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Our paper, "Stimulus representations in visual cortex shaped by spatial attention and microsaccades" was just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420704122

#Attention #VisualAttention #SpatialAttention #VisualCortex #Microsaccades #Saccades #EyeMovements #Representation #Dynamics #ActiveCognition #ActiveSensing #Decoding #V4cortex #ITcortex #Pulvinar #Neuroscience #PNAS

👀🔬 Groundbreaking discovery: apparently eye movements are somehow linked to how fast we see things! 🚀 Who knew?! In other news, Nature.com recommends upgrading from your ancient browser, suggesting that even their website is tired of living in the past. 💻🔧
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58659-9 #eyeMovements #visionScience #browserUpgrade #techNews #HackerNews #ngated

Lawful kinematics link eye movements to the limits of high-speed perception

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58659-9

#HackerNews #LawfulKinematics #EyeMovements #HighSpeedPerception #Neuroscience #Research #NatureArticle

2x PhD or PostDoc "EEG in Motion" @BenediktEhinger

University of Stuttgart

Emmy-Noether project "#EEG in motion"
Join us to understand the #brain with self-, object- and #eyemovements!
https://s-ccs.de/emmynoether

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-stuttgart-27778-2x-phd-or-postdoc-eeg-in-motion/?feed_id=77965

#cognition #EEG #eye_...
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2x PhD or PostDoc "EEG in Motion" @BenediktEhinger

University of Stuttgart

Emmy-Noether project "#EEG in motion"
Join us to understand the #brain with self-, object- and #eyemovements!
https://s-ccs.de/emmynoether

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-stuttgart-27778-2x-phd-or-postdoc-eeg-in-motion/?feed_id=76397

#cognition #EEG #eye_...
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2x PhD or PostDoc "EEG in Motion" @BenediktEhinger

University of Stuttgart

Emmy-Noether project "#EEG in motion"
Join us to understand the #brain with self-, object- and #eyemovements!
https://s-ccs.de/emmynoether

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-stuttgart-27778-2x-phd-or-postdoc-eeg-in-motion/?feed_id=76243

#cognition #EEG #eye_...
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I was an invited speaker at the Neurips conference in New Orleans in Dec 2023 for the NeuroAI social.

I was more than surprised to be invited to what is now primarily an AI/ML conference (despite "Neural" being the first word, and the conference's origins in comp neuroscience). To say that the successful AI systems currently deployed and neuroscience/study of biological intelligence have diverged would be an understatement, it was a somewhat odd choice for the organizers to invite a neurophysiologist like me.

So, I took the invite as an opportunity to talk about attention in biological vision and how whatever they now call as attention in AI/ML/CNN/transformers
is almost orthogonal to what many others and I study within visual neuroscience or psychology or cognitive science.

While the talk was a partial critique of current AI models, it was more a call for them to take seriously the one instance of intelligence (i.e., the biological world) seriously and how it still has much to offer towards designing better AI systems.

If attention is not one of the cognitive ingredients that makes up the intelligence recipe towards autonomous systems, I don't know what is.

The talk slides can be found here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/927f50bfvqpwtserizgl5/NeuroAI_Neurips_KS2023.pdf?rlkey=r3pgvsyoudwczapjijx80pj7l

#Neurips2023 #NeuroAI #Attention #Vision #BiologicalVision #ActiveVision #SpaceVariance #NonlinearCompression #EyeMovements #Neurodynamics #AutonomousSystems #AI #ML

Referenced link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-tiny-eye-movements-degree-cognitive.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-tiny-eye-movements-degree-cognitive.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/medical_xpress/status/1642933246198689792#m

RT by @physorg_com: Tiny #eyemovements are under a surprising degree of cognitive control @WeillCornell @currentbiology https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982223003147 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-tiny-eye-movements-degree-cognitive.html

Are you a researcher working on visual cognition or some related field? Please drop your Mastodon handle here and we will follow you. Also feel free to point us to other accounts.
#VisualAttention #EyeMovements #ObjectPerception #FacePerception #VisualMemory #VisualStatistics #VisualPlasticity #VisualPerception #VisionScience #CognitivePsychology #CognitiveScience #CognitiveNeuroscience

Wow. In 24 hours, we have gone from zero to 4.4K followers, that‘s crazy. Thank you for a warm welcome and excellent tips. I gave up on replying to all of you after someone pointed out that I was spamming thousands of people – sorry! Also, please do not read too much into it if we do not respond or take a long time responding, we are a busy bunch and may simply sometimes miss your post or messages. Mastodon allows long posts so I am taking advantage of that, so here are a few things that you may – or may not – want to know.

—Who are we?—

Research in the Icelandic Vision Lab (https://visionlab.is) focuses on all things visual, with a major emphasis on higher-level or “cognitive” aspects of visual perception. It is co-run by five Principal Investigators: Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson, Sabrina Hansmann-Roth, Árni Kristjánsson, Inga María Ólafsdóttir, and Heida Maria Sigurdardottir. Here on Mastodon, you will most likely be interacting with me – Heida – but other PIs and potentially other lab members (https://visionlab.is/people) may occasionally also post here as this is a joint account. If our posts are stupid and/or annoying, I will however almost surely be responsible!

—What do we do?—

Current and/or past research at IVL has looked at several visual processes, including #VisualAttention , #EyeMovements , #ObjectPerception , #FacePerception , #VisualMemory , #VisualStatistics , and the role of #Experience / #Learning effects in #VisualPerception . Some of our work concerns the basic properties of the workings of the typical adult #VisualSystem . We have also studied the perceptual capabilities of several unique populations, including children, synesthetes, professional athletes, people with anxiety disorders, blind people, and dyslexic readers. We focus on #BehavioralMethods but also make use of other techniques including #Electrophysiology , #EyeTracking , and #DeepNeuralNetworks

—Why are we here?—

We are mostly here to interact with other researchers in our field, including graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and principal investigators. This means that our activity on Mastodon may sometimes be quite niche. This can include boosting posts from others on research papers, conferences, or work opportunities in specialized fields, partaking in discussions on debates in our field, data analysis, or the scientific review process. Science communication and outreach are hugely important, but this account is not about that as such. So we take no offence if that means that you will unfollow us, that is perfectly alright :)

—But will there still sometimes be stupid memes as promised?—

Yes. They may or may not be funny, but they will be stupid.

#VisionScience #CognitivePsychology #CognitiveScience #CognitiveNeuroscience #StupidMemes