Happy New Year! Rare images of snowy Spinoza in MRI chill mode. ❄️
With Shir Hofstetter and @dagnsci.bsky.social at @nin-knaw.bsky.social and @spinozacentre.bsky.social
In sports, we celebrate 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Everyone else gets lumped together. Why?
Using 7T MRI, pRF modelling, and artificial neural networks, we show that tuning underlies ordinality perception, with most neural populations preferring early ordinalities.
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps
Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
15 fully funded PhD positions in EU-funded Doctoral Network (IndiBrain).
We lead Project 7 (@spinozacentre.bsky.social, @nin-knaw.bsky.social): biologically inspired models of individual observers combining 7T MRI + MEG, focusing on vision and recurrent processing. 4-year PhD.
Apply: indibrain.eu