Kaiser Lab
@dkaiserlab.bsky.social
Studying natural vision at JLU Giessen using psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational models, PI: Daniel Kaiser. danielkaiser.net
🚨New paper alert: "Spatiotemporal Representations of Contextual Associations for Real-World Objects" 👀🧠
Lu-Chun Yeh@luchunyeh.bsky.social · 8h ago🚨Out now in J Neurosci! 🧠 Using fMRI and EEG, we mapped where and when contextual knowledge of real-world objects emerges within the visual system - even when those objects are viewed in isolation. @dkaiserlab.bsky.social @peelen.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
New paper alert 🚨👀 Check out @ilkrdymz.bsky.social's paper: "Abrupt scene onsets and gradually emerging scene information produce distinct EEG decoding dynamics".
Ilker Duymaz@ilkrdymz.bsky.social · 3w agoNew paper! We compared EEG decoding for scenes that appeared abruptly versus scenes emerging gradually during continuous visual input. Takeaway: Presentation context matters when interpreting EEG decoding time courses. With @michaengesee.bsky.social and Daniel Kaiser. doi.org/10.1152/jn.0...
#VSS2026 delivered: exciting research, great conversations, and lots of fun. 👁️🏖️ If you are interested in our studies presented at @vssmtg.bsky.social , you can find our posters here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... For relevant preprints, please visit: www.danielkaiser.net/publications
Come to my talk for some fun experiments combining drawings, DNNs and visual search! 👀🧠⛱️
Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 3mo agoKaiser Lab is at @vssmtg.bsky.social with 6 posters and 3 talks! 👁️🏖️☀️ Come check out our works!
If you're at #VSS2026 come check out our posters and talks! On Saturday 6:45 pm I'll present my talk on individual differences in scene perception.
Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 3mo agoKaiser Lab is at @vssmtg.bsky.social with 6 posters and 3 talks! 👁️🏖️☀️ Come check out our works!
10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Check out @alpekinci.bsky.social 's preprint: “Shared gaze reflects shared aesthetic experiences” #neuroaesthetics 👀
Mustafa Alperen Ekinci@alpekinci.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew preprint! Why do people disagree about what looks beautiful, even when viewing the same stimulus? We show that shared aesthetic experience is linked to shared gaze during naturalistic viewing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/4
📢 Workshop announcement. We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser. 📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany 🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026. 1/4
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨 Check out @suzibot.bsky.social's preprint: “Visual search is constrained by the variability of object-category templates.” Includes some neat findings on individual differences in search 👀
Susan Ajith@suzibot.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧨 Preprint alert Is it easier to find a ball than a shoe? The answer lies in how variable we think these objects are in the real-world. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... w/ the amazing @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & @luchunyeh.bsky.social 🦄 🧵1/8
We’re happy to announce that Gongting Wang has successfully defended his PhD thesis at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Wang! 🎉
🚨 Preprint alert! 🚨
Lu-Chun Yeh@luchunyeh.bsky.social · 8mo ago🚨 New preprints out!🚨 Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social , Marius @peelen.bsky.social , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance. 👇👇👇 1/n
Check out @michaengesee.bsky.social 's preprint on individual differences in expectations about natural scenes and how they shape how we perceive and neurally represent scenes. 👁️🧠👨🦱👩🦰👩🦳
Micha Engeser@michaengesee.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project! Together with Daniel Kaiser (@dkaiserlab.bsky.social), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
Super happy to announce that our Research Training Group "PIMON" is funded by the @dfg.de ! Starting in October, we will have exciting opportunities for PhD students that want to explore object and material perception & interaction in Gießen @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! Just look at this amazing team!
I am very excited to share our new preprint, spearheaded by the brilliant @lunahuestegge.bsky.social, w/ @peterkok.bsky.social and others: ‘An attempt to push mental imagery over the reality threshold using non-invasive brain stimulation’ doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents www.cell.com/trends/neuro... #neuroscience
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visual brain rhythms also serve a key function in the r...
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From Micha’s farewell gathering before his temporary leave 💫 - he’ll still be missed!
By utilizing the visual backward masking paradigm, this study aimed to disentangle the contributions of feedforward and recurrent processing, revealing that recurrent processing significantly shapes the object representations across the ventral visual stream. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Recurrence affects the geometry of visual representations across the ventral visual stream in the human brain
The specific roles of feedforward and recurrent processing in human visual object recognition remain incompletely understood. In this neuroimaging and computational modelling study the authors isolate...
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How can we characterize the contents of our internal models of the world? We highlight participant-driven approaches, from drawings to descriptions, to study how we expect scenes to look! 🤩
Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 10mo agoFrom line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
In this paper we present flexible methods for participants to express their expectations about natural scenes.
Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 10mo agoFrom line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...
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Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎
Go Lu!! Congratulations 💜
Lu-Chun Yeh@luchunyeh.bsky.social · last yr.Honored and thrilled to receive the GGN Early Career Award @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🏆 Huge thanks to my awesome supervisors Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & Marius @peelen.bsky.social , all my collaborators, and the amazing colleagues from both labs — couldn’t have done it without you! 💗
We had an awesome time discussing the role of feedback in perception @unil.bsky.social 🧠 and exploring the beautiful city of Lausanne! 💜🏞️ Thanks to @icepfl.bsky.social @davidpascucci.bsky.social
All-topographic ANNs! Now out in @nathumbehav.nature.com , led by @zejinlu.bsky.social , in collaboration with @timkietzmann.bsky.social. See below for a summary 👇
Zejin Lu@zejinlu.bsky.social · last yr.Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Don’t miss out again! If you are interested in our studies presented at @VSSMtg , you can find our posters here: 👇 drive.google.com/drive/mobile...
2025_VSS - Google Drive
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Kaiser Lab@dkaiserlab.bsky.social · last yr.We are at @vssmtg.bsky.social 2025. 🏖️☀️🍹come check out our studies!
Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂
