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Paul Linton

@lintonvision.bsky.social
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3D Vision + Visual Experience / NOMIS Fellow @ItalianAcademy / Presidential Scholar @columbiacss / Affiliate @KriegeskorteLab + @ZuckermanBrain Website: linton.vision

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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975
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SPAN @socphilneuro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We're very happy to announce that SPAN2027 will be held at NYU on May 20-22, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness 🧠 A call for proposals will come soon!
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hakwan lau @hakwan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited ....
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Hitting and missing on consciousness
Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited in clinical an....
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Jody Culham's Lab @culhamari-lab.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our Annual Review of Vision Science paper on "Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World" with @evadeligiannis.bsky.social is officially out and available through open access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World
Vision science has demonstrated considerable success in characterizing early- and mid-level visual processes through reductionism and tightly controlled experiments. However, an understanding of high-...
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Katie Insel @katieinsel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!
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Preparing to Apply | Department of Psychology
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Pay attention to Arthur: he’s breathing fresh life into psychophysics.
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Arthur Prat @arthurpr4t.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception; arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).
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kriegeskorte.bsky.social @kriegeskorte.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
To learn how brains compute, we need to experimentally adjudicate among competing computational hypotheses. How do we do this in the age of complex neural network models? New review paper: “Making models disagree to learn how brains compute” with @talgolanneuro.bsky.social @heikoschuett.bsky.social
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Jean-Paul Noel @jpnoel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
First Noel Lab Pre-print! If you are into "peri-personal space" and feel like we need more single cell recordings, this one is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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An egocentric map prioritizing peri-personal space in the mouse rostro-lateral visual area
All physical interactions between an organism and its environment occur within the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding its body, its peripersonal space (PPS). This space has been extensively...
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Tal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16
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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New preprint! Have you ever wanted to measure psychometric functions in high-dimensional stimulus spaces, but realised that this is infeasible? We present and validate a technique to adaptively estimate psychometric functions for stimulus spaces up to 50 dimensions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Adaptive experiments in high-dimensional feature spaces: A particle filtering approach
Behavioral experiments are often infeasible when stimulus spaces have many dimensions or when testing time is limited. One way to address this challenge is adaptive stimulus selection, where informati...
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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thanks so much Megan for such an amazing talk. It wouldn’t have been a consciousness satallite without you!!
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The replies and quote posts: an intense combination of heartbreak and resilience.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
heading home to London from #CCN2026 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social after fantastic conference, 2 amazing satellites: Comp Consciousness Sci organized by @lintonvision.bsky.social & our own #MetaCogSci w/ @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @dobyrahnev.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social in absentia.
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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Calling on the community to band together and contribute to this Replication Project. Check out Luca’s poster if you’re at #CCN2026!
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Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) @mmb-journal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Today is the 5th anniversary of the #MetaCogSci meeting! With @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social -- cannot wait! www.metacognitivescience.org
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Eivinas Butkus @eivinas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Do world models emerge in neural networks trained for prediction? Generative Adversarial Collaboration (GAC) at #CCN2026
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇
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Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI
Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, but at an extraordinary energy cost. Training and running large-sca…
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Now officially published: our paper "Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision" w/ @smfleming.bsky.social, with the commentaries, and our response: Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49
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X. Michael Wang @drwxy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One of the biggest limitations of today’s VR headsets is the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC). Most approaches try to solve it with new hardware. Our new paper asks a different question: Can we compensate for it computationally instead? 🧵
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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
My reply to @liadmudrik.bsky.social et al.'s proposal that we should reengineer @neddo.bsky.social's famous phenomenal/access distinction.
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New paper alert from our lab! nature.com/articles/s41... We used stimuli sequences following 1/f statistical patterns—an ubiquitous statistical structure in natural stimuli—to probe predictive processing in the human brain. How does the brain predict upcoming sensory inputs based on past inputs?
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Neural mechanisms of time-forward predictions for naturalistic auditory tone sequences - Nature Communications
A longstanding question is how the brain predicts complex, naturalistic sensory events and updates those predictions when expectations are violated. Using intracranial recordings, the authors show tha...
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social
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Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Over 200 people registered! Come join us!
