Holger Wiese
@wieseholger.bsky.social
Prof at Durham University
Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Face Recognition, EEG/ERP
Experimental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Face Recognition, EEG/ERP
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Holger Wiese
@wieseholger.bsky.social
· Nov 18
The Neural Dynamics of Familiar Face Recognition
Humans are highly efficient at recognising familiar faces. However, previous EEG/ERP research has given a partial and fragmented account of the neural…
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New review paper on familiar face recognition with Gyula Kovács and Stefan Schweinberger. We review recent EEG/ERP findings and present an updated theoretical approach.
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Maybe interesting for German-speaking colleagues and friends?A radio programme on face perception with Rabea Weihser, Valentin Groebner and me on SWR Kultur.
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April 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Maybe interesting for German-speaking colleagues and friends?A radio programme on face perception with Rabea Weihser, Valentin Groebner and me on SWR Kultur.
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This is great!
A treasure trove
Have you visited the EPS YouTube channel?
If not, head over and take a look at prize lectures since 2018 and (re-)watch some fantastic lectures from prize winners in recent years!
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If not, head over and take a look at prize lectures since 2018 and (re-)watch some fantastic lectures from prize winners in recent years!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
April 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is great!
Really interesting work!
🎉My new paper with Markus Bindemann that investigates whether face-matching decisions would change depending on the framing of response options, is now available in Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (@apajournals.bsky.social), LINK: doi.org/10.1037/mac0....
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APA PsycNet
doi.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Really interesting work!
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Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!
Exciting news: we’re hiring! Chair in (Cognitive) Neuroscience and up to 3 Assistant Prof posts. Contact @christakou.bsky.social or myself for Neuro inquiries. See tinyurl.com/uuunhsnm for Chair details, and tinyurl.com/mrxnszzw to apply for Assistant Prof. Join us!
Professor in Neuroscience:Whiteknights Reading UK
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March 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Looking for a new job? Come join us at UoR! 4 posts in psychology, including a Chair in Neuroscience. Happy to chat about Reading, the University, and the School- just get in touch!
This is great!
An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system
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#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience
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#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience
Information Gained, Stored, and Transferred Without Brains — Biological Strategy — AskNature
Despite the lack of a nervous system, slime molds can learn and share what they learn with other slime molds by joining together for a time.
asknature.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This is great!
Reposted by Holger Wiese
An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system
asknature.org/strategy/bra...
#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience
asknature.org/strategy/bra...
#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience
Information Gained, Stored, and Transferred Without Brains — Biological Strategy — AskNature
Despite the lack of a nervous system, slime molds can learn and share what they learn with other slime molds by joining together for a time.
asknature.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
An example of how living systems can learn and act, even lacking a clear nervous system
asknature.org/strategy/bra...
#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience
asknature.org/strategy/bra...
#GeneralSystemsTheory
#EnergyNetworkScience
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🧵 A bit late, but excited to share insights from our new publication in PLOS Comp Biol by Pranjul Gupta (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Here, we explored the phenomenon of face pareidolia—like seeing faces in our morning coffee! What might explain this effect?
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🧵 A bit late, but excited to share insights from our new publication in PLOS Comp Biol by Pranjul Gupta (journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...). Here, we explored the phenomenon of face pareidolia—like seeing faces in our morning coffee! What might explain this effect?
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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
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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...
This looks really interesting!
👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"
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Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience
Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…
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February 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
This looks really interesting!
Reposted by Holger Wiese
👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience
Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
January 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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I like how the perception of 3D structure in this starts and ends strong while devolving into interesting chaos in the middle. #VisionScience
What are the #mathematics behind this animation?
youtu.be/KlNOszFY3GI
#mathart #geometry #recursion #complexnumbers
youtu.be/KlNOszFY3GI
#mathart #geometry #recursion #complexnumbers
January 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I like how the perception of 3D structure in this starts and ends strong while devolving into interesting chaos in the middle. #VisionScience
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Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to
@braintumourrsch.bsky.social
20% discount from Routledge in January.
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@braintumourrsch.bsky.social
20% discount from Routledge in January.
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Memory and the Brain: Using, Losing, and Improving
Memory and the Brain explores the fascinating psychology and neuroscience of human memory.
Written by a world expert in the field, John P. Aggleton, this book covers learning and memory from the very ...
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January 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Past BNA President, John Aggleton, has published a remarkable book dedicated to his late son, who passed away from a brain tumour. In honour of this, all royalties from the book will be donated to
@braintumourrsch.bsky.social
20% discount from Routledge in January.
routledge.com/Memory-and-t...
@braintumourrsch.bsky.social
20% discount from Routledge in January.
routledge.com/Memory-and-t...
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New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature
A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.
