@edsilson

Lecturer of Visual Perception, University of Edinburgh. Views are my own.

 Edinburgh, Scotland
silsonlab.com
Joined August 2011
  • Tweets103
  • Following196
  • Followers387
8Media
This project was over 3 years in the making, and builds on prior work from ourselves, and many others, to show that retinotopic coding scaffolds the interaction between perception and memory recall - such a fun collaboration!!
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
4
12
2,001
Come and join us in Edinburgh! We’re looking for four permanent positions across a range of disciplines and career stages. Feel free to get in touch for more info.
Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social@hil_richardson11 Dec 2023
We’re hiring! Open area search for 4 (!) permanent positions, w/ particular interest in some areas (eg social psych). Feel free to reach out w Qs. Job ad: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/… @SchoolofPPLS @PsychJobs
3
1
4
2,007
This was such a fun project with an awesome team @neuro_steel, @RobertsonNeuro and Brenda! Make sure you check Adam’s talk out at VSS!
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
1
8
724
This is an amazing opportunity with a wonderful research team - Apply now!!!
Dr Sam Strong ⚡@samanthastrong18 Nov 2022
✨️ Please RT ✨️ If you're interested in doing a #PhD with me, Prof Meese and @TonyMorland2 then check out the link below 🤩 warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/…
1
4
What a fantastic resource this is. Congratulations @martin_hebart !
Martin Hebart@martin_hebart22 Aug 2022
Very happy to announce THINGS-data, three massive datasets of fMRI, MEG and similarity ratings of thousands of object images. THINGS-data offers a uniquely broad, systematic and multimodal sampling of object space. For early access please reach out! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
1
9
Awesome work by @neuro_steel again! Thanks for including me.
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
7
Couldn’t think of anyone more deserving than Susan. Wonderful scientist, colleague and friend. Congratulations @susanwardle !
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
6
A great opportunity to work with one of the best in the business!
Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social@hil_richardson31 Mar 2022
Just a reminder that applications to this funded PhD studentship working with me here in Edinburgh are due in two weeks! (April 14th).
1
What a fantastic opportunity. Can wholeheartedly recommend this position!
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
2
This is a fantastic place to work with a growing cog neuro community. Come join us!
Hilary Richardson @hilaryrichardson.bsky.social@hil_richardson23 Feb 2022
Bumping this up again: come join our fabulous department! Apps due 28 Feb.
2
Amazing work here! The precise mapping of selectivity converges nicely with the more coarse scale retinotopic bias we identified in the human hippocampus.
Caroline Robertson@RobertsonNeuro9 Feb 2022
Replying to @Neuro_Physics @Nature
Very cool! Ties in nicely with recent work in the fMRI literature showing retinotopic encoding of visual stimuli in human hippocampus by @edsilson @Chris_I_Baker @Tknapen and @corticalpete jneurosci.org/content/41/11/…

Representation of Contralateral Visual Space in the Human Hippocampus

The initial encoding of visual information primarily from the contralateral visual field is a fundamental organizing principle of the primate visual system. Recently, the presence of such retinotopic...

jneurosci.org
1
10
Interested in barriers to hearing technology uptake? Applications are open for a funded PhD @EdinburghNapier. Find out more and apply at findaphd.com/phds/project/ha…
2
1
6
A fitting award for an exceptional scientist and mentor. Well done Chris!
Cibu@C2theB2theU10 Dec 2021
And the 2021 NIH Directors award from NIMH goes to ⁦@Chris_I_Baker⁩. “For exceptional impact on the field of cognitive neuroscience, by conducting innovative experiments, developing shared resources, and providing novel….“ Congratulations Chris! directorsawards.hr.nih.gov/2…
13
So pleased this lockdown project is now out in @TrendsCognSci! With @iris_groen, @TesDekker & @Tknapen we review evidence for visuospatial coding throughout the brain. We argue that visuospatial coding comes in two main forms: retinotopic maps and visual field biases 1/5
1
36
7
126
more replies
We propose that shared access to visuospatial coding facilitates interactions between functionally diverse brain regions through sensorimotor coding schemes tuned to environmental statistics. 4/5
2
2
8
We propose that visuospatial coding (our window onto the world) is not thrown away by the brain but rather is retained to facilitate the exchange of visual information with other functional systems to the benefit of cognition. 5/5 Hope you enjoy it! authors.elsevier.com/a/1e5F-…
1
2
10
Just out in PLOS ONE: an open source tool for mapping the blind spot, based on @psychopy. Created by the incredible Xiao Ling (MSc), co-supervised with the redoubtable @edsilson Xiao is now a PhD researcher in Biomedical Engineering at U Minnesota journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… 1/7

Did you see it? A Python tool for psychophysical assessment of the human blind spot

The blind spot is a region in the temporal monocular visual field in humans, which corresponds to a physiological scotoma within the nasal hemi-retina. This region has no photoreceptors, so is...

journals.plos.org
1
22
3
58
Glad to see this out with @iris_groen & @Chris_I_Baker. We directly compared the strength of 1) contralateral biases and 2) categorical preferences within scene- and face-selective regions on the lateral (i.e. OFA/OPA) and ventral (i.e. FFA/PPA) surface. 1/4
1
10
1
51
more replies
Importantly, this pattern wasn't only in our ROIs but was present throughout visual cortex. In general, contralateral biases dominated posteriorly with categorical biases winning out anteriorly. But again with different transitions across the lateral and ventral surfaces. 3/4
1
2
Together, these findings support distinct functional roles for the lateral and ventral visual cortex in terms of the relative importance of the spatial location of stimuli during visual information processing. doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-0….
5
Load more