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katja seeliger

@seelikat.bsky.social
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Links between human and machine vision. End-to-end system identification from large-scale neurodata. #NeuroAI #DeepLearning #Neuroscience. Opinions my own. 📍 Leipzig, Koffer in Berlin. 🌍 seelikat.github.io 𝕏 x.com/seelikat

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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting thoughts on the new DOSE-I dataset: theconsciousness.ai/posts/dose-i...
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DOSE-I Records 1,129 Consciousness Transitions for Public Study | The Consciousness AI - Artificial Consciousness Research
A 78.5 hour multimodal dataset of procedural sedation captures 1,129 annotated consciousness transitions with 7,328 depth labels for indicator work.
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Jack Gallant @gallantlab.org · 24/09/2026
Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience! Encoding models fit 28,134 features to fMRI from a virtual taxi-driving task, revealing 11 distinct cortical regions that transform perception into action. Read the preprint. gallantlab.org
Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience!
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CBS CoCoNUT @cbs-coconut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We are excited! @initself.bsky.social & @rowansommers.bsky.social will present their **Umwelt Representation Hypothesis** at our next meeting. Sep 18, 11 am (CET) [Hybrid] Find the link to the online meeting here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut or join us at MPI CBS #neuroai #neuroskyence #ai
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CBS CoCoNUT
CBS CoCoNUT: A new interest group that comes together every two weeks to have an informal exchange about cognitive computational neuroscience.
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The Algonauts Project @algonautsproject.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
(1/2) We’re excited to announce the Algonauts Project Challenge 2027 with CNeuroMod: How The Human Brain Makes Sense of Video Games 🎮 🧠 Launching end of 2026. Top 3 teams will present at CCN 2027 in Edinburgh. algonautsproject.com/2027/ #Algonauts2027 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #fMRI
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The Algonauts Project Challenge 2027
The Algonauts Project 2027 Challenge — how the human brain makes sense of video games. Launching end of 2026. Sign up to stay updated.
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Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences @mpicbs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
🎸Faster, harder, louder - that's how metal fans celebrate their music at #Wacken Open Air. Lydia Schneider & Tom Fritz conducted a field study right on site to find out whether and how the festival experience & listening to #heavymetal live affect the audience’s #pain tolerance: tinyurl.com/5cjdvjrf
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Metalheads Can Endure Pain Longer Thanks to the Festival Experience
Metalheads Can Endure Pain Longer Thanks to the Festival Experience
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I'm at #CCN2026 in NYC with the following work: "System identification from raw EEG during clinical propofol sedation with an interpretable latent SDE model" 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=m... Poster Session A, A12, Tuesday/August 4, 9:30 - 11:15 am.
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Poster Presentation
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Skirball Theatre events are streamed live during the conference: 2026.ccneuro.org/skirball-the... We aim to provide recordings of all parallel events after the conference.
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Skirball Theater Live Stream
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New dataset publication: DOSE-I - 78.5 h of multimodal biosignals during propofol sedation, including EEG and rich consciousness/sedation-depth annotations. Data collection continues (>1,000 recordings underway). Dataset by Jakob Garbe et al. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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DOSE-I: A Multimodal Biosignal Dataset of Procedural Sedation for Endoscopy
DOSE-I is a multimodal clinical biosignal dataset recorded during routine gastrointestinal and bronchoscopic endoscopy under propofol sedation. It contains 78.5 hours of data from 171 recordings, with...
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CBS CoCoNUT @cbs-coconut.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
We are very much looking forward to our next CBS CoCoNUT talk by @mickbonner.bsky.social (Johns Hopkins) on "Computational principles of natural image representation in visual cortex" When: June 26, 2026, 9:30 am (CET) Where: Zoom & @mpicbs.bsky.social More: www.cbs.mpg.de/events/46063...
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Prof. Mick Bonner | Computational principles of natural image representation in visual cortex
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Nicolás Hinrichs (Nico, he/him) @nicohinrichs.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Excited to present my work with Noah Guzmán and @mweber.bsky.social, "On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks" this Friday 12th, 11AM CEST for a joint Neurogeometry and @cbs-coconut.bsky.social meeting in the Wundt Room at @mpicbs.bsky.social and also on Zoom. More info: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
Simulations of time-varying brain networks modeled as weighted small-world networks with varying rewiring probability. A–D: Four examples with N = 100, mean degree K = 5, and different p, generated using Muldoon et al. (2016). E: Entropy of the FRC distribution as p evolves from 0 to 1 for N = 1000, K = 50 (note phase transition around p= 10−2). F: Corresponding quantiles of the FRC distribution. Solid curves show the median over 200 replications; shaded areas mark 0.05 and 0.95 quantiles.
