Now final in @elife.bsky.social: #Synesthetes really do 'see' when reporting colors while reading (typeface gray) numbers: pupils change according to the perceived colors' brightness - if a synesthete sees a bright yellow, the pupils become smaller. elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1). If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!

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.

Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu

I became a dr. last week! Thanks to everyone who made it an amazing day - I had a blast.

We have two job openings in my lab currently — for a postdoc (100% FTE some teaching four years) and a postdoc/phd student (75% FTE no teaching three years). Check them out at www.uni-luebeck.de/aktuelles/be...

Have you thought of using unchained pupillometry to infer effort/arousal with _uncontrolled_ visual stimulation? Sounds crazy? @yuqingc.bsky.social shows that convolutional modeling of pupil responses with gaze-contingent luminance changes finally allows just that! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ANOTHER assistant professorship available in my department. Focus on contemporary neuroimaging applications to neuropsychology and psychopharmacology. #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

New preprint (doi.org/10.64898/202...) shows that where you look next is an economic decision. Saccades trade off effort-costs (measured via pupil) against monetary rewards. 1) By default, participants have strong saccade direction preferences (e.g., cardinal over diagonal, up over down) (1/4)

Fully funded PhD position @sussex.ac.uk, at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Stipend plus fees for 3.5 years, kindly supported by the School of Engineering & informatics. Apply by May 31st. More details here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Last piece of @ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social PhD is finally out in @psychscience.bsky.social. Alex work very nicely shows that concurrent search is possible (people just prefer sequential search usually). What's more, people flexibly pick from these strategies

Alex J. Hoogerbrugge@ajhoogerbrugge.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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/...

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/...

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasonic Neuromodulation at @dondersinst.bsky.social >Passionate about ultrasonic modulation? Come and join us! funded by @erc.europa.eu HEART2ADAPT @epanlab.bsky.social in coll. with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

PhD Position: Computational Affective Neuroscience and Ultrasound Neuromodulation | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a PhD 'Computational Affective Neuroscience and Neuromodulation' at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

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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

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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We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.

Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274) | Universitetet i Bergen

Stillingstittel: Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 16. august 2026

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Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Cognitive Psychology

The Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a full-time position as tenure-track Assistant Professor. The position is a six-year tenure-track appointmen...

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Nothing not to love here. Some extra nerd love for the joy letting his pupil dilate at 14:32 (that is not remotely related to ours!). Maybe it's me projecting that it's joy. But you can't really stop me from that, can you?

Manlio De Domenico@manlius.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What a nice story about this learning process and this beautiful yet unconventional human-octupus interaction! youtu.be/PcWnQ7fYzwI?...

❤️‍🔥 Exciting new preprint ❤️‍🔥 #Pupil constriction causes, by itself and independently of visual stimulation, activity in the human #retina and #visual system. w/ @anavili.bsky.social @veerahelmisofia.bsky.social @hakankarsilar.bsky.social @olaf.dimigen.de 1/4 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Synesthesia isn't just in your mind. The body reacts as if the colors were real. www.livescience.com/health/synes...

Synesthesia isn't just in your mind. The body reacts as if the colors were real.

Pupil size in people with synesthesia changed depending on how bright or dark the perceived colors were.

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For those interested in (re)analyzing (video-based) pupil data and looking into a solution for the foreshortening error (resulting from changes in the angle between camera and eye), check our open access Behavior Research Methods paper! rdcu.be/faNse link.springer.com/article/10.3...

1/n New preprint with Ziyu Zhao, @dougaparry.bsky.social, & @jacobtfisher.online Can an AI bot complete a live online reaction-time task & produce data that passes as human? We built an autonomous bot to take the Attention Network Test (ANT) in real time Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

A reply to my reply about bots in online studies - and a very cool demonstration! I summarized my thoughts in the comments to this post.

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We recently warned of bots in online behavioral research. @achetverikov.bsky.social showed there is no evidence for that in our @joinprolific.bsky.social data - but that doesn't mean we're safe. Agentic AI can do behavioral tasks through prompting alone. Reply & videos: osf.io/3cztr/overview

We recently warned of bots in online behavioral research. @achetverikov.bsky.social showed there is no evidence for that in our @joinprolific.bsky.social data - but that doesn't mean we're safe. Agentic AI can do behavioral tasks through prompting alone. Reply & videos: osf.io/3cztr/overview

We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1). If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted. see our comment: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Sean Westwood@seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 9mo ago

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

Congratulations Ana on this superb dissertation!  Was a pleasure to read the thesis and be part of the i̶̶̶n̶̶̶t̶̶̶e̶̶̶r̶̶̶r̶̶̶o̶̶̶g̶̶̶a̶̶̶t̶̶̶i̶̶̶o̶̶̶n̶̶̶ ̶̶̶c̶̶̶o̶̶̶m̶m̶i̶̶̶t̶̶̶t̶̶̶e̶̶̶e̶̶̶ defense board! :)

Ana Vilotijević@anavili.bsky.social · 6mo ago

PhD Cognitive Neuroscience ✅👩‍🎓

Talking today about whether attention can modulate retinal activity, come join! 👁️ #nvp25

Sebastiaan Mathôt@cogsci.nl · 8mo ago

This afternoon at #nvp2025, an entire session on cognitive #pupillometry 👁️ with talks by @anavili.bsky.social , @cstrauch.bsky.social and others. See you at 👉 12:00! #psychology

This afternoon at #nvp2025, an entire session on cognitive #pupillometry 👁️ with talks by @anavili.bsky.social , @cstrauch.bsky.social and others. See you at 👉 12:00! #psychology

Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪

Synesthetes claim sensory experiences, such as seeing color when reading or hearing a (black) number. 
But how genuine are these reports and sensations? We introduce a rather direct measure of synesthetic perception: Synesthetes’ pupils respond to evoked color as if it was real color #vision! 👁️🎨🧪

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.

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 8mo ago

Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation effects begin in early sensory stages of processing. www.nature.com/articles/s42...