Dirk Bernhardt-Walther is on Bluesky
@DirkBWalther
Associate Professor of Psychology University of Toronto, scene perception by humans and machines, visual aesthetics. On Bluesky: @dirkbwalther.bsky.social
We are looking for candidates for a unique postdoc opportunity to work on the role of perceptual grouping in human and computer vision with Sven Dickinson, Kaleem Siddiqi, Zygmunt Pizlo and me. bwlab.org/postdoc-positi… Please RT.
This is my last post on this platform. Come, head on over to bluer skies! There you will find a post about a our new paper testing the Mirror Model of Art through the lens of neuroscience! bsky.app/profile/dirkbw… Seriously, what are you still doing here?
Announcing the Toronto Aesthetics Sciences Conference (TASC) on April 8th! To find out more, head over to where the skies are still blue! bsky.app/profile/dirkbw… Seriously, what are you still doing here on this site?
We have some really interesting new results on aesthetics and metabolic energy efficiency! Come on over and check them out! bsky.app/profile/dirkbw… With Yikai Tang and @WilCunningham
📢 New PhD position open in our department.
PhD candidate position: 36 months at the Psychology Dept. of the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) websepex.com/2024/11/13/phd…
SAVE THE DATE #VSS2025 is scheduled for May 16-21 at the TradeWinds Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida. Mark your calendar!
People like round contours better than angular contours. Where and how is curvature represented in the brain? With indoor architecture we found a neural dissociation between subjective curvature and computational curvature. nature.com/articles/s4159… @DelaFarzanfar @mskov01
How does neurodiversity affect aesthetic processing? I explored this questions with students from a seminar class on Neuroaesthics. Our insights just got published in Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jlNnY3M3i2MK I'm proud of the great work by the students!
I'll be recruiting a PhD student through the Cog Neuro Program @PsychIllinois this year. If you're interested in brain organization, networks, and cognition, please consider applying. 🧠🧠🧠
🚨Personal Update🚨: Next month, I’m moving back to my home town, and joining @PsychIllinois as an Assoc Prof, with my lab in @BeckmanIllinois I’m sad to leave the friends & great colleagues I've made @PsychologyFSU, but so thrilled to join the exciting 🧠community @UofIllinois!
Super proud of @son_gaeun for passing the PhD defense with flying colors! With Adrian Nestor, @morganbarense, @juliedgolomb, @mmack, and @DrJenRyan1.
Super cool work by Vignash on ensemble stats of non-visual aspects of scenes extracted from scene images. @yaelanjung previously used these stimuli to measure their neural representations in PFC. doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… Tuesday morning, not-so-breezy Banyan Breezeway, 309.
At poster 9 is Vignash Tharmaratnam (co-authors Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, & Jonathan S. Cant) with "Average Temperature from Visual Scene Ensembles Without Reliance on Color, Contrast or Low Spatial Frequencies"
At poster 9 is Vignash Tharmaratnam (co-authors Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, & Jonathan S. Cant) with "Average Temperature from Visual Scene Ensembles Without Reliance on Color, Contrast or Low Spatial Frequencies"
Perceptual Organization in Computer and Biological Vision - Research Topics in @FrontiersIn with 14 articles spanning Computer Science, Psychology, and Neuroscience: t.ly/q6jn3 What started with a symposium @VSSMtg in 2022, is now complete just in time for #VSS2024!
❣️BIG NEWS❣️ I started a new academic job🥳 at the Center for Brain Research (@BrainCntr) at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (🇵🇱), and now I am looking for a PhD student to co-supervise. See details below; informal queries are welcome!
We are looking for a PhD student to work under the supervision of Prof. Michal Bola and Dr. Marek Pedziwiatr. The PhD student will investigate the role of attention, awareness, and semantics in the visual processing of scenes using psychophysics, EEG-decoding, and TMS.