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Marco Gandolfo @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New preprint ! 🎺 👇 We show that objects can facilitate scene recognition irrespectively to their semantical link to the scenes. TMS to Object-selective LOC eliminated such facilitation! Congratulations to Aaron for his first paper coming from a chunky master thesis project!

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Ingmar de Vries @ingmardevries.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

❗3x scholar-at-risk positions (2 post MSc, 1 postdoc) at Uni Trento (several departments incl. CIMeC)❗ 1 year + possibility of 1 year extension. Must hold asylum seeker / refuge or SAR status. Please contact me for more info. Please share!

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Marius Peelen @peelen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Recent work showed that top-down attentional templates can flexibly adjust to scene context to facilitate search. But do we actually use this mechanism in real-world search? In this review, we reflect on this question, showing when templates are flexible and when they are stable.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

New research from @peelen.bsky.social, shows our brain actively predicts how they should look based on the 3D structure of the environment. Even when objects are temporarily hidden from view, their expected orientation can be decoded from activity in the visual cortex. 👇 www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

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How the brain predicts objects in a changing world | Radboud University

In everyday life, we often encounter objects that are partially hidden or only seen from the corner of our eye. Our brain is remarkably good at keeping track of objects, and new research reveals how t...

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Giacomo Aldegheri @gialdegheri.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨 With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Philipp Kanske @kanske.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Full professorship in general psychology open @tudresden.bsky.social We are a lively department with a fantastically equipped neuroimaing center. DM me with questions. @dgps.bsky.social @dgps-fgal.bsky.social @biodgps-dgpa.bsky.social tu-dresden.de/vacancy/12517

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Sushrut Thorat @martisamuser.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

🎉 New paper, led by Jochem Koopmans & @peelen.bsky.social The classic “inverted letter looks upright” partial-report effect ("overflow") turns out to be mostly post-perceptual response bias, not a perceptual filling-in effect. w/ @drquekles.bsky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fig. 2. A) percentage of probe type selections (±SEmean), shown separately for UPR (left) and INV (right) trials. B) upright minus inverted selection differences (±SEmean) for target (T) and distractor (D) probes, shown separately for UPR and INV trials.

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Donders Institute @dondersinst.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Donders Institute seeks to appoint a new Scientific Director to lead our internationally oriented and interdisciplinary organisation 🌍🧠 Are you ready to help shape the future of brain, cognition, and behaviour research?👇 www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

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Scientific Director Donders Institute | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Scientific Director Donders Institute at the Donders Institute? Check our vacancy!

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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New paper with @peelen.bsky.social showing that objects in familiar configurations (e.g., 🍽️) facilitate one another by 200 ms of visual processing time. Out now in Cortex! 🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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The timecourse of inter-object contextual facilitation

High-level vision is frequently studied at the level of either individual objects or whole scenes. An intermediate level of visual organisation that h…

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

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Oscar Woolnough @owoolnough.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

For everyone out there working at the intersection of vision and language. We are currently accepting submissions for a Journal of Vision Special Issue on the vision-language interface Submission deadline: Dec 31st jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

Journal of Vision Special Issue
The vision-language interface
Call for papers
Vision and language are often considered to be separate cognitive systems, studied by separate research teams. However, they interact when we use vision for linguistic communication: when reading printed text, when describing verbally the things we see, and when observing the expressions and gestures of an interlocutor (during sign language, for example). The development of these critical skills changes the brain, such that the visual and language systems influence one another. In particular, regions of the cerebral cortex that are typically responsive to visual stimuli are also recruited for linguistic tasks. But some of those ideas are controversial. For instance, for well over a century scientists have debated whether the brains of literate individuals contain a region that is specialized for recognizing written
words.
The Journal of Vision invites submissions for a Special Issue on the interface between vision and language. The unique perspectives and techniques of vision science contribute much to the understanding of language. This special issue welcomes empirical papers that use behavioral/psychophysical, neuroimaging, electrophysiological and stimulation methods.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Functional specialization in the brain for reading and naming
- Semantic representations in the brain
- Letter recognition and perceptual learning
- Sign language comprehension
- Eye movements during reading or other linguistic tasks
- Development of visual skills for reading and communication
- Links between visual cortical activity and representations in large language models
- Visual processing differences in dyslexia
Editors:
Susana Chung
Kalanit Grill-Spector
Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga
Hans Op de Beeck
Zeynep Saygin
Alex White
Oscar Woolnough
Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2025. All
papers will be subject to peer review.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

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Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

How fast do we extract distance cues from scenes 🛤️🏞️🏜️ and integrate them with retinal size 🧸🐻 to infer real object size? Our new EEG study in Cortex has answers! w/ @dkaiserlab.bsky.social @suryagayet.bsky.social @peelen.bsky.social Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The neural time course of size constancy in natural scenes

Accurate real-world size perception relies on size constancy, a mechanism that integrates an object's retinal size with distance information. The neur…

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Karin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Protect international education in Dutch Academia! openletter.earth/against-lang...

