VSAC 2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social VSAC 2025, Germany (21st - 23rd August)
Website: https://2025.vsac.eu/
The beautiful visualization of Michele Banks
Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social Cognitive and perceptual psychologist, industrial designer, & electrical engineer. Assistant Professor of Industrial Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I make neurally plausible bio-inspired computational process models of visual cognition.
Stephanie Simpson @stefsimpson.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at CAMH | PhD from University of Toronto | brain-behaviour relationships, optimizing interventions for depression, episodic memory, sleep
Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social Studying natural vision at JLU Giessen using psychophysics, neuroimaging, and computational models, PI: Daniel Kaiser.
danielkaiser.net
Kateryna. I @kateryna-i.bsky.social Architect with a passion for timeless design, global traveler with a flair for culture, and a wine entrepreneur exploring innovation in Dubai. Also investing in real estate, restaurant and othe. Lover of jazz, literature, and fine details that tell stories
Evangelia G. Chrysikou, PhD @drchrysikou.bsky.social Associate Professor of cognitive neuroscience, Associate Dean for Research CoAS, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences @
Drexel, neuroimaging, brain stimulation, neuroscience of creativity, (cognitive) control freak- V Vasiliki Meletaki @v-meletaki.bsky.social Postdoc @ Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics
Previously:
@ CNRS- Aix- Marseille Université & City, University of London
Topics: Neuroaesthetics, architecture, emotion, dance, bodily self, interoception 🩰🧠🫀| she/her
Rhonda Jolyean @jolyean.bsky.social Exploring the power of aesthetics for meaningful transformation.
Personal Growth | Creative Exploration | Neuroaesthetics
✨Vintage✨Thrifting✨Nostalgia
Explore more:
Website: Jolyean.com
Instagram: rhondahalewarren & jolyeancreative
TTC Alerts @ttcalerts.bsky.social Unofficial 🤖, Toronto Transit Commission Line & Route Alerts
For further information, please check https://www.ttc.ca/service-alerts
Felipe Fontana Vieira @felipefv.bsky.social PhD researcher | Department of Data Analysis, @UGent | https://felipelfv.github.io | I like psychometrics, copulas, causal inference, statistics, and metascience sometimes; pasta, ice cream, and coxinha always
Elahe' Yargholi @elaheyargholi.bsky.social Brain & Cognition, KU Leuven
Andrea Costantino @costantinoai.bsky.social 👀🧠🤖 cognitive neuroscientist @ Hoplab, KU Leuven | interested in vision and learning
Science News @scinews.bsky.social Science News from Academic Journals etc.
Clara Colombatto @ccolomb.bsky.social Cognitive scientist studying social perception & metacognition; currently postdoc @UCL, incoming Asst Prof @UWaterloo
Marcos Nadal @mnadal.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
@silicoben.bsky.social @silicoben.bsky.social 
Vision Sciences Society @vssmtg.bsky.social Join us for #VSS2026, May 15-19, 2026 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN) @jocn.bsky.social peer reviewed journal published by MIT Press. JoCN publishes papers that bridge the gap between descriptions of information processing and specifications of brain activity. neuropsychology, experimental psychology, neurology, computational modeling, AI ..
Emily S. Cross @escross.bsky.social Head of Social Brain Sciences group at ETH Zurich / cog neuroscientist, dancer, alpinist, runner / big fan of robots, aesthetics, jumpshots & snow / you can find me sciencing @ETH_en in Zürich! 🤩🧠🤖💃🏾🏔️🇨🇭
Anjan Chatterjee @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social Neurologist, Cognitive Neuroscientist. Director: Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics https://neuroaesthetics.med.upenn.edu/
Author: The Aesthetic Brain
Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social Psychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion. Sustack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/
Dominic McIver Lopes @domlopes.bsky.social Philosopher working in aesthetics at the University of British Columbia.
