Lukas Vogelsang @lukasvogelsang.bsky.social · 11/05/20261/ Excited to be at #VSS2026 soon! Come to my #VSS talk (Sun, 3pm) and #MODVIS talk (Thu, 9:30am) to hear about Gestalt grouping in children treated for blindness late in life, and developmentally inspired deep networks! 3133
Reposted by Lukas VogelsangVlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 28/01/2026This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a @fitngin.bsky.social working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research @lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵sciencedirect.comDeep learning in fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging researchArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into everyday tasks and work environments. However, its adoption in medical image analys… 22914
Reposted by Lukas VogelsangCliona O'Doherty @clionaod.bsky.social · 02/02/20261/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs. 415570
Reposted by Lukas VogelsangRhodri Cusack @rhodricusack.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Thanks to fellow defenders @clionaod.bsky.social, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, and @charvetcj.bsky.social Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDefending the foundation model view of infant development 3179
Reposted by Lukas VogelsangVlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social is now out in Science Advances! We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime doi.org/10.1126/scia...doi.orgFast and robust visual object recognition in young childrenThe visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models. 211137
Lukas Vogelsang @lukasvogelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Excited to share our new review in #AnnualReviews Psychology on the role of time in perceptual organization! doi.org/10.1146/annu...doi.orgThe Temporal Scaffolding of Sensory OrganizationHow a developing nervous system discovers meaning in complex sensory inputs has typically been examined separately for each sensory modality. Even as studies have uncovered modality-specific strategie... 092
Lukas Vogelsang @lukasvogelsang.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Looking forward to #CCN2025! Please come say hi! On Monday, as part of the ‘From Child to Machine Learning’ Satellite sites.google.com/view/child2m... (3-6pm), I look forward to give a talk about our past work probing the hypothesis that visual degradations in early development may be adaptive.sites.google.comCCN 2025 Satellite EventBackground The human visual system is full of optimisations—mechanisms designed to extract the most useful information from a constant stream of incoming data. The field of neuro-AI has made significa... 190
Lukas Vogelsang @lukasvogelsang.bsky.social · 10/07/20251/ New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com, led by @marinv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1038/s420...! Across several past studies, we showed how newborns' degraded vision may benefit human development and inspire more robust deep networks. We have referred to this as Adaptive Initial Degradations (AID).doi.orgPotential role of developmental experience in the emergence of the parvo-magno distinction - Communications BiologyDevelopmentally-driven computational modeling study suggests that early sensory experience shapes distinct neuronal response properties in the visual system, providing a potential account of the emerg... 13113