Reuben Rideaux
@reubenrideaux.bsky.social
Studies brains, eats plants, and catches waves.
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If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
October 2, 2026 at 10:38 PM
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
1/9 📄 New in the Journal of Neuroscience:
"Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity"
Does the brain prioritise the events it expects, or the ones that surprise it? We find it does both — at different stages. 🧵
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
"Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity"
Does the brain prioritise the events it expects, or the ones that surprise it? We find it does both — at different stages. 🧵
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity
The brain’s remarkable ability to process continuous sensory inputs with adaptive efficiency – balancing flexibility while minimizing metabolic cost – is thought to rely on predictive mechanisms that ...
doi.org
June 23, 2026 at 7:29 AM
1/9 📄 New in the Journal of Neuroscience:
"Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity"
Does the brain prioritise the events it expects, or the ones that surprise it? We find it does both — at different stages. 🧵
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
"Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity"
Does the brain prioritise the events it expects, or the ones that surprise it? We find it does both — at different stages. 🧵
doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
June 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
🚨Job alert 🚨
Continuing Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney. Beaches, mountains, psychophysics... what more could you want? (mountains are optional)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Continuing Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney. Beaches, mountains, psychophysics... what more could you want? (mountains are optional)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology
1 full-time continuing position available, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to contribute to research and teaching in a world leading Psychology department Base...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
April 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
🚨Job alert 🚨
Continuing Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney. Beaches, mountains, psychophysics... what more could you want? (mountains are optional)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
Continuing Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney. Beaches, mountains, psychophysics... what more could you want? (mountains are optional)
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
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My first foray into explicitly trying to bridge Marr’s levels, with @bealebrains.bsky.social. Inspired by Hahn and Wei’s models (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38360947/), we wondered how the brain could instantiate sensory inference with efficient /decoding/ properties.
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On the inseparability of the prior and neural resources in behavioural bias https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.07.714659v1
April 11, 2026 at 1:16 AM
My first foray into explicitly trying to bridge Marr’s levels, with @bealebrains.bsky.social. Inspired by Hahn and Wei’s models (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38360947/), we wondered how the brain could instantiate sensory inference with efficient /decoding/ properties.
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10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments.
More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Please share!
More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Please share!
February 26, 2026 at 9:29 AM
10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments.
More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Please share!
More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Please share!
BYO 🥝
So @reubenrideaux.bsky.social and I decided to run an image-processing workshop at this year's EPC/APCV. We will be teaching people how to compute the contrast energy of kiwi fruit, I guess. Sign up now: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026/
@expsyanz.bsky.social
@expsyanz.bsky.social
February 25, 2026 at 2:18 AM
BYO 🥝
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Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
February 23, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026!
Deadline: 8 March 2026
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
Deadline: 8 March 2026
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
February 20, 2026 at 8:12 AM
The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026!
Deadline: 8 March 2026
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
Deadline: 8 March 2026
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
Great opportunity to work with an awesome supervisor on some really rigorous science and have a lot of fun in the process 👇
Anyone want to do a PhD with me at the Sunny Coast? I'm recruiting, and I wanna do some fun psychophysics (but the possibilities for the PhD are very broad). Domestic students only, sadly.
In case y'all happen to know someone:
@nataliepeluso.com
@reubenrideaux.bsky.social
@visnerd.bsky.social
In case y'all happen to know someone:
@nataliepeluso.com
@reubenrideaux.bsky.social
@visnerd.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Great opportunity to work with an awesome supervisor on some really rigorous science and have a lot of fun in the process 👇
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Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence
Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...
www.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
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The Role of Temporal Factors in Processing Rapid Serial Visual Presentations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694535v1
December 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The Role of Temporal Factors in Processing Rapid Serial Visual Presentations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.694535v1
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Just published some work at Scientific Reports! We investigated visual adaptation following free viewing of a film (Casablanca) that had its oriented contrast altered. To our surprise, we found adaptation effects to be pretty negligible…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/10
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/10
Investigating orientation adaptation following naturalistic film viewing - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Investigating orientation adaptation following naturalistic film viewing
www.nature.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Just published some work at Scientific Reports! We investigated visual adaptation following free viewing of a film (Casablanca) that had its oriented contrast altered. To our surprise, we found adaptation effects to be pretty negligible…
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/10
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1/10
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A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.
www.thetransmitter.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
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A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ziyue Hu, Dominic M.D. Tran, and Reuben Rideaux:
Multimodal evidence challenges the effectiveness of probabilistic cueing for establishing sensory expectations
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Multimodal evidence challenges the effectiveness of probabilistic cueing for establishing sensory expectations
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
September 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ziyue Hu, Dominic M.D. Tran, and Reuben Rideaux:
Multimodal evidence challenges the effectiveness of probabilistic cueing for establishing sensory expectations
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Multimodal evidence challenges the effectiveness of probabilistic cueing for establishing sensory expectations
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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We just released a paper on using AI to autonomously conduct scientific research, from idea conception and (human) data collection to manuscript generation. We offer 3 example studies in cog psych. I think it indicates the current capacity of AI in autonomous research.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.13421
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.13421
Virtuous Machines: Towards Artificial General Science
Artificial intelligence systems are transforming scientific discovery by accelerating specific research tasks, from protein structure prediction to materials design, yet remain confined to narrow doma...
www.arxiv.org
August 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
We just released a paper on using AI to autonomously conduct scientific research, from idea conception and (human) data collection to manuscript generation. We offer 3 example studies in cog psych. I think it indicates the current capacity of AI in autonomous research.
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.13421
www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.13421
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1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇
June 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇
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New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
May 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule!
tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
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I’m hoping that @vssmtg.bsky.social can clarify or reverse course on this quickly, because it looks a lot like capitulating to fascism from here.
Hey @vssmtg.bsky.social, do you no longer support diversity and inclusion? Looks like your policies were quietly removed from your website? #VSS2025 #VSS
March 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I’m hoping that @vssmtg.bsky.social can clarify or reverse course on this quickly, because it looks a lot like capitulating to fascism from here.
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People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
March 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions"
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 29, 2025 at 2:57 AM
New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions"
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵
Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...