Joaquín Valdés Bize
joacovaldes.bsky.social
Joaquín Valdés Bize
@joacovaldes.bsky.social
PhD(c) Neuroscience at PUC Chile. I study S+R associations, error-monitoring and neuromodulation in the visual cortex using EEG, fMRI, pupillometry. Guitar and bass at Winkas https://open.spotify.com/track/0cpwVzFqZX1YTdlESWrbWX?si=c77d42b1c521433a
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Instead of having participants learn arbitrary distributions of features, we leveraged the fact that some feature distributions are already baked into our senses at some level. Our novel task reveals biases in subjective judgments that are very well predicted from natural image statistics.
The influence of natural image statistics on upright orientation judgements
Humans have well-documented priors for many features present in nature that guide visual perception. Despite being putatively grounded in the statisti…
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January 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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More shenanigans for EuroImmun's founder Winfried Stöcker, who sold the company, bought an airport and a hotel, donated to the AfD, and then illegally vaccinated people with a COVID vaccine he developed himself.
bsky.app/profile/dies...
www.spiegel.de/panorama/afd...
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfrie...
December 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM
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You can do both! For example, we recently had this paper peer-reviewed and recommended by @pci-regreports.bsky.social and then published in Science Advances:

www.science.org/doi/full/10....

PCI just gives you more power, flexibility, and options.
Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: A Registered Report
Global collaboration by 75 researchers finds acoustic relationships between speech, song, and instrumental music across cultures.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:18 AM