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January 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
New modelling of how episodic memory can arise from spatial mapping, just out in Nature:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠
January 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Clever study that explores the debate between those who claim that color categories are 'innate' and those who argue that they are dependent on language. It turns out that monkeys, unlike humans, do not have consensus color categories, suggesting cognitive mechanisms such as language are required.🧪🧠
Congratulations, Artie and Levi!
We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS London 2025 meeting are Artie Graham and Levi Kumle.
Congratulations to Artie and @levikumle.bsky.social!
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Congratulations to Artie and @levikumle.bsky.social!
eps.ac.uk/presidents-c...
President’s Commendation for Student Posters – EPS London 2025
We are pleased to announce the joint winners of the President’s Poster Commendation Prize for the EPS London 2025 meeting are Artie Graham and Levi Kumle. Artie’s Research Study Poster is entitled …
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January 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Congratulations, Artie and Levi!
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Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…
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January 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Very nice work by the @martinhebart.bsky.social lab shows that many across-exemplar effects in early visual cortex can be explained by low-level visual features, whereas LOC appears, in addition, to exhibit higher order category-specific information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧪 🧠
The Scope and Limits of Fine-Grained Image and Category Information in the Ventral Visual Pathway
Humans can easily abstract incoming visual information into discrete semantic categories. Previous research employing functional MRI (fMRI) in humans has identified cortical organizing principles that...
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January 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Very nice work by the @martinhebart.bsky.social lab shows that many across-exemplar effects in early visual cortex can be explained by low-level visual features, whereas LOC appears, in addition, to exhibit higher order category-specific information. www.jneurosci.org/content/45/3... 🧪 🧠
This looks really interesting!
1/5 New study challenges modular view of visual processing! academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... Analysis of 307 stroke patients shows mid-level visual processing are distributed across neural networks rather than confined to specific brain regions.
Visual feature processing in a large stroke cohort: evidence against modular organization
Visual features form a crucial stage between sensory input and higher-level object recognition. The conventional model of visual processing posits that qua
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January 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This looks really interesting!
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New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...
January 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...
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On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.
January 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
On the train home after a fantastic meeting of the @exppsychsoc.bsky.social . If you're an experimental psychologist (broadly defined) based in the UK (or can attend regularly) do consider membership (£30 pa). It's a wonderful society that provides fantastic support for UK psych, especially ECRs.
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First bluesky post... and also new paper alert! 🥳 With Tim Andrews & @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition
Code: osf.io/scy2f/
Paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition
Code: osf.io/scy2f/
Paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition
A key challenge in understanding the functional organization of the visual cortex stems from the fact that only a small proportion of the objects experienced during natural viewing can be presented in...
doi.org
January 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
First bluesky post... and also new paper alert! 🥳 With Tim Andrews & @yorkpsychology.bsky.social
A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition
Code: osf.io/scy2f/
Paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
A Data-Driven Analysis of the Perceptual and Neural Responses to Natural Objects Reveals Organizing Principles of Human Visual Cognition
Code: osf.io/scy2f/
Paper: doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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Reuters survey of over 150 UK universities and their colleges finds many are abandoning X over concerns about misinformation, content that promotes violence, and declining engagement.
#UKHE #AcademicSky
#UKHE #AcademicSky
UK universities join retreat from Elon Musk's X, citing misinformation on platform
Universities and other higher education establishments have joined a retreat among British institutions from Elon Musk's X social media platform, citing its role in spreading misinformation that fuelled race riots last year.
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January 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Reuters survey of over 150 UK universities and their colleges finds many are abandoning X over concerns about misinformation, content that promotes violence, and declining engagement.
#UKHE #AcademicSky
#UKHE #AcademicSky
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Over 60 German universities & research institutions have announced their #eXit from X today.
X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)
X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)
Starkes Signal!!
Über 60 dt. Hochschulen & Forschungsinstitutionen haben heute ihren Ausstieg bei X bekanntgegeben, s.u. #eXit
X sei nicht mehr vereinbar mit ihren Grundwerten: „Weltoffenheit, wissenschaftliche Integrität, Transparenz und demokratischer Diskurs.“
Liste der Beteiligten hier:
Über 60 dt. Hochschulen & Forschungsinstitutionen haben heute ihren Ausstieg bei X bekanntgegeben, s.u. #eXit
X sei nicht mehr vereinbar mit ihren Grundwerten: „Weltoffenheit, wissenschaftliche Integrität, Transparenz und demokratischer Diskurs.“
Liste der Beteiligten hier:
Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft
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January 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Over 60 German universities & research institutions have announced their #eXit from X today.
X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)
X/Twitter no longer compatible with their core values: “Open-mindedness, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse.” (Via @amreibahr.bsky.social)