Reposted by Rob MokAmanda LeBel @amandalebel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A new paper from my PhD work! Attention reshapes how the cortex represents meaning. Does the same thing happen in the cerebellum? 12612
Reposted by Rob MokAndrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Are you: * A cognitive science (or adjacent) PhD (current or graduated, or equivalent research exp.)? * Interested in studying LMs abilities for conceptual reasoning about cog sci, and helping to improve them? If so, apply to our new conceptual reasoning fellows program! Link below: 1256
Reposted by Rob MokRyszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026New assistant professorship in predictive brain processes 🔮🧠💻 at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University. It’s a fantastic place to work and we have a vibrant interdisciplinary community. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nlAssistant Professor in Predictive Brain ProcessesAssistant Professor in Predictive Brain Processes 11711
Reposted by Rob MokJoe Barnby @joebarnby.com · 09/10/2026@nitalon.bsky.social , @reuth-mirsky.bsky.social , @stefansarkadi.bsky.social and I have been putting together a book! 📖 *Theory of Mind in Natural and Artificial Intelligence* coming out early next year 🧵 1102
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Last talk of our conference is our local star Shinji Nishimoto from Osaka University and CiNet telling us about Functional organization of perceptual and cognitive representations in the brain across Naturalistic experiences. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 0101
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social telling us about the neural geometry of Cognition! #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 1160
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Kentaro Abe from Tohoku university telling us about songbirds - language models for decoding non human languages. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 0100
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Our own Lis Kanashiro Pereira fun CiNet on Do LLMs and brains find the end things funny? (omoroi). Brazilian and Japanese humour and LLMs! #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 040
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Next up: Taro Toyoizumi from RIKEN telling us about how the brain learns to represent ambiguous environments. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 0101
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To start the last day of #cinetconference Martin Schrimpf @mschrimpf.bsky.social is telling us about NeuroAI to understand and treat the brain! #neuroskyence 🧠📈 0101
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Fantastic panel on how to work together across academia and industry to understand biological and artificial intelligence #cinetconference #neuroskyence 0100
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Tatsuya Haga telling us about the hippocampus : bridging space with concepts, and replay with sampling. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 040
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I gave a talk as well - using small ANN models I showed how circuit organization shapes fast learning and generalization in the hippocampus. Big computational finding: dentate gyrus at the input stage is necessary and sufficient for fast learning. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠� 0140
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social from the University of Auckland telling us about Using the toolkit of psychology to evaluate visual understanding in artificial models. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 0111
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Llion Jones @yesthisislion.bsky.social and Kai Arulkumaran from Sakana AI @sakanaai.bsky.social talking about building the bridge between ML and Neuroscience. I hope the bridge is being built! #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 030
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social telling us about Functional specialization in bio and artificial systems. #neuroskyence #cinetconference 🧠 070
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Next up, Takafumi Yanagisawa from Osaka University on visual imagery brain machine interfaces! #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 070
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Starting up with @neuroai.bsky.social on compositionality in the brain and artificial neural networks #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 070
Reposted by Rob MokSteve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Excited to be launching our new PhD program in Minds and Machines at UCL with co-Directors Tali Sharot and @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social To apply, find out more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc... Our launch event is on Nov 10th, with a cracking lineup of speakers: luma.com/cikzcth0lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 210152
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Looks amazing! Are there international student funding opportunities? 130
Reposted by Rob MokCameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pumped to get this out! Sarah made an elegant design and got a cool result. It highlights a challenge of our field: infants can resemble adults under some comparisons but those comparisons could disguise fundamental differences! Also this is the lab’s first prereg and it came out pretty clean! 0305
Reposted by Rob Moksarah tung @sarahtung.bsky.social · 05/10/20261/ New preprint! 🧠👶 "Eccentricity, not category, organizes infant ventral temporal cortex." With Emily M Chen, Cleo Tay, Kylie Syzmanski, and @camerontellis.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgEccentricity, but not category, organizes infant ventral temporal cortexScene- and word-selective regions in adult ventral temporal cortex occupy consistent locations across individuals and align with eccentricity biases for peripheral versus central parts of the visual f... 15216
Reposted by Rob MokMark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/10/2026Nobel Prize awarded for optogenetics. Congrats to Karl Deisseroth, Hegemann, and Nagel. The prize is well-deserved, for work that has been transformative. a few quick thoughts 1/4 🧪#neuroscience 210124
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Ended on a great panel discussion on AI and neuroscience with Kenji Doya, Wilma Bainbridge, Andrew Lampinen myself and John Duncan. Hosted by Shigeru Kitazawa. #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 0133
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Next up, Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social at #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 0110
