Icelandic Vision Lab
Icelandic Vision Lab focuses on all things visual with a major emphasis on higher-level or "cognitive" aspects of vision: visionlab.is This is a joint account run by IVL PIs (Ásgeirsson, Hansmann-Roth, Kristjánsson, Ólafsdóttir, Sigurdardottir).
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabNew Paper! w. Léa Entzmann and Árni Kristjánsson TL;DR: Endpoint deviations are determined by current target-previous distractor difference, but do not reflect the shape of the previous distractor distribution. Saccadic latencies do reflect these distributions. jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx...
- The newly minted Dr. Dr. (medical and now Ph.D.) @antonlukashevich.bsky.social is pictured here with his proud advisor @heidasigurdar.bsky.social -- not pictured is the newly minted Ph.D.'s advisor @utochkin.bsky.social and doctoral committee member @shansmann-roth.bsky.social Congratulations!🥳🥳🥳🥳
- Open tenure track the University of Akureyri, Iceland.
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabQuestion for my fellow vision researchers: anyone know of work where people looked at dynamic ensemble perception for lots of boxes on Zoom? Think "what's the average emotion of these people on a group call?"
- Paper alert 💥 This project took considerable effort, great to see the first paper out! @bpitchford.bsky.social Hélène Devillez @heidasigurdar.bsky.social #dyslexia #visionscience #neuroskyence Free to read until November 2nd: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lmUB6TBG5...
- Excited to share a new article from @icevislab.bsky.social! In a sample of over 60 people, we found distinct neural differences underlying object and face recognition in dyslexia. These findings highlight crucial domain-general visual processes that may contribute to word reading challenges.
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabDid you know @icevislab.bsky.social have curated and shared a list of Animal visual stimuli? Love finding lists like this when searching for visual stimuli for experiments 🦜 🐅 🐕 Thank you for sharing! #reproducible #science #openscience #replication #open
- 👀 IVL Wednesday ECVP 👀 12:15PM Talk: Atrium Maximum: Choose your own prosopagnosia index 3:30PM Poster: The role of memory load and inter-item similarity on serial dependence 3:30PM Poster: A conceptual replication of target selection during conjunction foraging #ECVP2025 #ECVP @ecvp.bsky.social
- 👀 IVL Tuesday ECVP 👀 10 AM Poster: No Attention - No Ensembles 10 AM Poster: No Evidence for Enhanced Sensory Imagery in Synaesthetes using Psi-Q Assessment 12 PM Talk: Visual Search & Foraging HS 19: Object Discrimination is an Independent Predictor of Reading #ecvp2025 #ecvp @ecvp.bsky.social
- 👀 IVL Monday ECVP 👀 10 AM Poster: Foraging for Biological Motion 11:30 AM Talk: Development & Aging I RW 1: The Development of High-Level Vision 4 PM Poster: The Role of Priming and Distractor Suppression in Ensemble Perception #visionscience #ecvp2025 #ecvp @ecvp.bsky.social
- The Icelandic Vision Lab in toto is coming to #ECVP2025 and will be reunited with prior lab members, honorary lab members, and lab friends from all around the world. Looking forward to lots of science and camaraderie @ecvp.bsky.social #ECVP #visionscience
- Hello #ECVP2025, we are here! Come find the Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social in Germany 🥳🤓 Pictured Inga María @ingamariao.bsky.social and Heiða María @heidasigurdar.bsky.social Photo by Irina @ovchinir.bsky.social
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabInterested in starting EEG Research? Join Our Hands-On Workshop This December! ✍️ Before we finalise plans, we’d love to hear from you. Please fill out our short Expression of Interest form — even if you can't attend, your feedback will help shape future events. run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabNew paper by @icevislab.bsky.social graduate Dr. Aleksei Iakovlev w. @khvo100v.bsky.social , @utochkin.bsky.social and Árni Kristjánsson. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabJOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabI wrote this Cortex commentary in response to a recent fMRI study on the angular gyrus's role in segmenting continuous info (e.g., speech, music, film), reviewing key findings & discussing how human connectome research can illuminate neural event segmentation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision Lab1/ New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com, led by @marinv.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1038/s420...! Across several past studies, we showed how newborns' degraded vision may benefit human development and inspire more robust deep networks. We have referred to this as Adaptive Initial Degradations (AID).
