Lecturer at @aberdeenuni @abdnpsych Visual perception: Crowding, Serial Dependence & Medical Image Perception.
Aberdeen, UK
Joined April 2009
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Are you curious how the brain creates a stable visual world? Check out our four year EastBio PhD competition project with
@MauroManassi, Rama Chakravarthi and Brett Cochrane at @abdnpsych!
Info at tinyurl.com/2s9d4ucw
Deadline: 15 Dec
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Neuroscientists hearing AI people talk about the brain.
(sorry couldn't resist)
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UK courts are missing a fundamental piece of information about eyewitness evidence according to new research led by School of Psychology's Dr Travis Seale-Carlisle.
Read more about it here: abdn.io/13B
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Does past visual experience influence facial first impressions? Our new research with C Sutherland, L Jeffery, S Maisey, @MauroManassi shows that trustworthiness impressions are influenced by previously seen faces, even by emotional expressions.
tinyurl.com/bdh3mcf4
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I will soon open a call for a 1.5-year postdoc position at the University of Aberdeen @abdnpsych. I will be co-chairing #ECVP2024 in Aberdeen next week (August 25-29th) with Prof. Constanze Hesse, so feel free to get in touch for an informal chat if you are interested! 😉
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Would you like to avoid carrying your poster tube while traveling to ECVP 2024? We can print your poster locally for you to collect from the university library! The cost is £12 for paper and £45.60 for canvas. For more information, visit ecvp2024.abdn.ac.uk/presenta…. 🖨️🐮🏴
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Check out our paper now available in @ARVOJOV
#SuperRecognizers #Serialdependence
#VisualPerception
@Fiammarini, @MauroManassi & @MeikeRamon
@aberdeenuni @unil @CarlaUnil @snsf_ch
New in the Sequential Effects in Vision Issue bit.ly/3CVcemL, Mauro Manassi et al. @MauroManassi @abdnpsych report on Super recognizers: Increased sensitivity or reduced biases? Insights from serial dependence, jov.arvojournals.org/article….
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The ECVP 2024 programme, including dates and times for keynotes, symposia, tutorials, roundtables, oral and poster presentations, is now out! 🥳🐮🏴ecvp2024.abdn.ac.uk/programm…
It has been proposed that schizophrenia patients rely more on sensory input and less on prior information. According to this view, they are less affected by visual illusions that rely on perceptual priors. But is this really true?(shorturl.at/jmhKv) 1/6🧵
These findings, which do not replicate previous ones, challenge the notion that reduced serial dependence (and less reliance on prior info) is a universal characteristic of the disease, suggesting instead that these effects may be specific to certain paradigms and stimuli. 5/6🧵
Thanks to all the co-authors, especially the amazing David Pascucci
@David__Pascucci
for reviving this project which started a looong time ago! Our article is available at academic.oup.com/schizophren…… 6/6 🧵
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"Music when we were growing up was the best. Everything these days is so terrible."
Turns out across every single generation, quality of music peaks at age 17 and you begin to start hating any music made after you're 35.
The Nostalgia Effect is powerful!
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The -final- deadline for abstract submission and early bird registration for #ECVP2024 in Aberdeen, Scotland (August 25-29, 2024) is April 19th at 11:59pm (latest time zone on Earth). This is less than a week away. Do not miss it!
More info at ecvp2024.abdn.ac.uk/
Our visual experience is biased towards the past. Despite extensive research on serial dependencies, their purpose remains unknown. In our @NatRevPsych paper (rdcu.be/dD8of) we propose they are manifestations of Continuity Fields, purposeful integration mechanisms 1/8🧵
The functional goal of Continuity Fields (and serial dependencies) is to improve the efficiency, accuracy and speed of information processing and to facilitate the stability of neural representations over time, without the need to re-analyse the visual scene at every moment 7/8🧵
Thanks to my co-author David Whitney and @abdnpsych and @BerkeleyPsych for being such great research environments! A special thank you to the Editor @TeresaSchubert, who greatly improved the manuscript with her comments! 8/8 🧵