Gal Vishne
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Gal Vishne
@neurogal.bsky.social
Aspiring cognitive computational neuroscientist.

Postdoc @ Columbia DSI (w Michael Shadlen & Rich Zemel), Rothschild Fellow & Zuckerman STEM program.

Past: PhD @ ELSC, Huji, Azrieli Graduate Fellow.

Twitter\X: @neuro_gal
Website: gal.vishne.com
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Introduction \ updates post (better late than never):
- I recently graduated from ELSC @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social 🎉
- Moved to NYC 🗽 (view from our balcony below 👇)
- And started a postdoc in @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Pls PM if you are in the NYC area and want to talk (or have a beer 🍻)
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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
Paul Linton, ECVP 2025: "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience"
YouTube video by Kriegeskorte Lab
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Omg yay! So exciting!
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
August 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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CONVERSATIONS ON CONSCIOUSNESS
How the CCN Community Can Contribute

Recording now available:
hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

Thanks so much to @meganakpeters.bsky.social, @smfleming.bsky.social, @larsmuckli.bsky.social, @cogcompneuro.bsky.social!
August 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Wish I could be in CCN this year, enjoy everyone!!
Super excited to kickstart our Metacognitive science satellite meeting, just before the CCN conference in Amsterdam! Organised with @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social and @stvemillertime.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This was tons of fun to work on! Really happy to be part of this star team 🌟🤩
1/8 Happy to share our new paper—“IQ Test for LLMs”—co-authored with Aviya Maimon, Amir DN Cohen, @neurogal.bsky.social and Reut Tsarfaty. We propose to rethink how language models are evaluated by focusing on the latent capabilities that explain benchmark results.
Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20208
July 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Thrilled to share our new opinion piece—hot off the press—on attentional sampling, co-authored with the magnificent Flor Kusnir and Daniele Re. It captures where our thinking has landed on this topic after years of work.

www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Attentional sampling resolves competition along the visual hierarchy
Navigating the environment involves engaging with multiple objects, each activating specific neuronal populations. When objects appear together, these populations compete. Classical attention theories...
www.cell.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Excited to share our new research—led by @harinlee.info —using rare @researchdeezer.bsky.social data to uncover how music choices reflect both individual preferences and city-level cultural patterns. A unique collaboration between science and industry! 🎶📊 #BigData @co3lab.bsky.social
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social

Highlights ⬇
June 7, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I am so excited to share that our paper 'A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality' is now published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social! 🧠✨ See thread below! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
June 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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✨Deadline approaching, June 1st!✨

Apply if you want to investigate brain orchestration in visual (free!) exploration. You will learn a bunch of cool cog neuro techniques, and get to work with a great team of scientists within and beyond the lab.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
@ayeletlandau.bsky.social is hiring! Highly recommended!!
Come for the cool research, stay for the cool people & super fun lab environment!😎
📣cog neuro postdoc opportunity! Interested in studying attention & exploration w/ cutting edge M/EEG? 🧠care about making vision science a bit more naturalistic? 🌱LandauLab is hiring! We seek resourceful, curious and creative researchers who can join the newly forming London-based team@ucl.ac.uk! ...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Thank you for inviting, it was tons of fun meeting everyone! I hope to repeat again!
It was a pleasure hosting @neurogal.bsky.social yesterday in our lab meeting. Awesome work.
April 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
#CNS2025 interested in time, anticipation or behavioral modelling?
Join me at the small poster room tomorrow morning* ☕️
Poster F150 @Deouell @ayeletlandau.bsky.social

*and there is a preprint now! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 1, 2025 at 1:23 AM
At @cogneuronews.bsky.social?
Come to my poster on Tuesday morning!

F150: 'Computational Mechanisms of Temporal Anticipation in Perception and Action' ⏰👁️🖐️

My last PhD study w Leon Deouell and @ayeletlandau.bsky.social 💔

Stay tuned for a full thread once the MS is approved by biorxiv...
March 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Introduction \ updates post (better late than never):
- I recently graduated from ELSC @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social 🎉
- Moved to NYC 🗽 (view from our balcony below 👇)
- And started a postdoc in @columbiauniversity.bsky.social

Pls PM if you are in the NYC area and want to talk (or have a beer 🍻)
March 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
@ayeletlandau.bsky.social built an empire in Hebrew U, and now she is extending it to the UK!!
This is such a great opportunity to work with a wonderful mentor on really cool topics + you get to enjoy the perks of being part of an diverse group of international students
1/3 Interested in brain rhythms and the orchestration of sensing & acting? Interested in neural mechanisms of natural exploration?
This postdoc opportunity might be just for you!
I am recruiting a post doc to work with me on an exciting project at UCL @uclpals.bsky.social
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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1/3 What can we learn from the spectra of brain activity (neurophysiology)? I am happy to share our large scale stab at characterizing different modes of neuronal activity. Here, led by Golan Karvat, we reveal a new dimension of spectral phenomena www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers distinct modes of neural dynamics
Understanding the organizing principles of brain activity can advance neuro-technology and medical diagnosis and treatment. A prominent principle promoted over the last century is that brain activity ...
www.biorxiv.org
December 9, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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This is happening tomorrow! 😅😅😅
I'll be talking about all things metacognitive on 23rd Jan in a public lecture at the @royalsociety.org

It's free to attend and will also be broadcast live on the RS YouTube channel (no pressure then 😅)

royalsociety.org/science-even...
How the human brain thinks about itself | Royal Society
Royal Society Francis Crick Prize Lecture by Professor Stephen Fleming.
royalsociety.org
January 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hey bluesky 👋 Check out this cool new study from @ayeletlandau.bsky.social's lab, led by the one and only Maya Inbar!
Super comprehensive work characterizing the speed of intonation units across 48(!) languages.
December 7, 2024 at 2:02 PM