Kohinoor Darda @kohinoordarda.bsky.social Founder & Director - ARISA Foundation | Cognitive neuroscientist interested in how the human brain and mind perceive art & each other | 🧠💃🏿🤿🥾🏃🏾♀️🏳️🌈
Olaf Dimigen @olaf.dimigen.de Trying to understand how the brain makes sense of the world with (and despite) eye movements. Active visual cognition, Combined eye-tracking/EEG, EEG methods. Toolboxes: EYE-EEG, opticat, UNFOLD. Previously @Berlin. Tenured Asst. professor @Groningen
Liuba Papeo @ljubapi.bsky.social Neuroscientist @CNRS | @ERCgrantees | interested in how humans perceive humans and understand their actions and interactions | in literature fiction and fashion 🍸
Sam Audrain @samaudrain.bsky.social Assistant prof. at The Neuro MNI and McGill University. Memory enthusiast, human.
Manuel Anglada-Tort @manuelangladatort.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Music, Mind and Brain at Goldsmiths, University of London
Gemma Schino, Ph.D. @gemmaschino.bsky.social PostDoc at the Aesthetics & Learning Lab exploring the relationship between art and emotions. Passionate about the intersection of psychology and aesthetics, investigating how we experience, interpret, and connect with art.
Amy Kuceyeski @amykooz.bsky.social Professor | Weill Cornell Medicine Radiology & Cornell University.
Computational neuroimaging, women’s brain health, neuroAI, psychedelics, brain-behavior mapping. Mom, jogger, avid reader.
Lab site: cocolaboratory.com
Bowers WBHI: wbhi.ucsb.edu
Erick Gustavo @erickkgustavo.bsky.social Associate Professor @uib.cat. Neuroaesthetics 🦚 & Multisensory Experiences 🧠
Ciara Greene @ciaragreene.bsky.social Professor at University College Dublin School of Psychology
Director of Attention and Memory lab
ucdattentionmemory.com
📖Memory Lane: The Perfectly Imperfect Ways We Remember on sale 4 March 2025
Dr. Jonathan Kim @navigatorblack.bsky.social Kiwi; was in Norway, now in UK. Cognitive & social psychology/neuropsychology/psycholinguistics. Anti-Fascist. Pronouns: He/Him/They/Them
Vinni Ott @vlott.bsky.social 
Gidon Frischkorn @gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social SNF Ambizione Fellow @cognition-zurich.bsky.social. Working on Psychometrics, Cognitive Modeling & Individual Differences.
Co-Developer of bmm: R package for Bayesian Measurment Models: https://github.com/venpopov/bmm
Miguel Vadillo @mavadillo.bsky.social Experimental psychologist | Working on learning, memory, cognition, evidence synthesis, reproducible research and more | https://mvadillo.com/
Rolf Zwaan @rolfzwaan.eurosky.social Professor of cognitive psychology, podcaster, author, guitarist, skier. Follow my Substack newsletter Craving Coherence: https://rolfzwaan.substack.com/. Listen to my podcast Research as it Happens: https://shows.acast.com/research-as-it-happens.
Alejandro Martínez-Mingo @amartinezm.bsky.social Profesor e investigador en Lingüística Computacional, Metodología y Cognición en la UNED. 🇵🇸💜
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alejandro-Martinez-Mingo
Remy Levin @remylevin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Economics @UConn.
https://sites.google.com/view/remy-levin
Ana Pinto @dranapinto.bsky.social Pedagogy of Wholeness - Learning Design - Learning Spaces - Literacies - Online Learning - Educational Technologies - Feelings - Social Justice.
#inclusion
Qihong (Q) Lu @qlu.bsky.social Computational models of learning and memory
Assistant Professor in Neuroscience @ CityU Hong Kong
Postdoc with Daphna Shohamy & Stefano Fusi @ Columbia
PhD with Ken Norman & Uri Hasson @ Princeton
https://qlulab.github.io/website/
Sam Verschooren @samversc.bsky.social MSCA postdoctoral fellow at Artctic University of Norway and MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Attention; mind wandering; latent state transitions; interoception and autonomic control
https://samverschooren.github.io
Lianne Wolsink @liannewolsink.bsky.social PhD in Psychology & Chair of ReproducibiliTea steering committee
Suzanne Perkins, PhD @20thofmay.bsky.social Educational neuroscientist. Faculty U of M. Child maltreatment research. Developmental cognitive neuroscience. Proud Hampshire College grad and recipient of NIH DEI funding through the re-entry program. Views are my own.
