Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester

09/15/2026

Rapid fine-scale sensorimotor plasticity in human foveal vision was published in Current Biology.

09/01/2026

OUT NOW from Dora Biro: Many-eyes and sentinels in selfish and cooperative groups, publshed in PNAS.
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.253601712

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08/25/2026

New paper from Oviya Mohan & Dora Biro in PLOS One: Experimental emergence of conventions in human dyads. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341532

Conventions can be defined as arbitrary and self-sustaining practices that emerge in a population and facilitate solving coordination problems. A recent study traced the formation of simple conventions in captive baboons in a touch-screen-based color-matching ‘game’. We replicated this task with...

08/18/2026

New article from Alessandro Benedetto & Martina Poletti: Speed of visual processing across the visual field, published in Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

08/11/2026

New pub from Michele Rucci in J. Vision: Perceptual consequences of retinal stabilization with high-frequency non-stroboscopic displays.

08/04/2026

NEW article from Manuel Gomez-Ramirez in Scientific Reports: A bioluminescent activity dependent platform, BLADe, for converting intracellular activity to photoreceptor activation.

Genetically encoded sensors and actuators have advanced the ability to observe and manipulate cellular activity, yet few non-invasive strategies enable cells to directly couple their intracellular states to user-defined outputs. We promote a bioluminescent activity-dependent (BLADe) platform that fa...

07/30/2026

🎉 Congrats to Elise Piazza, who has received the Early Career Award from the Society for Music Perception & Cognition (SMPC): https://www.musicperception.org/awards

The Early Career Award has been established by the SMPC to recognize a scholar within 10 years of receiving their terminal degree who has made outstanding research contributions to the study of music cognition and perception and shows continued promise to be a leader in the field. In addition, this award will factor in excellence at mentorship and action to promote equity, diversity, and inclusion as part of this individuals’ research program.

07/28/2026

OUT NOW from co-author Dora Biro: The wisdom of crowds emerges in flocks of thousands of migrating songbirds, published in Science Advances
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aef3512

Larger flocks of migrating songbirds orient more accurately toward their population’s migratory direction than smaller flocks.

07/21/2026

NEW paper in eLife: Frequency-dependent modulation of foveal contrast sensitivity by fine-scale exogenously triggered attention. Co-authored by Yue Guzhang, Florian Jaeger, & Martina Poletti.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.108788.3

Fine-scale exogenous attention within the foveola selectively enhances contrast gain at low-to-mid spatial frequencies while increasing response gain across a broad spatial frequency range.

07/14/2026

OUT NOW from Chigusa Kurumada in Frontiers in Psychology: Receptive prosody adaptation to contextual feedback in autistic young adults.

IntroductionUnderstanding spoken meaning requires adaptation to prosodic variability across speakers. Prior work shows autistic adolescents display reduced p...