Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
1000 Hurts
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
www.argmin.net
January 15, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
fan art of a mousey scientist who also studies the psychophysics of tickling—the good doctor was more than happy to provide mentorship!
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
fan art of a mousey scientist who also studies the psychophysics of tickling—the good doctor was more than happy to provide mentorship!
⌨️ psychophysics
February 26, 2026 at 12:20 PM
⌨️ psychophysics
Happy to share our latest study on domain specificity in interoceptive psychophysics!
Excited to share that our work on organ-specific interoception is now published in Communications Psychology!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
@micahgallen.com @the-ecg.org
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@micahgallen.com @the-ecg.org
Interoceptive ability is uncorrelated across respiratory and cardiac axes in a large scale psychophysical study - Communications Psychology
Bayesian psychophysical modelling of cardiac and respiratory interoception (N=241) showed no cross-domain associations in sensitivity, precision, or metacognition, indicating that interoceptive perfor...
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March 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Happy to share our latest study on domain specificity in interoceptive psychophysics!
now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece,
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
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"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience
Abstract. Studying subjective experience is hard. We believe that pain is not identical to nociception, nor pleasure a computational reward signal, nor fea
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November 22, 2024 at 9:49 PM
now out in Cerebral Cortex! my newest opinion piece,
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
"Introspective psychophysics for the study of subjective experience"
#neuroskyence #neuroAI #consciousness #introspection #psychology
academic.oup.com/cercor/advan...
Pay attention to Arthur: he’s breathing fresh life into psychophysics.
We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception;
arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...
arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...
arthurprat.com
September 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Pay attention to Arthur: he’s breathing fresh life into psychophysics.
Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Out today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Check out our shiny app for Bayesian power analysis of interoceptive psychophysics!
September 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Check out our shiny app for Bayesian power analysis of interoceptive psychophysics!
I love this so much. After pushback on his recent "Medicine is the only field that reaches 6 sigma" with "my field, psychophysics is so awesome" he posted this. Hurray all Psychophysicists. LETS CELEBRATE PSYCHOPHYSICS. An island of large effects is us!
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
1000 Hurts
Psychophysics is a human-facing science with interventions arguably more robust than medicine.
www.argmin.net
January 15, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I love this so much. After pushback on his recent "Medicine is the only field that reaches 6 sigma" with "my field, psychophysics is so awesome" he posted this. Hurray all Psychophysicists. LETS CELEBRATE PSYCHOPHYSICS. An island of large effects is us!
The Weber-Fechner Law of psychophysics: your perception of senses is logarithmic, not linear.
It all works like decibels, basically. A sensation has to be much stronger for you to feel it has doubled, than twice as strong.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E...
It all works like decibels, basically. A sensation has to be much stronger for you to feel it has doubled, than twice as strong.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E...
Weber–Fechner law - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
January 30, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Weber-Fechner Law of psychophysics: your perception of senses is logarithmic, not linear.
It all works like decibels, basically. A sensation has to be much stronger for you to feel it has doubled, than twice as strong.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E...
It all works like decibels, basically. A sensation has to be much stronger for you to feel it has doubled, than twice as strong.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E...
A classic of Soviet-era psychophysics.
February 19, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A classic of Soviet-era psychophysics.
Announcing that I've started as Open Practices Editor at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics! My role is to promote the reproducibility of accepted submissions by checking the open materials (prereg, data, code). Hopefully it leads towards more robust research. My editorial here: rdcu.be/dZY4L
Editorial for Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
rdcu.be
November 13, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Announcing that I've started as Open Practices Editor at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics! My role is to promote the reproducibility of accepted submissions by checking the open materials (prereg, data, code). Hopefully it leads towards more robust research. My editorial here: rdcu.be/dZY4L
New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paint the walls black, add a door and one-way mirrors, and you've got yourself a nice little psychophysics lab.
August 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Paint the walls black, add a door and one-way mirrors, and you've got yourself a nice little psychophysics lab.
i have spent years training for this (some fun color psychophysics) www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd
March 14, 2026 at 2:38 AM
i have spent years training for this (some fun color psychophysics) www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd
We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception;
arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...
arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...
arthurprat.com
September 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception;
arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...
arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...
Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is grounded in known psychological processes
The psychophysics of style - Nature Human Behaviour
Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is grounded in psychological processes for separating form from content.
www.nature.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is grounded in known psychological processes
Standard psychophysics vs reviewers who grew up in the replication crisis. It’s an interesting point
The frustration of a small n - Frans A. J. Verstraten, 2026
journals.sagepub.com
June 9, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Standard psychophysics vs reviewers who grew up in the replication crisis. It’s an interesting point
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
November 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41...
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵
What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social.
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New preprint:
Do expectations about how a face moves depend on its shape?
Using reverse correlation and generative face models, we show that face shape changes expectations of natural expression dynamics.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Do expectations about how a face moves depend on its shape?
Using reverse correlation and generative face models, we show that face shape changes expectations of natural expression dynamics.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 20, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Because everyone complains to us and we keep having to say "Those aren't lasers, but that doesn't mean I don't know what you're talking about and the psychophysics don't matter. Those lights aren't for *you*, but you're and innocent bystander victim of engineer's disease."
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Because everyone complains to us and we keep having to say "Those aren't lasers, but that doesn't mean I don't know what you're talking about and the psychophysics don't matter. Those lights aren't for *you*, but you're and innocent bystander victim of engineer's disease."
More exciting psychophysics suggesting that imagery instantiates sensory representations through suppression, not activation: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-....
This paper demonstrated similar effects: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37782827/
Could this explain decreased activation and increased decoding?
This paper demonstrated similar effects: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37782827/
Could this explain decreased activation and increased decoding?
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
More exciting psychophysics suggesting that imagery instantiates sensory representations through suppression, not activation: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-....
This paper demonstrated similar effects: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37782827/
Could this explain decreased activation and increased decoding?
This paper demonstrated similar effects: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37782827/
Could this explain decreased activation and increased decoding?
This effect hits people differently. Some see a very strong effect (me), others not so much.
It would be interesting to pull those psychophysics apart.
It would be interesting to pull those psychophysics apart.
June 30, 2026 at 5:15 AM
This effect hits people differently. Some see a very strong effect (me), others not so much.
It would be interesting to pull those psychophysics apart.
It would be interesting to pull those psychophysics apart.
🚨 Uh-oh!!! A suuuper hot #PhD opportunity just dropped! My friend and collaborator Massimo De Agrò is looking for someone to explore jumping spider vision and neurophysiology! #psychophysics #jumpingspiders #greatPI - apply!!!! (Deadline December 17th) 🚨
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🚨 Uh-oh!!! A suuuper hot #PhD opportunity just dropped! My friend and collaborator Massimo De Agrò is looking for someone to explore jumping spider vision and neurophysiology! #psychophysics #jumpingspiders #greatPI - apply!!!! (Deadline December 17th) 🚨