Oliver Contier

Postdoc @MPI_CBS & @MPS_Cog | Brain representation of the (visual) world. 🌏➡️🧠

[Oliver Contier @OliverContier]

Hugely excited that this work with @martin_hebart and @Chris_I_Baker is now out in @NatureHumBehav !!!

By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex.
https://t.co/NflwCQmKyI

[postlelab @postlelab]

It’s out!

[Sander van Bree @sandervanbree]

New preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martin_hebart

Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.

https://t.co/71FlOXNrHz

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

I'm thrilled to see this preprint out! Lenny compellingly demonstrates, in a data-driven way, a coding scheme unifying distributed dimensions & category selectivity.➡️Higher visual cortex comprises many partially overlapping tuning maps that include but go beyond category tuning!

[Lenny van Dyck @levandyck]

How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martin_hebart & @KathaDobs, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

https://t.co/4dU8LVXC4f

🧵 1/n

[J Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie]

"Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex" with @susanwardle @mvazirip Dwight Kravitz @Chris_I_Baker 1/3

[Eline Kupers @eline_kupers]

Exited to share our latest @TrendsNeuro opinion paper on —intensive— fMRI, with @Tknapen @cvnlab @elimerriam! We discuss ways to maximize both quantity and quality of your large-scale “deep” fMRI dataset, and create a community resource 🧠

https://t.co/B0QiAn75eY

[Nick_Hedger_Research @HedgerResearch]

🧵New preprint with @cvnlab, @tnaselar & @tknapen: How does the brain connect vision and touch representations to infuse vision with body-related meaning? TLDR: We found high-level visual cortex is tiled with maps 'multiplexing' vision and touch. https://t.co/DqSwHMQkjc 1/n

[Oliver Contier @OliverContier]

Wow! What an honor to be covered by @ettah @NatureNeuro as a research highlight! 🤯

https://t.co/wJfNjlhyHb

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

Our recent paper just got featured as a research highlight at @NatureNeuro. Thanks to @ettah for covering our work!

https://t.co/KRwuryC63Y

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

Our recent paper just got featured as a research highlight at @NatureNeuro. Thanks to @ettah for covering our work!

https://t.co/KRwuryC63Y

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

Really excited to share what we’ve been working on for the past 12 months during my time @GoogleDeepMind! We came up with an approach that can distill the hierarchical structure of human conceptual knowledge into vision foundation models via a surrogate teacher model. More below!

[Oliver Contier @OliverContier]

@anushkmittal @rishistyping @martin_hebart @Chris_I_Baker @NatureHumBehav Here's an excellent summary thread!

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by @OliverContier w/ @Chris_I_Baker now out in @NatureHumBehav provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵
https://t.co/MtkUGnuN30

[Oliver Contier @OliverContier]

Hugely excited that this work with @martin_hebart and @Chris_I_Baker is now out in @NatureHumBehav !!!

By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex.
https://t.co/NflwCQmKyI

[Oliver Contier @OliverContier]

@MPI_CBS @martin_hebart @jlugiessen @NatureHumBehav Thanks for this excellent explanation! Here is the link to the paper: https://t.co/NflwCQmKyI

[The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound]

Visual cortex is about more than feature-based object recognition and categorization: Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system https://t.co/N42tZUoluA by @OliverContier @martin_hebart @Chris_I_Baker

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

Contier et al. show that dimensions are superior to categories at predicting brain responses to visual objects.
https://t.co/Rjn16vkbwQ

[Oliver Contier @OliverContier]

@Rocco_in_Sydney I hope you do find the time but if not, here's the excellent summary

https://t.co/64NgfPHeL2

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by @OliverContier w/ @Chris_I_Baker now out in @NatureHumBehav provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵
https://t.co/MtkUGnuN30

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by @OliverContier w/ @Chris_I_Baker now out in @NatureHumBehav provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵
https://t.co/MtkUGnuN30

[MPI für Kognitions- & Neurowissenschaften @MPI_CBS]

Humans think in many #dimensions at a time 🧠📷When seeing objects, our #brain uses not just one, but a multitude of behaviorally relevant dimensions, like
@OliverContier & @martin_hebart @jlugiessen show in
@NatureHumBehav: https://t.co/51foNgxYi4

[Lenny van Dyck @levandyck]

Excited to present findings from my first PhD project with @martin_hebart and @KathaDobs at #CCN2024

If you're into visual cortex, functional selectivity, and/or representational dimensions, make sure to stop by poster P154 today! 🧠🌈

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a new study, led by @florianmahner and @lukas_mut and w/ @umuguc, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. https://t.co/w1YNZhS6ZW 🧵