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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Scientific battle time! I just pre-printed a new commentary: (doi.org/10.31234/osf...) in response to an interesting paper published in @elife.bsky.social last week, by @talboger.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you are at #ECVP2026 drop by my poster this afternoon on categorical storage of visual working memory content. TLDR: humans are lazy. Memorizing color category instead of hue reduces memory load. Thus, recall is biased toward category prototypes, especially when attentional resources are low.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rise and shine #ECVP2026 At 10:45 (Bayview Suite) @lassedietz.bsky.social talks about how temporal expectations enhance perception. Using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging #RIFT he shows enhanced visual cortex excitability prior to an expected stimulus, predicting subsequent perceptual reports.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today at #ECVP2026 @arora-borealis.bsky.social will talk about how attention moves through space: does it travel or teleport? Come to the attention session in Tregonwell Hall at 18:15. Even if you don't care about attention, his talks are always worth attending, if only for the visuals :-)

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

But now with the correct time for Lasse's talk 😅 See you all tomorrow!

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Looking forward to seeing you all at ECVP2026 in Bournemouth! If you a see a cap (or @arora-borealis.bsky.social & @lassedietz.bsky.social with a CAP-Lab logo) don't hesitate to drag us into a conversation about RIFT, working memory, consciousness, attention, or -just- life. See you there! #ECVP

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Killer Kabir went at it again! We asked a simple question, when you shift attention to a task-relevant location, does attention TRAVEL or TELEPORT (i.e., does it enhance visual processing along its path, or only at the intended endpoint)? See the thread & preprint below: #RIFT #EEG #Attention

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Wooow! @danwang7.bsky.social just won the Early Career Excellence Award at the APCV/EPC 2026 meeting! As her supervisor in the past 3 yrs, I have seen so much professional & personal growth. It makes me incredibly proud that this was also seen by an independent jury on the other side of the planet.

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Alex J. Hoogerbrugge @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Investigations into whether we can search for multiple targets in a simultaneous fashion have led to mixed findings. In this new PsychScience article, we report that people CAN search concurrently, but don't always DO so... 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Results figure, showing that, when instructed, participants can either search sequentially or concurrently for multiple items

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

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LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision

LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.

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Damian Koevoet @dkoevoet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Past experiences shape current selection. But when and how strong are past and present targets represented in the brain? In our newest paper, we show that past and present search targets are concurrently represented in the brain. Out now in @plosbiology.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience

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Past and present goals are represented concurrently during visual search

Past experience and our current goals guide what information to focus on. But how and when does the brain represent the past and the present? This new study shows that the brain represents the past an...

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

New paper alert: very proud to share our review published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, spearheaded by @maellelerebourg.bsky.social, and together with @peelen.bsky.social and @predictivebrain.bsky.social, about goal-directed search in real-world environments. See below for a thread/tldr!

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My first TEDx talk just came out. It's always fun to talk about your own research area to the general audience, and its even more fun when you are lucky enough to be supported by such a platform. Happy to hear your thoughts :-) youtu.be/UyUclyHx8d8?...

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How reality is simulated by your brain | Surgya Gayet | TEDxEindhoven

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It has been cooking in the oven for quite some years, but I am very proud of this work that just got published in Science Advances - spearheaded by the awesome Giacomo Aldegheri:

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Looking forward to talk about our recent rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) work as part of the Conscious Club - online talks organized by @smfleming.bsky.social, @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, and others at UCL. Tune in tomorrow (note the time below is in UK time)!

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Looking forward to seeing everyone again at NVP (@brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social) today. The CAP-Lab is well represented, with 4 posters and 4 talks. (Also, check the CAP-Lab website, www.cap-lab.net, for a number of recent publications.) Ending the year with a BANG. See you all there 💜

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Liangyou Zhang @liangyouzhang.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology! Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability? Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi

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Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses

Communications Biology - Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors....

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Celebration time 🥳 @liangyouzhang.bsky.social publishes the 1st empirical paper of his PhD! We show that numerosity adaptation (a seemingly high-level stim property) suppresses neural responses in early visual cortex; these adaptation FX increase as we progress thru the visual processing hierarchy.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Very proud of this great piece of multi-lab work by Kabir & Husta, et al. Want to measure attention across the visual field (without interfering with ongoing perceptual/attentional processes)? Use RIFT! Here we share our how-to-RIFT knowledge, including analysis code, quantitative comparisons, ..

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Wait whut!? Doing science with the awesome RR?? Go for it y'all! Can heavily recommend :-)

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If you are up for a nice academic battle, consider responding to our BBS paper "Studying unconscious processing: contention and consensus". The deadline is October 15th. Link below!

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...