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CBS CoCoNUT @cbs-coconut.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, We are excited to announce our next session, in which @nicohinrichs.bsky.social (@mpicbs.bsky.social, NeurDS Lab) will present his research: "On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks" When: June 12, 2026, 11:00 am (CET) Where: see below 👇
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CBS CoCoNUT
CBS CoCoNUT: A new interest group that comes together every two weeks to have an informal exchange about cognitive computational neuroscience.
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Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
We're happy to release NeuralSet: a simple, fast, scalable package for Neuro-AI Supports: 🧠 fMRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, spikes… preprocessing 💬 text 🔊 audio ▶️ video 🏞️ image… embeddings 📦 pip install neuralset 🔍 facebookresearch.github.io/neuroai/neur... 📄 kingjr.github.io/files/neural... 🧵 Details👇
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CBS CoCoNUT @cbs-coconut.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Meet & discuss with the 3 winning teams 🏆 of the 🌍-wide Algonauts Challenge 2025 (@algonautsproject.bsky.social). Join us for a deep dive into predicting 🧠 activity from natural movies with teams from @mpicbs.bsky.social & Meta Research. 🗓️ April 21 | 4 PM (CET) 📍 MPI CBS & Zoom (link below)
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
(YouTube) Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv... by @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social #neuroscience
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Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain
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Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
🧠 the Digital Brain Project is now live: $5M total · up to $500k per selected team Let's open-source the modeling of the human brain brain activity! ➡️Apply on: digitalbrainproject.org
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Interesting imagery reconstructions on Kamitanis deeprecon data: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Jack Gallant @gallantlab.org · 23/02/2026
We've posted a new fMRI study of semantic relations (has-part, is-a, made-of, etc.), a key aspect of language. We find that relations are represented in the same brain regions as are other semantic concepts, though voxels tend to be selective for only one relation or another. doi.org/10.64898/202...
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I recently created this overview of fMRI datasets for visual reconstruction, aimed at AI/ML people. Originally this was a 2018 post on a now inactive PhD lab blog. I had drafts expanding it for long time and thought now it's about time. RFC and feel free to share :) github.com/seelikat/neu...
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GitHub - seelikat/neuro-visual-reconstruction-dataset-index: Index and overview of neuroimaging datasets for visual perception reconstruction.
Index and overview of neuroimaging datasets for visual perception reconstruction. - seelikat/neuro-visual-reconstruction-dataset-index
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Renato Duarte @rcfduarte.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
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22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience
Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Representations of semantic relations in the human cerebral cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... by Catherine Chen, Xue L. Gong, Fatma Deniz, Daniel L. Klein, Jack L. Gallant
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micha heilbron @mheilbron.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
📢 PhD position in the NeuroAI of Language Why can LLMs predict brain activity so well? We're hiring a PhD student to find out -- AI interpretability meets neuroimaging Deadline March 20 Please RT 🙏 👇 mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-neuroai-language
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Johannes Brinz @johannesbrinz.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
CfA: Workshop “Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation” (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Jun 2–3 2026. Deadline: March 31. Further Speakers: @adriendoerig.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @seelikat.bsky.social, Oron Shagrir.
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Alessandro Gifford @alessandrogifford.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
NSD-synthetic, the out-of-distribution companion dataset of NSD consisting of 7T fMRI responses to 284 artificial images, is now published. #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Johannes Brinz @johannesbrinz.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
CfA: Workshop “Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation” (@ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Jun 2–3 2026. Deadline: March 31. Further Speakers: @adriendoerig.bsky.social, @francesegan.bsky.social, @olivia.science, @gualtiero.bsky.social, @seelikat.bsky.social, Oron Shagrir. philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Workshop on Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation
Workshop on Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation June 02 – 03, 2026 Ruhr-University Bochum Abstract: The idea that the brain performs computations is widely accepted in cognitive science...
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Nadine Dijkstra @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Thanks so much @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this Rising Stars of Neuroscience award! 🤩 And a big thank you to @smfleming.bsky.social for the nomination!!
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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima arxiv.org/abs/2511.07960 by @ykamit.bsky.social et al. via @seelikat.bsky.social; #neuroscience #AI
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Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)
A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-based method. However, o...
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 30/10/2025
Now accepting paper submissions for the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop at #AAAI2026! 🔗 neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.… @aaai.org
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Antonio Lozano @lozaneuro.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
For a long time, some have daydreamed about whether neural networks can learn to effectively synthesize stimulation patterns to write information into the brain. Introducing 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Deep Learning-Based Control of Electrically Evoked Activity in Human Visual Cortex
Visual cortical prostheses offer a promising path to sight restoration, but current systems elicit crude, variable percepts and rely on manual electrode-by-electrode calibration that does not scale. T...
