🎉 New paper, led by Jochem Koopmans & @peelen.bsky.social The classic “inverted letter looks upright” partial-report effect ("overflow") turns out to be mostly post-perceptual response bias, not a perceptual filling-in effect. w/ @drquekles.bsky.social - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I look at a stranger and see a friend. Am I a super-recognizer?

Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under? Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413

New paper with @peelen.bsky.social showing that objects in familiar configurations (e.g., 🍽️) facilitate one another by 200 ms of visual processing time. Out now in Cortex! 🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

The timecourse of inter-object contextual facilitation

High-level vision is frequently studied at the level of either individual objects or whole scenes. An intermediate level of visual organisation that h…

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We're pleased to offer a fully funded PhD scholarship: Understanding the Mastery of Multiple Languages and Dialects: A Computational Approach 🎓 Lead Researcher: Prof. Paola Escudero 📅 Applications close: 30 June 2025 🔗 Full scholarship details: www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

Hey ECRs at @expsyanz.bsky.social this week - if you're interested in object perception and/or neural decoding, come find me for a chat about an upcoming postdoc spot at the @marcsinstitute.bsky.social 👀

🧠 💡 PhD scholarships available! 💡🧠 The CogNeuro group at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social is on the hunt for talented students to work on face and object perception using EEG and neural decoding. Learn more here 👇 and get in touch! Project 1: shorturl.at/0NwQl Project 2: shorturl.at/yTdqG

This @marcsinstitute.bsky.social postdoc opportunity closes tonight! Still a few hours to get your application in... www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs/engage...

👀 🚨 New scholarship available! We're hiring a PhD student to work on the neural basis of face perception, part of a collaboration between @marcsinstitute.bsky.social and #UNSW. DMs open if you want more info 🧠 #neurojobs

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

#PhD #Scholarship Opportunity: Unlocking Person Identity Codes in the Human Brain 🧠 | Explore the extraordinary abilities of Super-Recognisers & contribute to the advancement of person identification technologies worldwide. #Neuroscience | Applications close 31 Jan 2025. | tinyurl.com/45c4m3kk

So pleased to see this #marcsbabylab Discovery Project get up! Looking forward to working with babylab leader Prof Sue Hespos on neural and behavioural markers of analogical reasoning during early development

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

Newly funded ARC Discovery Project will unlock the secrets of how children learn and provide parents & educators with insights to support #childdevelopment. Looking forward to transforming #education in Australia, one discovery at a time! @drquekles.bsky.social

Very excited to kick this project off in 2025! If you like brains, face perception, neural decoding, EEG, or some combination of the above then we want to hear from you 🧠👀📈

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024 tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...

Visit us in Sydney next year! Applications for 2025 MARCS visiting scholar scheme are now open! PhD Candidates & ECR welcome to apply to come and visit for 1-3 months to Sydney. Feel free to contact me (email or DM) if interested! tinyurl.com/3ztnrufd Applications close January 20, 2025.

The MARCS Institute@marcsinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

✈️ This week, we welcomed our final #International #VisitingFellow for 2024 and bid farewell to three others - just in time to announce that applications for 2025 scheme are now open! Apply to come and visit for 2-3 months. PhD Candidates & ECRs welcome. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3ztnrufd

New preprint! Work led by Alexis Kidder (@lexkidder.bsky.social) during a visiting scholarship at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social with @drquekles.bsky.social & @tgro.bsky.social "Mapping object space dimensions: new insights from temporal dynamics" 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2024... 1/ Summary: 🧵👇