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabIs aphantasia a neurodevelopmental condition? Evidence from face recognition and developmental prosopagnosia: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/gpn…
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabHot off the press: Vlad Khvostov's work at the @icevislab.bsky.social on how the Feature Frequency Report method reveals rich and explicit representations of feature distributions. doi.org/10.3758/s134...
- Please note!
- Today (May 31st) is the last day to submit your abstract for WMS 2025 (July 8th-11th) at wmsymposium.org! If you are a working memory early-career researchers (ECRs), we would love to hear about the cool science you have been up to!
- Please distribute: PhD Position in Visual Perception -- joint opportunity in Iceland and Switzerland #visionscience #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #phd #academia
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabAs a testament to the dire situation in the U.S., our university (Uni. Iceland) just sent an email on the risk of data (used or gathered by European institutions) stored in the United States being deleted, altered, or access to it restricted. #academia #waronscience #disinformation
- How can they ALL be different?! Worst visual search task ever ☹️😖 #visionscience
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabOur ability to recognize objects depends on prior experience www.rockefeller.edu/news/37634-o... #neuroscience
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision Lab🚨 Two open faculty positions in Cognitive Psychology (incl. visual perception) at University of Southern Denmark! 🚨 #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence #compneurosky
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision Lab#neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision Lab🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabNew R package almost birthed - SemanticDistance - computes two semantic distance metrics (experiential and embedding) for any rolling chunk size (ngram-to-ngram, word-to-word, turn-to-turn, ngram-to-word). You give it your language sample. It does the rest, including lemmatize and stopword omit
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabProud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabInteresting preprint shows aphantasia is associated with a 20% increase in time it takes to read text. Suggests aphantasic students would benefit from similar reasonable adjustments in exam settings (e.g., extra time) as provided to other neurodevelopmental populations. osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabWe do #science
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabIn our latest paper @elife.bsky.social we show that we choose to move our eyes based on effort minimization. Put simply, we prefer affordable over more costly eye movements. eLife's digest: elifesciences.org/digests/9776... The paper: elifesciences.org/articles/97760 #VisionScience
- We have confirmation that Iceland clearly takes the crown when it comes to registrations per capita at ECVP 2025. Remember to submit your abstracts this weekend -- we hope to see you all there 👀 @ecvp.bsky.social #ecvp #ecvp2025 #visionscience
- Some people just LOVE Gabor patches. Model: @antonlukashevich.bsky.social Maker: Dr. Tyurina #visionscience
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- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabVery pleased that the Special Issue of Visual Cognition on Teaching Sensation & Perception that @ankosov.bsky.social, @juliafstrand.bsky.social and myself edited is now published in full! If you're looking for some exciting ideas about teaching #VisionScience, start here!
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabHow do Cognitive Computational Neuroscientists use our skills for good in today's volatile world? How do we deal with misinformation, AI ethics, behavior change, cognition and real-world impact. With @tsonj.bsky.social and Ili Ma, we are planning a proposal on 'CCN for Social Good'. DM me to join!
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- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabNeuropeeps! Is there a list somewhere of the intramural neuroscience researchers @ NIH who have lost their jobs? If not, could you reply to this thread or hit me up on Signal (tverstynen.64) if you happen to know of specific people? Please boost if you don’t mind.
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabThis is an utterly amazing paper.
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabSample sizes increased significantly over time "with median sample sizes being 40 in 1995, 56.5 in 2006, and 122.5 in 2019" and "journals with stronger open science policies reported larger samples".
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabTHREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11
- What is happening?
- Hey @vssmtg.bsky.social, do you no longer support diversity and inclusion? Looks like your policies were quietly removed from your website? #VSS2025 #VSS
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabHere is a cool new preprint on transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) tracing back to my time at @dondersinst.bsky.social. Tremendous work led by @sohafarboud.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabOptimal placement of high-channel visual prostheses in human retinotopic visual cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #BCI #NeuroTech
- goblin.tools breaks tasks into subtasks and subsubtasks with the degree of breakdown adjustable by brain spiciness (via its spice button). Lovely little tool for goblins and others.