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Yuki Kamitani @ykamit.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Our article is out in Annual Review of Vision Science: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation” We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation | Annual Reviews
Visual image reconstruction, the decoding of perceptual content from brain activity into images, has advanced significantly with the integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative models. T...
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain. Intriguing new preprint by Roy & Naselaris et al for anyone interested in mental imagery! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain
Extensive work has shown that the visual cortex is reactivated during mental imagery, and that models trained on visual data can predict imagery activity and decode imagined stimuli. These findings ma...
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Music genre fMRI dataset by Nishimoto lab: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Music genre neuroimaging dataset
This dataset includes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data collected while five subjects extensively listened to 540 music pieces from 10…
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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well? We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics. 📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Jean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Had a blast chatting with @neildegrassetyson.com on @startalkradio.bsky.social ’s podcast about how AI and neuroscience come together startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...
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Mindreading with Jean Rémi-King - StarTalk Special Edition
What would it take to read someone’s mind? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly explore the science of decoding our thoughts w/ Jean-Rémi King.
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Yuki Kamitani @ykamit.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Can we hear what's inside your head? 🧠→🎶 Our new paper, led by Jong-Yun Park, presents an AI-based method for reconstructing arbitrary natural sounds directly from a person's brain activity measured with fMRI. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 26/06/2025
Martin Schrimpf wants to build a “digital twin” of the brain. “If we have a model of dyslexia, we can probe it and find changes to the text that make it easier for someone to read.”
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How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain | Quanta Magazine
Martin Schrimpf is crafting bespoke AI models that can induce control over high-level brain activity.
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Umut Güçlü @umguec.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
🚨 Our new paper is out in @natmachintell.nature.com! 🤔 Deep neural nets (DNNs) often align with humans in performance and even representations — but do they "think" like us? 📄 “Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans”
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Marcus Arvan @marcusarvan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
I am devastated to learn of my dear friend and fellow philosopher Helen De Cruz’s passing. With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf. Please feel free to share and circulate widely. www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
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Donate to Support Helen's Children After Her Passing, organized by Marcus Arvan
Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing
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Umut Güçlü @umguec.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Hello, World! After years of broadcasting into the void, I'm retuning my antenna: Professional signal → Bluesky & LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/umguec/) Personal noise → Instagram (instagram.com/umguec/) Let the decentralized brain dump commence. 🧠💩
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Umut Güçlü @umguec.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📣 We won the "Dutch ICT Oscar"! 🏆 At the end of last year, our team was honored with the Computable Award in Digital Innovation 2024, “for visual prosthetics for the blind.”
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Review on visual perception reconstruction by kamitanilab: arxiv.org/abs/2505.08429 "From a psychological perspective, brain decoding supports Fechner’s concept of inner psychophysics, linking neural data with subjective experience."
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Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation
Visual image reconstruction, the decoding of perceptual content from brain activity into images, has advanced significantly with the integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative models. T...
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Alignment between CLIP embeddings and ventral occipitotemporal cortex activity is left‐lateralized, and sensitive to language‐vision pathways: arxiv.org/abs/2501.13628
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Language modulates vision: Evidence from neural networks and human brain-lesion models
Comparing information structures in between deep neural networks (DNNs) and the human brain has become a key method for exploring their similarities and differences. Recent research has shown better a...
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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
New Paper: Continuous Thought Machines pub.sakana.ai/ctm/ Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute, but this is largely ignored in modern neural nets. We believe neural timing is key for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence. Thread ↓
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 12/05/2025
Pet parrots were taught to do video calls, and it was a hit. The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots. Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare. 🧪🦜 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
A composite image of parrots calling each other on tablets. Image from Kleinberger et al., 2023.
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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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katja seeliger @seelikat.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The model now most aligned with the higher visual system is CLIP. It learns a joint image-text embedding space via contrastive loss - pulling semantically related pairs together, pushing unrelated ones apart. (1/2)
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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
📢 CALL FOR SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS: CCN 2025 @ University of Amsterdam Submit your workshop, tutorial or special session proposal for Aug 11, 2025 to complement the main CCN conference program. Deadline: April 10, 2025 Details in thread 👇 #CCN2025 #CogNeuro
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The Algonauts Project @algonautsproject.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
(1/4) The Algonauts Project 2025 challenge is now live! Participate and build computational models that best predict how the human brain responds to multimodal movies! Submission deadline: 13th of July. #algonauts2025 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI algonautsproject.com
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The Algonauts Project 2025
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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly. www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
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Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The Algonauts Project 2025 Challenge is on! This year, it focuses on building encoding models that explain human brain responses during movie viewing (based on the incredible CNeuroMod dataset)! Very cool project!! youtu.be/KvLDpsIO2eg
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The Algonauts Project 2025 Challenge: How the Human Brain Makes Sense of Multimodal Movies
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
Different paths toward safe AI at different Marr's levels
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