#VSS2024 #ECVP2024 #ECEM2024 #CCN2024 If you are interested in combining theory/model, behavior, neurons for studying how vision works, join this Systems Vision Science Virtual Symposium July 12 2024 summerschool.lizhaoping.org/call-for-sympo…

Very excited to have Anitha Pasupathy and Sheng He as our keynote speakers during our Systems Vision Science Virtual Symposium on July 12, see summerschool.lizhaoping.org/symposium-2024/ join us with or without contribution! stay tuned for the full program announcement.

Highly recommend this lecture by Feynman in 1964 on "Theory, prediction, and observation", youtube.com/watch?v=OX1EK5… -- he used an example to illustrate what a "psychological theory" should or should not be if it is scientific.

1) *Is V1 a cognitive map?* Paul Linton, David Heeger, Tony Movshon, Lars Muckli, Hendrikje Nienborg, Paolo Papale, Andrew Parker, Lucy Petro, Pieters_Tweet, Petra Vetter, Li Zhaoping, Cheng Xue, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Pleased to announce our Generative Adversarial Collaboration at CogCompNeuro #CCN2024 “Is V1 a Cognitive Map?” And we need YOUR help! Please Download + Comment on the Proposal by Clicking the Following Link: sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/ga… Outline of GAC in 🧵 below!

Honored to be selected for the 21st William James Prize (theassc.org/james-prize/ja…) awarded by ASSC. I will also present our decision-theoretic approach to multistability in #ASSC27 (see x.com/neuroprinciple…) & also visit OIST - I look forward to exciting discussions.

Systems Vision Science virtual symposium (July12)program available: summerschool.lizhaoping.org/symposium-2024/ speakers include: Sheng He, Anitha Pasupathy, Patrick Cavanagh, Kristina Visscher, Shin'ya Nishida, Larry Maloney, Michael Herzog, Tom Franken, Incheol Kang. Free registration, join us!

I am planning a course "Falsifiable theories of vision", we have some candidate theories, your suggestions welcome, we will choose by "falsifiability", using criteria along that of Feynman in his 1964 lecture "Theory, Prediction, observation", youtube.com/watch?v=OX1EK5… please RT

Very excited, this Friday: Systems Vision Science virtual symposium: summerschool.lizhaoping.org/symposium-2024/ speakers include: Sheng He, Anitha Pasupathy, Patrick Cavanagh, Kristina Visscher, Shin'ya Nishida, Larry Maloney, Michael Herzog, Tom Franken, Incheol Kang. Free registration, join us!

So excited for the #CCN2024 GAC on Tuesday! Is V1 a Cognitive Map? Link to proposal: sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/ga… 🧵of talks below!

Li Zhaoping (Li Zhaoping) provides a different ‘cognitive’ account of V1 in “Peripheral V1: Saliency; Central V1: Recognition, Recurrence, and the Bottleneck” Whilst Paolo Papale (Paolo Papale) asks “Is Cognition the Dark Energy of V1?”

great to join this GAC, interesting points of views from the speakers and audience members, happy to share my presentation for this GAC on "what does V1 do?" at youtu.be/OEYOy61T0Ek join us at GAC for continuing/more discussions

Now you can watch the discussions/debates on "Is V1 a Cognitive Map?", or "What does V1 do?", on YouTube, youtube.com/watch?v=mJOuWK… while theories and opinions differ, we agree that having falsifiable predictions and having them experimentally tested is the way to go.

Macular degeneration (MD) impairs central vision, observers with MD do "better" in this visual search task by looking (by peripheral vision) without seeing by central vision, demonstrating different functions for central vs. peripheral vision, see shorturl.at/PDDLU

My department is conducting a new faculty search in computational neuroscience, broadly defined. Please help spread the word!

Try to find a uniquely tilted bar in each of the four images here. Why is it more difficult to find the target bar in the lower-left (condition A) than the lower-right (condition B) image? Find out from shorturl.at/PDDLU and about looking and seeing in vision.

Interesting paper with experimental evidence for top-down feedback targeting foveal vision from V4 to V1 in monkeys, see shorturl.at/eFq2p confirming a theoretical prediction in a new framework for understanding vision, see shorturl.at/Yj7Qt

#macular degeneration (MD) impairs central vision, observers with MD do "better" in this visual search task by looking (by peripheral vision) without seeing by central vision, demonstrating different functions for central vs. peripheral vision, see shorturl.at/PDDLU