E whiti ana re rā! It may be cold but glorious day in Auckland! Ready for some #neuroscyence #visionscience #psychscisky at #APCVEPC26 Enjoy the conference, everyone! :)

Auckland is unusually cold this week but hope it stays crisp and pleasant so you all get to enjoy the scenery, not just the excellent science! 🙂

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · last mo.

IT'S CONFERENCE WEEK! 🎉 Welcome to Auckland, NZ for APCV/EPC2026. Whether you're giving a talk, presenting a poster, or simply taking it all in, we're glad to have you here. Tag us with: #APCVEPC26

IT'S CONFERENCE WEEK! 🎉 Welcome to Auckland, NZ for APCV/EPC2026. Whether you're giving a talk, presenting a poster, or simply taking it all in, we're glad to have you here. Tag us with: #APCVEPC26

This is excellent - and if you use the online version it should deal with any of the inevitable schedule changes were aren't planning to make... 😏

William Ngiam | 严祥全@williamngiam.github.io · last mo.

I adapted a scheduler app that was shared at VSS for this conference: apcvepc2026.netlify.app. Hope others find it useful in organising their time. (And thank you to Miyoung Kwon who created the app originally).

Our final schedule and abstract booklet are now available to download from our conference website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026

Join us on 1 July, 12:00–3:15 PM, for the Synaesthesia Science & Community Forum. Explore the latest research in consciousness, sensory neuroscience, auditory cognition, and phenomenology through talks and discussion. See here for more details: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

Join Professor Gina Grimshaw on 2 July, 6:00–7:30 PM, for a public lecture discussing how emotions shape attention, memory, decision-making, and human connection. Register now on: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/

D-10! See you all soon at APCV & EPC 2026. A reminder of what's happening on the first day: 🔬 A workshop on image processing 🎨 A satellite event on synaesthesia 🎓 An ECR panel on navigating academia & industry The welcome ceremony will start at 17:30 NZT

I know this was a labour of love (and blood, sweat, and tears) by my great colleague Susanne Stoll: the first ever tactile maps of the human finger tip! ☝️ #neuroskyence (not really #psychscisky or #visionscience but tagged it anyway 😉) doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

A reminder that the conference schedule is now live on our website at visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/ We look forward to seeing everyone soon! #EPCAPCV26

All speakers should have received information about the session & timings of their presentations at #epc-apcv-2026 by now! A preliminary (searchable) schedule is available on the website: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026 Remember to register by the end of 15 May for early-bird rates!

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Another reminder that our Early Bird Registration closes next week (15th May 26). All presenters, including speakers and discussants, please register by then.

Final days for Early Bird registration! Register now and take advantage of discounted pricing.

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Another reminder that our Early Bird Registration closes next week (15th May 26). All presenters, including speakers and discussants, please register by then.

Another reminder that our Early Bird Registration closes next week (15th May 26). All presenters, including speakers and discussants, please register by then.

Congratulations to the brilliant Dr Ecem Altan who has official graduated with her PhD today! Moving to a foreign country to start a PhD in early 2020 must have taken much patience & perseverance - but it turned into a fantastic thesis in the end... Ka pai! Tebrikler!

The last trickles of sand are slipping through the hourglass... 😏⌛ #EPC-APCV-2026 - Do it now. It's gonna be awesome! 🙂

Sam Schwarzkopf@sampendu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The sands of time are running out... Submit your abstracts while you can! 🕚⌛ (But ideally not all at the same time right before midnight because I'm the poor sod who must read them all 😏)

The sands of time are running out... Submit your abstracts while you can! 🕚⌛ (But ideally not all at the same time right before midnight because I'm the poor sod who must read them all 😏)

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

⚠️ LAST CHANCE to submit your abstract. Submissions close 30 April 2026.

⚠️ LAST CHANCE to submit your abstract. Submissions close 30 April 2026.

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Deadline is fast approaching! Come on, get your abstracts in and swap the thermal & political heat of the northern hemisphere for some New Zealand winter cool 🙂

Australasian Society for Experimental Psychology@expsyanz.bsky.social · 4mo ago

❗Last week before the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026❗ Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

❗Last week before the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026❗ Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

I hate Outlook so very much... 😒🤦

⚠️ Reminder: 2 weeks left until the abstract submission deadline for APCV & EPC 2026. Abstracts are due on 30 April 2026. Please also note that all presenters—including speakers and discussants in symposia—must register for the conference by the early-bird deadline on 15 May 2026.

Article slamming preprints cites *nine* preprints. You can't make this stuff up.

Eiko Fried@eikofried.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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Meet our final keynote speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Dr Corey Wadsley from the University of Auckland will present a keynote lecture titled "Stopping safely: Physiological underpinnings of response inhibition."

Happy to report that our survey study on the diversity with which people seem to experience their mental imagery is now published in RSOS :) doi.org/10.1098/rsos... I posted a longer thread summarising the findings some months ago when we first put out the preprint: bsky.app/profile/samp...

Sam Schwarzkopf@sampendu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Long time in the making: our preprint of survey study on the diversity with how people seem to experience #mentalimagery. Suggests #aphantasia should be redefined as absence of depictive thought, not merely "not seeing". Some more take home msg: #psychskysci #neuroscience doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Meet our second keynote speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Prof. Elaine Reese from the University of Otago will deliver a keynote lecture titled "Memory Development: From Basic Science to Applied Approaches."

Next up: Keynote Speaker Announcements. Introducing the first speaker for APCV & EPC 2026! Prof. Hakwan Lau will present a keynote lecture titled "Prefrontal Mechanisms for Perception."

I missed all this kerfuffle last year becuase I was preoccupied with other things but gawd this is some bullshit. I'm glad now that I didn't submit my last paper to a Wiley journal as I had considered...

Peer Community in Registered Reports@pci-regreports.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

We've posted a new fMRI study of semantic relations (has-part, is-a, made-of, etc.), a key aspect of language. We find that relations are represented in the same brain regions as are other semantic concepts, though voxels tend to be selective for only one relation or another. doi.org/10.64898/202...

⚡SYMPOSIA SPOTLIGHT #3 We are wrapping up our Symposia Spotlight with more featured sessions and speakers. We look forward to seeing you there!