Ivan Tomic
@ivntmc.bsky.social
Computational cognition. Vision. Working memory.
🎉 TODAY’S THE DAY! 🎉 #ECVP2026 begins today in Bournemouth! 👁️🧠 We’re ready for a fantastic week of vision science, workshops, talks, symposia, posters and plenty of opportunities to connect with the ECVP community. Welcome to ECVP 2026 — let’s get started! 🚀 #VisionScience #Perception
Our lab is at @ecvp.bsky.social this week, giving one talk and presenting three posters. Come and say hi!
📢 Our paper is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We know that symptoms of OCD fluctuate substantially. But what are the exact conditions that precede symptom escalations? We found evidence for metacognitive processes being a key antecedent. 1/
Drops in confidence precede symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder - Nature Communications
To devise effective interventions for obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is crucial to understand antecedents to symptom emergence. Here, the authors show evidence for self- and decision making underco...
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Weird, how reality is more alarming than ostensibly "alarmist" climate scientists were not too long ago. And this is still just at the beginning of a warming trend that will continue for several decades at least (unless human beings suddenly become much smarter than ever before. I have my doubts.)
The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.
Just a few more days left to nominate your female colleagues! 🧚♀️ Help spread some joy and appreciation for the women who do so much for our field, not just in terms of their outstanding research, but also all the labor that they do to support the wonderful WM community that we have!
⏰ What time is it? 🧚♀️It's research fairy time! Please share widely and nominate early and often (by Aug 2) those fantastic female researchers that we are privileged to have have in our field ✨🪄 forms.gle/Znh4zgtXgWQK...
Quantifying the information about uncertainty in neural population codes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.13.738167v1
Can't wait for #cogsci2026 in Rio 🇧🇷! Check out some of the exciting new work this year by the hmc-lab.com and collaborators. Sadly, @davidnagy.bsky.social won't be attending due to illness, so I'll be subbing in to help out with the framing-the-problem.github.io/cogsci2026.h... workshop.
ATTENTION!!! The program of Working Memory Symposium (WMS) 2026 (July 14-17) is out! sites.google.com/view/wmsympo... This year, WMS will feature a single stream presentation of 52 talks (39 talks and 13 blitz) + 1 panel discussion across 4 days. Looking forward to seeing you all!!!
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To adapt to a new prior, tuning curves should "move" toward more frequent stimuli ('prior attraction'). But in adaptation studies they are shown to move away from the more frequent stimuli ('adapter repulsion'). Oh also how do tuning curves move at all?? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fast efficient coding and sensory adaptation in gain-adaptive recurrent networks - Nature Communications
How sensory systems rapidly adapt to changing stimulus statistics remains unclear. Here the authors show that gain adaptation in recurrent networks can implement fast efficient coding, unifying prior ...
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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...
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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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3
1/9 📄 New in the Journal of Neuroscience: "Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity" Does the brain prioritise the events it expects, or the ones that surprise it? We find it does both — at different stages. 🧵 doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity
The brain’s remarkable ability to process continuous sensory inputs with adaptive efficiency – balancing flexibility while minimizing metabolic cost – is thought to rely on predictive mechanisms that ...
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If you join this committee, your ideas will influence the educations & scientific trajectories of thousands of students. Neuromatch's interactive student body has topped 14,000, estimated 40,000 engaging with Neuromatch activities & materials. One of the most impactful things you can do in science!
Neuromatch Academy & @connectedminds.bsky.social are forming a #ComputationalBehaviour Course Creation Committee!. It's a #volunteer role for researchers w a PhD. 🤓 Learn more about the course: neuromatch.io/computationa... 🙋 Full role description and application: neuromatch.io/volunteer/
Open post-doc position in the study of perceptual fluctuations Position: post-doctoral (2 years) Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV) Deadline: September 4th, 2026 Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility) (1/8)
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu
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Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
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Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS! authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS! authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
Places in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision Research
Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...
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New course launching in 2027!🎉 🤓 Neuromatch and @connectedminds.bsky.social are developing a Computational Behaviour course. A two-week, fully remote course open to participants worldwide! Learn more: neuromatch.io/computationa... #ComputationalScience #ComputationalBehaviour #Neuroscience
There are still a few spots available for the Twelfth Model-Based Neuroscience and Cognition Summer School, which will take place from 10–14 August 2026 at the University of Amsterdam. Be quick — the remaining spots will be filled on a rolling basis, so make sure to register soon!
Applications are now open for the 12th Model-Based Neuroscience & Cognition Summer School (Aug 10–14, 2026, Amsterdam)! modelbasedneurosci.com Hands-on training in combining Bayesian evidence-accumulation models with reinforcement learning, brain–behavior modeling (EEG/fMRI), BayesFlow, and more.
It was AWESOME to see lots of EXCITING WM research spearheaded by early career researchers at @vssmtg.bsky.social!!! WMS community would LOVE to see your cool research in a form of talks and blitz! Abstract deadline is May 31st! (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...)
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Abstract submission for WMS2026 (July 14th-17th) is now open! If you are an early career researcher of working memory, please let us hear about your cool work by submitting your abstract (forms.gle/MccRLJC1xXQ3...). Deadline is May 31st.
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It's the due date for APCV-EPC abstracts and it's been amazing watching the exponential influx of abstract submissions today. You are all people after my own last-minute heart 💙 If you haven't submitted yet, you've got til midnight NZ time!
⚠️ LAST CHANCE to submit your abstract. Submissions close 30 April 2026.
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
jobbnorge.no
Everyone's welcome! Okay, hear me out - we all agree to attend the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision one year...or bring back international Psychonomics and put it in Australia.
Also, I’ll be giving a workshop on the first day about early vision theory and modelling. visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/
EPC & APCV 2026
visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz
❗Last week before the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026❗ Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.
🎯New preprint! The resource-rational dynamics of evidence accumulation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Evidence accumulation isn’t stationary. It is dynamically controlled to trade off information gain against cognitive effort. With Jiang Mao, Tobias Donner @donnerlab.bsky.social, Alan Stocker
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