paper alert: "Visual features explain dynamic aesthetic experiences across distinct movie content" 👀🧠
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Check out @ricostecher.bsky.social's new preprint: "A neuro-computational approximation of the qualities of mental images."
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Back from #ECVP2026 after a wonderful few days of inspiring science, meaningful conversations, and great connections! 👁️🧠
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🚨 New paper alert! "Cortical alpha rhythms predictively track occluded motion trajectories" 👁️🧠 by @suzibot.bsky.social.
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Kaiser Lab is at #ECVP2026 with 2 talks and a poster! Come check out our works 👀
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
🚨New paper alert: "Spatiotemporal Representations of Contextual Associations for Real-World Objects" 👀🧠
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New paper alert 🚨👀 Check out @ilkrdymz.bsky.social's paper: "Abrupt scene onsets and gradually emerging scene information produce distinct EEG decoding dynamics".
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#VSS2026 delivered: exciting research, great conversations, and lots of fun. 👁️🏖️ If you are interested in our studies presented at @vssmtg.bsky.social , you can find our posters here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... For relevant preprints, please visit: www.danielkaiser.net/publications
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Susan Ajith @suzibot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Come to my talk for some fun experiments combining drawings, DNNs and visual search! 👀🧠⛱️
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Micha Engeser @michaengesee.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you're at #VSS2026 come check out our posters and talks! On Saturday 6:45 pm I'll present my talk on individual differences in scene perception.
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Kaiser Lab is at @vssmtg.bsky.social with 6 posters and 3 talks! 👁️🏖️☀️ Come check out our works!
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Check out @alpekinci.bsky.social 's preprint: “Shared gaze reflects shared aesthetic experiences” #neuroaesthetics 👀
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📢 Workshop announcement. We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser. 📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany 🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026. 1/4
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Check out @suzibot.bsky.social's preprint: “Visual search is constrained by the variability of object-category templates.” Includes some neat findings on individual differences in search 👀
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We’re happy to announce that Gongting Wang has successfully defended his PhD thesis at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Wang! 🎉
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Check out @michaengesee.bsky.social 's preprint on individual differences in expectations about natural scenes and how they shape how we perceive and neurally represent scenes. 👁️🧠👨‍🦱👩‍🦰👩‍🦳
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
2025 - Christmas Party Crew! 🎄
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Super happy to announce that our Research Training Group "PIMON" is funded by the @dfg.de ! Starting in October, we will have exciting opportunities for PhD students that want to explore object and material perception & interaction in Gießen @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! Just look at this amazing team!
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I am very excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, w/ @peterkok.bsky.social and others: ‘An attempt to push mental imagery over the reality threshold using non-invasive brain stimulation’ doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents www.cell.com/trends/neuro... #neuroscience
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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 visual brain rhythms also serve a key function in the r...
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
From Micha’s farewell gathering before his temporary leave 💫 - he’ll still be missed!
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
A few snapshots from this year’s Kaiser Lab retreat 🌿🧠✨
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain
The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...
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Susan Ajith @suzibot.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
How can we characterize the contents of our internal models of the world? We highlight participant-driven approaches, from drawings to descriptions, to study how we expect scenes to look! 🤩
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Micha Engeser @michaengesee.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In this paper we present flexible methods for participants to express their expectations about natural scenes.
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Go Lu!! Congratulations 💜
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We had an awesome time discussing the role of feedback in perception @unil.bsky.social 🧠 and exploring the beautiful city of Lausanne! 💜🏞️ Thanks to @icepfl.bsky.social @davidpascucci.bsky.social
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
All-topographic ANNs! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com , led by @zejinlu.bsky.social , in collaboration with @timkietzmann.bsky.social. See below for a summary 👇
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Don’t miss out again! If you are interested in our studies presented at @VSSMtg , you can find our posters here: 👇 drive.google.com/drive/mobile...
