Tarryn Balsdon
@tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social
Researcher in cognitive neuroscience, specialising in perception, metacognition, and decision-making
Deeply honoured and very humbled to have received the 2026 Kurt Koffka Medal. Many thanks to the committee at the University of Giessen! www.uni-giessen.de/fbz/fb06/psy...
How meaningful is it to search for the minimal exposure duration of a stimulus to understand visual perception? With Mark Wexler, we wrote a commentary on the article of Lanfranco et al., Nat. Commun., 2024: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception - Nature Communications
Nature Communications - The meaningfulness of searching for minimal exposure duration to understand visual perception
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(1/6) My first first-author paper is now out in @nconsc.bsky.social! Part of my PhD work with @mamassian.bsky.social at @lsp-ens.bsky.social. We looked at how confidence behaves during a perceptual learning task with no feedback. academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
Perceptual learning without feedback is accompanied with systematic changes in confidence processing
Abstract. Perceptual learning can occur without external feedback, raising questions about what internal signals might guide this learning. Here, we test t
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Congrats to all LSP speakers & poster presenters at BEYSE 🎉 @mamassian.bsky.social @tarrynbalsdon.bsky.social @lotfiahmad.bsky.social @ljubicajovanovic.bsky.social @eecasey.bsky.social @alelorcavyhmeister.bsky.social @Yves Boubenec @Mathilde Martin @Hugo Tissot
Metacognition bridges the gap between basic thought and effective action by acting as a feedback loop that monitors and regulates our internal… Metacognition by Joelle Proust https://doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.c403b8e7 #CognitiveScience
Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision - Volume 49
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Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi
🌱 #CuttingGardens recruitment at #OHBM 😏 A highly significant p-value points toward new Gardens about to sprout worldwide for September 21–25! 🌍 🚨 Final call to organize a Garden 👇 cuttingeeg.org/cuttinggarde... Let’s grow a caring community for open, rigorous & inclusive MEEG science 🪻📊
Interested in getting started with #git and contributing to PsychoPy docs? Join us tomorrow for our free workshop. This "My first pull request" session is designed to walk you through the basics so that you can start contributing to #opensource projects! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-first-p...
"My First Pull Request": A Beginners Guide to Open Source with PsychoPy
Make your first pull request and learn how to get started in the world of Open Source Projects!
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The team at SBDM! @ljubicajovanovic.bsky.social @eecasey.bsky.social @lotfiahmad.bsky.social @lsp-ens.bsky.social Looking forward to this excellent program
Our follow-up study on the psycholinguistics of gender-fair language is finally out! This was a long journey, so here's a thread to explain what we did and what we discovered. The #openaccess article is here for those who want the full story: hal.science/hal-05607624 (1/10)
I wrote my first single-author manuscript, reviewing evidence for an overlooked effect of noise on speech perception. Since no junior researcher were involved (so no pressure to secure traditional publications for their CVs), I decided to explore alternatives to the standard publishing system. (1/2)
A classic painting from the Mexican artist Octavio Ocampo. Try rotating the image upside-down if you don't see anything strange at first.
Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)
This is proof that sometimes you never know how good things can get, and even then, they can sometimes get even better. 13/10 for all (TT: matiastapia2409)
In this image, the square tiles look like diamond shapes when light grazes the surface. (The square tiles are actually floor heating elements) Probably related to the coffer illusion by Anthony Norcia.
Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🤔 Confidence Control. Our sense of confidence is a powerful guide for our behavior. It shapes many of the decisions we make every day: we might search for more information when we feel uncertain, ignore irrelevant feedback when we feel very confident, or adjust how we approach learning.
You're still in time to apply to BAMB! and learn the art of modeling behavior with us! 🧠 The deadline is this Friday, March 6th. Run! 🏃♂️💨 Apply here: 🔗 www.bambschool.org
BAMB! 2026 | Barcelona Summer School for Advanced Modeling of Behavior
Intensive training for experienced researchers in cognitive science, computational neuroscience and neuro-AI. Five interconnected modules, expert faculty, hands-on projects. July 12-23, 2026.
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Congrats to Jun Yang for defending his PhD on “Visual detection of elementary image features during natural behaviour”. 🎉 Well done Dr Jun on this amazing accomplishment.🥳 -- Credits for the pictures to @mengtingj.bsky.social
Now published in Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social)! Schulz-Hildebrandt, H. (2026). When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion. Perception, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0301...
When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion - Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt, 2026
In this paper, an optical illusion is described in which purple elements are perceived as purple at the point of fixation, while surrounding elements of the sam...
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Pascal Mamassian@mamassian.bsky.social · 11mo agoA 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...
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...
To all those who survived February, well done, march on
Is the concept of “category-selectivity” holding the field back in understanding high-level visual cortex? Detailed discussion in our published perspective piece and accompanying commentaries:
J. Brendan Ritchie@jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Come for the learning, stay for the cookies! 🍪 Applications for BAMB! 2026 are open. Join us in Barcelona! www.bambschool.org
Come join us at BAMB! to learn all about modelling behavior and what Barcelona’s beaches have to offer 🏐🏄♂️🏊♂️ Applications for 2026 are open here: www.bambschool.org
