Paul Linton

3D Vision + Visual Experience /
NOMIS Fellow @ItalianAcademy /
Presidential Scholar @columbiacss /
@KriegeskorteLab + @ZuckermanBrain

[Paul Linton @LintonVision]

Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025)

Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇

@ItalianAcademy @KriegeskorteLab @ZuckermanBrain @columbiacss @ColumbiaScience

[Daniel Yamins @dyamins]

This was a really fun project -- I think we're getting a much better handle handle on the neural dynamics of vision. (and still a ways to go!). I've heard from folks that the 30ms recurrent circuit we seem to be finding has been found in a bunch of other places as well...

[Yoon Bai @yoon_bai]

1/ How do we see 3D shape — for grasping, reaching, navigating — when the world is constantly in motion? We started with one piece of this puzzle—how the brain recovers surface geometry from dynamic input. New preprint, a joint effort from Josh Tenenbaum’s and Jim DiCarlo’s labs at MIT. (1/6)
https://t.co/1In72kZdTf

[kalatwit @kalatwt]

Honored to have the opportunity to discuss our research with the talented Nicholas Weiler on his podcast From Our Neurons to Yours

[Eivinas Butkus @eivinasbutkus]

1/ New preprint + VSS poster! Attention has long been thought to enable efficient vision. But does it? First demonstration that attention—consuming just 4-5% of the energy budget—can cut the energetic costs of vision in half. #VSS2026

[Fan L. Cheng @LibraCheng]

Look. The snakes rotate.
Hold still. They stop.
Glance away. They spin again.
We asked 10 visual-motion models to play this game with us. Only one could. 🐍

I'll present "Neural networks reveal candidate computational mechanisms underlying anomalous motion illusion" at #VSS2026

🗓️ May 19th, Tuesday 8:30–12:30
📍 Pavilion, Board 53.435

Welcome to drop by! 👋

w/ @IsabellaRosario @ZitangSun @KriegeskorteLab

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details after the talk!

[Daniel Yamins @dyamins]

Ok -- I've started a substack -- The Principle Investigator! My goal is communicating advanced takes on ideas in NeuroAI+. Here's the first substantive post: https://t.co/V6yQdx8AGx Calculating the aesthetics of DNN models of the brain

[Paul Linton @LintonVision]

Massive congratulations to DR Veronica Bossio Botero (@vbossiob) for a wonderful PhD defence:

"Mapping the representational geometry of human face perception with generative models of face space"

Watch this space for some exciting research!

[storiesofWiN @storiesofwin]

Our latest profile is here! Dr. Carol Mason studies the development of connectivity between the eyes and the brain. Click the link below to listen and learn more!

https://t.co/uMT46Bgks4

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

[Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute @ZuckermanBrain]

Congratulations to our own @shadlen, MD, PhD, who was elected to the @americanacad! This recognition celebrates excellence and leadership in the sciences and across disciplines. Learn more about Shadlen’s research on decision making:
https://t.co/boKDzdEyDR

[Zenna Tavares @ZennaTavares]

New paper/blog on temporally abstract world models # ICLR2026

What should a world model predict?

Video world models predict pixels. JEPA-style models predict latent states. Both iterate through time one frame after another.

Instead consider how you boil water for a cup of tea.

[Paul Linton @LintonVision]

Wonderful talk today by Ilker Yildirim on “How to Model the Mind Simultaneously Across the Computational, Algorithmic, and Neural Levels“

Can’t wait for his VSS talk!!

[Daniel Yamins @dyamins]

This is like a replacement for the post-trained model-subject transform.

[Daniel Yamins @dyamins]

This is an important thing!

[Hossein Adeli @adeli_hossein]

1/7 How can we develop decoding methods that generalize to novel subjects without any fine-tuning?

Excited to share our recent collaboration to appear at CVPR 2026!

Work led by Andrew Luo's group, with many collaborators (@_jacobprince_ , Mike Tarr, @KriegeskorteLab and others).

code: https://t.co/5o43p1iQpt
paper: https://t.co/hYGH5cSuWw

[Ryota Kanai @kanair]

Great to see this on X. This is something I created during my PhD time 20 years ago.

[JohnMark Taylor @johnmark_taylor]

🧵Excited to announce—

"Reimagining the binding problem(s) for the 21st century": A VSS Symposium

St. Pete Beach @VSSMtg
May 15th, 10:30am

Presenters: Peter Tse, JohnMark Taylor, Seda Karakose-Akbiyik, Ana Chica, Anne Sereno, & Jake Quilty-Dunn

https://t.co/sFPA1zuj3L

[Judy Fan @judyefan]

The Cognitive Tools Lab @StanfordPsych (https://t.co/PMjI35ri4j) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27.
Full-Time Lab Manager: https://t.co/Gu1kFqwdYL
IRiSS Predoc Researcher: https://t.co/11Pdikaq2I.
Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!

[Aaron Hertzmann @AaronHertzmann]

Our research led to an Emmy

[Optica Fall Vision Meeting @Optica_FVM]

Save the date:

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2026
📅 Sep 24–27, 2026
📍 University of Rochester, NY @UofR

A single-track meeting built for depth, discussion, and community in #VisionScience.

#OpticaFVM #Vision #neuroscience #perception #eye #ophthalmology