I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at
laion-fmri.hebartlab.com
What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life.
What do the inputs to this learning process actually look like?
New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2605.14990
Children acquire object category representations from their everyday experiences in the first few years of life. What do the inputs to this learning process look like? We analyzed first-person videos ...
Today at #VSS2026 we are introducing re:vision, a community driven replication/generalization initiative based on our newly released LAION-fMRI dataset. Come to the satellite at 2pm to learn more about it & why you may want to participate! The room Blue Heron is in the upstairs region of the lobby.
Heading to #vss2026? Check out the presentations from our lab @vssmtg.bsky.social
EXCITED to travel to #VSS2026 to contribute 2 talks and 2 posters from our lab! Me and @niklasmuller.bsky.social will talk scene encoding models on Fri & Sat, @sargechris.bsky.social and @annewzonneveld.bsky.social will discuss their cool work on video models on Tue (schedule👇for exact times).
Vision Science's Christmas is almost here! Our lab will present work —including collaborations with the one and only
@meganakpeters.bsky.social
— on mental imagery & vividness, LLMs, advanced decoding of reality monitoring signals in fMRI, pupillometry of fake light & visual discomfort! #vss2026
Martin Hebart
It's #VSS2026! SO excited about the projects we've brought with us this year, and of course #phiVis to close things out. Come say hi, and don't forget to grab your lab 'merch' đź‘€
perception.jhu.edu/vss/
Now out in Nature Machine Intelligence @NatMachIntell “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust and shape-based AI vision”:
doi.org/10.1038/s422.... A wonderful case where brain inspiration improved AI.
With @martisamuser.bsky.social, Radek Cichy and @timkietzmann.bsky.social .
Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details will follow in a separate thread!
