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The orange dot NEVER CHANGES SIZE The dynamic Ebbinghaus illusion, by Blair, Caplovitz and Mruczek. Particularly compelling with two instances playing out of phase with one another

Love seeing illusions from the caplovitz lab (my undergrad lab) in the wild

Excited about this new paper! Suppose you lost half a field of view, or color vision, would you notice? In a new paper in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, we show that you probably wouldn’t! You can find out more about those striking failures of visual metacognition here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jsFQ4sIRvTB….

Graduating PhDs and postdocs in AI, ML, Cogsci, or related areas: apply to work with me and others on AI models of visual and multimodal reasoning. Two years of funding with possible extension to a third year. Application deadline November 22. santafe.edu/about/jobs/pos…

This illusion – one of the best of the last few years – will really mess with your head. How many black dots are there? The answer is 12, but your visual system won’t let you see them all at once. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/12-mind-blow…

When visual metacognition fails: widespread anosognosia for visual deficits Opinion by Matthias Michel (Matthias Michel), Yi Gao, Matan Mazor (Matan Mazor), Isaiah Kletenik (Isaiah Kletenik), & Dobromir Rahnev (Doby Rahnev) Free access before Nov 20: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jsFQ4sIRvTB…

Finding $$$ for consciousness research in the USA is challenging. In this short piece, @noraabradford, Angela Shen, megan peters 🧠 and I discuss the TWCF-supported "Fund Consciousness Science!" project and talk about its motivation, execution, & outcomes rdcu.be/dWVFk

check out our new piece on structural & cultural challenges to funding consciousness science in the U.S. -- with @noraabradford Angela Shen & Brian Odegaard: nature.com/articles/s4200… following our project from a few years ago: see sites.google.com/uci.edu/fundco… for more!

I am thrilled to review applications for the Clinical Science program at UCBerkeley Psychology! Our work focuses on mental health equity, risk and resilience, data-driven ways to culturally adapt EBTs, and digital interventions. Please spread the word! tinyurl.com/GRUCB

Please note that the system has a glitch that is omitting my name from the list of faculty reviewing applications. Please select Professor Aaron Fisher instead and use the text box to specify what you want to be considered for my lab. I look forward to reviewing those apps!

I'm giving a talk on "Sensory Horizons and the Evolution of Conscious Vision" in Paris (IHPST) tomorrow (3-4:30pm, UTC+2). Apparently there's a zoom option too. More here: learningplanetinstitute.org/nos-evenements….

Megan Peters megan peters 🧠 shares how Fiser’s work taught her how to think about grounding computational models in biologically plausible implementations. Part of our "This paper changed my life" series: thetransmitter.org/this-paper-cha…

Happy to share our latest publication, out now in Cognition, where we find that metacognitive self-beliefs are updated in a suprisingly domain-specific manner. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Multiple job openings in brain and cognitive science at MIT! One is for experimentalists studying neural circuits for cognition, a second targets computational neuroscientists, and a third is aimed at computational cognitive scientists. Deadline is Nov 15. Links in next tweet...

in other words, we're looking for someone either good at working w/ animals, or technically good w/ fMRI troubleshooting (but maybe sick of the intrinsically limited SNR of human imaging ;-), or both, to join us.

Join our lab for an exciting PhD position to investigate perceptual awareness using psychophysics, fMRI and decoded neurofeedback. How to Apply: shorturl.at/vDtQH Application Deadline: December 1, 2024 Please retweet! ASSC

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anyone interested in working on analysis of *directed* graphs of whole brain networks (at the region-to-region level, i.e. high SNR fMRI data in mice)? e.g. making predictions using network control theory & testing them? we're hiring. ping me at [email protected]

In new work with Eric Du's lab at UF, my lab has been having discussions about how to improve trust calibration and optimize joint decisions with AI agents. We have some thoughts on these topics that we would love feedback on: osf.io/preprints/psya…