Columbia Psychology is hiring for a Cognitive Science/Neuroscience Assistant Professor position as part of our ongoing push to expand our Cognitive research program (including two hires last year). We'll be starting application reviews next week so get materials in asap! apply.interfolio.com/193975

We're very happy to announce that SPAN2027 will be held at NYU on May 20-22, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness 🧠 A call for proposals will come soon!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited ....

Hitting and missing on consciousness

Disturbances of conscious experience are central features of many psychiatric and mental health disorders. Experimental studies of conscious perception are therefore increasingly cited in clinical an....

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Our Annual Review of Vision Science paper on "Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World" with @evadeligiannis.bsky.social is officially out and available through open access. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Bringing Vision Science Closer to the Real World

Vision science has demonstrated considerable success in characterizing early- and mid-level visual processes through reductionism and tightly controlled experiments. However, an understanding of high-...

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The CATS Lab is moving to Columbia next year, and I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle to start Fall 2027 in the Department of Psychology. Learn more about how to apply here: psychology.columbia.edu/content/prep... I am also recruiting a postdoc and staff for 2027. More info coming soon!

Pay attention to Arthur: he’s breathing fresh life into psychophysics.

Arthur Prat@arthurpr4t.bsky.social · 4w ago

We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception; arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...

We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception; arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...

📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).

To learn how brains compute, we need to experimentally adjudicate among competing computational hypotheses. How do we do this in the age of complex neural network models? New review paper: “Making models disagree to learn how brains compute” with @talgolanneuro.bsky.social @heikoschuett.bsky.social

First Noel Lab Pre-print! If you are into "peri-personal space" and feel like we need more single cell recordings, this one is for you! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

An egocentric map prioritizing peri-personal space in the mouse rostro-lateral visual area

All physical interactions between an organism and its environment occur within the space immediately adjacent to and surrounding its body, its peripersonal space (PPS). This space has been extensively...

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How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16

New preprint! Have you ever wanted to measure psychometric functions in high-dimensional stimulus spaces, but realised that this is infeasible? We present and validate a technique to adaptively estimate psychometric functions for stimulus spaces up to 50 dimensions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Adaptive experiments in high-dimensional feature spaces: A particle filtering approach

Behavioral experiments are often infeasible when stimulus spaces have many dimensions or when testing time is limited. One way to address this challenge is adaptive stimulus selection, where informati...

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Thanks so much Megan for such an amazing talk. It wouldn’t have been a consciousness satallite without you!!

megan peters 🧠@meganakpeters.bsky.social · 2mo ago

heading home to London from #CCN2026 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social after fantastic conference, 2 amazing satellites: Comp Consciousness Sci organized by @lintonvision.bsky.social & our own #MetaCogSci w/ @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @dobyrahnev.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social in absentia.

The replies and quote posts: an intense combination of heartbreak and resilience.

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

US scientists: Going into fall 26, how are you thinking about things? Following Fall 24 events and a tumultuous spring 25, I remember a convo with a colleague in which we agreed we just needed to wait things out until fall 25 and we'd have some clarity about the landscape (eg for funding). /1

heading home to London from #CCN2026 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social after fantastic conference, 2 amazing satellites: Comp Consciousness Sci organized by @lintonvision.bsky.social & our own #MetaCogSci w/ @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social, @dobyrahnev.bsky.social & @smfleming.bsky.social in absentia.

Calling on the community to band together and contribute to this Replication Project. Check out Luca’s poster if you’re at #CCN2026!

@re-vision-init.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(1/6) Do our visual neuroscience findings actually replicate? And do they generalize beyond the datasets they were found in? We've lauched re:vision, a community-driven initiative to answer these questions, and we are looking for scientistis to participate. re-vision-initiative.org

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Today is the 5th anniversary of the #MetaCogSci meeting! With @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social -- cannot wait! www.metacognitivescience.org

Do world models emerge in neural networks trained for prediction? Generative Adversarial Collaboration (GAC) at #CCN2026

I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, but at an extraordinary energy cost. Training and running large-sca…

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Now officially published: our paper "Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision" w/ @smfleming.bsky.social, with the commentaries, and our response: Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One of the biggest limitations of today’s VR headsets is the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC). Most approaches try to solve it with new hardware. Our new paper asks a different question: Can we compensate for it computationally instead? 🧵

My reply to @liadmudrik.bsky.social et al.'s proposal that we should reengineer @neddo.bsky.social's famous phenomenal/access distinction.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Online Now: In defense of a distinction

New paper alert from our lab! nature.com/articles/s41... We used stimuli sequences following 1/f statistical patterns—an ubiquitous statistical structure in natural stimuli—to probe predictive processing in the human brain. How does the brain predict upcoming sensory inputs based on past inputs?

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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Over 200 people registered! Come join us!

Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@cogcompneuro.bsky.social Satellite Event: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE Saturday, 1 August 2026 New York University Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness #CCN2026

I wrote the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science entry on 'Intuitive Physics': oecs.mit.edu/pub/m27ympza... --- for those who don't know it yet, OECS (@oecs-bot.bsky.social) has accessible, informative, free, serious entries on many basic topics in cognitive science

Our major conceptual and technical update on findings that describe a new medial temporal lobe (MTL) computation, now posted. Kudos to Simon Bohn for listening to community feedback, thinking hard, and solidifying what these clear differences between brain regions imply. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A two-stage algorithm underlies the transformation from vision to familiarity in the primate brain

How is the act of seeing an image transformed into the memory that it has been seen? To investigate, we leveraged the systematic variation with which some images are better remembered than others, ima...

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Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Last week, we published the surprising result below (visual cortex == hippocampus). Today, we've posted a revised preprint showing something that's actually different between the two structures. Evidence for a novel medial temporal lobe computation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On the last day of SIGGRAPH this year, we will hold a new technical workshop called "From Human Vision to Machine Vision", with talks ranging from low-level human visual perception, to applied perception, art & photography, and to machine vision. #SIGGRAPH For more info, see: fromhv2mv.github.io

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...

Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.

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 🧵