Adam Barnas @adamjbarnas.com Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at Ball State University
Dan Kleinman @dankleinman.bsky.social Research scientist at Yale Child Study Center (formerly Haskins Labs). PhD. Interested in language, dyslexia, bilingualism, EEG, stats. Proponent of summary limericks. I probably drink more tea than you. Posts are ~50% science; opinions are 100% my own.
Juan Balcazar, PhD @juanbalc.bsky.social Lecturer, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences| Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Texas A&M University
Eva Van den Bussche @evdbussc.bsky.social Professor at KU Leuven | Cognitive (neuro)science | Cognitive control, cognitive aging, insight problem solving, metacognition, agency, citizen science, EEG | Past-Chair of the Psychonomic Society | Lab: https://ppw.kuleuven.be/cogtex | Aspiring runner
Stephanie Leal (Leal Memory Lab) @lealmemorylab.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UCLA in the department of Integrative Biology & Physiology. Studies all things memory, emotion, aging, and depression. 🧠
Páraic O'Súilleabháin @paraic.bsky.social Associate Professor of Psychology. #personality #loneliness #adversity #biology #health #mortality
Monika Schönauer @mschoenauer.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist @UniFreiburg interested in memory consolidation, sleep, reactivation. Head of the Imaging Memory and Consolidation Lab. Emmy Noether Research Group Leader "The Developing Engram." She/her. https://uni-freiburg.de/neuropsychologie/
Alan Langus @alanlangus.bsky.social Language, Cognition and Development | University of Potsdam BabyLab | Estonian 🇪🇪 | 📍Berlin
www.alanlangus.com
Senne Braem @sebraem.bsky.social Professor of cognitive science, Ghent University. Cognitive control, reinforcement learning, fear conditioning, autism. https://users.ugent.be/~sbraem/
JsonGeller @jgeller1phd.bsky.social Eye-tracking, Pupillometry, Word nerd, Open Science, Metascience, Learning and Memory, Language, R, Stats, Quant, Director Human Neuroscience Lab @bostoncollege www.drjasongeller.com
Yoed Kenett @yoedkenett.bsky.social High-level cognition, knowledge, creativity, question asking, associative thinking, cognitive complexity, network
Neuroscience
Marius Boeltzig @mariusboeltzig.bsky.social PhD in Psychology, currently a Postdoc at University of Münster. Working on episodic memory updating after prediction errors. Also interested in future thinking and social influences on memory.
Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social Behavioral Scientist & Science Communicator.
Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences and Associate Professor of Communication, Medicine, and Public Policy at Cornell University.
More here: neillewisjr.com
Personal account
Desmond Warren, M.A. @desmondwarren.bsky.social Aspiring Clinical Neuropsychologist | Co-Founder of @Blackmeninpsych.bsky.social ✊🏾| Cognitive Aging, Traumatic Brain Injury (#TBI), Neuropsychological Assessments, #Neuroimaging, & #Neurorehabilitation | Views = own | #BlackInNeuro 🧠👨🏾⚕️🧑🏾🔬👨🏾🏫 |
Lisa Barnes @beyoung40.bsky.social Cognitive neuropsychologist and health equity researcher at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center
Clíona Murray, PhD (neé Kelly) @clionamurray.com Cognitive Neuroscientist and avid Yorkshire Tea drinker • Co-founder and Programing Co-Director of Black In Neuro • All things VR/XR & neuroimaging research into social interaction and the maternal brain
🌻🇮🇪🇯🇲
Ewan Murray @ewanmurray.bsky.social Psychology PhD student at the University of York
Looking at using spaced retrieval practice in mathematics. He/Him
Steve Mitroff @stevemitroff.bsky.social (Applied) Cognitive Psychologist; Professor @ The George Washington University; Visual search, individual differences, training, big data; http://mitrofflab.org/
Jonathan Nicholas @jonathannicholas.bsky.social postdoc at nyu | (episodic) memory and decision making | jonathanicholas.github.io
Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social Comics and emoji creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨
www.visuallanguagelab.com
David Hernández-Gutiérrez @davidhdzgtz.bsky.social Postdoc researcher at Lalor Lab for Computational Cognitive Neurophysiology, @urochestersmd.bsky.social 📚 | Record collector 🎧
Previously at @bcbl.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscience · Psycholinguistics · Multimodal language
Rebecca Adler @rebeccaadler.bsky.social Psychology PhD candidate at Vanderbilt; interested in math cognition, metacognition, and motivation 🏳️🌈
Brendan Hutchinson @bman1285.bsky.social Post doc researching the electrophysiological underpinnings of consciousness.
