What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? In a new paper w/ @davogelsang.bsky.social, we show that the magnitude of a stimulus's ANN representation predicts both image and word memorability Stimuli that activate more features, more strongly, leave a stronger memory trace Out now in JML⬇️

New preprint ! 🎺 👇 We show that objects can facilitate scene recognition irrespectively to their semantical link to the scenes. TMS to Object-selective LOC eliminated such facilitation! Congratulations to Aaron for his first paper coming from a chunky master thesis project!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · last mo.

Behavioral and causal evidence for object-based scene recognition in visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.29.735096v1

❗📝 New paper alert 📝❗ Hierarchical priors enable neural prediction of perceived biological motion 💃 With @predictivebrain.bsky.social and @moritzwurm.bsky.social Reviewed preprint available in eLife: @elife.bsky.social doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

Amazing to hear @epanlab.bsky.social and team won this years Spinoza prize www.nwo.nl/en/professor... 🏆 can’t believe I know 3 winners now 😱

Professor Karin Roelofs | NWO

Karin Roelofs studies the completely different ways in which people respond to extreme stress. A shocking event can have a lasting disruptive effect on one person, whereas another could show remarkabl...

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Oh how I wish sometimes I could just move my entire family around 😵‍💫. Such a cool topic, lab and environment!

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social · last mo.

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

(Sound on) Scary movie or just a regular helium refill? #magnetoencephalography #meg #lablife #neuroscience

New paper out in JEP:HPP! psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/... Can we learn from things we're not paying attention to? We used a contextual cueing paradigm to pit selective attention against spatial prediction during visual search in 2 high-powered (N=104) experiments — and found they actively compete.

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