Thomas A Carlson
@CompCogNeuro
Computational cognitive neuroscientist seeking to understand human perception
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📢New paper with @amandarob10 and @cogcompneuroout out now in @AnnualReviews! It's a round-up on how neural decoding has advanced our knowledge of visual representations in the🧠 annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/an…
“Give me an original thought” — well, at least s/he is honest
Are the roads really the best place to play around with optical illusions?
Why do mental images look different to real images, and to hallucinations? Our new #preprint answers these questions by considering a simple premise: mental imagery never occurs in a vacuum. Check it out: doi.org/10.1101/2022.0… With @amandarob10 & @CompCogNeuro #mentalimagery
Great team effort with critical contributions from many: @martin_hebart @OliverContier @lina_teichmann Adam Rockter Charles Zheng @LexKidder Anna Corriveau @mvazirip Hope to have the data fully publicly available soon!
Very happy to announce THINGS-data, three massive datasets of fMRI, MEG and similarity ratings of thousands of object images. THINGS-data offers a uniquely broad, systematic and multimodal sampling of object space. For early access please reach out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
University of Sydney is hiring for Cognitive Neuroscience! tinyurl.com/2p8zp5rs
A team of scientists at Northwestern University in the US have accidentally created overly-aggressive mutant hamsters following a gene-editing experiment. 🐹 They were trying to increase bonding between the lovable animals but failed. Let's Discuss 👇 trib.al/KQYbMqu
Postdoc position in my group - deadline 24 April
Job opening: Research Fellow (postdoc) position in my group (neuosc.com) doing research on brain oscillations using #MEG and #OPM @TheCHBH jobs.ac.uk/job/COS017/res…
UNSW is hiring! Six academic positions (Lecturer / Senior Lecturer) in the School of Psychology. Exciting times! Come and work in a wonderful department with lots of friendly people (+ it’s the closest uni to the beach in Sydney) external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5073… external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/5073…
A very useful and practical webinar coming up, brought to you by our ECRs @ACNS_ECR
💻Let's get technical!🖥️ Join us for our up-coming webinar to discover more about programming, code & data visualisation! The details: 🔴 Fri 29 April, 1:30pm AEST 🟠 Register here: bit.ly/3Kr3yq3 🟡 Learn from @angier2310, @a_t_hill & @AndyPerfors
Introducing the 540 billion parameter Pathways Language Model. Trained on two Cloud #TPU v4 pods, it achieves state-of-the-art performance on benchmarks and shows exciting capabilities like mathematical reasoning, code writing, and even explaining jokes. goo.gle/3j6eMnK
Student and TA applications are now open for NMA 2022! 🧠 💻 🌏🌍🌎 Submit your application through the portal on our website. You can register for either the Computational Neuroscience or Deep Learning course, and the deadline for submission is April 20. portal.neuromatchacademy.org
Best title ever (to remind you to check the proofs carefully)
Interested in an exciting neuroscience research opportunity before graduate school? We are hiring! #SystemsNeuroscience #Optogenetics #MachineLearning
Recent college grads, Dr. Arash Afraz’s lab within NIMH’s Intramural Research Program in Bethesda, MD is hiring #postbacs to study the neural underpinnings of object recognition behavior in the non-human primate brain. #neuroscience (1/2)
There’s something so special about the sheer chaos of Leonardo Da Vinci’s todo list (from his 1490 notebook:) [Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs [Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio
![Austen's tweet image. There’s something so special about the sheer chaos of Leonardo Da Vinci’s todo list (from his 1490 notebook:)
[Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs
[Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNyizmmVIAAZpHO.jpg)
![Austen's tweet image. There’s something so special about the sheer chaos of Leonardo Da Vinci’s todo list (from his 1490 notebook:)
[Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs
[Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNyizmkUcAACHls.jpg)
![Austen's tweet image. There’s something so special about the sheer chaos of Leonardo Da Vinci’s todo list (from his 1490 notebook:)
[Calculate] the measurement of Milan and Suburbs
[Find] a book that treats of Milan and its churches, which is to be had at the stationer’s on the way to Cordusio](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNyizmlVkAEuc5Q.jpg)
So you think you have free will…
Now published! We recorded EEG 🧠 (n=50) for 22,248 images - all 1,854 concepts in THINGS. We hope this open dataset is useful for understanding how our brains processes and represents objects. With Ivy Zhou, @amandarob10, @martin_hebart, @CompCogNeuro doi.org/10.1038/s41597…
Auto industry, are you trolling us? You do know that you have a world full of cognitive scientists to consult with, who can help you avoid the most basic pitfalls of cognitive interference, right? (source: bit.ly/31UxfyF) h/t @ambanmba
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