Clare Press @clarepress.bsky.social
@ClarePress
Prof; PI of Action & Perception Lab @EP_UCL & @WCHN_UCL. Cognitive neuroscience, action, perception, learning. Cellist, lazy runner, mum.
📢 Thrilled to announce that I - and the lab - will shortly be joining @EP_UCL (@UCLPALS; we remain also part of @WCHN_UCL). It's been an exciting 12.5 yrs at @BirkbeckUoL and I'm looking forward to the next era!
📢ERC-funded PhD at UCL📢 How does learning about the world's statistical structure optimise perception for future learning? If you're interested in this perception-learning cycle, & enjoy developing both theories & methods, apply! Pls repost/ask me qus🙏 tinyurl.com/bde3ektx
Many congratulations to the newly minted Dr @JamesHenryChard on passing your PhD viva with flying colours. Truly well deserved and a real pleasure to supervise. Thanks so much to @CarienvanReekum and @Silvia_Seghezzi for examining and joining us for the fun celebrations 🎉
How do beliefs about visibility influence perceptual decisions? What does this mean for our models of perceptual detection? Here @mazormatan provides a new model. Great work Matan and @moran_rani 👇
How do we infer perceptual absences? Do beliefs about perception play a role in such inferences? And how does it all relate to cellist Natalia Gutman’s career decisions? Find answers in our new preprint with @moran_rani and @ClarePress: osf.io/preprints/psya… A 🧵
Do you need another reason to sign up for #SAMBA2024? @ClarePress sharing her research on the interdependence of statistical learning and perception definitely ticks that box! Head over to our homepage and register now! samba.ccns.sbg.ac.at/samba-2024/reg…
This is published now as journal article: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… Congratulations @emilyrthomas27, @PeterKokNeuro, @ClarePress et al. There is also a commentary that comes along with it: doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…
Predictive processing frameworks propose distinct prediction and error representation across cortical layers. We examined theories of such functioning, by presenting unexpected events alongside expected ones and decoded the representation of such events across cortical layers.
Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Birmingham today for the start of Control Processes 2024 @TheCHBH, @unibirmingham & @EdgbastonPark. Kicking off with a drinks reception out here in the sun, before @blamlab's keynote talk. Safe journey everyone! uobevents.eventsair.com/control-proces…
Predictions and errors are distinctly represented across V1 layers biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Cool work showing that prediction errors are stronger in superficial layers of visual cortex. Predictions and errors are distinctly represented across V1 layers doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… #neuroscience Results are in line with Predictive Routing. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…
For the next @UCL_EP seminar on 14/05, Prof @HeleenASlagter invites us to reconsider how attention is typically approached: rather than as a mere sensory filter but as a relational process that optimizes agent-environment interactions based on priors. buff.ly/3wjdcta
And here it is. Gehmacher, Q., Schubert, J., Schmidt, F. et al. Eye movements track prioritized auditory features in selective attention to natural speech. Nat Commun 15, 3692 (2024). nature.com/articles/s4146… @dept_psych_sbg @PLUS_1622 @FWF_at
Exciting news! After much hard work, we've finally pushed this manuscript across the finish line. 🎉 Stay tuned for it to appear in Nature Communications! Big congrats to Quirin Gehmacher and friends. Grateful for support from @FWF_at and @FFG_AT. @dept_psych_sbg @PLUS_1622
Happy that my final PhD paper is now out in Current Biology! If you want to find out more about laminar 7T fMRI and how perceptual predictions and errors are represented across V1, check it out 😊 @joosthaarsma @danieljamesyon @PeterKokNeuro @ClarePress sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Excited to share our new preprint w @joosthaarsma Jess Nicholson @danieljamesyon @PeterKokNeuro @ClarePress examining how predictions and errors are represented across cortical layers of V1 using laminar 7T fMRI! A thread 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Deadline for this PhD position is Wednesday. Please continue to email me any questions and circulate. Thanks all!
📢 ERC-funded PhD in our team 📢. Curious about the mechanisms underlying learning and perception? Wish to study them via modelling and neuroimaging? This may be for you! Email me qus. Please circulate 🙏 @EP_UCL @WCHN_UCL @ERC_Research findaphd.com/phds/project/c…
📢 ERC-funded PhD in our team 📢. Curious about the mechanisms underlying learning and perception? Wish to study them via modelling and neuroimaging? This may be for you! Email me qus. Please circulate 🙏 @EP_UCL @WCHN_UCL @ERC_Research findaphd.com/phds/project/c…
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition" w @ken_lxl @Rob_Mok Whether place, border, head direction, Jennifer Aniston, or whatever cells, are we fooling ourselves? Are these intuitive findings scientific discoveries? 1/6 doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…
Announcing our new scholarship scheme! 👏 The UCL Research Excellence Scholarships (RES) is offering up to 40 scholarships to exceptional applicants from any country to pursue MPhil and PhDs at UCL! Applications close on Friday 12 Jan - apply now!👇 bit.ly/46Rmc4U