Paul Linton
@lintonvision.bsky.social
Visual Experience /
PI + NOMIS Fellow @ItalianAcademy /
Presidential Scholar @columbiacss /
Affiliate @KriegeskorteLab + @ZuckermanBrain
AVA David Marr Medal 2025
Website: https://linton.vision
PI + NOMIS Fellow @ItalianAcademy /
Presidential Scholar @columbiacss /
Affiliate @KriegeskorteLab + @ZuckermanBrain
AVA David Marr Medal 2025
Website: https://linton.vision
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Paul Linton
@lintonvision.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Paul Linton, ECVP 2025: "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience"
YouTube video by Kriegeskorte Lab
www.youtube.com
Great to present my work "Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience" at the European Conference on Visual Perception (#ECVP2025)
Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇
@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
Project Website + Preprint in link below 👇
@ecvp.bsky.social @italianacademy.bsky.social @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
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Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social
Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Congratulations Christopher Tyler!! One of the all time great stereo vision scientist, and regularly dazzles us all with new illusions at @vssmtg.bsky.social
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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
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
December 17, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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
arxiv.org/abs/2512.12307
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This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host:
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This Thursday, 12pm (ET) The MIT Consciousness Club is thrilled to host:
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
Marisa Carrasco (Department of Psychology, New York University) - "Perception action dissociations as a window into consciousness"
Join us over Zoom, if you will. #neuroscience
sites.google.com/view/mit-con...
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This is HUGE! (Read it!!). I'll be cheering Doris and Astera Neuro on the entire way. Doris is a genius, both in the scope of her vision and in making things happen (that combination is rare). SO EXCITING! I can't wait to see what Astera Neuro discovers.
astera.org/neuroscienti...
astera.org/neuroscienti...
Neuroscientist Doris Tsao joins Astera to lead its new neuroscience program - Astera
The Astera Institute is excited to launch a major new neuroscience research effort led by Dr. Doris Tsao, who will be joining as Chief Scientist for Astera Neuro. We seek to understand one of the deep...
astera.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is HUGE! (Read it!!). I'll be cheering Doris and Astera Neuro on the entire way. Doris is a genius, both in the scope of her vision and in making things happen (that combination is rare). SO EXCITING! I can't wait to see what Astera Neuro discovers.
astera.org/neuroscienti...
astera.org/neuroscienti...
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are better-performing face recognition models more human-like? turns out: NO
in terms of how we see/treat different faces as similar/different to each other, there seems to be tradeoff: better models are LESS human-like
so they already work in some 'alien' ways...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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in terms of how we see/treat different faces as similar/different to each other, there seems to be tradeoff: better models are LESS human-like
so they already work in some 'alien' ways...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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OSF
osf.io
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
are better-performing face recognition models more human-like? turns out: NO
in terms of how we see/treat different faces as similar/different to each other, there seems to be tradeoff: better models are LESS human-like
so they already work in some 'alien' ways...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧠📈🧠🤖🧠💻
in terms of how we see/treat different faces as similar/different to each other, there seems to be tradeoff: better models are LESS human-like
so they already work in some 'alien' ways...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
🧠📈🧠🤖🧠💻
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When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
Representational Momentum Transcends Motion
Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science
subjectivitylab.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵
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In this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives.
The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application.
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The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application.
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Generative AI will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between neural function and behavior, writes @shahabbakht.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...
Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience
Generative artificial intelligence will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between…
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
In this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives.
The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application.
🧠🤖
The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application.
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Excited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
Sharpened visual memory representations are reflected in inferotemporal cortex
Humans and other primates can robustly report whether they've seen specific images before, even when those images are extremely similar to ones they've previously seen. Multiple lines of evidence sugg...
www.jneurosci.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Excited to share a new article, led by Barnes Jannuzi. Here we tried to pinpoint something about visual familiarity that isn't reflected in visual cortex via something putatively hippocampal. Nope! Per the theme of this era, the brain is not so simple. /1
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...
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🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946
Apply - Interfolio
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December 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨Super excited that Dartmouth's Society of Fellows is hiring a postdoc with the Program in Cognitive Science 🚨 Specialization in computational and empirical approaches to artificial and natural intelligence, including perception, representation, and complex planning: apply.interfolio.com/176946
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Recording of a talk on "Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-human Animals" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Pz...) at the University of Michigan. Based on the recent BBS paper on sensory horizons and consciousness w/ @smfleming.bsky.social.
Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-Human Animal
YouTube video by Michigan Medicine
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Recording of a talk on "Sensory Horizons and Visual Consciousness in Non-human Animals" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Pz...) at the University of Michigan. Based on the recent BBS paper on sensory horizons and consciousness w/ @smfleming.bsky.social.
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The call for commentaries on our "Core Perception" paper is now live! We would love to know what you think about this new perspective on the nature of early emerging knowledge.
Details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Proposals due Dec 29!
Details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Proposals due Dec 29!
December 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The call for commentaries on our "Core Perception" paper is now live! We would love to know what you think about this new perspective on the nature of early emerging knowledge.
Details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Proposals due Dec 29!
Details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Proposals due Dec 29!
