On the inevitability of visual interruption

We have an exciting new paper published in the Journal of Neurophysiology! The paper appears in the Special Collection titled “Now and Then“, featuring “articles that compare how our concepts, ideas, and methods have changed in the neurosciences“. In our paper, we explored a highly ubiquitous phenomenon in vision science: every time a sensory transient[…]

BrainLearn23 on the Pacific Ocean

Our lab is participating in this summer’s scientific program of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics on Statistical Learning in the Brain (BrainLearn23). The program is taking place at the University of California, Santa Barbara in California’s golden coast. The program involves a large group of scientists from multiple disciplines and many locations across the[…]

Conversations across disciplines in Helsinki, Finland

This month, the University of Helsinki held a fantastic multi-disciplinary conference on “Mind and Matter“. It included many interesting discussions on consciousness, language, perception, and even dreams! The event included psychologists, philosophers, and computational neurobiologists. Ziad Hafed participated with a keynote address describing our neurophysiological investigations on active perception. The talk was very well received,[…]