Paul Linton
@lintonvision.bsky.social
Visual Experience /
PI + NOMIS Fellow @ItalianAcademy /
Presidential Scholar @columbiacss /
Affiliate @KriegeskorteLab + @ZuckermanBrain
AVA David Marr Medal 2025
Website: https://linton.vision
PI + NOMIS Fellow @ItalianAcademy /
Presidential Scholar @columbiacss /
Affiliate @KriegeskorteLab + @ZuckermanBrain
AVA David Marr Medal 2025
Website: https://linton.vision
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Paul Linton
@lintonvision.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Paul Linton, ECVP 2025: "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience"
YouTube video by Kriegeskorte Lab
www.youtube.com
Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025)
Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇
@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇
@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
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Psychophysics to understand the visual cortex: frontiersin.org/journals/sys... - another paper by a great group from Tehran whose webpage is gone now.
Frontiers | Early Visual Processing of Feature Saliency Tasks: A Review of Psychophysical Experiments
Visual attention has an undeniable impact on our perception. Human brain is unable to process all of the information it faces with in a scene so, the most sa...
frontiersin.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Psychophysics to understand the visual cortex: frontiersin.org/journals/sys... - another paper by a great group from Tehran whose webpage is gone now.
Grazie mille @floridi.bsky.social and Italy in New York!
Director Elena Aprile was delighted to meet the new Consul General, Giuseppe Pastorelli, last night, and to convene with Claudio Pagliara (Director, Italian Cultural Inst.); Luciano Floridi (Yale’s Digital Ethics Center), and several Academy Fellows.
@floridi.bsky.social
@floridi.bsky.social
January 23, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Grazie mille @floridi.bsky.social and Italy in New York!
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🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨
With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨
With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
With @suryagayet.bsky.social and @peelen.bsky.social, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Good news from NIH!
Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute
www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...
Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute
www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...
Michael F. Chiang, M.D. | National Eye Institute
Michael F. Chiang is director of the National Eye Institute, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
www.nei.nih.gov
January 21, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Good news from NIH!
Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute
www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...
Michael Chiang has apparently been reappointed as Director of the National Eye Institute
www.nei.nih.gov/about/our-mi...
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As we were celebrating psychophysics the other day, here is a fun example in the multi-source auditory domain. So beautiful. So clean. Bayes all the way. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Perceptual clustering in auditory streaming
Author summary Perceiving the world requires humans to organize perceptual stimuli according to the likely sources that generated them, requiring inference about these sources and their relationship w...
journals.plos.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:12 AM
As we were celebrating psychophysics the other day, here is a fun example in the multi-source auditory domain. So beautiful. So clean. Bayes all the way. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
Summer School - About — the MetaLab
metacoglab.org
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
We're running a 5th edition of the always-exciting UCL Summer School on Consciousness and Metacognition this year, 8th-10th July 2026 in London. Accommodation and travel expenses are covered.
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
For more information and how to apply, check out metacoglab.org/summer-schoo...
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Now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: our short response to @neurosteven.bsky.social & Edward de Haan's recent paper on the binding problem. We argue that the binding problem arises because of tradeoffs faced by any information processing system, including the brain and DNNs. shorturl.at/RGXzt
January 16, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: our short response to @neurosteven.bsky.social & Edward de Haan's recent paper on the binding problem. We argue that the binding problem arises because of tradeoffs faced by any information processing system, including the brain and DNNs. shorturl.at/RGXzt
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tangential, but one of the most remarkable episiodes in the history of science to me is that fact that people in the 19th century correctly inferred the basic facts about the physiology of color vision by doing math on our color phenomenology
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
1000 Hurts
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
www.argmin.net
January 15, 2026 at 8:42 PM
tangential, but one of the most remarkable episiodes in the history of science to me is that fact that people in the 19th century correctly inferred the basic facts about the physiology of color vision by doing math on our color phenomenology
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Psychophysics has always been great.
January 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Psychophysics has always been great.
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Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
1000 Hurts
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
www.argmin.net
January 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
Are we on the cusp of a Psychophysics renaissance?
I love this so much. After pushback on his recent "Medicine is the only field that reaches 6 sigma" with "my field, psychophysics is so awesome" he posted this. Hurray all Psychophysicists. LETS CELEBRATE PSYCHOPHYSICS. An island of large effects is us!
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
January 15, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Are we on the cusp of a Psychophysics renaissance?
