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gkaguirre.bsky.social
Behavioral neurologist and vision scientist at the University of Pennsylvania https://www.gkaguirre.com/
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I study how perception is altered in neurologic disease. In particular, why some visual experiences are painful (i.e., produce photophobia), especially for people with migraine. These studies use custom devices for presenting stimuli and measuring the environment. Here’s a look at some of these.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Covert consciousness, where unresponsive patients willfully modulate brain activity to command, is gaining attention. But these assessments are fundamentally limited. What if we could just... read their minds instead? 🧵 about our paper in @greenjournal.bsky.social www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Some people see spontaneous faint flickering flashes in their visual field, a condition known as Visual Snow Syndrome (VSS, not to be confused with @vssmtg.bsky.social). Maybe a visual equivalent of the auditory tinnitus? Here is a very nice study from the lab of @sengelweb.bsky.social.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Looked up some reviews of my new orthopedist and am ☠️

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Go Birds.

submitted 32 days ago • 102 comments

This lucid set of figures is going in my career advice slide deck.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Loving this thread. In the future, my coffee order will also be an encephalatte.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

You—or someone you know—is likely to have the photic sneeze reflex, an autosomal-dominant trait of sneezing in response to bright light. Lucien and Manuel had a sneezer wear a light logger and found the illuminance recipe that triggers the sneeze. It’s gotta be the ipRGCs that carry this signal…

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I especially like the category “hat”.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social, vision scientist of object categories (and other interesting topics). And congratulations for grabbing the Bluesky handle before that other Hans (the visual artist) did…

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

What are your favorite conferences? We are debating where to go. #visionscience #cogsci #cogneuro #cognitivescience #cognitiveneuroscience

submitted 98 days ago • 5 comments

You gotta get in on this Brain trash talk thread.

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