Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement?
In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching.
Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.
+++ Teilt und unterschreibt unseren offenen Brief an die Hessische Landesregierung! +++ Wir werden die bevorstehende katastrophale Verschlechterung unseres Hochschulsystems nicht hinnehmen und fordern eine Neuverhandlung des Hochschulpakts! #nocuts #nocutsinhessen cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/...
A teaser figure showing the process of metamers rendered differentially (MRD). Target scene parameters are used to render a target scene. A new scene is initialized from some starting point, and renders are created from this scene. The loss between the initial and target scenes is measured. MRD allows the gradients wrt the loss to be propagated to the scene parameters (e.g. lighting, geometry or material) for gradient-based optimization.
Legit super excited about this work coming out. My amazing doctoral student @ben.graphics has been working on an idea to use physically based differentiable rendering (PBDR) to probe visual understanding. Here, we generate physically-grounded metamers for vision models. 1/4
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
Fully funded PhD position via imprs-is
A mobile EEG/EyeTracking setup
EEG system photographed with backlight and glowing electrodes
S-CCS Lab PhD Position
3+2 year 100% TVL-13 position in '26 - open topic on the intersection of combined EEG-EyeTracking, Statistical Methods, Cognitive Modelling, VR/Mobile EEG, Vision ...
Apply via Max-Planck IMPRS-IS program until 2025-11-16 imprs.is.mpg.de
Read: www.s-ccs.de/philosophy
An image showing the presentation times and places of the members of the Perception Lab at TU Darmstadt.
I won't get to join you all at #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social this year because I'm on holiday in Australia... but my lab is there in force! Please do go say hi, and check out my students' and postdocs' amazing work!
@ben.graphics @lschmittwilken.bsky.social @lreining.bsky.social
Looking forward to meeting you #ECVP2025 Mainz this week, including collaborative work with @tobnie.bsky.social @dominikstrb.bsky.social @ookenfooken.bsky.social @fatatai.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social @mamassian.bsky.social @guidomaiello.bsky.social @mariaeckstein.bsky.social and many others
🎉 The SIGHT trial has HRA & HCRW ethics approval! We’re set to launch the largest ever trial of therapy for spatial inattention post-stroke.
Recruitment starts now — learn more at 🔗 www.uea.ac.uk/about/school...
#SIGHTtrial #StrokeRecovery #UEA
Reasonable Artificial Intelligence und The Adaptive Mind: Die TU Darmstadt wird im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder mit gleich zwei geförderten Clusterprojekten ausgezeichnet. Ein Meilenstein für unsere Universität! www.tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet...
I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Registration for IICCSSS 2025 in Darmstadt is open! 🥳 Sign up now for a week of exciting talks, hands-on projects and inspiring discussions! www.iiccsss.org/registration/
As always, IICCSSS is free, and open to all students who are excited about computational cognitive science 💡🧠
Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...
Interested in motor control or cerebellar function? We have two openings for graduate students for Fall 25. Join the sensorimotor superlab - our interdisciplinary research group Paul Gribble and Andrew Pruszynski. Application instructions at diedrichsenlab.org. Please repost 🙏
Congratulations to Matthias Schultheis for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse reinforcement learning for human decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction. Significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse POMDPs for partial observabilities and non-stationary behavior
🐥 #ECVP early-bird registration ends this Sunday, April 6 🦜
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Register now & save your early-bird rate: ecvp2025.uni-mainz.de/submissions
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Congratulations to @dominikstrb.bsky.social for defending his PhD thesis 'Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action' with distinction, with significant contributions to understanding bounded actors with inverse models, reconciling normative and descriptive models of behavior
My great collaborators and I published a project on rapid eye and hand responses in an interception task.
jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
I like to summarize my papers in Dr. Seuss style 🟩🥚🥚🍔
Happy to announce!
Come join us for a great meeting!
Check philandneuro.com and join the society :-)
#neuroscience #philosophy
Unfortunately reviewer 3 disagrees
I have 2:
Whatever doesn’t add subtracts
&
Every paragraph advances the story
I think when publishing we should keep the public in mind. If I read an Rxiv paper outside my own field, I don’t feel confident in judging the quality of the work. Open review is one option that may work. But at some point time is a constraint for readers as well…
Thank you #ECVP2024 it was a blast! Great science and lots of food for thought (and little actual food). See y‘all in Mainz 🇩🇪🎭🍷
Agent-environment loop. a) The agent receives an observation, which may be a noisy or partial version of the environment state. Based on this observation and potentially an internal state, they perform an action, which affects the state at the next time step. b) In online control, the action is directly a function of the observation. c) In model-based control, the agent acts based on an internal state in the form of a belief.
If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control.
New preprint on #PsyArXiv, accepted at #CogSci2024
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Honestly, the fit thing won’t be obvious until you‘ve actually started working on a project. But I think it’s worth asking about ambitions and interests in and outside the lab to get a sense of personality.
Finished reading „The Dispossessed“ by Ursula Le Guin.
Such a deep book.
“No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
I am recruiting two PhD students to work on proprioception in an FWO funded project:
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
#sensorimotor
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In case this is helpful to anyone, I shared this data quality indicator list on OSF: osf.io/t8upr
If you are looking for a standardized data cleaning checklist for creating quality data, I've also provided one example here: datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#clean-...
New column by me in Science: "Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence"
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🚨It's finally out!! 🤩
In Nature Climate Change, we present a highly ambitious vision for how to realize the full potential of behavioral science for climate change mitigation 🌍
I hope you'll like it!
#BehSci #ClimateChange #BehSciSky #GreenSky #ClimateAction
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brain and mind researchers of all types: I hope you'll join this conversation at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (August 6-9, Boston).
I'm envisioning a community-centered conversation unlike any I've seen before; because it's unusual, I unpack it here:
www.nicolerust.com/grandplan
