❣️BIG NEWS❣️ I started a new academic job🥳 at the Center for Brain Research (Centre for Brain Research, Jagiellonian University) at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (🇵🇱), and now I am looking for a PhD student to co-supervise. See details below; informal queries are welcome!

At poster 9 is Vignash Tharmaratnam (co-authors Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, & Jonathan S. Cant) with "Average Temperature from Visual Scene Ensembles Without Reliance on Color, Contrast or Low Spatial Frequencies"

Perceptual Organization in Computer and Biological Vision - Research Topics in Frontiers with 14 articles spanning Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience: t.ly/q6jn3 What started with a symposium VSS Meeting in 2022, is now complete just in time for #VSS2024!

Super cool work by Vignash on ensemble stats of non-visual aspects of scenes extracted from scene images. Yaelan Jung previously used these stimuli to measure their neural representations in PFC. doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… Tuesday morning, not-so-breezy Banyan Breezeway, 309.

Super proud of Gaeun Son for passing the PhD defense with flying colors! With Adrian Nestor, Morgan Barense, Julie Golomb, Michael Mack, and Dr Jen Ryan.

I'll be recruiting a PhD student through the Cog Neuro Program UIUC Psychology Department this year. If you're interested in brain organization, networks, and cognition, please consider applying. 🧠🧠🧠

How does neurodiversity affect aesthetic processing? I explored this questions with students from a seminar class on Neuroaesthics. Our insights just got published in Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jlNnY3M3i2MK I'm proud of the great work by the students!

People like round contours better than angular contours. Where and how is curvature represented in the brain? With indoor architecture we found a neural dissociation between subjective curvature and computational curvature. nature.com/articles/s4159… Dela Farzanfar @mskov01

SAVE THE DATE #VSS2025 is scheduled for May 16-21 at the TradeWinds Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida. Mark your calendar!

📢 New PhD position open in our department.

We have some really interesting new results on aesthetics and metabolic energy efficiency! Come on over and check them out! bsky.app/profile/dirkbw… With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham

Announcing the Toronto Aesthetics Sciences Conference (TASC) on April 8th! To find out more, head over to where the skies are still blue! bsky.app/profile/dirkbw… Seriously, what are you still doing here on this site?

This is my last post on this platform. Come, head on over to bluer skies! There you will find a post about a our new paper testing the Mirror Model of Art through the lens of neuroscience! bsky.app/profile/dirkbw… Seriously, what are you still doing here?