New paper alert! (and the first from my PhD 🥳) With @glmalcolm.bsky.social and Louise Ewing When children get the gist: The development of rapid scene categorisation is now available in Vision Research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new study by 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋. 𝐌𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 (UEA, School of Psychology), provides evidence that when we know someone’s goal, we subconsciously shift our perception of their actions toward the most relevant outcome. This supports predictive coding theories in social perception and Theory of Mind.
Observers translate information about other agents' higher-order goals into expectations about their forthcoming action kinematics
Social perception relies on the ability to understand the higher-order goals that drive other people's behaviour. Under predictive coding views, this …
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People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
New paper from A. Priscilla Martinez-Cedillo, showing how cognitive load affects gaze in real tasks... link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cognitive load affects gaze dynamics during real-world tasks - Experimental Brain Research
In everyday tasks, active gaze is used to gather information for the actions we perform. The cognitive resources required for such gaze control have rarely been investigated. We examined how a seconda...
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Do you have a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging & are looking for a post-doc? Do you want to join a friendly lab? Do you want to live in Norwich (UK) - gorgeous city close to the beach? You can surf, meet seals, do wonderful walks, eat gelato & enjoy gorgeous sunsets!
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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"Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex" with @susanwardle.bsky.social Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social 1/3
