Katharina Dobs
Professor @JLU | cognitive computational neuroscientist | mom of 3 | she/her www.vccnlab.org
- Reposted by Katharina DobsI have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
- Reposted by Katharina DobsDimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
- Reposted by Katharina DobsI’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project! Together with Daniel Kaiser (@dkaiserlab.bsky.social), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
- Very excited to be part of the new graduate training program "PIMON" by @dfg.de alongside a fantastic team! 🥳 We're looking forward to training a new generation of scientists in perception, cognition and (inter)action! 🧠🤖👀 Stay tuned for upcoming positions! #PIMON #neurojobs #NeuroAI #vision
- Super happy to announce that our Research Training Group "PIMON" is funded by the @dfg.de ! Starting in October, we will have exciting opportunities for PhD students that want to explore object and material perception & interaction in Gießen @jlugiessen.bsky.social ! Just look at this amazing team!
- Reposted by Katharina DobsInvestigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
- Reposted by Katharina DobsPlease repost! 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.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- Reposted by Katharina DobsFind me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025
- Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm) - Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs - @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains - Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations - Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence
- Reposted by Katharina DobsReally looking forward to #CCN2025! On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠 Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity. Come by Poster A64 for more.
- So sad (and definitely feeling the FOMO) that I can’t attend #CCN2025 this year 😢, but very proud that our lab will present 6 projects! 🥳 Here's a quick rundown:
- Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm) - Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs - @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains - Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations - Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence
- Wednesday (1:00–4:00 pm) • Anastasia (B50): selectivity metrics in DNNs Friday (2:00–5:00 pm) • Zhengqing "John” (C149): resilience of functional specialization in DNNs
- Find them at their posters and chat about these or any other #NeuroAI topics. They’re all excited to hear your feedback! 🧠🤖
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- Ever wondered whether it's categorical specialization or distributed representation in the human visual cortex? Check out how the brilliant @levandyck.bsky.social tackles this long-standing question in his first PhD project. Spoiler alert: no need to choose anymore! 🤝🔄🧠
- How is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/n
- Sounds like a fantastic PhD opportunity at the intersection of visual neuroscience, AI and developmental psychology! 🧠👁️🤖👶 'lees meer' here 👇
- There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision. academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...
- Looks like a super cool summer school and a great way to enhance your coding skills! 👩💻🐍😎
- Are you a scientist who codes? 🐍 Fearing that your public repo might implode the moment someone looks at it? Then ASPP 2025 this is *the* summer school for you! Hands-on tutorials on collaborative code dev, code orga & sharing, testing, debugging, computer architecture.. aspp.school
- So excited that our excellence cluster 'The Adaptive Mind' got funded! 🥳 Looking forward to lots of great science and projects! #TheAdaptiveMind #ExcellenceInitiative 👁️🧠🤖
- Herausragender Erfolg in der #Exzellenzstrategie: Gleich drei #Exzellenzcluster für die #JLUGiessen – #Herz-#Lungen-, #Batterie- und #Wahrnehmungsforschung konnten im Wettbewerb überzeugen @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @heroldlab.bsky.social @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- Good morning, Bsky'ers! Some people have asked for a life update, here it is: I finished my last chemotherapy yesterday! 🥳 It’s been a long ride, but I’m feeling happy, relieved, and incredibly grateful. I sort of always knew, but now more than ever: #cancersucks #sciencematters #sciencesaveslives
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- Reposted by Katharina DobsTop-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain and computationally distinct, but rarely modeled in deep neural networks. What happens when a DNN has biologically-inspired top-down feedback? 🧠📈 Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
- Reposted by Katharina DobsI am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- This post made my day! 🥲
- INCREDIBLE TURNOUT with hundreds of thousands of people attending #HandsOff rallies around the US to protest illegal cuts and government corruption ✊ #nyc #newyork #boston #ma #chicago #il #stpaul #minneapolis #mn #saltlakecity #ut #washington #dc
- Reposted by Katharina DobsI'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.
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- Reposted by Katharina DobsPowerful message from #teap2025 key organizer @melissavo.bsky.social solidarity for science!
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- Reposted by Katharina DobsWenn der Morgenkaffee freundlich lächelt: JLU-Forschende um @kathadobs.bsky.social ergründen mithilfe künstlicher Intelligenz mögliche Ursachen für bekannte Sinnestäuschung. 👀 #gesichtspareidolie #ki #wahrnehmungsforschung www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
- Schon erledigt! ☑️
- Reposted by Katharina DobsI know this site only reaches a subset of neuro/ cog professors. If you know a young professor in the area who would benefit from a week of targeted learning about doing good science, good mentoring, networking etc, it would be great if you could forward them: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i...
- Thanks for the shout-out! 😊 For more insights into our study, check out our detailed 🧵 here: bsky.app/profile/kath...
- 🧵 A bit late, but excited to share insights from our new publication in PLOS Comp Biol by Pranjul Gupta (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Here, we explored the phenomenon of face pareidolia—like seeing faces in our morning coffee! What might explain this effect?
- We started with a MEG dataset by Wardle et al. (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) featuring pareidolia faces, matched objects, and real faces. To assess the pareidolia effect, we used RSA with 2 models capturing: 1) the pareidolia effect (Par~Faces), and 2) that pareidolia are not faces (Par~Objs).
- 🤯 The pareidolia effect (blue line) peaked earlier but, surprisingly, was generally weaker than the similarity between pareidolia and objects (orange line). This suggests that although pareidolia start between faces and matched objects, they trend closer to matched objects overall.
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View full threadThis could connect to other recent findings, like those from Koyano et al. (2025) or Sharma et al. (2024), hopefully stimulating more research in NeuroAI. 🧠🤖 And no, ANNs aren’t quite like us (yet?)—but they are proving invaluable in understanding human behavioral and neural phenomena! ;)
- Super cool work by @apurvaratan.bsky.social's lab! If you're interested in making models more biologically plausible by incorporating topography without sacrificing performance, check it out! 🧠🤖
- Hey Bsky friends on #neuroskyence! Very excited to share our @iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...
- Thought-provoking and inspiring essay about agency by @neurograce.bsky.social. Thanks for reminding us to take our world into our own hands, no matter how small the step.
- I wrote about the concept of agency (both human and artificial) in the year 2025. gracewlindsay.com/2025/01/24/2...
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- Reposted by Katharina DobsNew year, new preprint!💫 I'm excited to share my first(!) postdoc paper working with Jim DiCarlo & @kohitij.bsky.social #NeuroAI #CompNeuro We revisited a long-standing question: How does category feedback (a.k.a. training) reconfigure IT responses? 🧠 Our long story short [1/7]:
