Kate Storrs Dr Kate Storrs in NZ! delivering her keynote talk for the Cognitive Neuroscience Hub rebranding event

Love the video demos showing the necessity of temporal cues for distinguishing between material properties of objects, especially texture versus reflectance

Join us!! PhD and postdoc positions in infant neuroimaging.

How does the human mind develop? The Foundations of Cognition (FOUNDCOG) project has acquired the largest cohort of awake infant fMRI to date, with 134 infants at 2 months old.

Have you registered and sent your abstract to SAW - the Seeing and Acting Workshop (September 21-23)? Great talks by Laurel Buxbaum Erez Freud🇨🇦🇮🇱 Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Bradford Mahon Alex Martin and Ricarda Schubotz. Register here: uc.pt/cogbooster/saw…

Last week to apply!

Looking forward to talking in Melbourne on 26th October. I'll also be in Sydney the week before, so hoping I can catch up with as many Australian vision/neuro/AI people as possible!

RSA 3 Python toolbox has officially dropped, with many new features!

Woop woop!!!!

Please RT! Open Full Professorship in Computational Cognitive Science TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI. Scientific focus on computational and algorithmic
modeling of behavioral data to understand the human mind. Join us at the Centre for Cognitive Science; we're building something wonderful. 1/2

As an aspiring brain scientist, my project was to discover the brain implementation of Opponent Colors Theory, the accepted explanation of color appearance. It took 20 yrs of trying (& failing) to find the corresponding neurophysiology, to realize the theory is wrong #color 1/8

Vision people - help!

Wtf???? Grants this size have major impact on people's careers and on the science that gets done across Australia... What asshole would accept the reviewing work and then offload it to GPT 😩

Infinite Photorealistic Worlds using Procedural Generation

paper page: huggingface.co/papers/2306.09…

introduce Infinigen, a procedural generator of photorealistic 3D scenes of the natural world. Infinigen is entirely procedural: every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from…

🚨 New paper out in Cognition! 🚨
With @suryagayet and @mariuspeelen, we used nicely furnished scenes like this one to investigate how mental object transformations (such as rotations) could interface with everyday vision. 🧵1/n

Counterfactual World Modeling (CWM) is a new project from my group. Our ultimate goal is to build a single unified model that could solve a wide range of human visual tasks in a zero-shot manner -- a kind of pure-vision foundation model. arxiv.org/abs/2306.01828

There's a developmental colour discrimination vs categorisation study in here...

Very cool idea!

Are memories noisier versions of what we perceive? Fundamentally different? Seriously, think about it… Early visual cortex processes what we see around us, but also has information about images briefly held in mind. The two must be different… but how? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨 🧵1/n

This week we've seen a raft of demos in multi-purpose humanoid robots.

Many roboticists roll their eyes at this. It's easy to make a robot do something 'at all' vs. 'all the time.'

Thing is... they're in field trials now. And cost effectiveness is climbing. Rundown in this 🧵.

Some nice simple wording in this thread for how to encourage students to think about AI tools: