Asking the hive mind: Does anyone know of a good video on visual agnosia that I can include as supplemental material for a cognition course I am teaching in the fall? #cognition #Psychology

YASSSSS! While living in the UK, I fell in love eith Eurovision. I am so excited for Canada to be a part of this quirky extravaganza!

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last mo.

Canada is to enter the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027, EBU announces.

Happy to see our latest paper out. Led by Rachel Searston, we investigated whether participants could accurately verify identity from non-overlapping face fragments. Across 3 pre-registered experiments, we show above chance performance in our novel "spotlight" task. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Identity in the spotlight: Matching faces without overlapping features - Memory & Cognition

One-to-one face matching is widely used for identity verification yet becomes difficult with unfamiliar faces or when parts of the face are covered. We investigated whether observers could accurately ...

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If you need a little bit of a mental reset, may I suggest vibing out to this polar bear having a grand old time swimming in the sun to Enya. I’m not sure who is having more fun: her chasing after random vegetables or me trying to film her. #mammals

Really excited to post about a project that Vincent Stabile, Cathy Mondloch and I started while I was still at Brock. It is now openly available in British Journal of Psychology!🎉🎉 bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... More details about the study to follow. (1/n)

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Most studies examining face recognition have used explicit recognition tasks, ignoring our ability to spontaneously recognize familiar faces when they are unexpected. The current study examined spont...

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AI identified her as the suspect in a crime spree in states she had never been to. she was in jail for six months before she even got to speak with an officer and they instantly were shown they had no case. she lost everything—her house, dog, car, and was left stranded in north dakota.

Naomi Kritzer@naomikritzer.bsky.social · 5mo ago

One of the question I had after reading this article was, "how much DID this lady look like the photo that the AI thought she was her?" This article doesn't provide the photo, but the WEBP coverage did. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Any postdocs outside the UK interested in applying for a Marie Curie fellowship with me (sensory processing, decision making, vision), get in touch! Our school of psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social is offering costs towards a campus visit to give a talk, develop a proposal and attend training!

Together with the @royalsociety.org, we invite applications for the International Fellowships 2026. The scheme supports international early career researchers in advancing their expertise through collaborations with UK partners. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3LaMIBC

Karen is a great PI-- highly recommend this for ECRs interested in memory!

Karen Campbell@karampbell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣Hey international PhDs & Postdocs, the Canadian Government has an upcoming fellowship opportunity. nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/canada-im... I will be looking to sponsor a Postdoc to work with Linda Geerligs & me on LONGITUDINAL changes in neural states during movie watching & memory. ✉️ me your CV

In a new paper (with @kayritchie.bsky.social, Eilidh Noyes, Carl Bunce and Josh Davis) we investigated AI-face detection in super-recognisers and typical-ability participants, both with and without a short training procedure. See the link below for the results! doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Training human super-recognizers’ detection and discrimination of AI-generated faces | Royal Society Open Science

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can create realistic synthetic faces, which have the potential to be used for nefarious purposes. The synthetic faces produced by GANs are difficult to detect an...

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I am looking to create a lab code of conduct/manual/safety check type document outlining the ethos of how we work. Could anyone point me in the direction of a good (open source) example covering safety, comms, working with others etc.? Or would anyone be willing to share theirs? Thank you!

Proud supervisor moment 🎉: The PhD student that I am co-supervising just won first prize for his poster at the school's PhD conference!! It's only Wednesday, and it's already a great week!

I was born and raised a Blue Jays fan, so of course I am watching the game (even though it's ... well ... very early in the UK). Come on #BlueJays ! You can fight back from this!

Keegan Matheson@keeganmatheson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Aaron Judge just launched a three-run shot off the left field foul pole and it’s tied, 6-6. The press box is shaking. #BlueJays

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. The Jane Goodall Institute announced that she had passed away of natural causes while in California as part of a US speaking tour. Continue reading...

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Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.

Distinct neural processing underlying visual face and object perception in dyslexia

Developmental dyslexia is a disorder marked by difficulties in reading, spelling, and connecting sounds to written language. The high-level visual dys…

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Hi #canadian researchers - please sign this petition to help ensure funding isn’t cut to tri council agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, and CIHR). We’re looking at potential 15% cuts to ALL federal spending including grants win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

🚨 The wait is almost over! @cogscisociety.bsky.social × Blue Sky Grant applications open tomorrow. Five grants worth $1,810 each are here to support your next research idea. Join our webinar this Thursday 4PM BST for insider tips on how to submit a winning application. 👉 Register: bit.ly/3K28s1y

Illusion of the Year contender right here. #VisionScience

Elle@elleisanisland.bsky.social · 11mo ago

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Interested in #EEG #FPVS #FaceLearning? *An Ecological and Objective Neural Marker of Implicit Learning of Unfamiliar Identities* Preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/ps... @bfh-ch.bsky.social University of Malta @snsf.ch

Because everyone needs a bit of positivity in times like these:

What an incredible conference! #ECVP2025 was jam packed with amazing research and fun events. Now that it is over, I hope everyone gets some well-deserved rest!

Hot off the press: 1st ever #FPVS #EEG investigation into #SuperRecognizers Congrats to my amazing collaborators Jeff Nador, Kim Uittenhove & Dario Gordillo and thanks to all #police SRs & control participants! @bfh-ch.bsky.social, EPFL, @snsf.ch, Polizei Berlin link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Super-Recognizers, or Su-Perceivers? Insights from fast periodic visual stimulation (FPVS) EEG - Brain Topography

The term Super-Recognizer (SR), which describes individuals with supposedly superior facial recognition abilities, may be something of a misnomer. In the same way that blind individuals would not be c...

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Have you heard the news? Something big is coming for researchers! 🌟 Gorilla is running a brand new grant scheme this September in partnership with the @cogscisociety.bsky.social 🎉 Register your interest now to be the first to know when applications open. ⬇️ 👉 bit.ly/4fmOD0m

I gotta say that I love that the Royal Society has this contest every year! And, for the first time ever, I actually submitted 4 of my photographs! *Fingers crossed*

Royal Society Publishing@royalsocietypublishing.org · last yr.

The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! Categories include Astronomy, Behaviour, Earth Science & Climatology, Ecology & Environmental Science, and Microimaging. Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

I am VERY excited to announce that I was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (@britishacademy.bsky.social ) ! With this funding, I will be investigating forensic face matching through collaborative decision-making!

three people in blue scrubs are standing around a counter

ALT: three people in blue scrubs are standing around a counter

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Join us on August 22nd in collaboration with CSBBCS and SPARK Society for a free online webinar on finding postdoc opportunities! Visit the following link to register for the event: shorturl.at/BVPtC We hope to see you there!! Please note that the meeting will be held exclusively in English.

I am really excited to be presenting at the joint #CSBBCS and #EPS Dundee meeting this morning at 11:15! If you're around, come see my talk about age related changes in face learning!

The @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social interview with Mike Myers on the eve of Canada Day is sooo good. And yes, we need more Mike Myers always 🇨🇦: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq_x...

Does Canada need more Mike Myers?

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Four year 0.8 FTE post doc at Stirling with Dr. Line Caes (our Health Group) on a Oliver Bird Fund -funded project “Challenges young people face in managing musculoskeletal chronic pain”. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...