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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The analysis of various DNNs providing artificial models of biological vision, showed the animate-inanimate distinction emerged already from earlier layers of the networks, modelling early and middle visual areas.

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Results showed that the distinctive EEG neural signature of categorization was very strong when images of objects were intact or in greyscale. But, it remained, although weaker, for images that only retained color, shape and texture information.

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thus, say, a fish could appear in its full colorful version, or in a number of versions that progressively removed features. We quantitatively compare the neural responses across versions and relate them to behavioral categorization and representation at different layers of DNNs

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Using frequency-tagging EEG in humans, we assessed the distinction between animals vs. other objects measuring a neural ‘categorization responses’ across multiple stimulus manipulations that systematically affected high, mid and low level features

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humans are remarkably good at recognizing other animals from appearance🐾 Our new study in J Cogn Neurosci @MITPress shows this ability is surprisingly resilient to visual information loss, using EEG, behavioral measures, and deep neural networks. With @jrhochmann.bsky.social C. Spriet F. Rostami 🧵👇

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

We are in Rome to take part in the @escaneu.bsky.social conference. Looking forward to seeing many colleagues and friends 😎 #ESCAN2026 👇Here is where you can find us👇

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The excellent article of @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social proposes three core categories underlying human understanding of social relationship. In a commentary, we explore how infants come to discover such categories in the first place. I recommend both readings 😎 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I am beyond excited to be part of an event at the La Biennale di Venezia in which a community scientists will develop a bridge to the Biennale's theme "In Minor Keys," with a focus on introspection, emotions and the forms of knowledge developed through the body. www.ub.edu/eventlab/Ven...

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Studies seem to show that research is becoming less ‘disruptive’ of established ideas. And this is a problem. @nature.com

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

10 years ago we identified a stage in social-event processing in which perception recognizes that two social agents are connected. A new study now shows that this stage is fully encapsulated from language and semantics. Soon to appear in @APA JEP:HPP Preprint osf.io/ngjwu/files/...

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

RDV le mercredi 29 avril pour la 3e édition de nos « Conversations autour des bébés » 👶🏻  Notre Baby Lab @babylyon.bsky.social ouvre ses portes pour une conférence grand public sur le développement du langage, suivie d’un cocktail 🍸 Participation gratuite. Plus que quelques places disponibles!

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I’m very excited to be giving a talk today at the Université Sorbonne in Paris. I’ll be reflecting on how our work over the past few years can help shed light on the origins of human language. More about the program 👉 crlao.cnrs.fr/en/2026/03/j...

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It’s a privilege today to join a lineup of true legends in celebrating Alfonso Caramazza, in a place that means so much to me. @harvard.edu

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

It’s a wrap! I had an incredible time at the NYUAD Institute discussing frontier neuroscience alongside an outstanding lineup of speakers. Truly inspiring conversations and new ideas to carry forward. Thank you to David Melcher and Olivia Cheung for organizing this and having me there.

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

So proud and honored to have shared the floor with amazing women scientists for a panel discussion on Women in Neuroscience at NYU Abu Dhabi. It’s appalling to see that no matter where you are, women in science face the same big challenges. But changes are happening and we now have each other 💪

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Visiting the Biotech in Geneve and discovering a vibrant scientific community and the most exciting research in neuroscience. Such a blast!!!

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

The beautiful Hall of Mirrors that today hosts an exciting symposium on “The underconceptualization of everyday life”, put together by @ericman.bsky.social 🤩 with @bpomie.bsky.social @benedek.bsky.social and myself at the ESPP conference in Warsaw. So much to think about !

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Today at #ECVP25 @mmellon.bsky.social presented new data of an #fNIRS study providing the first evidence of selectivity for social interaction events in visual cortex in 6- and 10-month-old babies 👶🏻 Tempting to think that this reveals where social perception begins in the brain 🧠 @ecvp.bsky.social

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

At the #ECVP2025 today Violette Munin presented her new fMRI work on the visual stream for processing social information. If you are around and want to continue the discussion, we are here for this ☺️ Stay tuned for more talk from our lab in the upcoming days! @ecvp.bsky.social @isc-mj.bsky.social

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

And here is Violette Munin celebrating her first first author paper with a wonderful marble cake 😍

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Two key findings: • Key regions of the social-interaction network (pSTS, EVA and MT) show selectivity to social interaction also when depicted in static images. Thus, motion is not necessary to trigger the social interaction network

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

🚨 new paper out! Perception of motion and of social interactions are two processes that happen to be localized around the same brain anatomy: lateral occipitotemporal areas. Is motion necessary to see social interactions network? link.springer.com/article/10.1... @cnrs.fr @babylyon.bsky.social

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We found that it takes no longer to access the category of objects (people vs other) in a scene, than to access the relation between them (facing vs non-facing), while recognizing their (inter)action (fight or dance) takes significantly longer.

