tal boger
@talboger.bsky.social
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Congratulations (and thank you) to @talboger.bsky.social, who lectured in front of nearly 500 @jhu.edu undergraduates today on the psychology of music! They didn’t see it coming, and then they loved it :)
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Congratulations (and thank you) to @talboger.bsky.social, who lectured in front of nearly 500 @jhu.edu undergraduates today on the psychology of music! They didn’t see it coming, and then they loved it :)
can't believe the IRB approved this part — hope the children are ok!
October 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
can't believe the IRB approved this part — hope the children are ok!
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What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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When a butterfly becomes a bear, perception takes center stage.
Research from @talboger.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and the Perception & Mind Lab.
Research from @talboger.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and the Perception & Mind Lab.
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When a butterfly becomes a bear, perception takes center stage.
Research from @talboger.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and the Perception & Mind Lab.
Research from @talboger.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and the Perception & Mind Lab.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
important question for dev people: when reporting demographics for a paper involving both kids and adults, we want some consistency in how we report that information. so do you call the kids "men" and "women", or do you call the adults "boys" and “girls"?
October 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
important question for dev people: when reporting demographics for a paper involving both kids and adults, we want some consistency in how we report that information. so do you call the kids "men" and "women", or do you call the adults "boys" and “girls"?
sami is such a creative, thoughtful, and fun mentor. anyone who gets to work with him is so lucky!
I am recruiting graduate students for Fall 2026 through both the cognitive and developmental areas at Ohio State. If you are interested in spatial cognition, visual perception, and/or mental representation -- please reach out! I'd love to hear from you.
www.cogdevlab.org
www.cogdevlab.org
PCDL @ OSU
www.cogdevlab.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
sami is such a creative, thoughtful, and fun mentor. anyone who gets to work with him is so lucky!
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Visual adaptation is viewed as a test of whether a feature is represented by the visual system.
In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can we “see” value? Spatiotopic “visual” adaptation to an imperceptible dimension
In much recent philosophy of mind and cognitive science, repulsive adaptation effects are considered a litmus test — a crucial marker, that distinguis…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Visual adaptation is viewed as a test of whether a feature is represented by the visual system.
In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In a new paper, Sam Clarke and I push the limits of this test. We show spatially selective, putatively "visual" adaptation to a clearly non-visual dimension: Value!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It's true: This is the first project from our lab that has a "Merch" page!
Get yours @ www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...
Get yours @ www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...
August 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It's true: This is the first project from our lab that has a "Merch" page!
Get yours @ www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...
Get yours @ www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams/mer...
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
August 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
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Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lab-mate got my ass on the lab when2meet
July 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Lab-mate got my ass on the lab when2meet
Amazing new work from @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social and @samiyousif.bsky.social! I'm convinced the crowd size illusion is real, but the rooms full of people watching Gabe give awesome talks at @socphilpsych.bsky.social and @vssmtg.bsky.social were no illusion!
I am excited to announce my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social ) about a new illusion of *number*: the “Crowd Size Illusion”. osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
June 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Amazing new work from @gabrielwaterhouse.bsky.social and @samiyousif.bsky.social! I'm convinced the crowd size illusion is real, but the rooms full of people watching Gabe give awesome talks at @socphilpsych.bsky.social and @vssmtg.bsky.social were no illusion!
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June 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Susan Carey sitting in the front row of a grad student talk (by @talboger.bsky.social) and going back and forth during Q&A is what makes the @socphilpsych.bsky.social so special! Loved this interaction 🤗
June 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Susan Carey sitting in the front row of a grad student talk (by @talboger.bsky.social) and going back and forth during Q&A is what makes the @socphilpsych.bsky.social so special! Loved this interaction 🤗
Now officially out! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
(Free version here: talboger.github.io/files/Boger_...)
(Free version here: talboger.github.io/files/Boger_...)
June 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Now officially out! psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
(Free version here: talboger.github.io/files/Boger_...)
(Free version here: talboger.github.io/files/Boger_...)
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It's @vssmtg.bsky.social! So excited to share this year's projects from the lab, including brand new research directions and some deep dives on foundational issues.
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
May 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
It's @vssmtg.bsky.social! So excited to share this year's projects from the lab, including brand new research directions and some deep dives on foundational issues.
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
More info @ perception.jhu.edu/vss/.
See you on the 🏖!
#VSS2025
Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style?
In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...
In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Looking at Van Gogh’s Starry Night, we see not only its content (a French village beneath a night sky) but also its *style*. How does that work? How do we see style?
In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...
In @nathumbehav.nature.com, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I take an experimental approach to style perception! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Sam Clarke and I have been writing a lot about adaptation -- what it is, what it isn't, what it reveals about perception. We've just released a preprint that pushes the boundaries of adaptation even further. We document spatially selective adaptation to arbitrary *value*.
philpapers.org/rec/CLACWS
philpapers.org/rec/CLACWS
Sam Clarke & Sami Yousif, Can we “see” value? Spatiotopic “visual” adaptation to an imperceptible dimension - PhilPapers
Adaptation is a fundamental mechanism of biological cognitive systems. To many, adaptation is also a litmus test — a tool for discerning what is perceived as opposed to what is merely ...
philpapers.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Sam Clarke and I have been writing a lot about adaptation -- what it is, what it isn't, what it reveals about perception. We've just released a preprint that pushes the boundaries of adaptation even further. We document spatially selective adaptation to arbitrary *value*.
philpapers.org/rec/CLACWS
philpapers.org/rec/CLACWS
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Danny wolf transferred from Yale to Michigan, what is he, writing a friggin metaethics dissertation, folks?
March 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Danny wolf transferred from Yale to Michigan, what is he, writing a friggin metaethics dissertation, folks?
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I'm really, really excited about our recent paper on children's understanding of topological spatial relations (w/ Lily Goldstein and Liz Brannon). I've linked the paper here, but I'll summarize the thread below.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Children’s Understanding of Topological Relations
Abstract. A core aim of developmental cognitive science is to uncover the basic building blocks of human thought. For instance, work revealing that even young children, adults without formal education...
direct.mit.edu
March 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm really, really excited about our recent paper on children's understanding of topological spatial relations (w/ Lily Goldstein and Liz Brannon). I've linked the paper here, but I'll summarize the thread below.
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
Watch this video.
Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasn’t there. Why?
In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasn’t there. Why?
In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/ps...
March 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Watch this video.
Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasn’t there. Why?
In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Do you remember seeing a ball in the second half of the video? Up to 37% of our participants reported seeing a ball, even though it wasn’t there. Why?
In a new paper in press @ Cognition, Brent Strickland and I ask what causes event completion. osf.io/preprints/ps...
Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can!
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
February 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can!
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...
Which is more complex: A bicycle or a car?
Object complexity comes in many different kinds — such as visual, mechanistic, and more. How are these kinds related?
Now out @ JEP:G, Frank Keil and I argue that mechanistic complexity is fundamental.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
Object complexity comes in many different kinds — such as visual, mechanistic, and more. How are these kinds related?
Now out @ JEP:G, Frank Keil and I argue that mechanistic complexity is fundamental.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Which is more complex: A bicycle or a car?
Object complexity comes in many different kinds — such as visual, mechanistic, and more. How are these kinds related?
Now out @ JEP:G, Frank Keil and I argue that mechanistic complexity is fundamental.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
Object complexity comes in many different kinds — such as visual, mechanistic, and more. How are these kinds related?
Now out @ JEP:G, Frank Keil and I argue that mechanistic complexity is fundamental.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...