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Chris Baker @cibaker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

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Jess Taubert @jesstaubert.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I’m delighted to share a new paper from our lab led by my PhD student Zihe Wei. In this study, Zihe used EEG to show that the human brain is equipped to encode multiple facial signals from the faces of strangers. Congratulations to Zihe! @amandakrobinson.bsky.social @cp-iscience.bsky.social

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Parallel processing of distinct facial signals for the rapid evaluation of social agents

Social sciences; Psychology

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/

Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.

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Susan Wardle @susanwardle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Now out in #JNeurosci -- we found changes in medial parietal cortex after manual exploration of everyday real-world objects doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... with Beth Rispoli, Vinai Roopchansingh & @cibaker.bsky.social

photo of a human hand holding a tiny gold analog clock, two brain pictures showing fMRI results in medial parietal cortex on the inflated cortical surface (one brain map is thresholded, the other is not)

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Jess Taubert @jesstaubert.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Congratulations to my PhD student, Christopher Buckland, who was recently interviewed by The Economist about his innovative work on studying face perception in naturalistic contexts. We agree - naturalistic experiments are (and should be) all the rage! www.economist.com/science-and-...

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How to study people who are very drunk

Naturalistic experiments are all the rage

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Amanda Robinson @amandakrobinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Excited to have this one out! We found that the perception of illusory faces relies on parallel brain representations of faces and objects with different dynamics, enabling flexible behaviour.

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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Job alert! The Psychology Department at NDSU is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Developmental Psychology, broadly defined. Please share widely & if you (or students/post-docs) have questions about the dept., about Fargo, or anything else please be in touch. #PsychSciSky #VisionScience

prd.hcm.ndus.edu

Careers

Faculty Position: Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology

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Jess Taubert @jesstaubert.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Delighted to share our latest paper in Communications Psychology on face pareidolia. doi.org/10.1038/s442...

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Jess Taubert @jesstaubert.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

🧠📣 New deadline! Submissions to our Scientific Reports special issue on Face Recognition & Prosopagnosia are now open until July 26, 2025. We're looking for cutting-edge work on the neural and cognitive basis of face perception—both typical and impaired. 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 14/04/2025

🧵 New paper alert! Ever wondered if a naturalistic smile grabs your attention just as fast as a posed one? We tested how quickly people look toward happy, neutral, and threatening faces—using real-world vs staged expressions. Spoiler: naturalistic faces are powerful. 👇

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Katrin Franke @katrinfranke.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Two more days until our workshop 🥳@cosynemeeting.bsky.social #Cosyne2025 Object-centric neural representations across species 🐒🐁🕷️🐝🖥️ Check out our homepage: toliaslab.org/workshop/cos... Excellent speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & many more 🙌

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Cosyne 2025 Object Centric Workshop

Website for the object centric workshop at 2025 COSYNE

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Jess Taubert @jesstaubert.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Our latest study in JEPHPP explores how we detect #facepareidolia under different task demands. Results like these keep providing clues that we are equipped to build multiple representations in parallel to flexibly support a diverse range of behavioural goals. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Join us for the CAJAL NeuroAI summer course in Lisbon July 14-Aug 1. We have a great line-up of speakers from a diverse range of topics across NeuroAI. Check out our website for more details and help us spread the word: cajal-training.org/on-site/neur... Applications are due March 7!

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NeuroAI - Neuroscience and AI

NeuroAI - Neuroscience and AI machine learningOn Site artificial intelligence On Site machine learning - data analysis - computational neuroscience

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Jess Taubert @jesstaubert.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Here, Koyano et al. show that 🐒 neurons in certain face patches barely react to pareidolia (illusory faces in objects). doi.org/10.1016/j.pn... To those who have argued that the brain "obviously" processes stimuli that look like faces as faces—it's not that simple.

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Liz Simpson @simpson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A happy face advantage for pareidolic faces in children and adults doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Happy and angry human and pareidolic faces (objects that look like faces) including a happy cup of coffee and angry loaf of bread.

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Susan Wardle @susanwardle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In this new perspective piece, we argue for an alternative framework of visual function in occipitotemporal cortex that prioritizes the behavioral relevance of visual properties in real-world environments.

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