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Noga Zaslavsky

@nogazs.bsky.social
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Computational cognitive scientist, developing integrative models of language, perception, and action. Assistant Prof at NYU. More info: www.nogsky.com

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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us for the Yang Tan Collective Alumni Talk Series featuring Noga Zaslavsky, a former ICoN Postdoc Fellow; she’s currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at New York University. ⬇️ 🔗 For more information, please visit: yangtan.mit.edu/about-us/our...
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Tal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Honored and thrilled to be named an APS Rising Star! So grateful to my mentors, collaborators, and colleagues, and excited to continue working at the intersection of information theory, cognitive science, and AI!
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
So excited that our paper got accepted to ICLR!! Check it out 👇
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Super excited about our new paper!! Check this out 👇🧵
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Yang Tan Collective @yangtancollective.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
ICoN Center alumna @nogazs.bsky.social offers a fresh take on how the brain compresses visual information to guide intelligent behavior in @thetransmitter.bsky.social article: “The visual system’s lingering mystery: Connecting neural activity and perception”. www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
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Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools, writes @neurograce.bsky.social. Hear from 10 experts in the field. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...
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Connecting neural activity, perception in the visual system
Figuring out how the brain uses information from visual neurons may require new tools. I asked nine experts to weigh in.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/08/2025
Disclaimer xkcd.com/3126/
Comic. [long message with unreadable text that includes lots of punctuation marks like semi colons and em dashes as well as citations.] Highlighted line at the bottom zoomed in reads: Not ChatGPT output—I’m just like this. [caption] I’ve had to start adding this disclaimer to my messages.
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
If you missed us at #cogsci2025, my lab presented 3 new studies showing how efficient (lossy) compression shapes individual learners, bilinguals, and action abstractions in language, further demonstrating the extraordinary applicability of this principle to human cognition! 🧵 1/n
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Super excited to have the #InfoCog workshop this year at #CogSci2025! Join us in SF for an exciting lineup of speakers and panelists, and check out the workshop's website for more info and detailed scheduled sites.google.com/view/infocog...
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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
#Workshop at #CogSci2025 Information Theory and Cognitive Science 🗓️ Wednesday, July 30 📍 Pacifica C - 8:30-10:00 🗣️ Noga Zaslavsky, Thomas A Langlois, Nathaniel Imel, Clara Meister, Eleonora Gualdoni, and Daniel Polani 🧑‍💻 underline.io/events/489/s...
Promotional image for a #CogSci2025 workshop titled “Information Theory and Cognitive Science.” Organized and presented by Noga Zaslavsky, Thomas A Langlois, Nathaniel Imel, Clara Meister, Eleonora Gualdoni, and Daniel Polani. Scheduled for July 30 at 8:30 AM in room Pacifica C. The top of the image features the conference theme, “Theories of the Past / Theories of the Future,” and the dates: July 30–August 2 in San Francisco.
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
📣 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!
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Centre for Language Evolution @uoe-cle.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Nathaniel Imel, Jennifer Culbertson, @simonkirby.bsky.social & @nogazs.bsky.social: Iterated language learning is shaped by a drive for optimizing lossy compression (Talks 37: Language and Computation 3, 1 August @ 16:22; blurb below) (2/)
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This month I'm celebrating a decade (!!) since my first paper was published, which now has over 2,000 citations 🥹 "Deep learning and the information bottleneck principle" with the late, great Tali Tishby ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/713...
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Deep learning and the information bottleneck principle
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are analyzed via the theoretical framework of the information bottleneck (IB) principle. We first show that any DNN can be quantified by the mutual information between the ...
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Sydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
🔆 I'm hiring! 🔆 There are two open positions: 1. Summer research position (best for master's or graduate student); focus on computational social cognition. 2. Postdoc (currently interviewing!); focus on computational social cognition and AI safety. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
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Sydney Levine - Open Positions
Summer Research Position I am seeking a part-time or full-time researcher for the summer (starting asap) to bring a project to completion. The project asks the question: do people around the world u...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows. data-for-good-team.org
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Noga Zaslavsky @nogazs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Excited to share our new paper "Towards Human-Like Emergent Communication via Utility, Informativeness, and Complexity" direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... @rplevy.bsky.social And looking forward to speaking about this line of work tomorrow at @nyudatascience.bsky.social!
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Towards Human-Like Emergent Communication via Utility, Informativeness, and Complexity
Abstract. Two prominent, yet contrasting, theoretical views are available to characterize the underlying drivers of language evolution: on the one hand, task-specific utility maximization; on the othe...
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Congratulations to Rich Sutton and Andrew Barto on receiving the Turing Award in recognition of their significant contributions to ML. I also stand with them: Releasing models to the public without the right technical and societal safeguards is irresponsible. www.ft.com/content/d8f8...
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Turing Award winners warn over unsafe deployment of AI models
Two pioneers of reinforcement learning have won the $1mn prize from the Association for Computing Machinery
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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
New preprint! In arxiv.org/abs/2502.20349 “Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science: Towards generalizable models and theories that capture the full range of natural behavior” we synthesize AI & cognitive science works to a perspective on seeking generalizable understanding of cognition. Thread:
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Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science: Towards generalizable models and theories that capture the full range of natural behavior
Artificial Intelligence increasingly pursues large, complex models that perform many tasks within increasingly realistic domains. How, if at all, should these developments in AI influence cognitive sc...
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Eghbal Hosseini @eghbal-hosseini.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with Colton Casto, @nogazs.bsky.social , Colin Conwell, Mark Richardson, & @evfedorenko.bsky.social on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖 tinyurl.com/yckndmjt
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Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks
Many artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained with ecologically plausible objectives on naturalistic data align with behavior and neural representations in biological systems. Here, we show that this...
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