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Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩‍🎓 🧑‍🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩

🧠 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...

Music genre fMRI dataset by Nishimoto lab: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below

What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

We're happy to announce the Berlin Consciousness Symposium, an in-person event bringing together expert speakers to discuss new trends in the neuroscience of consciousness. Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...

I'm super happy to see our project on topographic neural network models of visual processing out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Have a look at @zejinlu.bsky.social's thread for details.

Thank you @lukasmut.bsky.social for the excellent talk & stimulating discussion! For those who couldn’t join we will upload a recording soon.

Join us for the talk by @lukasmut.bsky.social (Google Deep Mind, TU Berlin) on "Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision" Starting soon at 10 AM (CET), March 28 Find the Zoom Link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut

ℹ️ Details and registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...

Registration for CCN2025 is open! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...

We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out - open stimuli (eg. 3D objects) - open data (eg. MindBrainBody) - tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker) - analysis scripts - & more www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/... #researchtransparency

I'm looking forward to give a talk at this great event👇 about scilaunch 🚀 shescher.github.io/scilaunch/ scilaunch 🚀 is a small convenience tool that I developed with the goal of easing the launch of new research projects, providing a useful skeleton for data, code, and organizational aspects.

Re-Align returns to #ICLR2025! Please consider submitting if you work on how ML / CogSci / Neuro systems represent the world & what factors shape these representations 💭🧠🤖 w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social @sucholutsky.bsky.social @eringrant.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social

(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

🥥🚨 If you have missed the excellent lecture by Sebastian Lapuschkin on #XAI last month , his talk can be found on our website: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/... ... among many other great talks. 🚨🥥

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception

Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, this is a kind reminder of today's (Nov 27) talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin on next-gen explainable A.I. #XAI 3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/

Delighted to announce our next CBS CoCoNUT 🧠🥥🤖 talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin, whose work has shaped the field of explainable AI #XAI in the last decade. When: Nov 27, 3 PM (CET) Where: Lecture Hall @ MPI CBS & Zoom (link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut) #AI #DeepLearning #interpretability #LRP

New paper submission track at #CCN2025 ! #neuroAI #neuroscience #CompNeuro #neuroskyence #MLsky

Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, Tomorrow, Friday, Nov 8, 11AM (CET) @smnhfmnn.bsky.social will present 🚀 scilaunch (shescher.github.io/scilaunch/) a light-weight tool to set up your research projects. Join us on Zoom (see www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)! #open-science 🗝️ #python 🐍

The recording of the talk on how "Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models" by @adriendoerig.bsky.social from Friday can be found here: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...

We are delighted to welcome Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social , who will be giving a talk on how „Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models” Join us on April 12 at 10:15 (CET) on Zoom, link via www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut #MLSky #neuroskyence 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #NeuroAI

Find the recording of today's talk by Mariya Toneva about "Convergence and divergence between language models and human brains" here: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...

We are delighted to announce our next talk by Mariya Toneva (#MPI SWS, mtoneva.com) on: "Convergence and divergence between language models and human brains” This Friday, 🗓️Nov 10, at 🕚 11 am (CET 🇪🇺) Find the Zoom link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut You will be in Leipzig? Join us @ MPI CBS

We are happy to join the #neurosky community. 🤖CBS CoCoNUT 🧠 is a diverse group that meets to discuss advances in cognitive & neuroscience driven by computational models. Check out our past meetings with great contributions from around the world: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...