We created a new fMRI method called โvoxel-preferred imagesโ (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/
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.
We created a new fMRI method called โvoxel-preferred imagesโ (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/
๐๏ธ๐ฃ 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.
๐๏ธ Abstracts due Aug 8
๐ Minneapolis ยท Oct 2โ5
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๐๏ธ๐ฌ 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 eyeโand how the eye sees.
๐ค Join us Oct 2โ5 at UMN
๐ https://t.co/Zj9qD7rVJ0
๐งโ๐ฌ๐ฐ 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
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
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 ๐งต
Meet stimupy โ 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. ๐โจ
#neuroscience#Python#openscience@LSchmittwilken@JorisVincent
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 ยฃ25 Amazon vouchers to be won!
https://t.co/D4Kn75y0aV
Pls share ๐ถ
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
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
๐ขI'm hiring! Two postdoc jobs on how a #4dayweek changes mind, brain & body ๐งโ๐ผ๐ง ๐ซ
1) MRI-focused
https://t.co/IiVu6T9596
2) Psychology-focused
https://t.co/ikUyuHZR3j
Closing: 9 Feb
Do get in touch with any enquiries! ๐
I am beyond excited to share a new paper โRapid, concerted switching of the neural code in inferotemporal cortex,โ 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