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Susan Ajith

@suzibot.bsky.social

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PhD with @dkaiserlab.bsky.social, @martinhebart.bsky.social | prev @iitgn she/her

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Really interesting work by Bakhurin and colleagues challenging the reward prediction error hypothesis of dopamine:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I love this figure which both echoes and undermines the famous figure from Schultz et al. (1997).

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Susan Ajith @suzibot.bsky.social · 7d

How can we characterize the contents of our internal models of the world? We highlight participant-driven approaches, from drawings to descriptions, to study how we expect scenes to look! 🤩

Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 7d

From line drawings to scene perception — our new review argues for moving beyond experimenter-driven manipulations toward participant-driven approaches to reveal what’s in our internal models of the visual world. 👁️✍️🛋
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Characterizing internal models of the visual environment | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Despite the complexity of real-world environments, natural vision is seamlessly efficient. To explain this efficiency, researchers often use predictive processing frameworks, in which perceptual effic...

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Susan Ajith @suzibot.bsky.social · Jun 26

Go Lu! 💃💜

Lu-Chun Yeh @luchunyeh.bsky.social · Jun 26

Honored and thrilled to receive the GGN Early Career Award @jlugiessen.bsky.social 🏆 Huge thanks to my awesome supervisors Daniel @dkaiserlab.bsky.social & Marius @peelen.bsky.social , all my collaborators, and the amazing colleagues from both labs — couldn’t have done it without you! 💗

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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Jun 18

How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · May 22

#VSS2025 was a blast - great science, fun people, beach vibes. We‘ll be back! @vssmtg.bsky.social

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Susan Ajith @suzibot.bsky.social · Mar 3

It's very little we understand! There's the data gap but also very little done about the known and existing gaps

Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · Mar 2

Just finished Invisible Women by @ccriadoperez.bsky.social, a powerful investigation into the gender & sex data gaps that impact every level of society.

You think you're aware of the problem (at least I thought), but it's so much worse than you ever imagined.

More significant than ever.

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