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2025_VSS - Google Drive
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
#VSS2025 was a blast - great science, fun people, beach vibes. We‘ll be back! @vssmtg.bsky.social
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Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
How fast do we extract distance cues from scenes 🛤️🏞️🏜️ and integrate them with retinal size 🧸🐻 to infer real object size? Our new EEG study in Cortex has answers! w/ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social @suryagayet.bsky.social @peelen.bsky.social Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The neural time course of size constancy in natural scenes
Accurate real-world size perception relies on size constancy, a mechanism that integrates an object's retinal size with distance information. The neur…
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We are at @vssmtg.bsky.social 2025. 🏖️☀️🍹come check out our studies!
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Great talk on Beauty and the Brain at CMBB Day in Marburg! 🧠👁️
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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Time to celebrate a new ANR-DFG funded project in collaboration with the stellar @dkaiserlab.bsky.social Stay totally tuned!!! 😎
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Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Glad to share our EEG study now is out in JNP. 🎉 We showed that alpha rhythms automatically interpolate occluded motion based on the surrounding contextual cues! 🚶‍♂️🏞️ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
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Cortical alpha rhythms interpolate occluded motion from natural scene context | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society
Tracking objects as they dynamically move in and out of sight is critical for parsing our everchanging real-world surroundings. Here, we explored how the interpolation of occluded object motion in nat...
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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 14/04/2025
Representational shifts from bottom-up gamma to top-down alpha dynamics drive visual integration, highlighting the crucial role of cortical feedback in the construction of seamless perceptual experiences. @lixiangchen.bsky.social @dkaiserlab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08011-0
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Representational shifts from feedforward to feedback rhythms index phenomenological integration in naturalistic vision - Communications Biology
Representational shifts from bottom-up gamma to top-down alpha dynamics drive visual integration, highlighting the crucial role of cortical feedback in the construction of seamless perceptual experien...
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! Check out Gongting Wang's EEG work on individual differences in scene perception: Scenes that are more typical for individual observers are represented in an enhanced yet more idiosyncratic way. Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Enhanced and idiosyncratic neural representations of personally typical scenes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Previous research shows that the typicality of visual scenes (i.e. if they are good examples of a category) determines how easily they can be perceived and represented in the brain. However, the uniqu...
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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
We search for an object in an array just like we search for a person in a crowd. Or no? Here the performance in visual search suggests distinct algorithms or implementation in social vs. non-social scene perception. With N. Goupil & @dkaiserlab.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
TeaP 2025 - It was a pleasure! 🤓😎
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hey hey! We‘re on the Cover of @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social. -check out our article on rhythmic representations in the visual system below. 👁️🧠🌊
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We make about 3-4 fast eye movements a second, yet our world appears stable. How is this possible? In a preprint led by @lucakaemmer.bsky.social we test the intriguing idea that anticipatory signals in the fovea may explain visual stability. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator in a store .
ALT: a woman in a white shirt is standing in front of a refrigerator in a store .
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Marius Peelen @peelen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In this review article, I summarize some of our recent work on the neural basis of visual search in scenes, showing how attention and expectation interactively drive preparatory activity in visual cortex and jointly modulate the visual processing of potential target objects. doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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Aurelio Bruno @aurelio-bruno.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
🔔🗣️NEW #PhD opportunity in #Psychology and #Neuroscience with Prof Neil Roach (Nottingham) and me (Leicester): This ESRC-funded project aims to use individual differences to study the socially relevant components of time perception. Application deadline: 24 February
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PhD Studentship: Using Individual Differences to Investigate the Socially Relevant Components of Time Perception at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership
Explore a PhD Studentship: Using Individual Differences to Investigate the Socially Relevant Components of Time Perception on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. The project involves a collaboration with brilliant @ljubapi.bsky.social. You can find the official advertisement below.👇
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Dirk Bernhardt-Walther @dirkbwalther.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Energy efficiency drives evolution, and humans may have evolved pleasure-based signals to optimize actions. Does this extend to aesthetic pleasure? Yes! We find strong evidence in silico and human observers! osf.io/preprints/ps... With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham. @uoftpsychology.bsky.social
Conceptual Roadmap of the present study. To examine the relationship between the metabolic costs of visual processing and aesthetic pleasure, we used both computational and physiological measures to quantify metabolic costs during visual processing: 1. Model-derived estimates of metabolic costs based on the activation of a deep neural network; 2. Metabolic activity of human brains, specifically in the visual processing areas. We found that both measures were inversely related to aesthetic pleasure.
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