iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We often say that humans struggle to produce random sequences… but what if that's not the whole story? In a new paper, @dorsaamir.bsky.social, @samiyousif.bsky.social & I show that context matters (a lot!). When playing strategic games, humans can produce near-random behavior osf.io/preprints/ps...

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mahwishkittur.bsky.social @mahwishkittur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

After years of analyzing thousands of drawings from hundreds of adults and children, I am excited to share my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social )! Using a simple drawing task, we show how topological structure is represented in the mind and its importance in spatial memory.

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Topological structure in human spatial representation revealed through drawing

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Gabe Waterhouse @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Now out in JEP:G (w/ samiyousif.bsky.social)! Here, we explore what quantities (e.g., number, area, size) are perceived most automatically (and spoiler: it’s more complicated than we thought!). psycnet.apa.org/record/2028-...

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Do we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

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Gabe Waterhouse @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

When you look at a complex scene, you perceive various ensembles — sets of items of various sizes, numbers, etc. Are some more salient than others? In a new paper (w/ samiyousif.bsky.social), we provide an answer to this question! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Sadly I will not be at VSS this year, but here's what our lab is up to! (In solidarity with many VSS attendees, however, I may be foregoing many hours of sleep -- not for long walks on the beach but due to the anticipated arrival of a second child any day now...)

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Recently, (recommended) prices at @joinprolific.bsky.social have doubled. Simultaneously, data quality and collection speed seem to have gone down noticeably (especially speed). Are others having this experience? These changes make the platform significantly less viable for our lab.

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you. www.cogdevlab.org

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Sami Yousif @samiyousif.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Visual adaptation is viewed as a test of whether a feature is represented by the visual system. In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Can we “see” value? Spatiotopic “visual” adaptation to an imperceptible dimension

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Gabe Waterhouse @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I am excited to announce my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social ) about a new illusion of *number*: the “Crowd Size Illusion”. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Gabe Waterhouse @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

I am very excited to be presenting my work with @samiyousif.bsky.social at #VSS2025 tomorrow! I will be talking about a new illusion of number perception that we call the “Crowd Size Illusion”!

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