Jess Taubert
@jesstaubert.bsky.social
I study the neural basis of social intelligence and face perception in humans and other animals. Director of the BrisBRAIN Lab at the University of Queensland in BrisBANE Australia.
Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw
Chris Baker@cibaker.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw
I’m delighted to share a new paper from our lab led by my PhD student Zihe Wei. In this study, Zihe used EEG to show that the human brain is equipped to encode multiple facial signals from the faces of strangers. Congratulations to Zihe! @amandakrobinson.bsky.social @cp-iscience.bsky.social
Parallel processing of distinct facial signals for the rapid evaluation of social agents
Social sciences; Psychology
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The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
I've got a new #visionscience #scicomm video for you! In this one, I talk about one of our recent papers about face #pareidolia - enjoy! #PsychSciSky #STEMEducation
Seeing Faces That Aren't There - A SeeingScience Research Report!
YouTube video by SeeingScience
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Now out in #JNeurosci -- we found changes in medial parietal cortex after manual exploration of everyday real-world objects doi.org/10.1523/JNEU... with Beth Rispoli, Vinai Roopchansingh & @cibaker.bsky.social
Congratulations to my PhD student, Christopher Buckland, who was recently interviewed by The Economist about his innovative work on studying face perception in naturalistic contexts. We agree - naturalistic experiments are (and should be) all the rage! www.economist.com/science-and-...
How to study people who are very drunk
Naturalistic experiments are all the rage
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Excited to have this one out! We found that the perception of illusory faces relies on parallel brain representations of faces and objects with different dynamics, enabling flexible behaviour.
Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · last yr.EEG shows illusory faces in objects initially resemble real faces then shift to object-like representations, with task demands determining which identity guides behavior. @amandakrobinson.bsky.social @jesstaubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Job alert! The Psychology Department at NDSU is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Developmental Psychology, broadly defined. Please share widely & if you (or students/post-docs) have questions about the dept., about Fargo, or anything else please be in touch. #PsychSciSky #VisionScience
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Faculty Position: Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Developmental Psychology
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EEG shows illusory faces in objects initially resemble real faces then shift to object-like representations, with task demands determining which identity guides behavior. @amandakrobinson.bsky.social @jesstaubert.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Neural correlates reveal separate stages of spontaneous face perception - Communications Psychology
Neural dynamics reveal separate stages of spontaneous face perception: EEG shows illusory faces in objects initially resemble real faces then shift to object-like representations, with task demands de...
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Delighted to share our latest paper in Communications Psychology on face pareidolia. doi.org/10.1038/s442...
🧠📣 New deadline! Submissions to our Scientific Reports special issue on Face Recognition & Prosopagnosia are now open until July 26, 2025. We're looking for cutting-edge work on the neural and cognitive basis of face perception—both typical and impaired. 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...
🧵 New paper alert! Ever wondered if a naturalistic smile grabs your attention just as fast as a posed one? We tested how quickly people look toward happy, neutral, and threatening faces—using real-world vs staged expressions. Spoiler: naturalistic faces are powerful. 👇
Two more days until our workshop 🥳@cosynemeeting.bsky.social #Cosyne2025 Object-centric neural representations across species 🐒🐁🕷️🐝🖥️ Check out our homepage: toliaslab.org/workshop/cos... Excellent speakers include @dyamins.bsky.social @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & many more 🙌
Cosyne 2025 Object Centric Workshop
Website for the object centric workshop at 2025 COSYNE
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Ostracism affects children’s behavioral reactivity and gaze cueing of attention #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Ostracism affects children’s behavioral reactivity and gaze cueing of attention
Being ostracized is a negative experience that threatens important psychological needs, inducing considerable cognitive and behavioral changes and influencing the processing of social signals such as ...
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Our latest study in JEPHPP explores how we detect #facepareidolia under different task demands. Results like these keep providing clues that we are equipped to build multiple representations in parallel to flexibly support a diverse range of behavioural goals. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
Join us for the CAJAL NeuroAI summer course in Lisbon July 14-Aug 1. We have a great line-up of speakers from a diverse range of topics across NeuroAI. Check out our website for more details and help us spread the word: cajal-training.org/on-site/neur... Applications are due March 7!
NeuroAI - Neuroscience and AI
NeuroAI - Neuroscience and AI machine learningOn Site artificial intelligence On Site machine learning - data analysis - computational neuroscience
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CAJAL Training@cajal-training.bsky.social · 2y ago🚀 Applications are OPEN for the CAJAL NeuroAI course! Learn how AI & deep learning help us model brain activity & behavior. Work with experts, get hands-on training & join a global network! 📅 Apply by March 7 🔗 loom.ly/xg_uRKE #NeuroAI #DeepLearning #Neuroscience
Here, Koyano et al. show that 🐒 neurons in certain face patches barely react to pareidolia (illusory faces in objects). doi.org/10.1016/j.pn... To those who have argued that the brain "obviously" processes stimuli that look like faces as faces—it's not that simple.
In this new perspective piece, we argue for an alternative framework of visual function in occipitotemporal cortex that prioritizes the behavioral relevance of visual properties in real-world environments.
J. Brendan Ritchie@jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 2y ago"Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex" with @susanwardle.bsky.social Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social 1/3