EEG | consciousness | meta-analysis | learning | meditation | psychedelics
Dermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social Cognitive Science, language, open research, Irish Reproducibility Network, formerly PsyArXiv, music, terrible puns. Maynooth University, Ireland.
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/dermot-lynott
Xinchi Yu @xinchiyu.bsky.social Guest Scientist @LMU. University of Maryland (PhD); Peking University (BS&BA). Interested in how we perceive and memorize what we see and read, with EEG/SQUID & OPM MEG/.... Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/xinchiyu/home
Richard J. Binney @rjbinney.bsky.social Associate Professor, Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Semantic Memory and Language Processing,
Bangor University, Wales.
Associate Editor, Cortex
https://linktr.ee/RichardBinney
Niv Reggev ניב רגב نيڤ ريچيڤ @nivreggev.bsky.social Faculty @ Ben-Gurion University. Interested in stereotypes, memory, biases, and their intersection w/ cognitive neuroscience. He/him
https://scmbbgu.wixsite.com/scmblab
Matt Thorne @riskdiversity.bsky.social Social Psychology of Risk, Father, Husband, Author, Traveller, Critical Friend, Australian.
Thérèse Collins @theresecollins.bsky.social Professor of cognitive science at Univ. Paris Cité Integrative Neuroscience & Cognition Centre (CNRS)
Vision, perception, eye movements, psychophysics, EEG
https://sites.google.com/view/collinslab
Stefan Herzog @stefanherzog.bsky.social Senior Researcher @arc-mpib.bsky.social MaxPlanck @mpib-berlin.bsky.social, group leader #BOOSTING decisions: cognitive science, AI/collective intelligence, behavioral public policy, comput. social science, misinfo; stefanherzog.org scienceofboosting.org
Dr Jud Lowes @judlowes.bsky.social Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Stirling. Main research interests:developmental prosopagnosia, faces, neurodevelopmental conditions . She/her. Also occasional spam about outdoor swimming in Scotland 🏴🏊♀️
Dr. LLL @dr-lll.bsky.social Professor of Psychological Science / Researcher of visual attention, visual search, lifeguard surveillance, and applied cognition / Proud union leader
Madge Jackson @drmcj.bsky.social Psychology academic (face emotion prediction and perception, social attention and memory). Information not gossip. Introvert and proud. Optimist.
Kianté @kiante.bsky.social cognitive models of decision making @UCLA
kiantefernandez.com
Mara Mather @maramather.bsky.social Fascinated by the brain, what makes it work well and how to keep it working well as we age. Noradrenaline, locus coeruleus, heart rate variability, oscillatory dynamics, parasympathetic/sympathetic changes in aging. At @mpib-berlin.bsky.social
Mengya Zhang (张梦雅) @mengya-zhang.bsky.social Postdoc at the Chinese Academy of Science in Shanghai studying working memory & cognitive control. 
