Max Levinson
maxlevinson.bsky.social
Max Levinson
@maxlevinson.bsky.social
visual phenomenology, active vision, cognitive neuroscience
postdoc @ NYU
NEW PAPER 👁️🚨 w/ @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social

If you keep your eyes very still, the visual world oddly appears to "fill-in", or blend across boundaries. Filling-in over stronger boundaries requires even longer staring. Is this because involuntary microsaccades more effectively delay filling-in? (1/3)
July 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Sensorimotor control meets visual consciousness.
Our new Journal of Vision paper led by @maxlevinson.bsky.social shows that microsaccades reset visual processing & delay perceptual illusions (here, filling-in). www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org/news/zl2erl3... 🧵
How Tiny Eye Movements Reveal the Fragility of Visual Perception — Baillet Lab [ neuroSPEED ]
Our latest study, led by grad student Max Levinson and published in the Journal of Vision , explores why our conscious perception often does not match the physical world accessible to our senses. Usi...
www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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1/ "A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" is out now! it was a joy to coauthor this commentary with Àlex Gómez-Marin @behaviOrganisms for @NatureNeuro, in which we try find some positive lessons in the clash over IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...
March 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Delighted to report the publication of our new paper with @biyuhe.bsky.social in @plosbiology.org. In the study, we find that oscillatory and non-oscillatory neural signals likely influence conscious visual perception independently.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Spontaneous slow cortical potentials and brain oscillations independently influence conscious visual perception
Conscious perception is influenced by brain oscillations and slow cortical potentials within the brain, but it is not clear if they influence perception via shared mechanisms. This study shows that os...
doi.org
January 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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I made this tool that I think is pretty useful if you are running online experiments and using the OSF. It's free. And open source. And you can use other free tools with it to run an online experiment for free.

pipe.jspsych.org
DataPipe
pipe.jspsych.org
September 25, 2023 at 5:15 PM
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Is IIT a “psuedoscientific” theory?

The moment I’ve always hoped for, to plug this piece w/ Clare Press and Cecilia Heyes.

The 7 questions psychologists and neuroscientists can ask ourselves if we want to build better theories and interrogate our own…

www.cell.com/current-biol...
#neuroskyence
September 17, 2023 at 7:36 PM