Ian M. L. Pennock

Research Fellow at the Sussex Vision Lab. Researching colour vision and object perception using neuroimaging. 🇳🇱 living in 🇬🇧

[Ian M. L. Pennock @PennockIan]

We created a new fMRI method called ‘voxel-preferred images’ (VPIs) to analyze large fMRI datasets of responses to images. Our paper is out in @PNASNews, including a cover image! Thanks to the authors: @C_Racey, Kendrick Kay @cvnlab, Anna Franklin @ColourSussex & Jenny Bosten 1/

[Ian M. L. Pennock @PennockIan]

Pennock, I. M., Racey, C., Kay, K., Franklin, A., & Bosten, J. M. (2026). The colors of images preferred by individual voxels can be used to delineate functionally distinct visually responsive brain areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(15), e2535986123.

[Ian M. L. Pennock @PennockIan]

We created a new fMRI method called ‘voxel-preferred images’ (VPIs) to analyze large fMRI datasets of responses to images. Our paper is out in @PNASNews, including a cover image! Thanks to the authors: @C_Racey, Kendrick Kay @cvnlab, Anna Franklin @ColourSussex & Jenny Bosten 1/

[Ian M. L. Pennock @PennockIan]

If you want to look at the code or download the VPI images go to OSF | COLOURCODE https://t.co/91oXIbnzU1 and scroll down to voxel-preferred image 8/

[Optica Fall Vision Meeting @Optica_FVM]

👁️📣 1 week left to submit your abstract to Optica FVM 2025!

Grad students & postdocs: come share your latest results, get feedback, and connect with top minds in #VisionScience.

🗓️ Abstracts due Aug 8
📍 Minneapolis · Oct 2–5
🔗 https://t.co/Zj9qD7rVJ0

[Optica Fall Vision Meeting @Optica_FVM]

👁️🔬 Excited to welcome Austin Roorda as the 2025 Boynton Lecturer at Optica FVM!
A pioneer in adaptive optics and retinal imaging, his work has reshaped how we see the eye—and how the eye sees.

🎤 Join us Oct 2–5 at UMN
🔗 https://t.co/Zj9qD7rVJ0

[Dominique Makowski 🧙 @Dom_Makowski]

🧑‍🔬💰 PhD Scholarship open for September at @SussexUni

Great opportunity if you're interested in sleep, biological rhythms and signals, physical & mental performance, or elite sports.

Application deadline: 25th July

Details at: https://t.co/VwvLjKPYuB

#Psychology #PhD

[İzel D. Sarı 🏳️‍🌈 @izeldsari]

Can you tell which of your eyes is responsible for your visual perception? In our latest paper @clalunghi , @SamuelRecht, and I studied how attentional training can help people tell which of their eyes sees an image. 1/8 https://t.co/CVzO6ldmhH

[Nick Souter @NickSouter]

Our review paper 'Ten recommendations for reducing the carbon footprint of research computing in human neuroimaging' was recently published in @ImagingNeurosci!

https://t.co/vstqL2102q

Here's a quick summary of each of our recommendations 🧵

[PythoNeuro @pythoneuro]

Meet stimupy – simply crafting common visual stimuli, perfect for exploring contrast, brightness, lightness, and more aspects of visual perception. Warning: May induce a state of serene hypnosis. 😌✨

#neuroscience #Python #openscience @LSchmittwilken @JorisVincent

[Dr Alice Skelton @AliceESkelton]

A group of excellent student researchers are running a survey on factors that influence sleep in babies 0-8 months old.

Takes ~20-25 mins, and there are 5 x £25 Amazon vouchers to be won!

https://t.co/D4Kn75y0aV

Pls share 👶

[Tom Baden @NeuroFishh]

New paper(s) alert. In two linked papers I argue that we have fundamentally misunderstood the ancestry and evolutionary history of retinal circuits for (colour) vision.
Part I @NatureEcoEvo https://t.co/MKO5pFfXEC
Part II @PLOSBiology https://t.co/2su9NmWQAB

[Bevil Conway @BevilConway]

Sophie Wuerger has died of cancer complications. Sophie made important contributions to color science; her database of spectral samples of skin is invaluable. She was the energy in the room that made a scientific discussion sizzle, she had so much life left. I miss u @SWuerger

[Charlotte Rae @NeuroRae]

📢I'm hiring! Two postdoc jobs on how a #4dayweek changes mind, brain & body 🧑‍💼🧠🫀
1) MRI-focused
https://t.co/IiVu6T9596
2) Psychology-focused
https://t.co/ikUyuHZR3j
Closing: 9 Feb
Do get in touch with any enquiries! 😀

[Doris Tsao @doristsao]

I am beyond excited to share a new paper “Rapid, concerted switching of the neural code in inferotemporal cortex,” led by @Yuelin_Shi and Dasheng Bi. We describe a new form of neural computation in which single neurons rapidly change their tuning to temporally multiplex different functions. In < 20 ms, cells switch from a code optimized for face detection to a code optimized for face discrimination. I think this discovery fundamentally changes our current concept of neural representation. (1/N)
https://t.co/4UGciuD2cV