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Wilma Bainbridge telling us about memorability in Humans and ANNs #cinetconference #neuroskyence 🧠📈 1100
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 05/10/2026CiNet conference is starting! Our director Professor Shigeru Kitazawa opens the conference, and introduces our first speaker, Kenji Doya #neuroskyence 🧠 📈 191
Reposted by Rob MokDr Anna Leshinskaya @annaleshinskaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I am recruiting graduate students for UCI's PhD in Cognitive Sciences - www.cogsci.uci.edu/graduate/pro... The lab's focus is on how relational structure and combinatorial reasoning is implemented in human brains and large language models--and if they are similar.cogsci.uci.eduGRADUATE PROGRAM 13430
Reposted by Rob MokMelissa Franch, PhD @mfranch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Excited to see this work published! We find that the brain codes semantic relationships similar to contextual LLMs (like GPT2) but unlike LLMs, uses contrastive coding to prevent confusion of highly similar words. Many thanks to the reviewers and BCM neurosurgery team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA population code for semantics in human hippocampus - Nature NeuroscienceFranch et al. show that human hippocampal neurons encode the meanings of the words we hear through distributed, context-sensitive population activity that mirrors some features of large language model... 312236
Reposted by Rob MokBen Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New paper from the Neurosurgery research team at BCM! 🧵 "A population code for semantics in human hippocampus" led by Melissa Franch. We recorded hippocampus single neurons while people listened to podcasts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comA population code for semantics in human hippocampus - Nature NeuroscienceFranch et al. show that human hippocampal neurons encode the meanings of the words we hear through distributed, context-sensitive population activity that mirrors some features of large language model... 110132
Reposted by Rob MokTimothy O'Leary @timothyoleary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To all collaborators inside and outside academia: faculty at Cambridge *do not have money or resources* I know it's hard to believe and it's not a complaint just a fact. We get a few k startup (enough for a computer) and our salary is equivalent to a US postdoc. No institutional money for research. 1272
Reposted by Rob MokMichelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The visual system tunes itself to the statistics of its input. How do individual experiences differently tune vision? In this work, @bjbalas.bsky.social and I examined how one individual difference—height—changes the visual diet and how this affects perception. 1/ 29432
Reposted by Rob MokMartin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What is the nature of universal representations in AI models, and what determines whether they emerge? Our paper accepted at #neurips2026 led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @rothj.bsky.social addressed these questions comparing 162 vision models, with intriguing results. arxiv.org/abs/2605.13675 🧵arxiv.orgCharacterizing Universal Object Representations Across Vision ModelsDeep neural networks trained with different architectures, objectives, and datasets have been reported to converge on similar visual representations. However, what remains unknown is which visual prop... 34315
Reposted by Rob MokRyszard Auksztulewicz @auksz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What can DNNs tell us about how the brain learns? Our new results show that predictive local learning better captures changes in brain representations during statistical learning than supervised or contrastive approaches. Excellent work by @denisekittelmann.bsky.social and @gutlin.bsky.socialbiorxiv.orgPredictive coding networks capture human neural representations missing in supervised DNNsNeuroscientific learning theories propose that the brain acquires knowledge by constructing internal world models. Supervised learning, the dominant approach in deep neural networks (DNN), relies on e... 02912
Reposted by Rob MokMike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s crazy. I’m reading a Nature Communications paper. I can’t get through it. So much data. So little of it matters. So many conclusions drawn about nothing. 2297
Reposted by Rob MokAlex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If we have to call them Type 1 / 2 instead of false positive and false negative, use this mnemonic: the boy who cried wolf caused both Type I & Il errors, in that order. 14214
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026CCN 2027 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social Edinburgh (26-29 July) clashing with ICOM @icom-memory.bsky.social Glasgow (26-30). So close, yet... 030
Reposted by Rob MokRob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Registration is still open but only a few places left (for in person). Online attendance is still open - do join us! ****Poster submission has been extended to 17:00 JST on Friday 18 September!**** Please consider submitting a Poster or tell your friends to! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠🤖 044
Reposted by Rob Mokyellowstoneten @yellowstoneten.bsky.social · 17/09/2026a salmon was even once involved in a mid-air collision with a 737! 2361
Reposted by Rob MokSanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 17/09/2026“They found a greasy spot with some scales, but no damage” 🧑🍳😘 081
Reposted by Rob MokThe Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026300 early-career neuroscientists commented on the future of the field in a new survey led by @neuromatch.bsky.social and @thetransmitter.bsky.social. #neuroskyence By Paige Miranda www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...thetransmitter.org‘High risk, high reward’: How early-career neuroscientists view their futureThe Transmitter and Neuromatch surveyed more than 300 early-career neuroscientists to better understand their unique challenges, career aspirations and support needs. 03713
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Writing/editing an abstract for a paper, is it just me or does everyone write 3 versions with different word limits..? #neuroskyence #psychscisky 🧠🤖 081
Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Registration is still open but only a few places left (for in person). Online attendance is still open - do join us! ****Poster submission has been extended to 17:00 JST on Friday 18 September!**** Please consider submitting a Poster or tell your friends to! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #mlsky 🧠🤖 044