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I wrote the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science entry on 'Intuitive Physics': oecs.mit.edu/pub/m27ympza... --- for those who don't know it yet, OECS (@oecs-bot.bsky.social) has accessible, informative, free, serious entries on many basic topics in cognitive science
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Our major conceptual and technical update on findings that describe a new medial temporal lobe (MTL) computation, now posted. Kudos to Simon Bohn for listening to community feedback, thinking hard, and solidifying what these clear differences between brain regions imply. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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A two-stage algorithm underlies the transformation from vision to familiarity in the primate brain
How is the act of seeing an image transformed into the memory that it has been seen? To investigate, we leveraged the systematic variation with which some images are better remembered than others, ima...
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Aaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · 01/07/2026
On the last day of SIGGRAPH this year, we will hold a new technical workshop called "From Human Vision to Machine Vision", with talks ranging from low-level human visual perception, to applied perception, art & photography, and to machine vision. #SIGGRAPH For more info, see: fromhv2mv.github.io
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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
check out the inaugural cohort of @neuromatch.bsky.social AI Sentience Scholars! this is a seriously impressive bunch!
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
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Understanding the brain in theory and practice
A series of interactive workshops on building better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience.
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thank you for the invitation! I will hopefully not be a zombie after coming straight from the airport!
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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Delighted Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) is able to join us as a speaker! Over 160 people registered so far! Full schedule: computationalconsciousness.github.io
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
If you join this committee, your ideas will influence the educations & scientific trajectories of thousands of students. Neuromatch's interactive student body has topped 14,000, estimated 40,000 engaging with Neuromatch activities & materials. One of the most impactful things you can do in science!
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New work with Roberta Raileanu: A Compositional Framework for Open-ended Intelligence Open-ended intelligence is the capacity to adapt to novel problems & environments that are substantially different from those seen in training. But most models of open-mindedness don't have compositionality. 1/n
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A Compositional Framework for Open-ended Intelligence
Open-ended intelligence is the capacity to adapt to novel problems and environments that are substantially different from those in training. A mathematics of open-ended intelligence requires two pilla...
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Open post-doc position in the study of perceptual fluctuations Position: post-doctoral (2 years) Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV) Deadline: September 4th, 2026 Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility) (1/8)
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New paper draft: On Cheap Artificial Consciousness. When investigating AI consciousness, it's natural to look at what theories of consciousness tell us. Problem: you can build simple systems that meet their conditions. So, what should we say? A thread. (Paper in the last post)
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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Over 100 people registered! Come join us!
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Pinyuan Feng (Tony) @tonyfeng.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Excited to announce #CCN2026 satellite event: Modeling and Understanding Human Brain Computation at Scale Organized with Hossein Adeli, Fan Cheng, Andrew Luo, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Link for details and registration: tinyurl.com/3jf2urze @cogcompneuro.bsky.social
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Matteo Lisi @mlisi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New paper out ! 📣 Across a careful and extensive set of experiments spearheaded by @rimskyrobert.bsky.social, we show that conscious access to a word’s meaning can occur *without* access to its appearance or low-level sensory features. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@cogcompneuro.bsky.social Satellite Event: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE Saturday, 1 August 2026 New York University Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness #CCN2026
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Gal Vishne @neurogal.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So excited to be a part of this, join us!!
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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@cogcompneuro.bsky.social Satellite Event: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE Saturday, 1 August 2026 New York University Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness #CCN2026
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Perception / i-Perception @pec-ipe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field.
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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I really enjoyed this terrific review by two terrific scientists. It tackles challenging and deep ideas about the neural basis of cognitively complex behavior in an accessible way. Highly recommended!
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Cheng Xue @cxue.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Excited to share our new review in Trends in Neuroscience with Gouki Okazawa @gouki-okazawa.bsky.social : "The 'neat' and 'messy' in task-dependent neural geometry and computation" where we reviewed what we know about the 'task-manager' in the brain. A thread 👇
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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New paper: "Introspection and Scientific Data" for the Handbook of Introspection, about the role of introspection in the production of scientific data. My view: introspection doesn't deliver a special 'subjective' kind of data and there's nothing special about studying consciousness.
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚀 PhD position in #NeuroAI & neurodevelopment 🚀 Co-supervised by Sarah Lippé and myself, to investigate visual processing & cognition abnormalities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders in a neuroAI framework. Full project details and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/kbuyntpn 🧠🤖 📈
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Alexander Mathis @trackingskills.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I‘m looking for postdoc candidates in computer vision and control theory (2 positions). Get in touch if you’re interested.
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