Kaiser Lab

Studying natural vision @jlugiessen using psychophysics, EEG, fMRI, TMS and computational models, PI: Daniel Kaiser

[Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab]

VSS2026 delivered: exciting research, great conversations, and lots of fun. 👁️🏖️

If you are interested in our studies presented at @VSSMtg, you can find our posters here: https://t.co/oQwu1JYfH5

For relevant preprints, please visit: https://t.co/LLw0tUXspt

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Kaiser Lab is at @VSSMtg with 6 posters and 3 talks! 👁️🏖️🌞 Come check out our works!

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2 days left to apply! :)

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10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments.
More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: https://t.co/zRnIPkAmep
Please share!

[Kaiser Lab @DKaiserlab]

10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments.
More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: https://t.co/zRnIPkAmep
Please share!

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Participation fee is 240 €, covering accommodation and meals during the workshop.
Travel to Rauischholzhausen is organized individually.
Registration deadline is March 8, 2026.

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📢 Workshop announcement.
We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser.
📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany.
🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026.
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In addition to attending, we invite participants to contribute posters and discuss their own research.
Register and indicate your poster contribution here:
https://t.co/5pcTSlhtJ1

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We’re happy to announce that Gongting Wang has successfully defended his PhD thesis at Freie Universität Berlin. Congratulations, Dr. Wang! 🎉

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We had the pleasure of hosting Olivier Collignon, a wonderful scientist working on crossmodal perception and plasticity. Thank you your talk and taking the time to discuss ongoing projects with the lab!

[Lu-Chun Yeh @LuChunYeh]

🚨 New preprints out!🚨
Excited to share two new preprints from my #MSCA project. With @DKaiserlab , @MariusPeelen , and Belma Seferovic, we show how contextual associations shape real-world object representations and guide everyday visual task performance. Check them out👇

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2025 - Christmas Party Crew! 🎄

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Check out @EngeserMicha's preprint on individual differences in expectations about natural scenes and how they shape how we perceive and neurally represent scenes. 👁️🧠👨‍🦱👩‍🦰👩‍🦳

[Micha Engeser @EngeserMicha]

I’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project!
Together with Daniel Kaiser (@DKaiserlab), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes.
https://t.co/cylT4AJMqo

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Here's a press release (in German): https://t.co/yIpymZl4Kk
And here's tagging some of the great people involved: @KathaDobs @martin_hebart @haplabjlu @B_vanKemenade @MariusPeelen

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Super happy to announce that our Research Training Group "PIMON" is funded by the DFG! Starting in October, we will have exciting opportunities for PhD students that want to explore object and material perception & interaction in Gießen! Just look at this amazing team! 🧠👁️🫴

[Martin Hebart @martin_hebart]

Please RT! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.

The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.

Please apply here until Nov 25:
https://t.co/s8ZxH4oLfQ

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w/ @EngeserMicha, @suzibot, @ilkrdymz, @Gongting_Wang, Matthew J. Foxwell, Radoslaw M. Cichy, David Pitcher & @DKaiserlab

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From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋
https://t.co/UebbuTGLZd

[Fenil Doshi @fenildoshi009]

🧵 Can a purely feedforward network — with no recurrence or lateral connections — capture human-like perceptual organization?

🤯 Yes! Especially for contour integration, and we pinpoint the key inductive biases.

New paper in @PLOSCompBiol with @talia_konkle & @grez72!

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Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