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I will be at @neuripsconf.bsky.social Dec 2-8 to present our "Brain-like Variational Inference" paper 👇
Let's connect if you enjoy first-principles thinking and brain-inspired AI 🧠 🤖
Poster info:
📅 Wed, Dec 3, 11 AM — 2 PM
📍Exhibit Hall C,D,E #500
🔗 neurips.cc/virtual/2025...
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Let's connect if you enjoy first-principles thinking and brain-inspired AI 🧠 🤖
Poster info:
📅 Wed, Dec 3, 11 AM — 2 PM
📍Exhibit Hall C,D,E #500
🔗 neurips.cc/virtual/2025...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I will be at @neuripsconf.bsky.social Dec 2-8 to present our "Brain-like Variational Inference" paper 👇
Let's connect if you enjoy first-principles thinking and brain-inspired AI 🧠 🤖
Poster info:
📅 Wed, Dec 3, 11 AM — 2 PM
📍Exhibit Hall C,D,E #500
🔗 neurips.cc/virtual/2025...
🧵[1/4]
🧠🤖🧠📈
Let's connect if you enjoy first-principles thinking and brain-inspired AI 🧠 🤖
Poster info:
📅 Wed, Dec 3, 11 AM — 2 PM
📍Exhibit Hall C,D,E #500
🔗 neurips.cc/virtual/2025...
🧵[1/4]
🧠🤖🧠📈
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who wants to come to Korea to do some blindsight NHP fMRI?
November 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
who wants to come to Korea to do some blindsight NHP fMRI?
All new ideas necessarily emerge ill-formed and less polished than pre-established ideas. That’s no surprise. Pre-established ideas often had a 20-30yr head start!
Another of Charlie Gross’s passions was history of neuroscience. He wrote excellent books. This gave him a wide-angle view. He taught us that dogma exists to be challenged, we haven’t figured things out, and being a stepping stone is inevitable and perfectly fine.
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience
In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain—from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the
direct.mit.edu
November 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
All new ideas necessarily emerge ill-formed and less polished than pre-established ideas. That’s no surprise. Pre-established ideas often had a 20-30yr head start!
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This! I endorse It all - from the historical perspective to the wide angle view illuminating the big gaps in the field. If you’re feeling up to it, take a few steps back for a good dose of humility but also inspiration.
Another of Charlie Gross’s passions was history of neuroscience. He wrote excellent books. This gave him a wide-angle view. He taught us that dogma exists to be challenged, we haven’t figured things out, and being a stepping stone is inevitable and perfectly fine.
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...
Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience
In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain—from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the
direct.mit.edu
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This! I endorse It all - from the historical perspective to the wide angle view illuminating the big gaps in the field. If you’re feeling up to it, take a few steps back for a good dose of humility but also inspiration.
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Wow! I have to say that this is where the @elife.bsky.social model really shines. Super interesting paper that makes a very strong claim. Reviewers feel interpretation goes beyond what the results show. Paper published with both sides. We all benefit much more than just a publish or reject. Bravo!
I am really proud that eLife have published this paper. It is a very nice paper, but you need to also read the reviews to understand why! 1/n
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Wow! I have to say that this is where the @elife.bsky.social model really shines. Super interesting paper that makes a very strong claim. Reviewers feel interpretation goes beyond what the results show. Paper published with both sides. We all benefit much more than just a publish or reject. Bravo!
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Learn more about the origins of Neurotree and how you can use it to explore trends in neuroscience.
By mapping connections among researchers, Neurotree makes it possible to trace how the field has evolved and to visualize how shifts in lab size, training and other factors can shape its direction, writes founder @stephenvdavid.bsky.social.
bit.ly/4od0SiL
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
bit.ly/4od0SiL
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Tracing neuroscience’s family tree to track its growth
By mapping connections among researchers, Neurotree makes it possible to see how the field has evolved and what factors shape its direction.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Learn more about the origins of Neurotree and how you can use it to explore trends in neuroscience.
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New paper: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception. With Dan Freeman, @brianodegaard.bsky.social, and Seung-Schik Yoo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception
Identifying what aspects of brain activity are responsible for conscious perception remains one of the most challenging problems in science. While pro…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
New paper: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound for Identifying the Neural Substrate of Conscious Perception. With Dan Freeman, @brianodegaard.bsky.social, and Seung-Schik Yoo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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hello - we're looking for a postdoc / staff scientist to do NHP fMRI work at the center (cnir.ibs.re.kr). pls email cv to [email protected] to learn more
ibs.re.kr
cnir.ibs.re.kr
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
hello - we're looking for a postdoc / staff scientist to do NHP fMRI work at the center (cnir.ibs.re.kr). pls email cv to [email protected] to learn more
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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This study aimed to investigate how working memory interacts with perception at the behavioral level. We examined whether working memory modulates subjective perception when the general capacity for perceptual processing is kept constant.
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Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Happy to be on this new paper: "Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems" - www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... The paper expands on some of the methodological points made in the Butlin et al. 2023 report on AI Consciousness.
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I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience.
Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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AI and Neuroscience | IVADO
ivado.ca
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I’m looking for interns to join our lab for a project on foundation models in neuroscience.
Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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Funded by @ivado.bsky.social and in collaboration with the IVADO regroupement 1 (AI and Neuroscience: ivado.ca/en/regroupem...).
Interested? See the details in the comments. (1/3)
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
1/n
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
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November 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language.
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
1/n
tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬
1/n