Caterina Magri

Cognitive neuroscientist turned quant UX Researcher | she / her

[Cognition @CognitionJourn]

Context is all you need. A new computational model predicts intuitive judgments of object similarity without seeing the objects themselves—it only sees the contexts in which the objects are typically encountered @ELSpsychology

https://t.co/SbBjb7L1T6

[Caterina Magri @catmag29]

Excited to see my postdoc work published. 🎉😍 Thank you so much @michaelfbonner for your mentoring and support!

[Mick Bonner @michaelfbonner]

Context is all you need! We found that object similarity judgments can be predicted from CNN responses to objects’ typical scene contexts—the CNN doesn’t need to see the objects themselves. With @catmag29 & @EricElmoznino. https://t.co/DuuonyIkf5

[Caterina Magri @catmag29]

@profcikara I also get them! Started in late 20s, to both eyes. I’m more prone to them after exercising and/or when I’m tired/dehydrated. It’s usually in the periphery but if I look at something bright like a screen it fills my whole field of vision !

[Kelly Welles @kelly_welles]

To commemorate #InternationalWomensDay, some of my favourite pics of women being badasses. First up, Saffiyah Khan.

[Caterina Magri @catmag29]

@jorgemlg Is that what they call “manifesting your reality” ? ;)

[Bria Long, PhD @brialong]

Excited to announce a new paper: “Automated detections reveal the social information in the changing infant view” with Alessandro Sanchez, Allison M. Kraus, @_ketan0 and @mcfrank at Child Development, https://t.co/tp9pAs9WeP https://t.co/r1uHf8k7e3 ($) (1/15) 🧵

[Been Kim @_beenkim]

I'm hiring an intern at Google brain team 2022! Email me if you are 1) Graduating in 2022 (preferred) or early 2023 2) Interested in interpretability, representation learning or studying fundamental principles of how NN perceives the world. Pleas read the whole thread--> 1/n

[Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] @Nancy_Kanwisher]

Just out in the New Yorker: An article about Men Reading Minds with fMRI!
The author mentions 9 male and 0 female neuroscience professors, a feat made possible by impressive contortions like attributing a study from Ev Fedorenko’s lab to one of its male middle authors.

[Anna Leshinskaya @AnnaLeshinskaya]

New preprint with Mira Bajaj and Sharon Thompson-Schill! This was Mira's honors thesis & joint first author paper--incredible work. https://t.co/hFUo1NjQgn
What do tool-selective responses in lateral temporo-occipital cortex (tool-LOTC) reflect? 1/n

[Caterina Magri @catmag29]

@martin_hebart But would we be enjoying that chocolate even more if we thought it was worth more money? 🤔

[Mick Bonner @michaelfbonner]

New preprint shows how tuning for mid-level features gives rise to selectivity across multiple levels of complexity: from categories, such as scenes and landmarks, to surprisingly simplistic stimuli, such as oriented edges and boxy shapes. w/ @shipui2005 https://t.co/oEPqPtLRPo

[Caterina Magri @catmag29]

@Sakiera_Hudson Kiera, I am so sorry for you and your family’s loss. My thoughts are with you.

[Bevil Conway @BevilConway]

Staff scientist position open at NIH. It’s a permanent position to do neuroscience, to mentor trainees, plan, conduct, and disseminate original neurophysiological, neuroanatomical, and behavioral in vision. Great resources and colleagues! DM me. Pls RT
https://t.co/0bZtlT4n7v

[Hasson Lab @HassonLab]

Hasson Lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher at the intersection of machine learning and cognitive science for a multidisciplinary project centered on *very* big, naturalistic audiovisual data acquired during the first years of life! Apply here: https://t.co/8Bgn4uWddl

[Sam Gershman @gershbrain]

Harvard is looking to hire a Lecturer in Quantitative Psychology, starting next July.
https://t.co/MJF7o8GYjt

[Alon Hafri @AlonHafri]

Objects don’t just move, fall, and bounce—they also transform, as when logs burn or ice cubes melt. In a new paper @PsychScience, we (@talboger & @chazfirestone) explore mental representation of state-changes—and find that your mind 'melts ice' in memory! https://t.co/Gv8FirlSNq

[Teresa Schubert @TeresaSchubert]

We're hiring a social psychologist for the @NatRevPsych editorial team! I'm more than happy to answer questions about qualifications, the role, and what I love about this job--just DM me. Please RT! https://t.co/uDDQcYHoxE

[Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone]

Humans: Adversarial examples show how brittle machine recognition is! Human visual processing would never be led astray by small image perturbations or anomalous patches.

Also humans:

[Caterina Magri @catmag29]

@criticalneuro I think not enough emphasis is sometimes given to the “reading” part. how much time to allocate when reading? In what sequence? i think giving a demo for how papers should be read may really help in improving comprehension

[Marius Peelen @MariusPeelen]

In three pre-registered TMS studies we reveal feedforward and feedback processes supporting the recognition of objects based on local features and based on scene context.
With @MilesWischnews1 @DondersInst
https://t.co/HacaiZYsVy
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