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Tarryn Balsdon

@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
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Researcher in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in perception, metacognition, and decision-making

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/10/2026
this video of Chlöe Swarbrick, who leads the Greens in New Zealand's parliament, is worth your five minutes' time
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A big thanks to everyone who contributed to the confidence & decision-making workshop yesterday! @lsp-ens.bsky.social
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The best thing about having to defend another thesis is the opportunity to feel grateful to all the people who have helped me along the way! Thank you for your advice, feedback, moral support, I hope to pay it forward
Picture of me and the final slide of my HDR defence - a long list of names of people who have helped me along the way
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congratulations to Dr Tarryn Balsdon for beautifully defending her “Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches”, i.e. autorisation to officially supervise her own PhD students!!!
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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now out in Nature Neuroscience: fantastic work by @cxue.bsky.social, Sol Markman et al who discovered a neural reason that performance suffers under cognitive load: “Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty”. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪🧵1/
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Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty - Nature Neuroscience
Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...
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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026
Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.
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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The french network on computational neuroscience, #RTNeuroComp, had its first conference today! 2 great keynotes by Nancy Kopell & @timkietzmann.bsky.social. 4 round tables to discuss the current research challenges in computational neuroscience and the contour of the discipline + many posters.
Conference attendees
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Another thanks to the organisers of #ECVP2026 so happy to be there with @eecasey.bsky.social and @lotfiahmad.bsky.social as well as all the wonderful visual perception people!
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Cognition ENS @cognitionens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
RECHERCHE I La musique peut aider les scientifiques à comprendre comment le cerveau apprend, anticipe, s'adapte. C'est ce que révèlent les travaux de Shihab Shamma @lsp-ens.bsky.social, Giovanni Di Liberto, Claire Pelofi. Le magazine HORIZON vient de leur consacrer un article👉 bit.ly/4df9vXr
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What music reveals about the human brain
During conversation, our brains are constantly predicting which word comes next. That ability helps us understand speech in a noisy café, or anticipate a friend’s next sentence. This skill for predict...
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Come join my team at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! I have an open PhD position (3 years fully funded) for a project investigating interoception and mental health, using lots of fun methods (EEG, EGG, tACs, TMS). More info and applications here: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor... #NeuroJobs
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Doctoral Researcher, RCF project
Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher to work in the RCF project starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible after that for three years. The fixed-term position is ...
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Metacognition at #ECVP2026 17h Bayview In addition to great talks, come find out if my low prospective confidence in being a good session chair is accurate 🤣 (the last session can go late right?)
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Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Making our way to #ECVP2026 @ecvp.bsky.social! @jayplease.bsky.social @andre-zarza.bsky.social @yuekong4real.bsky.social
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Thérèse Collins @theresecollins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Check out work from my lab #ECVP2026 @ecvp.bsky.social Motion direction representations and history effects in fixational eye movements Poster, Tuesday 3:30 With @canmertdoit.bsky.social Ambient and focal dichotomy in face perception Poster, Wednesday 3:30 With Dina Dagher & Karine Doré-Mazars
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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I’m not saying I’m a spider. I’m just saying take note.
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Stingy male spiders end up dead
In a study of more than 280 spider pairs, researchers discovered that females that ended
up with stingy, no-gift males were six times more cannibalistic than females staged with generous, gift-carrying males.
"The presence or absence of a gift was the most important factor in determining whether females cannibalized the males," the study says.
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Deeply honoured and very humbled to have received the 2026 Kurt Koffka Medal. Many thanks to the committee at the University of Giessen! www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb06/psy...
Pascal Mamassian (centre) receiving the 2026 Kurt Koffka Medal from Prof. Dr. Christiane Hermann (left) and Prof. Dr. Roland W. Fleming at the University of Giessen, Germany, on July 8, 2026.
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How meaningful is it to search for the minimal exposure duration of a stimulus to understand visual perception? With Mark Wexler, we wrote a commentary on the article of Lanfranco et al., Nat. Commun., 2024: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception
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Nadia Hosseinizaveh @nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
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Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing
Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t
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LSP-ENS @lsp-ens.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Congrats to all LSP speakers & poster presenters at BEYSE 🎉 @mamassian.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @lotfiahmad.bsky.social @ljubicajovanovic.bsky.social @eecasey.bsky.social @alelorcavyhmeister.bsky.social @Yves Boubenec @Mathilde Martin @Hugo Tissot
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Metacognition bridges the gap between basic thought and effective action by acting as a feedback loop that monitors and regulates our internal… Metacognition by Joelle Proust doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.c403b8e7 #CognitiveScience
Figure from the OECS article "Metacognition".
