Geoffrey Aguirre
@gkaguirre.com
Behavioral neurologist and vision scientist at the University of Pennsylvania
https://www.gkaguirre.com/
https://www.gkaguirre.com/
This is really cool. There is some interesting thinking to be done regarding optimal temporal experimental design within this framework.
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is really cool. There is some interesting thinking to be done regarding optimal temporal experimental design within this framework.
As it is spooky season, you should read this study of Aztec skull whistles, and listen to the screaming sounds that they produce.
The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles
caneuro.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
As it is spooky season, you should read this study of Aztec skull whistles, and listen to the screaming sounds that they produce.
Philly on the march.
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Philly on the march.
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Today, the PhD student I co-supervised with Dr. Toni Saarela, Lari Virtanen, is defending his thesis on color ensemble perception at the University of Helsinki. It is both a happy and a sad day. Toni passed away only two weeks ago and just missed seeing his first PhD student graduate. RIP Toni ❤️😔
October 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Today, the PhD student I co-supervised with Dr. Toni Saarela, Lari Virtanen, is defending his thesis on color ensemble perception at the University of Helsinki. It is both a happy and a sad day. Toni passed away only two weeks ago and just missed seeing his first PhD student graduate. RIP Toni ❤️😔
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Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over 5 years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career
Deadline: 10/07/25
www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo...
#bwfcams
Deadline: 10/07/25
www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo...
#bwfcams
August 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over 5 years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career
Deadline: 10/07/25
www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo...
#bwfcams
Deadline: 10/07/25
www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo...
#bwfcams
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Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
August 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com.
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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By studying the tilt illusion—when the visual cortex sees straight lines as angled—Professors Alan Stocker and Geoffrey Aguirre are making inroads into fundamental computational processes that could inform neuroscience and better AI. @pennmindcore.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @sas.upenn.edu
How the Brain Plays Tricks on the Eyes
By studying the tilt illusion—when the visual cortex sees straight lines as angled—Professors Alan Stocker and Geoffrey Aguirre are making inroads into fundamental computational processes that could…
omnia.sas.upenn.edu
August 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
By studying the tilt illusion—when the visual cortex sees straight lines as angled—Professors Alan Stocker and Geoffrey Aguirre are making inroads into fundamental computational processes that could inform neuroscience and better AI. @pennmindcore.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @sas.upenn.edu
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🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals
tinyurl.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
The next macOS version is bringing the bouba.
June 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The next macOS version is bringing the bouba.
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Going through months-worth of Google Scholar Alert emails getting caught up on neuro papers, so I figured I'd share some fun findings here 👇
May 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Going through months-worth of Google Scholar Alert emails getting caught up on neuro papers, so I figured I'd share some fun findings here 👇
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Such an honor for me to receive this award named after Bob Boynton, who I never knew, but whose approach to science was an inspiration for me. His son just happened to attending #VSS2025 when the award was announced. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
May 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Such an honor for me to receive this award named after Bob Boynton, who I never knew, but whose approach to science was an inspiration for me. His son just happened to attending #VSS2025 when the award was announced. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
This work with Alan Stocker, @lingqiz.bsky.social, and Jiang Mao is now in print. We benefited from very thoughtful reviewers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This work with Alan Stocker, @lingqiz.bsky.social, and Jiang Mao is now in print. We benefited from very thoughtful reviewers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Delighted to announce this spring semester's programme for our Seminar Series "Current Topics in Circadian & Visual Neuroscience", featuring a roster of speakers discussing their cutting-edge research in vision and/or circadian rhythms. Register now!
www.tscnlab.org/seminar
www.tscnlab.org/seminar
April 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Delighted to announce this spring semester's programme for our Seminar Series "Current Topics in Circadian & Visual Neuroscience", featuring a roster of speakers discussing their cutting-edge research in vision and/or circadian rhythms. Register now!
www.tscnlab.org/seminar
www.tscnlab.org/seminar
We bought a license 6-pack yesterday. License validation is easy. Happy to support the continued development of this useful scientific tool.
🔔 Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox
New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source.
If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net
New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source.