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabIn @elife.bsky.social: Proactive distractor suppression in early visual cortex doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabThe loss of a legend- Kanzi, the language-competent bonobo, has died age 44. Kanzi was exceptional in so many ways and offered us profound insights into the linguistic & cognitive capacities of great apes. He has taught us so much and will be hugely missed. www.apeinitiative.org/remembering-...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabWe're searching for a new colleague at Uni Bremen: *Full Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience*! Includes researcher positions to fill & use of labs for e.g. (f)MRI,fNIRS,EEG, eyetracking. fMRI expertise desired. Please share! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabLower survival rate among trainees in labs with highly productive mentors raises important concerns about what we value in academia. Many interesting things to stew over with this paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabAre short-term memories just noisier versions of what we perceive? Are they fundamentally different? We (Chaipat Chunharas, @mjwolff.bsky.social, @meikehettwer.bsky.social and myself) delved into this in a paper out now in #elife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... For a quick summary, a 🧵 below:
- 😵😵😵🌈🌈🌈 (I hope colorblind people find this funny and not offensive but then again they wouldn't know. This is Heida, blame me sorry.) #visionscience #psychscisky #neuroskyence #sciencememes
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabopenRxiv has arrived! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences. openrxiv.org/introducing-... #openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv
- Without #science, you would not be reading this. Internet would not exist, computers would not exist, electricity itself would not exist. You would not have a TV, a radio, a coffee maker, an oven, a washing machine, a dishwasher, a phone, or anything else considered a modern convenience. 1/2
- You would likely still be in your mud hut, barely surviving the harsh conditions. If you had children, some of them would very likely have died from diseases that science has now made preventable. Science needs to be protected. Let’s #StandUpForScience2025 2/2
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabWhat should an undergrad psychology program include now that it did not include 20 years ago (and why)? What did it include then but is now redundant or less relevant? #psychology #universities #academia #curriculum #psychscisky #teaching #education #undergrad #bachelordegree
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabWhat a great event! Complete with shout out to @standupforscience.bsky.social
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabWhat is human #StatisticalLearning for? The standard assumption is that the goal of SL is to learn the regularities in the environment to guide behavior. In our new Psych Review paper, we argue that SL instead is provides the basis for novelty detection within an information foraging system 1/2
- ENDILEGA DEILA Viltu taka þátt í rannsókn? Þráður 🧵 Upplifir þú liti þegar þú horfir á bókstafi? Ef þú ert eins og manneskjan til hægri þá upplifir þú fyrirbæri sem nefnist samskynjun. Til að geta rannsakað fyrirbærið þurfum við gögn frá fólki MEÐ og ÁN samskynjunar. 1/5
- Amsterdam-háskóli (dr. Nicholas Root), í samstarfi við HÍ (dr. Heiða María Sigurðardóttir), HA (dr. Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson) og HR (dr. Inga María Ólafsdóttir), vinnur nú að stórri alþjóðlegri netkönnun til að mæla og bera saman samskynjun í ólíkum tungumálum heims. 2/5
- Gögnin munu nýtast í stærri erlendu rannsókninni til að skoða samskynjun á heimsvísu sem og í BS-verkefni Hrafnhildar Ólafsdóttur og Huldu Bjarkar Gunnarsdóttur undir handleiðslu dr. Heiðu Maríu Sigurðardóttur, prófessors við Sálfræðideild HÍ. 3/5
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- Scene from the University of Iceland this morning.
- It is time again.
- Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabPLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabUniversities show their true colors during crises so I'm proud to read that my US employer, Yale School of Medicine, is funding faculty whose labs have been hit by political meddling In addition to bridge funding I gather Yale lawyers are directly challenging anti-science actions in Washington
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabThis one is finally out (journals.lww.com/neuroreport/...) w/ open data (osf.io/nmsj5/)!
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabThis morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️
- New illusion just dropped.
- The Gestalt Principle of Goodest-boy Continuation at work. #VisionScience
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabPlease don’t stop sharing and posting your science because of the current attack on it, it is still valuable and reminds us what the fight is for
- Reposted by Icelandic Vision LabIf anyone knows a potential PhD student, I can highly recommend this PI and the Icelandic Vision Lab-- it is such a great environment! And, I know this because I'm basically an honorary member of the Lab-- haha!
- I am looking for a PhD candidate (3-years) and a Postdoc (2-years) studying serial effects in visual perception. Positions are funded by the Icelandic Research Fund. Join us at the Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social. If you are interested, reach out to me! #VisionScience #CognitiveScience
