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Eivinas Butkus

@eivinas.bsky.social
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Cognitive computational neuroscience. Psychology PhD student at Columbia University eivinasbutkus.com

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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1/5 Over a decade of comparing deep neural networks to the human brain—but what have we actually learned? Our new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Feature Review synthesizes a decade of brain–DNN comparisons, asking what they reveal about brain function across vision and language.
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Eivinas Butkus @eivinas.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Do world models emerge in neural networks trained for prediction? Generative Adversarial Collaboration (GAC) at #CCN2026
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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
@cogcompneuro.bsky.social Satellite Event: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE Saturday, 1 August 2026 New York University Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness #CCN2026
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Lynn Sörensen @lynnkasorensen.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
There's one week left to apply to become this Fall's BCS Rising Star speaker 🌟 Please make sure to apply if you're a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences🧠 Reposts are appreciated! 🪐
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Eivinas Butkus @eivinas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
1/ New preprint + VSS poster! Attention has long been thought to enable efficient vision. But does it? First demonstration that attention—consuming just 4-5% of the energy budget—can cut the energetic costs of vision in half. #VSS2026
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Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st. Please share, thank you 🙏
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
How attention saves energy in vision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.
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Erin Grant @eringrant.me · 06/12/2025
Thrilled to start 2026 as faculty in Psych & CS @ualberta.bsky.social + Amii.ca Fellow! 🥳 Recruiting students to develop theories of cognition in natural & artificial systems 🤖💭🧠. Find me at #NeurIPS2025 workshops (speaking coginterp.github.io/neurips2025 & organising @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social)
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tyler bonnen @tylerbonnen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
starting fall 2026 i'll be an assistant professor at @upenn.edu 🥳 my lab will develop scalable models/theories of human behavior, focused on memory and perception currently recruiting PhD students in psychology, neuroscience, & computer science! reach out if you're interested 😊
a red building on UPENN's campus photographed during the fallthe Philadelphia skyline, with clear skies and autumn trees
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Eivinas Butkus @eivinas.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
1/ Can causal models and causal inference engines emerge through next-token prediction? Judea Pearl and others (Zečević et al. 2023) have argued no. We present behavioral and mechanistic evidence that this is possible. #neurips2025 #NeurIPS
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Tristan Yates @tristansyates.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Key-value memory is an important concept in modern machine learning (e.g., transformers). Ila Fiete, Kazuki Irie, and I have written a paper showing how key-value memory provides a way of thinking about memory organization in the brain: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02950
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Key-value memory in the brain
Classical models of memory in psychology and neuroscience rely on similarity-based retrieval of stored patterns, where similarity is a function of retrieval cues and the stored patterns. While parsimo...
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JohnMark Taylor @johnmarktaylor.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Deep neural networks are complex, but looking inside them ought to be simple. Check out TorchLens, a package that can visualize any PyTorch network and extract all activations and metadata in just one line of code: github.com/johnmarktayl... www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Are you a grad student in AI interested in neuroscience and neuroAI? Become a summer neuroAI intern at CSHL! www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I promised to write about my thoughts on the status of the field of neuroAI, some of the big challenges we are facing, and the approaches we are taking to address them. This is super selective on the topic of finding a good model but in my view it affects the field as a whole. Here we go. 🧵
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