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We presented scenes showing two people (or two objects). We designed a behavioral paradigm to compare how much it takes to recognize that: • There are people (vs other objects) • They are facing vs facing away from each other • They are dancing vs fighting

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

You wouldn’t drink from a glass if a fish is IN the glass, or would not grab a chair if one is already sitting ON it. How do we represent relations between things? And how does it relate to object and action recognition? New paper out osf.io/preprints/ps... @mmellon.bsky.social

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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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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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Heading to Marburg (Germany) to take part in an exciting event around brain and cognition 🧠 😎 🌈 @jlugiessen.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Today, Italy has its most important celebration: the Liberation day, the anniversary of Resistance and the Liberation from Fascism. Happy April 25 to all! ✊

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We are not used to seeing our amphitheaters so crowded, especially not with an audience of non-scientists. But yesterday we saw it. People care about science. Scientists should be activists in building a society based on knowledge and scientific culture @babylyon.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @cnrs.fr

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I’m excited to co-host an open event (sold out!) for the large, amazing community of families, teachers and clinicians around @babylyon.bsky.social where we’ll provide the scientific perspective on the hot -and largely misunderstood- topic of “screens & kids” @cnrs.fr @universitelyon.bsky.social

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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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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Alon Hafri & I wrote a thing! We touch base with research on scene perception and outline the advances and open questions raised by the perspective that processing relations (between objects) is a central function of visual perception. osf.io/preprints/ps... @cnrs.bsky.social @udelaware.bsky.social

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Following Roman Wittig @taichimpproject.bsky.social presentation, some facts about human brain: It takes 2% of body weight but demands 20% of body energy. This’s because we have an immense cognitive capacity that defines what we are. My take: We’ve no excuses for being the id$¥s that we often are!

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We end a day of discussions around the values of research in Europe and an inspiring lecture by Philippe Sands on memory and identity. Thank you @britishacademy.bsky.social for working with the @ercgrantees.bsky.social with the common goal to promote and protect the freedom of scientific research

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Join the @ercgrantees.bsky.social for the next Science & Society webinar "From Nazism in Europe to European Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Memory, Identity, and Other Engagements Across a Continent." by Prof. Philippe Sands on Jan 22 The lecture will be livestreamed via vimeo.com/event/4850726

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

We also found that human adults automatically encode social scenes in terms of agent and patient (based on postures and spatial relations), even when not required by the task and even for scenes that are not easy to describe verbally Soon out in JEP:Gen osf.io/3w59v/

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What would you do if you weren’t a scientist? Me:

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

(Re)introducing the cognitive development and neuropsychology team at the Institute of Cognitive Science @cnrs.bsky.social Fall version 🍁 🍂 🍄‍🟫🍇 @emilieserra.bsky.social @mmellon.bsky.social @jrhochmann.bsky.social

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 10/09/2024

What we mean when we say semantic? In this paper a large pool of researchers led by the great (and brave) @jamiereillycog.bsky.social get together to discuss possible answers, while reaching new heights of collaborative and inclusive effort in academia 🫂 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Cues for agent/patient role assignment were purely visual, corresponding to postures (e.g. in A: agent/boy is in a more dynamic and leaning forward posture) or spatial positioning (in B: the agent/boy could reach and act on the other but not the opposite)

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Infants were tolerant to changes in body postures/movements, but not if those changes implied a change of roles. That is, they showed surprise when, say, the boy looked like the agent and the girl looked like the patient in trial n-1, but the opposite was true in trial n👇

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Two independent paradigms and methodologies (habituation and pupillometry) were used to record the surprise response of 7-month-olds 🤔when, in sequences of dyadic social interactions, we introduced a change in the appearance of the two interacting individuals (a boy and a girl)

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

The September issue @CurrentBiology What do infants think when they see social interactions? 👶🏻 The representation of interacting people as agent and patient reveals a language-of-thought before language development www.cell.com/current-biol... @jrhochmann.bsky.social @babylyon.bsky.social 🧵👇

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Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social · 17/01/2024

Yes another fantastic study from our @BabyLyon11 @ISC_MJ asking whether and how babies understand technological devices Full paper @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… Find a report by the @CNRS insb.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/le Special ambassador for the release: my little Amos 😍

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