Michael Proulx
@michaelproulx.bsky.social
Research Scientist @ Reality Labs + Professor of Cognition & Technology @ University of Bath
For #InternationalWomensDay why not go to www.bps.org.uk/psychologist and scroll down to 'Explore The Psychologist', for the 30+ incredible women and their stories we have already featured in 2026 alone. Thank you all! (And also to the women I work with!)
The Psychologist | BPS
The magazine of the British Psychological Society - in print and online.
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A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
Read about research by Amir Amedi, Shinsuke Shimojo, Robert Zatorre, Michael Proulx and many others with The vOICe https://www.seeingwithsound.com/literature.htm
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe sensory...
Scientific publications based on use of The vOICe sensory...
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Congenitally blind user of The vOICe comments on TEDx talk by Michael Proulx, "How well do you see what you hear?" http://techesoterica.com/?p=653
How well do you see what you hear? Michael Proulx at TEDx...
A superb presentation by Dr. Proulx on vision, what the b...
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Dillon Lohr, Michael J. Proulx, Oleg Komogortsev Establishing a Baseline for Gaze-driven Authentication Performance in VR: A Breadth-First Investigation on a Very Large Dataset https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.11798
Charig Yang, Samiul Alam, Shakhrul Iman Siam, Michael J. Proulx, Lambert Mathias, Kiran Somasundaram, Luis Pesqueira, James Fort, Sheroze Sheriffdeen, Omkar Parkhi, Carl Ren, Mi Zhang, Yuning Chai, Richard Newcombe, Hyo Jin Kim Reading Recognition in the Wild https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24848
Dillon Lohr, Michael J. Proulx, Mehedi Hasan Raju, Oleg V. Komogortsev Ocular Authentication: Fusion of Gaze and Periocular Modalities https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17343
Recent special issue by @michaelproulx.bsky.social (Uni Bath & Meta RealityLabs ) and @arzucoltekin.bsky.social (our inst leader) "Use of immersive technologies in design". Editorial: www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... Collection: www.frontiersin.org/research-top... #XR #VR #AR #MR #design
We are really excited to launch the Department of Psychology @uniofbath.bsky.social social media channels! Follow us to hear all about our research, staff and student experiences, and our exciting department, faculty and university-wide initiatives and projects. #university #bathUK
Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @meike-scheller.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social et al.
Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals
The ability to reduce sensory uncertainty by integrating information across different senses develops late in humans and depends on cross-modal, senso…
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Workshop at University of Exeter (UK), September 8, 2025: Immersive VR to understand human cognition, perception & action www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/immersive-... via @drgbuckingham.bsky.social with @michaelproulx.bsky.social; #AR/#VR
Immersive VR to Understand Human Cognition, Perception & Action
Join us for a free, day-long workshop exploring the cutting-edge intersection of immersive virtual reality (VR) and experimental psychology.
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2025. #DEI. Removing masculine defaults in the hiring process | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Removing masculine defaults in the hiring process | PNAS
Removing masculine defaults in the hiring process
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Maybe appealing to people trying to get out of the US. lecturer = asst prof sr lecturer = assoc prof reader = assoc prof with better transition probability to full prof than a sr lecturer
Tom SF Haines@tomsfhaines.bsky.social · last yr.We have lots of lectureships in #AI / #ML @uniofbath.bsky.social. Friendly colleagues, beautiful city and more areas of expertise than I can keep track of. www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (lecturer/senior lecturer) and www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... (reader).
Research Engineer - Machine Learning for Behavioral AI Meta’s Reality Labs Research brings together a world-class team of researchers, developers, and engineers to create the future of Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Wearable Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Research Engineer - Machine Learning for Behavioral AI
Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
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Updated white paper: Why The vOICe will defeat Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision seeingwithsound.com/neuralink.htm #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience
(2022) A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @alealisousa.bsky.social @orlinst.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social
A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function
Research on the origin of vision and vision loss in naturally “blind” animal species can reveal the tasks that vision fulfills and the brain's role in…
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Excellent first 2025 BIGTALK by @michaelproulx.bsky.social! Preferences for eye tracking targeting, scan paths not fixations for activity recognition, implicit gaze as unique fingerprint, shoutout to Bristol’s egocentric computer vision @dimadamen.bsky.social. Human experience and inclusion are key!
Michael Proulx @michaelproulx.bsky.social is kicking off a new year of BIG TALK this Thursday at 2pm GMT with "Eye tracking in extended reality," discussing his research at University of Bath & Reality Labs Research (Meta née Oculus). Join us online, all welcome! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-talk-m...
BIG TALK: Michael Proulx, Meta Reality Labs
Eye tracking in extended reality
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Approach 1: DeepMReye A deep learning framework for camera-less #EyeTracking in #fMRI. It decodes gaze position from eye-voxel patterns, is highly accurate, and works in existing data and eyes-closed (e.g., rest, sleep)! Code: github.com/DeepMReye/De... Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 4/9
Our paper on Visual impairment, visual media exposure, and body image -- I am catching up here 🦋
Michael Proulx @michaelproulx.bsky.social · 2y agoNew paper! We studied how media, other social pressures, and our senses contribute to how we feel about our bodies by focusing on people with or without visual impairments. This work is open access and free for all to read journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @alealisousa.bsky.social
Our new paper on how multi-sensory presentation of phylogenetic trees can improve evolution education for everyone #Education #Diversity #inclusion #TelmaLaurentino #GillianGlover @meike-scheller.bsky.social michaelproulx.bsky.social evolution-outreach.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Thinking on your feet: potentially enhancing phylogenetic tree learning accessibility through a kinaesthetic approach - Evolution: Education and Outreach
Background Phylogenetics is one of the main methodologies to understand cross-cutting principles of evolution, such as common ancestry and speciation. Phylogenetic trees, however, are reportedly chall...
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New paper! We studied how media, other social pressures, and our senses contribute to how we feel about our bodies by focusing on people with or without visual impairments. This work is open access and free for all to read journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @alealisousa.bsky.social
Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women - Sara Dell’Erba, Meike Scheller, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Michael J. Proulx, 2024
Introduction: Visual experience has a substantial effect on how individuals construct a template of their own bodies in space. Whether the absence of total or p...
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Please consider signing this petition to save the Department of Philosophy, among many other departments, at the University of Kent. www.change.org/p/save-arts-...
Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
Feasibility of decoding visual information from EEG www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by @michaelproulx.bsky.social et al.; #neuroscience
Feasibility of decoding visual information from EEG
Decoding visual information, such as visual imagery and perception, from EEG data can be used to improve understanding of the neural representation of visual information and to provide commands for...
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Pleased to share another paper with Holly Wilson is out! "Feasibility of decoding visual information from EEG" in Brain-Computer Interfaces www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
