Former Academic. Neuroscience/Psychology. Starting a new company to make audio software and to produce and mix records.
hartleydsp.com
Interests: Programming, Recording and mixing music; The Beatles; currently learning to play drums.
tomhartley.me.uk
Tom Hartley
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Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵
By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...
Place cells respond to terrain geometry. Explicable as a generalisation of the BVC model.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
This is the kind of discovery which, I admit, makes me slightly miss my old job.
Philip Sulewski
Place cells map terrain geometry, not behavior, revealing a surface-based brain code for real-world navigation.
New release from The Pennydrops: "Boundary".
I produced it.
open.spotify.com/track/3aJyn4...
Ever wonder how your brain navigates the real world? 🧠
Most spatial navigation studies use flat, 2D mazes.
But the real world is hilly, irregular, and bumpy! ⛰️
Our new paper in #ScienceAdvances asked a simple question: How does the brain map uneven terrain?
📄 doi.org/10.1126/scia...
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New release from The Pennydrops: "Boundary".
I produced it.
open.spotify.com/track/3aJyn4...
Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard.
The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
#CephalopodenSamstag
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The Pennydrops, Izzy Hartley, J.J. Chamberlain · Boundary · Song · 2026
🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
The Pennydrops, Izzy Hartley, J.J. Chamberlain · Boundary · Song · 2026
Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...
arxiv.org
Roddy Grieves
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I’ve never heard of this new NASDAQ rule before. But yeah, this sounds like it’s gonna get ugly fast.
(Analysis by Eva Roytburg; @evaroyt on Insta)
Fun thread.
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Michelle Greene
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Dr. Jens Foell
Andrew Reid
Finally reading @anilseth.bsky.social’s book ‘Being You’ so I can be mad about his theory of perception (it’s a living 🤷♂️). Just saw this sentence about dreams, though, and I feel like it’s wrong; I experience dreams when I wake up, not when they’re happening 🤔 Thoughts?
