Dept of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester

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...

07/09/2026

University of Rochester researchers—including Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professors Michele Rucci and Duje Tadin, and Director of the Center for Extended Reality Barry Silverstein—are studying the process of human vision from three connected angles: how the eyes actively sample the world, how the brain filters and constructs meaning from that input, and how technology tries to reproduce the experience in AR and VR systems. https://youtu.be/zbkIN4nAHkA?si=M955fO8lvgUiaKBn