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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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languagemit.bsky.social @languagemit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi
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CuttingEEG @cuttingeeg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🌱 #CuttingGardens recruitment at #OHBM 😏 A highly significant p-value points toward new Gardens about to sprout worldwide for September 21–25! 🌍 🚨 Final call to organize a Garden 👇 cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde... Let’s grow a caring community for open, rigorous & inclusive MEEG science 🪻📊
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 17/06/2026
Interested in getting started with #git and contributing to PsychoPy docs? Join us tomorrow for our free workshop. This "My first pull request" session is designed to walk you through the basics so that you can start contributing to #opensource projects! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...
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"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy
Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The team at SBDM! @ljubicajovanovic.bsky.social @eecasey.bsky.social @lotfiahmad.bsky.social @lsp-ens.bsky.social Looking forward to this excellent program
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ART @art.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
by Aman Daharwal #art
by Aman Daharwal
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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our follow-up study on the psycholinguistics of gender-fair language is finally out! This was a long journey, so here's a thread to explain what we did and what we discovered. The #openaccess article is here for those who want the full story: hal.science/hal-05607624 (1/10)
Title page of the article "Grammatical Gender Biases Interpretation of Masculine, but Not Feminine, Hybrid Nouns"
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Léo Varnet @leovarnet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I wrote my first single-author manuscript, reviewing evidence for an overlooked effect of noise on speech perception. Since no junior researcher were involved (so no pressure to secure traditional publications for their CVs), I decided to explore alternatives to the standard publishing system. (1/2)
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A classic painting from the Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo. Try rotating the image upside-down if you don't see anything strange at first.
Octavio Ocampo (1992) “Equality”. 
The mirror reflection of the woman's face is perceived as a man's face.
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Accented Cinema @accentedcinema.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/04/2026
This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
In this image, the square tiles look like diamond shapes when light grazes the surface. (The square tiles are actually floor heating elements) Probably related to the coffer illusion by Anthony Norcia.
Floor heating elements that have a square shape look like diamond tiles when light grazes the surface.
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/03/2026
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
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CODE - Confident Decision Network @codenetwork.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🤔 Confidence Control. Our sense of confidence is a powerful guide for our behavior. It shapes many of the decisions we make every day: we might search for more information when we feel uncertain, ignore irrelevant feedback when we feel very confident, or adjust how we approach learning.
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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
You're still in time to apply to BAMB! and learn the art of modeling behavior with us! 🧠 The deadline is this Friday, March 6th. Run! 🏃‍♂️💨 Apply here: 🔗 www.bambschool.org
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BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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LSP-ENS @lsp-ens.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Congrats to Jun Yang for defending his PhD on “Visual detection of elementary image features during natural behaviour”. 🎉 Well done Dr Jun on this amazing accomplishment.🥳 -- Credits for the pictures to @mengtingj.bsky.social
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Now published in Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social)! Schulz-Hildebrandt, H. (2026). When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion. Perception, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0301...
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When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion - Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, 2026
In this paper, an optical illusion is described in which purple elements are perceived as purple at the point of fixation, while surrounding elements of the sam...
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
To all those who survived February, well done, march on
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Susan Wardle @susanwardle.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Is the concept of “category-selectivity” holding the field back in understanding high-level visual cortex? Detailed discussion in our published perspective piece and accompanying commentaries:
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Also, the best chocolate brownie that I’ve ever had…
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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Come for the learning, stay for the cookies! 🍪 Applications for BAMB! 2026 are open. Join us in Barcelona! www.bambschool.org
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BAMB! @bamb-school.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Come join us at BAMB! to learn all about modelling behavior and what Barcelona’s beaches have to offer 🏐🏄‍♂️🏊‍♂️ Applications for 2026 are open here: www.bambschool.org
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yinan cao @ycaoneuro.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🔎Updated preprint "Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking" by Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok Lee, Inès Maye, and Valentin Wyart. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.
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Tarryn Balsdon @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Come join us at BAMB!
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LSP-ENS @lsp-ens.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Happy international day for women and girls in science! #WomenInScience
Illustration celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, featuring a stylized female scientist in a lab coat and glasses.
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Happy international day for women and girls in science! Feeling endlessly privileged for all the inspiring women I get to work with.
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