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Dissociating external and internal attentional selection

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing! Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Looking forward to joining #ECVP2025 tomorrow. CAP-Lab is well represented, with 3 talks (@lassedietz.bsky.social on Monday, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social and I on Tuesday), and 2 posters (by @danwang7.bsky.social on Tuesday, and @yichen-yuan.bsky.social on Wednesday). Please come by for a chat! 💜

Overview of CAP-Lab presentations at ECVP 2025:

Lasse Dietz: Anticipated relevance modulates early visual processing
Monday 14:45, talk @ Linke Aula Learning & Memory

Surya Gayet: Perceptual precedence for expected and dreaded visual events
Tuesday 8:30, talk @ RW 1 Using interocular suppression during consciousness research

Kabir Arora: Dissociating external and internal attentional selection
Tuesday 9:15, talk @ Atrium Maximum Object Recognition & Visual Attention

Dan Wang: Unraveling the time course of attentional capture: an EEG-RIFT study
Tuesday 15:30-17:00, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum

Yichen Yuan: Decoding auditory working memory load from alpha oscillations
Wednesday 10:00-11:30, poster @ Foyer Philosophicum

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Looking forward to @compcogneuro.bsky.social's #CCN2025, which takes place in my backyard this year. If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit @lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri. [1/2]

Overview of CAP-Lab presentations at CCN 2025.

Lasse Dietz: Anticipated relevance modulates early visual processing
Tuesday 12:30-16:30, poster A132 @ E-Hall Visual Processing & Computational Vision

Liangyou Zhang: Attention alters numerosity tuning in the human brain
Wednesday 12:30-16:30, poster B54 @ De Brug Object Recognition & Visual Attention

Kabir Arora: Tracking covert attention over space and time using RIFT
Wednesday 12:30-16:30, poster C144 @ E-Hall Object Recognition & Visual Attention

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Happy to see this one out in BBS: a multi-lab collaborative effort toward achieving consensus on (10) best practices for researching unconscious processes, and a discussion of (9) outstanding issues. Kudos to Francois, Maor, Liad, & Nathan for leading this project. Looking forward to the responses!

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Maor Schreiber @maorschreiber.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects! Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨ osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Looking for a PhD in visual cognitive neuroscience, within a colorful lab with a very smart and fun PI? Rosanne is recruiting! I would apply if I wasn't this old.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This was loads of fun! Thanks @docdocdunk.bsky.social and @jthee.bsky.social for the invitation, and for letting us share some of our latest RIFT projects.

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

1/ Can AI be conscious? My Behavioral & Brain Sciences target article on ‘Conscious AI and Biological Naturalism’ is now open for commentary proposals. Deadline is June 12. Take-home: real artificial consciousness is very unlikely along current trajectories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological

Call for Commentary Proposals - Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism

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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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theeuweslab.bsky.social @theeuweslab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Thanks to the support of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and @knaw-nl.bsky.social , we're thrilled to announce the international symposium "Advances in the Encephalographic study of Attention"! 🧠🔍 📅 Date: June 25th & 26th 📍 Location: Trippenhuis, Amsterdam

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micha heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Higher-level spatial prediction in natural vision across mouse visual cortex

Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...

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Paul Bogdan @pbogdan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

🚨New paper!🚨 Meta-analysis on 4M p-values across 240k psych articles: How has psychology changed since the replication crisis began? How is replicability linked to citations, impact factor, and university prestige? 🧵 Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Interactive: pbogdan.com/meganal

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

While @andresahakian.bsky.social wraps up his thesis (and uploads a bunch of preprints) we share this paper here that came out a while ago, but remained under the radar: we investigated how penalties for external sampling and for making errors differentially affect (unrestricted) working memory use.

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Jan Theeuwes @jthee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Through experience, humans can learn to suppress locations that frequently contain distracting stimuli. Using SSVEPs and ERPs, this study shows that such learned suppression modulates early neural responses, indicating it occurs during initial visual processing. www.jneurosci.org/content/jneu...

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Ian Phillips @ianbphillips.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...

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Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness

As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Our study using layer fMRI to study the direction of communication between the hippocampus and cortex during perceptual predictions is finally out in Science Advances! Predicted-but-omitted shapes are represented in CA2/3 and correlate specifically with deep layers of PHC, suggesting feedback. 🧠🟦

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Communication of perceptual predictions from the hippocampus to the deep layers of the parahippocampal cortex

High-resolution neuroimaging reveals stimulus-specific predictions sent from hippocampus to the neocortex during perception.

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Good morning #VSS2025, if you care for a chat about the role of attention in binding object features (during perceptual encoding and memory maintenance), drop by my poster now (8:30-12:30) in the pavilion (422). Hope to see you there!

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Tomorrow morning @pieterbarkema.bsky.social will present our 7T fMRI study revealing neural correlates of a postdictive illusion in V1. Very exciting about these results, feedback & Qs welcome! Talk 42.23 in session on multisensory processing, 10:45am - 12:15pm #VSS2025 #neuroskyence #visionscience

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

If you are at #VSS2025, come to @chrispaffen.bsky.social talk (room 2 at 3PM), where he discusses how binocular conflict in real-world vision may be resolved in an adaptive manner (favoring either nasal or temporal hemi-fields) to optimally perceive partially occluded objects of interest.

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AttentionLab Utrecht University @attentionlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

@vssmtg.bsky.social presentations today! R2, 15:00 @chrispaffen.bsky.social: Functional processing asymmetries between nasal and temporal hemifields during interocular conflict R1, 17:15 @dkoevoet.bsky.social: Sharper Spatially-Tuned Neural Activity in Preparatory Overt than in Covert Attention

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Surya Gayet @suryagayet.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

While we are enjoying the Floridian beach, a paper came out in Cortex, spearheaded by killer EEG'er Lu (whith this amazing bunch of coauthors). We find that object size is initially derived solely from retinal image size, and combined with distance cues from the scene context about 150ms later.

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