Oliver Contier
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Oliver Contier
@olivercontier.bsky.social
Brains, minds, computers, cats and carbonara.

🚨 On the postdoc job market 🚨

PhD candidate at ViCCo group & Max Planck School of Cognition. Working on brain representation of the visual world 🌏→🧠❔

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🙋 Hello Neuro people! After switching platforms, I thought I should reintroduce myself: I’m a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience. I use fMRI to study how the brain represents the things we see.
#neuroskyence #neuroscience
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Very much looking forward to #CCN2025! Would love to see you at our lab's talks and posters, and meet me at the panel discussion in the Algonauts session on Wednesday!
August 11, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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🚨PhD opportunity Fall/Winter
2025🚨
Join me in Geneva Switzerland #unige to learn more about colour perception. Using neuroimaging & computational modelling, you'll be working with an international & interdisciplinary team to understand how we transform light into a colourful world!🧠👁️🌈 #neurojobs
January 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🙋 Hello Neuro people! After switching platforms, I thought I should reintroduce myself: I’m a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience. I use fMRI to study how the brain represents the things we see.
#neuroskyence #neuroscience
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January 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Really happy to see this out! We show that behavioral judgments of the purpose and social content of observed actions capture a surprisingly large portion of variance in neural representational geometry throughout the action observation network and in ventral temporal cortex: doi.org/10.1101/2024...
December 28, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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I promised to write about my thoughts on the status of the field of neuroAI, some of the big challenges we are facing, and the approaches we are taking to address them. This is super selective on the topic of finding a good model but in my view it affects the field as a whole. Here we go. 🧵
December 11, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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These dimensions are interpretable and capture both perceptual and conceptual properties underlying human similarity judgments. Here, @olivercontier.bsky.social ran an encoding model to identify where in the brain he would find information about these dimensions. 7/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgements - Nature Human Behaviour
Hebart et al. developed a computational model of similarity judgements for 1,854 natural objects. The model accurately predicted similarity and revealed 49 interpretable dimensions that reflect both p...
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September 13, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by @olivercontier.bsky.social w/ Chris Baker now out in Nature Human Behaviour provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system - Nature Human Behaviour
Contier et al. show that dimensions are superior to categories at predicting brain responses to visual objects.
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September 13, 2024 at 10:44 AM