Scientific battle time! I just pre-printed a new commentary: (doi.org/10.31234/osf...) in response to an interesting paper published in @elife.bsky.social last week, by @talboger.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social.

Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · 3w ago

Out today! elifesciences.org/articles/111... @elife.bsky.social

If you are at #ECVP2026 drop by my poster this afternoon on categorical storage of visual working memory content. TLDR: humans are lazy. Memorizing color category instead of hue reduces memory load. Thus, recall is biased toward category prototypes, especially when attentional resources are low.

Rise and shine #ECVP2026 At 10:45 (Bayview Suite) @lassedietz.bsky.social talks about how temporal expectations enhance perception. Using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging #RIFT he shows enhanced visual cortex excitability prior to an expected stimulus, predicting subsequent perceptual reports.

Today at #ECVP2026 @arora-borealis.bsky.social will talk about how attention moves through space: does it travel or teleport? Come to the attention session in Tregonwell Hall at 18:15. Even if you don't care about attention, his talks are always worth attending, if only for the visuals :-)

Kabir Arora@arora-borealis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Participants covertly shifted attention from fixation to the periphery of this propellor-shaped stimulus. We added frequency tags to many locations (these were invisible, so participants saw static displays), allowing us to track attention to the shift endpoint, but also in between! (2/3)

But now with the correct time for Lasse's talk 😅 See you all tomorrow!

Surya Gayet@suryagayet.bsky.social · 3w ago

Looking forward to seeing you all at ECVP2026 in Bournemouth! If you a see a cap (or @arora-borealis.bsky.social & @lassedietz.bsky.social with a CAP-Lab logo) don't hesitate to drag us into a conversation about RIFT, working memory, consciousness, attention, or -just- life. See you there! #ECVP

Looking forward to seeing you all at ECVP2026 in Bournemouth! If you a see a cap (or @arora-borealis.bsky.social & @lassedietz.bsky.social with a CAP-Lab logo) don't hesitate to drag us into a conversation about RIFT, working memory, consciousness, attention, or -just- life. See you there! #ECVP

Killer Kabir went at it again! We asked a simple question, when you shift attention to a task-relevant location, does attention TRAVEL or TELEPORT (i.e., does it enhance visual processing along its path, or only at the intended endpoint)? See the thread & preprint below: #RIFT #EEG #Attention

Kabir Arora@arora-borealis.bsky.social · 4w ago

When we shift covert attention from point A to point B; do we also attend everything in between, or does attention jump the gap? In a new preprint, our RIFT-EEG task suggests the latter (with S.V.d.Stigchel, @suryagayet.bsky.social, @schota.bsky.social, ...) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (1/3)

Wooow! @danwang7.bsky.social just won the Early Career Excellence Award at the APCV/EPC 2026 meeting! As her supervisor in the past 3 yrs, I have seen so much professional & personal growth. It makes me incredibly proud that this was also seen by an independent jury on the other side of the planet.

Investigations into whether we can search for multiple targets in a simultaneous fashion have led to mixed findings. In this new PsychScience article, we report that people CAN search concurrently, but don't always DO so... 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision

LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.

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Past experiences shape current selection. But when and how strong are past and present targets represented in the brain? In our newest paper, we show that past and present search targets are concurrently represented in the brain. Out now in @plosbiology.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... #neuroscience

Past and present goals are represented concurrently during visual search

Past experience and our current goals guide what information to focus on. But how and when does the brain represent the past and the present? This new study shows that the brain represents the past an...

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New paper alert: very proud to share our review published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, spearheaded by @maellelerebourg.bsky.social, and together with @peelen.bsky.social and @predictivebrain.bsky.social, about goal-directed search in real-world environments. See below for a thread/tldr!

Maëlle Lerebourg@maellelerebourg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What do we look for when searching for objects in our daily-life environments? Very happy that I can now share this review, together with @suryagayet.bsky.social , @predictivebrain.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social🥳 A brief thread below!

My first TEDx talk just came out. It's always fun to talk about your own research area to the general audience, and its even more fun when you are lucky enough to be supported by such a platform. Happy to hear your thoughts :-) youtu.be/UyUclyHx8d8?...

How reality is simulated by your brain | Surgya Gayet | TEDxEindhoven

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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It has been cooking in the oven for quite some years, but I am very proud of this work that just got published in Science Advances - spearheaded by the awesome Giacomo Aldegheri:

Giacomo Aldegheri@gialdegheri.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨 With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Looking forward to talk about our recent rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) work as part of the Conscious Club - online talks organized by @smfleming.bsky.social, @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, and others at UCL. Tune in tomorrow (note the time below is in UK time)!

Steve Fleming@smfleming.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Looking forward to the first Consciousness Club of the year tomorrow! @suryagayet.bsky.social will be talking to us about “Tracking perceptual competition with Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT)” Wed 14th Jan at 11am UK time All welcome, to join please see metacoglab.org/consciousnes...