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Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

An open letter supporting the international bachelor’s psychology programs threatened for cuts. Proceeding with these cuts would damage some of the most important and impactful psychology departments globally. #supportdutchpsychology openletter.earth/against-lang...

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Against Language Barriers: A Call to Protect International Education in Dutch Academia

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Timo van Kerkoerle @timovankerkoerle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We have a very exciting 4-year PhD position available at the @dondersinst.bsky.social, to better understand how neuronal populations generate magnetic fields and how to measure those intracranially, with Corette Wierenga & @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social. For more info: neuronanotech.eu/phd-projects...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Unpacking similarity effects in visual memory search: categorical, semantic, and visual contributions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Abstract submission is now open, closes May 20th!

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Ambra Ferrari @ambrafer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It's CAOS time! Join us in beautiful Rovereto with a fantastic lineup of speakers: event.unitn.it/cimec-caos/

Workshop on Concepts Actions and Objects 7-9 May 2025

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

We are extremely excited to announce the 4th edition of the Metacognitive Science Meeting (formerly known as the Perceptual Metacognition Satellite) - to be held on August 11th 2025, right before @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in Amsterdam! For info and how to submit: sites.google.com/view/metacog...

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This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. About this meeting The Metacognitive Science Meeting grew out of an ...

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Marco Gandolfo @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣 In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️ @dondersinst.bsky.social Open access link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A body detection inversion effect revealed by a large-scale inattentional blindness experiment

As a social species, humans preferentially attend to the faces and bodies of other people. Previous research revealed specialized cognitive mechanisms…

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Marius Peelen @peelen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

In this review article, I summarize some of our recent work on the neural basis of visual search in scenes, showing how attention and expectation interactively drive preparatory activity in visual cortex and jointly modulate the visual processing of potential target objects. doi.org/10.1177/0963...

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Visual Cognitive Neuroscience by Marius V. Peelen: doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.d3438ecd

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Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

How do our brains generate predictive models of unfolding events? We're seeking for a *postdoc* to address this question in my lab: sites.google.com/site/moritzf...

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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city. ➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... ⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025 Questions: s.rossit@uea.ac.uk

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a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible

ALT: a black and white image of a person 's brain with the letters p and s visible

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Dorothy Cowie @dorothycowie.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Ok, now that we are all here … *please share* this invite to IMRF in our beautiful Durham 2025! Abstracts open in Jan. imrf2025.sciencesconf.org @meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social

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Genevieve Quek @drquekles.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

👀 🚨 New scholarship available! We're hiring a PhD student to work on the neural basis of face perception, part of a collaboration between @marcsinstitute.bsky.social and #UNSW. DMs open if you want more info 🧠 #neurojobs

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Pieter Medendorp @pmedendorp.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Kom bij ons werken! Wij zoeken een docent/coördinator voor de nieuwe bachelor-opleiding Humane Neurowetenschappen (www.ru.nl/opleidingen/...) die van start zal gaan in 2026. Voor sollicitaties, volg: www.ru.nl/werken-bij/v...

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Marius Peelen @peelen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My inaugural lecture of last week "Visual Cognitive Neuroscience: Exploring the fuzzy boundary between seeing and thinking" is now online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T6Q...

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Inaugural Lecture Marius Peelen

YouTube video by Donders Institute

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Marco Gandolfo @marco-gandolfo.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

New Preprint ! We use Mack and Rock's inattentional blindness task on a large sample of museum visitors (N = 13539!). Person silhouettes led to a stimulus specific inversion effect for detection. Even in absence of top-down attention, the visual system is ready to detect the upright human form!

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Talia Brandman @taliabrandman.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Seen our latest paper yet? With MEG we show that objects sharpen the neural representation of ambiguous scenes at a similar timeframe as we have seen the contextual effect of scenes on objects. It's a bidirectional relationship in the visual system. w/ Marius Peelen doi.org/10.1093/cerc... 🧠📈 🧪

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