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super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 15, 2026 at 3:07 AM
super excited to share my preprint with @meganakpeters.bsky.social stimulus familiarity shapes hierarchical structure learning and metacognitive dynamics🚀😊!!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD
Matthias Michel, Consciousness doesn't do that - PhilPapers
The question of which mental functions require consciousness has recently come to the forefront because of its relevance for investigating animal consciousness. Finding out that an animal can perform ...
philpapers.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:05 PM
New paper coming out in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research: "Consciousness doesn't do that". I explain why I believe that animal sentience research is in large part built on sand. In my opinion, we should be skeptical of many of the claims made in this field. philpapers.org/rec/MICCDD
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MIT News article about our new paper providing a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound for consciousness research: news.mit.edu/2026/new-too... (Original article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41270981/)
This new tool could tell us how consciousness works
Transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive brain imaging tool, may help researchers gain knowledge about human consciousness.
news.mit.edu
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
MIT News article about our new paper providing a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound for consciousness research: news.mit.edu/2026/new-too... (Original article here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41270981/)
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Striking example characterizing a paradoxical decoupling between the retinal image and perception. Thanks @josiedangelo.bsky.social for all the hard work to get this paper past the finish line.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
A discontinuity in motion perception during fixational drift | JOV | ARVO Journals
jov.arvojournals.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Striking example characterizing a paradoxical decoupling between the retinal image and perception. Thanks @josiedangelo.bsky.social for all the hard work to get this paper past the finish line.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
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With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
January 9, 2026 at 1:27 AM
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
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Nice article from Columbia News on our new paper about neural representations of places and remembered items - including a video of the creative VR environment made by @xrmasiso.bsky.social ! news.columbia.edu/news/places-...
The Places We Make Memories Help Us Inscribe Them
Psychology researchers used virtual reality and MRI technology to better understand how locations help us encode memories.
news.columbia.edu
January 8, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Nice article from Columbia News on our new paper about neural representations of places and remembered items - including a video of the creative VR environment made by @xrmasiso.bsky.social ! news.columbia.edu/news/places-...
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Our new paper out in NHB! We started this back in @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social's lab when I was a postdoc and Rolando was a grad student, showing that stable fMRI representations of places (learned in Rolando's custom-made VR world) provide the best anchors for later item learning
What if we could tell you how well you’ll remember your next visit to your local coffee shop? ☕️
In our new Nature Human Behaviour paper, we show that the 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 can be measured with neuroimaging – and 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸.
In our new Nature Human Behaviour paper, we show that the 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 can be measured with neuroimaging – and 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸.
New study by @xrmasiso.bsky.social et al shows that spatial contexts with more reliable brain representations better support memory for future experiences within them, revealing how stable neural maps help the brain organize and recall life events.
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Our new paper out in NHB! We started this back in @ptoncompmemlab.bsky.social's lab when I was a postdoc and Rolando was a grad student, showing that stable fMRI representations of places (learned in Rolando's custom-made VR world) provide the best anchors for later item learning
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What can cognitive science learn from AI? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-cogni... I outline how AI has found that scale and richness of learning experiences fundamentally change learning & generalization — and how I believe we should rethink cognitive experiments & theories in response.
What cognitive science can learn from AI
#3 in a series on cognitive science and AI
infinitefaculty.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:10 PM
What can cognitive science learn from AI? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-cogni... I outline how AI has found that scale and richness of learning experiences fundamentally change learning & generalization — and how I believe we should rethink cognitive experiments & theories in response.
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Published @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social with @drewlinsley.bsky.social & @tonyfeng.bsky.social: As vision models scale to human/superhuman accuracy, they’re becoming worse models of primate vision—benchmark engineering isn’t neuroscience. @carneyinstitute.bsky.social @browncopsy.bsky.social
Better artificial intelligence does not mean better models of biology
Deep neural networks (DNNs) once showed increasing alignment with primate perception
as they improved on vision benchmarks, raising hopes that advances in artificial intelligence
(AI) would naturally ...
cell.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Published @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social with @drewlinsley.bsky.social & @tonyfeng.bsky.social: As vision models scale to human/superhuman accuracy, they’re becoming worse models of primate vision—benchmark engineering isn’t neuroscience. @carneyinstitute.bsky.social @browncopsy.bsky.social
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Our new paper in Brain Stimulation by Antonio Lozano et al.: NEUmap rapidly maps visual percepts for cortical visual prostheses using spontaneous neural activity. Validated in macaques and blind humans, with <1s of data.
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
December 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Our new paper in Brain Stimulation by Antonio Lozano et al.: NEUmap rapidly maps visual percepts for cortical visual prostheses using spontaneous neural activity. Validated in macaques and blind humans, with <1s of data.
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...
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Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is accepting submissions for a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” The deadline has been extended until June 30! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
December 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is accepting submissions for a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” The deadline has been extended until June 30! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky
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Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association, and to present my talk "Experience Before Inference" as a Keynote at their Christmas Meeting. Video and preprint to follow soon!
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association, and to present my talk "Experience Before Inference" as a Keynote at their Christmas Meeting. Video and preprint to follow soon!
Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association, and to present my talk "Experience Before Inference" as a Keynote at their Christmas Meeting. Video and preprint to follow soon!
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association, and to present my talk "Experience Before Inference" as a Keynote at their Christmas Meeting. Video and preprint to follow soon!
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Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social