Siying Xie
@seeingxie
Seeing is believing ~ PhD student at Radek Cichy’s lab ~ Interested in visual recurrent processing, mental imagery, and cognitive development
Preprint alert 🚨I am excited about our new paper titled “The representational nature of spatio-temporal recurrent processing in visual object recognition.” 🥳🌟 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
I had the chance to write an Opinion Article with Radek Cichy & Daniel Kaiser. We argue that recent efforts in applying decoding methods to rhythms in visual cortex reveal a new function as carriers of content information. The preprint is now out: osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/n
Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @lu_zejin @martisamuser and Radoslaw Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168
Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav: “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: nature.com/articles/s4156…
Paolo Papale's THINGS ventral stream spiking dataset (TVSD) came out. It is open and contains neuronal responses in V1, V4 and IT to ~25,000 THINGS images. We expect that the dataset will be useful to compare the visual brain to deep neural networks. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
(1/6) Thrilled to share our triple-N dataset (Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes)! It captures thousands of high-level visual neuron responses in macaques to natural scenes using #Neuropixels. Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Glad to share our EEG study now is out in JNP. 🎉 We showed that alpha rhythms automatically interpolate occluded motion based on the surrounding contextual cues! 🚶♂️🏞️ @DKaiserlab @maxbardelang 👇journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.11…
🚀 New paper out in Psychological Review! How does learning change across the lifespan? We propose that resource rationality—adapting belief updating to cognitive limitations—can explain age-related differences in learning. 📖 doi.org/10.1037/rev000… 👇 A short thread:
Now out in @TrendsNeuro: We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. @RicoStecher sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. Bonus: The project involves a collaboration with the brilliant @ljuba_pi. Please forward or get in touch! 🧠🎓
🚨 Job alert! We're hiring a PhD student to work on the neural basis of face perception in super-recognisers. Come work with me, @davidwhitephd, @TGrootswagers and @ManuelVarlet at @MARCSInstitute. Applications close 31 Jan 2025. | tinyurl.com/45c4m3kk
An integrative view of the role of prefrontal cortex in consciousness cell.com/neuron/abstrac… #neuroscience
🚨 What happens to a #braille letter after it enters the somatosensory periphery through a #blind reader's fingerpad? In our new preprint 👇🏼 we showed braille and print alphabetic letters to blind and sighted readers, respectively, while recording #MEG. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
In 2023, @RowanSommers & I hosted a reading group on “the intersection of Neuroscience and Machine learning” for the UG/PG students @UniOsnabrueck. We selected papers trying to maximize our coverage of the field of NeuroAI. Perhaps this list is useful to the broader community 🧵
Excited to share our latest work! We found that preparatory neural activity (the “attentional template”) flexibly represents target-associated objects, guiding eye movements toward likely target locations. @MaelleLerebourg @DondersInst @ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
New priprint! When I started my PhD (ages ago), I ran what I thought was a pilot for several iconic memory experiments down the line. This was interesting because iconic memory is (allegedly) linked to rich perceptual experience, and so I had many questions. 1/🧵
New preprint out 🎉 with @maxbardelang and @DKaiserlab : In this EEG study, we found alpha dynamics interpolated the occluded motion information in a context-dependent manner. 🏞️🚶🧠
Cortical alpha rhythms interpolate occluded motion from natural scene context biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci
New preprint led by @LuChunYeh, with @MariusPeelen & @SuryaGayet: Using EEG, we delineate how neural representations of real-world object size emerge from interactions of the object's retinal size and pictorial distance cues from the scene context. 🐻🧸🛤️biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Examining the robustness and generalizability of the shape bias: a meta-analysis - new paper by Samah Abdelrahim and me. Lots of heterogeneity in this important phenomenon, perhaps masking true developmental and cross-linguistic trends... osf.io/preprints/psya…
Apply now for a 3-year postdoc position in the lab! Please retweet and share with potential candidates. If you're interested in #vision, #EEG, #fMRI, and working with a fun team at the @jlugiessen, feel free to get in touch before applying. Link: uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/k…
We will soon advertise a 3-year postdoc position in the lab. We're looking for a person that's interested in understanding natural vision, has experience with EEG/fMRI and experience with state-of-the-art analysis methods. Please share and get in touch if you're interested! 🧠💜
The September issue @CurrentBiology What do infants think when they see social interactions? 👶🏻 The representation of interacting people as agent and patient reveals a language-of-thought before language development cell.com/current-biolog… @JR_Hochmann @ISC_MJ @BabyLyon11 🧵👇