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9 Sep 2024
Hugely excited that this work with @martin_hebart and @Chris_I_Baker is now out in @NatureHumBehav !!!
By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex.
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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4 Dec 2025
New preprint w/ Malin Styrnal & @martin_hebart
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gj…
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Oliver Contier retweeted
18 Jun 2025
I'm thrilled to see this preprint out! Lenny compellingly demonstrates, in a data-driven way, a coding scheme unifying distributed dimensions & category selectivity.➡️Higher visual cortex comprises many partially overlapping tuning maps that include but go beyond category tuning!
18 Jun 2025
How is high-level visual cortex organized?
In a new preprint with @martin_hebart & @KathaDobs, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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18 Jun 2025
How is high-level visual cortex organized?
In a new preprint with @martin_hebart & @KathaDobs, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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18 Nov 2024
"Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex" with @susanwardle @mvazirip Dwight Kravitz @Chris_I_Baker 1/3
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28 Oct 2024
Exited to share our latest @TrendsNeuro opinion paper on —intensive— fMRI, with @Tknapen @cvnlab @elimerriam! We discuss ways to maximize both quantity and quality of your large-scale “deep” fMRI dataset, and create a community resource 🧠
tinyurl.com/intensivefmri
25 Oct 2024
In this TINS review we (w/@cvnlab, @elimerriam, & @eline_kupers) argue that *intensive* (many hours of data) fMRI of single individuals for single-voxel model fitting is a paradigm shift for cognitive/computational neuroimaging. tinyurl.com/intensivefmri 1/2
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23 Oct 2024
🧵New preprint with @cvnlab, @tnaselar & @tknapen: How does the brain connect vision and touch representations to infuse vision with body-related meaning? TLDR: We found high-level visual cortex is tiled with maps 'multiplexing' vision and touch. tinyurl.com/seesoma 1/n
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5 Oct 2024
Wow! What an honor to be covered by @ettah @NatureNeuro as a research highlight! 🤯
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
5 Oct 2024
Our recent paper just got featured as a research highlight at @NatureNeuro. Thanks to @ettah for covering our work!
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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Oliver Contier retweeted
5 Oct 2024
Our recent paper just got featured as a research highlight at @NatureNeuro. Thanks to @ettah for covering our work!
nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
9 Sep 2024
Hugely excited that this work with @martin_hebart and @Chris_I_Baker is now out in @NatureHumBehav !!!
By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex.
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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13 Sep 2024
Really excited to share what we’ve been working on for the past 12 months during my time @GoogleDeepMind! We came up with an approach that can distill the hierarchical structure of human conceptual knowledge into vision foundation models via a surrogate teacher model. More below!
13 Sep 2024
What aspects of human knowledge are vision models missing, and can we align them with human knowledge to improve their performance and robustness on cognitive and ML tasks? Excited to share this new work led by @lukas_mut! 1/10
ALT Paper title: Aligning Machine and Human Visual Representations across Abstraction Levels
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Oliver Contier retweeted
9 Sep 2024
Visual cortex is about more than feature-based object recognition and categorization: Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system nature.com/articles/s41562-0… by @OliverContier @martin_hebart @Chris_I_Baker
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9 Sep 2024
Contier et al. show that dimensions are superior to categories at predicting brain responses to visual objects.
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9 Sep 2024
How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Work led by @OliverContier w/ @Chris_I_Baker now out in @NatureHumBehav provides support for a theoretical framework of behaviorally-relevant selectivity beyond high-level categorization. 🧵
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9 Sep 2024
Hugely excited that this work with @martin_hebart and @Chris_I_Baker is now out in @NatureHumBehav !!!
By moving from a category-focused to a behaviour-focused model, we identified behaviourally relevant object information throughout visual cortex.
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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Humans think in many #dimensions at a time 🧠📷When seeing objects, our #brain uses not just one, but a multitude of behaviorally relevant dimensions, like
@OliverContier & @martin_hebart @jlugiessen show in
@NatureHumBehav: tinyurl.com/426j696e
ALT The brain activity of study participants was measured in the MRI scanner over 15 sessions while they saw over 8,000 different images of 720 objects.
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Oliver Contier retweeted
6 Aug 2024
Excited to present findings from my first PhD project with @martin_hebart and @KathaDobs at #CCN2024
If you're into visual cortex, functional selectivity, and/or representational dimensions, make sure to stop by poster P154 today! 🧠🌈
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28 Jun 2024
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a new study, led by @florianmahner and @lukas_mut and w/ @umuguc, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. arxiv.org/abs/2406.19087 🧵
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18 May 2024
Interested in what we can learn from curvature ratings of more than 27000 images? Then come to Laura’s poster this afternoon at the Pavilion! #vss2024
18 May 2024
Hey @VSSMtg! Curious if people's perception of curvature organizes visual responses similar to image-computed curvature? Don't miss mine and @martin_hebart's Poster in the Pavilion today, 2:45 - 6:45 pm. Excited to discuss!
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18 May 2024
Hey @VSSMtg! Curious if people's perception of curvature organizes visual responses similar to image-computed curvature? Don't miss mine and @martin_hebart's Poster in the Pavilion today, 2:45 - 6:45 pm. Excited to discuss!
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18 May 2024
If you are interested in the functional neuroanatomy of the visual system, please come by Josefine Zerbe’s and @MaggieMaeWokeUp’s poster on a dataset of densely sampled retinotopy plus 0.8mm DTI from a Connectom MRI that promises a detailed picture of the human visual connectome.
18 May 2024
Check out Josefine’s and @MaggieMaeWokeUp's amazing dataset merging state-of-the art techniques in functional, diffusion, and structural imaging! Today 8:30 am – 12:30 pm in Banyan Breezeway @VSSMtg @martin_hebart @Tknapen
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