If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net
April 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We bought a license 6-pack yesterday. License validation is easy. Happy to support the continued development of this useful scientific tool.
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🚨New job alert! My lab is hiring a lab manager. Perfect position for a graduating senior who is interested in full-time research before applying to graduate school. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #MLSky Apply here: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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March 21, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨New job alert! My lab is hiring a lab manager. Perfect position for a graduating senior who is interested in full-time research before applying to graduate school. #Neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #VisionScience #MLSky Apply here: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
We are building a gaze calibration apparatus. The observer positions their head at the center of a large hemisphere. They fixate on LEDs displayed at 3 foot distance at various visual angles while we record from a pupil camera. Today, I found the perfect structure to use for the hemisphere.
March 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We are building a gaze calibration apparatus. The observer positions their head at the center of a large hemisphere. They fixate on LEDs displayed at 3 foot distance at various visual angles while we record from a pupil camera. Today, I found the perfect structure to use for the hemisphere.
I study how perception is altered in neurologic disease. In particular, why some visual experiences are painful (i.e., produce photophobia), especially for people with migraine. These studies use custom devices for presenting stimuli and measuring the environment. Here’s a look at some of these.
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I study how perception is altered in neurologic disease. In particular, why some visual experiences are painful (i.e., produce photophobia), especially for people with migraine. These studies use custom devices for presenting stimuli and measuring the environment. Here’s a look at some of these.
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Covert consciousness, where unresponsive patients willfully modulate brain activity to command, is gaining attention. But these assessments are fundamentally limited. What if we could just... read their minds instead? 🧵 about our paper in
@greenjournal.bsky.social
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
@greenjournal.bsky.social
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
Reconstructing Covert Consciousness | Neurology
Determining the level of consciousness in patients with brain injury—and more fundamentally,
establishing what they can experience—is ethically and clinically impactful. Patient
behaviors may unreliab...
www.neurology.org
February 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Covert consciousness, where unresponsive patients willfully modulate brain activity to command, is gaining attention. But these assessments are fundamentally limited. What if we could just... read their minds instead? 🧵 about our paper in
@greenjournal.bsky.social
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
@greenjournal.bsky.social
www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Some people see spontaneous faint flickering flashes in their visual field, a condition known as Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS, not to be confused with @vssmtg.bsky.social).
Maybe a visual equivalent of the auditory tinnitus?
Here is a very nice study from the lab of @sengelweb.bsky.social.
Maybe a visual equivalent of the auditory tinnitus?
Here is a very nice study from the lab of @sengelweb.bsky.social.
Visual Snow is Susceptible to the Motion Aftereffect: http://osf.io/u6fcx_v2/
February 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Some people see spontaneous faint flickering flashes in their visual field, a condition known as Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS, not to be confused with @vssmtg.bsky.social).
Maybe a visual equivalent of the auditory tinnitus?
Here is a very nice study from the lab of @sengelweb.bsky.social.
Maybe a visual equivalent of the auditory tinnitus?
Here is a very nice study from the lab of @sengelweb.bsky.social.
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Looked up some reviews of my new orthopedist and am ☠️
January 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Looked up some reviews of my new orthopedist and am ☠️
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This lucid set of figures is going in my career advice slide deck.
How important are your #postdoc years in the likelihood of you staying & succeeding in #academia?
In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs.
🧵1/7
In our newly published paper in @pnas.org, "Postdoc Publications and Citations Link to Academic Retention and Faculty Success," we study the journey of #CareerSuccess of ~45,000 #postdocs.
🧵1/7
January 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This lucid set of figures is going in my career advice slide deck.
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A great coastal battle was over the organization of the 4th retinotopic, cortical visual area in humans. Split into quarter-fields like the macaque? Or a unified, ventral hemifield representation? Epic stuff, featuring at one point the romantic phrase “venous eclipse”.
January 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A great coastal battle was over the organization of the 4th retinotopic, cortical visual area in humans. Split into quarter-fields like the macaque? Or a unified, ventral hemifield representation? Epic stuff, featuring at one point the romantic phrase “venous eclipse”.