D. I. Burin @diburina.bsky.social Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET
Collaborating with PsySciAcc, ABRIRpsy, MetaDocencia
Working memory, metacognition, multimedia comprehension
R, open science
Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social 
Coraline Rinn Iordan @coralineiordan.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Rochester ◆ narratives, episodic memory, naturalistic cognition, neurofeedback ◆ natcoglab.org ◆ mom ◆ moon elf warlock ◆ 🌈 she/her 
Ambra Ferrari @ambrafer.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SISSA (Trieste, Italy) pondering how we (learn to) communicate before and beyond words. https://ambrafer.github.io/
Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD @lauraabusta.bsky.social 👩🏻🔬 Postdoc @U Medical Center Groningen. Formerly: postdoc @WashU St. Louis & Neuro PhD @Princeton, researching cognitive control & decision making, neurodivergent in computational psychiatry, she/her, Latina 🇨🇺. Views my own. Stand Up for Science!
Merideth Gattis @meridethgattis.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University Centre for Human Developmental Science / Teaching research methods / Researching how environments influence cognition communication & parenting
Panos Athanasopoulos @panosathanas.bsky.social linguist researching language-cognition interactions and multilingualism; decision-making; linguistic relativity | musician and keen rock n roller | views own
Luis Cásedas @lcasedas.bsky.social Postdoctoral research associate at CONNECTS, @cimcyc.bsky.social, University of Granada | Psychological, meta- and contemplative research | INMINDS interview series | lcasedas.com
Elise Piazza @elisepiazza.bsky.social -Assistant Professor @URochester studying naturalistic, interactive human communication and speech/music perception 🧠
-PI of the SoNIC Lab (piazzalab.com)
-BA @Williams | PhD @UCBerkeley | Postdoc @Princeton
-Halfling bard irl 🎶
-she/her 🌈 
Women in Cognitive Science + Europe @wicseurope.bsky.social WiCS+E is the European chapter of WiCS+
Widening Inclusivity in Cognitive Science
We promote networking and support research career development among cognitive scientists in Europe.
https://wicseurope.github.io/WiCSeurope/
Women in Cognitive Science Canada+ @wicscanada.bsky.social Women in Cognitive Science/Les Chercheuses en Science Cognitives - Canada. We are funded by CSBBCS, and provide professional and networking opportunities for the cognitive science community. https://wicsc.ca. Our Trainee Board is @wicsc-trainee.bsky.social
Danielle Pratt @daniellepratt.bsky.social Clinical psychologist. Serious mental illness. Psychosis-risk. Postdoc at Northwestern University.
Matt Welhaf @mwelhaf.bsky.social Research Instructor WUSM
Mind wandering, attention, aging.
Liz Chrastil @chrastil.bsky.social spatial neuroscience researcher, associate professor at UC Irvine, creator of virtual environments, lover of mazes
faculty.sites.uci.edu/spatialneuro/
Camille Grasso @grassocamille.bsky.social Cognitive neuroscientist at LPNC / CNRS (France) & Wake Forest University (USA). Focused on subjective experience of duration, conceptual and neural geometry of time, EEG, iEEG, and voltammetry.
https://grassocamille.netlify.app/
Javier Ortiz-Tudela @ortiztudela.bsky.social Ramón y Cajal researcher at the CIMCYC (Universidad de Granada, Spain).
Currently migrating personal site to: https://ortiztudela.github.io/ortiztudela/
Michael Scullin @baylorsleep.bsky.social Associate Prof @Baylor. Translational cognitive scientist interested in sleep, memory, aging, & technology supports for Alzheimer's disease. We create/host museum exhibits to bring science to the public.
Matthew Robison @matthewrobison.bsky.social cognitive psychologist at notre dame. interests: attention control, vigilance, memory, individual differences, pupillometry. lab website: https://camlab.nd.edu
he/him
Roger Beaty @roger-beaty.bsky.social Associate professor of cognitive psychology at Penn State University. Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience of Creativity Lab (beatylab.la.psu.edu). President-elect of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC; tsfnc.org; @tsfnc.bsky.social).
Michelle Ellefson @michellefson.bsky.social Professor of Cognitive Science @ University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
Runs the INSTRUCT Lab (https://sites.google.com/site/instructlab/)