Lukas Vogelsang
@lukasvogelsang.bsky.social
Simons Postdoctoral Fellow in Pawan Sinha's Lab at MIT. Experimental and computational approaches to vision, time, and development. Just joined Bluesky!
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The Temporal Scaffolding of Sensory Organization
How a developing nervous system discovers meaning in complex sensory inputs has typically been examined separately for each sensory modality. Even as studies have uncovered modality-specific strategie...
doi.org
Excited to share our new review in #AnnualReviews Psychology on the role of time in perceptual organization! doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Reposted by Lukas Vogelsang
Thanks to fellow defenders @clionaod.bsky.social, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, and @charvetcj.bsky.social
Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Defending the foundation model view of infant development
www.sciencedirect.com
July 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Thanks to fellow defenders @clionaod.bsky.social, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, and @charvetcj.bsky.social
Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Lukas Vogelsang
My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social is now out in Science Advances!
We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Fast and robust visual object recognition in young children
The visual recognition abilities of preschool children rival those of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My paper with @stellalourenco.bsky.social is now out in Science Advances!
We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
We found that children have robust object recognition abilities that surpass many ANNs. Models only outperformed kids when their training far exceeded what a child could experience in their lifetime
doi.org/10.1126/scia...
Excited to share our new review in #AnnualReviews Psychology on the role of time in perceptual organization! doi.org/10.1146/annu...
The Temporal Scaffolding of Sensory Organization
How a developing nervous system discovers meaning in complex sensory inputs has typically been examined separately for each sensory modality. Even as studies have uncovered modality-specific strategie...
doi.org
October 5, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Excited to share our new review in #AnnualReviews Psychology on the role of time in perceptual organization! doi.org/10.1146/annu...
Looking forward to #CCN2025! Please come say hi!
On Monday, as part of the ‘From Child to Machine Learning’ Satellite sites.google.com/view/child2m... (3-6pm), I look forward to give a talk about our past work probing the hypothesis that visual degradations in early development may be adaptive.
On Monday, as part of the ‘From Child to Machine Learning’ Satellite sites.google.com/view/child2m... (3-6pm), I look forward to give a talk about our past work probing the hypothesis that visual degradations in early development may be adaptive.
CCN 2025 Satellite Event
Background
The human visual system is full of optimisations—mechanisms designed to extract the most useful information from a constant stream of incoming data. The field of neuro-AI has made significa...
sites.google.com
August 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Looking forward to #CCN2025! Please come say hi!
On Monday, as part of the ‘From Child to Machine Learning’ Satellite sites.google.com/view/child2m... (3-6pm), I look forward to give a talk about our past work probing the hypothesis that visual degradations in early development may be adaptive.
On Monday, as part of the ‘From Child to Machine Learning’ Satellite sites.google.com/view/child2m... (3-6pm), I look forward to give a talk about our past work probing the hypothesis that visual degradations in early development may be adaptive.
1/ 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).
Potential role of developmental experience in the emergence of the parvo-magno distinction - Communications Biology
Developmentally-driven computational modeling study suggests that early sensory experience shapes distinct neuronal response properties in the visual system, providing a potential account of the emerg...
doi.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
1/ 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).