Looking forward to seeing everyone again at NVP (@brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social) today. The CAP-Lab is well represented, with 4 posters and 4 talks. (Also, check the CAP-Lab website, www.cap-lab.net, for a number of recent publications.) Ending the year with a BANG. See you all there 💜

new paper in TICS officially out today. great learning from and writing with Anastasia, and super cool cover art from Prof. Pinar Yoldas. www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory

A core function of visual working memory (WM) is to sustain mental representations of recent visual inputs, thereby bridging moments of experience. This is thought to occur in part by recruiting early...

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Excited to share that my first article is now published in Communications Biology! Humans and many animals have an innate ability to rapidly perceive numerosity—the number of objects in a visual scene. But how does our brain process this fundamental capability? Read the full paper: rdcu.be/eRxMi

Numerosity adaptation suppresses early visual responses

Communications Biology - Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors....

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Celebration time 🥳 @liangyouzhang.bsky.social publishes the 1st empirical paper of his PhD! We show that numerosity adaptation (a seemingly high-level stim property) suppresses neural responses in early visual cortex; these adaptation FX increase as we progress thru the visual processing hierarchy.

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 10mo ago

Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation effects begin in early sensory stages of processing. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Very proud of this great piece of multi-lab work by Kabir & Husta, et al. Want to measure attention across the visual field (without interfering with ongoing perceptual/attentional processes)? Use RIFT! Here we share our how-to-RIFT knowledge, including analysis code, quantitative comparisons, ..

Kabir Arora@arora-borealis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Planning on running a RIFT study? In a new manuscript, we put together the RIFT know-how accumulated over the years by multiple labs (@lindadrijvers.bsky.social, @schota.bsky.social, @eelkespaak.bsky.social, with Cecília Hustá and others). Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wait whut!? Doing science with the awesome RR?? Go for it y'all! Can heavily recommend :-)

Rosanne Rademaker@rademaker.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

If you are up for a nice academic battle, consider responding to our BBS paper "Studying unconscious processing: contention and consensus". The deadline is October 15th. Link below!

François Stockart@francoisstock.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The call for commentaries on our BBS paper is out now (deadline October 15): shorturl.at/Hu3Yu. In the paper (shorturl.at/4Rbk6), we provide recommendations and outstanding issues about designing experimental paradigms, analyzing data, and reporting the results of studies on unconscious processing 👇

If you were as unfortunate as me, and missed King Kabir (@arora-borealis.bsky.social)'s talk at #ECVP2025 on the differences (in early visual processing) between internal and external attentional selection... no worries, you can find the paper here: share.google/TDIZCDK9puB6...

Dissociating external and internal attentional selection

Cognitive neuroscience; Psychology

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Kabir Arora@arora-borealis.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to give a talk at #ECVP2025 (Tuesday morning, Attention II) on how spatially biased attention during VWM does not boost excitability the same way it does when attending the external world, using Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT). @attentionlab.bsky.social @ecvp.bsky.social

Very happy to see this preprint out! The amazing @danwang7.bsky.social was on fire sharing this work at #ECVP2025, gathering loads of attention, and here you can find the whole thing! Using RIFT we reveal how the competition between top-down goals and bottom-up saliency unfolds within visual cortex.

Looking forward to joining #ECVP2025 tomorrow. CAP-Lab is well represented, with 3 talks (@lassedietz.bsky.social on Monday, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social and I on Tuesday), and 2 posters (by @danwang7.bsky.social on Tuesday, and @yichen-yuan.bsky.social on Wednesday). Please come by for a chat! 💜

How is it possible that you can hear "brainstorm" or "green needle" in the EXACT same audio fragment (www.youtube.com/watch?v=1okD...)? I wrote a short and accessible blog post about this with @samdekater.bsky.social for the @brainhelpdesk.bsky.social: brainhelpdesk.nl/en/vraag/how... (in EN or NL)

How is it possible that we can hear either ‘green needle’ or ‘brainstorm’ whilst the audio fragment remains the same?

Je hebt het misschien niet door, maar je brein is continu aan het gissen hoe de wereld om je heen nu eigenlijk in elkaar steekt. Wat we uiteindelijk bewust ervaren, is een combinatie van wat we van te...

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Looking forward to @compcogneuro.bsky.social's #CCN2025, which takes place in my backyard this year. If you are there as well, hook me up for a chat, and go and visit @lassedietz.bsky.social, @liangyouzhang.bsky.social, and @arora-borealis.bsky.social's posters on Tue/Wed/Fri. [1/2]

Happy to see this one out in BBS: a multi-lab collaborative effort toward achieving consensus on (10) best practices for researching unconscious processes, and a discussion of (9) outstanding issues. Kudos to Francois, Maor, Liad, & Nathan for leading this project. Looking forward to the responses!

Maor Schreiber@maorschreiber.bsky.social · last yr.

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢Excited to share our paper, "Studying unconscious processing: Contention and consensus", published in BBS. The paper is the result of a collaborative effort of 32 leading researchers in the field, from 10 different countries🌏 Check out the full ms👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I had loads of fun today, sharing thoughts and projects during a joint lab-meeting with @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social's Imagine Reality Lab. Two hours were way too short to discuss all the cool projects! Thanks everyone for your contributions 💜