Now accepting paper submissions for the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop at #AAAI2026! 🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/ @aaai.org#AAAI2026

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...

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...

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...

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

🧠 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...

Had a blast chatting with @neildegrassetyson.com on @startalkradio.bsky.social ’s podcast about how AI and neuroscience come together startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...

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/...

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.”

🚨 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”

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...

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. 🧠💩

📣 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.”

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."

Alignment between CLIP embeddings and ventral occipitotemporal cortex activity is left‐lateralized, and sensitive to language‐vision pathways: arxiv.org/abs/2501.13628

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 ↓

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/...

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...

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)

📢 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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

🚨 Vacancy for Lecturer in Cognitive Science and AI at Radboud University. Deadline for application: 28 April (Please RT 🔃 for wider reach 🙏) 1/n www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

We wrote an NMI News & Views piece about recent work by Aria Wang from Leila Wehbe’s lab: www.nature.com/articles/s42... SharedIt link: rdcu.be/dxWv4 (& preprint just in case: osf.io/preprints/ps... ) Link to their paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... (with @martinhebart.bsky.social )

🚨Call for Papers 🚨 The Re-Align Workshop is coming to #ICLR2024 Our Call for Papers is finally up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at ICLR in beautiful Vienna! representational-alignment.github.io #compneuro #MLSky #neuroscience #NeuroAI 1/4

This is such cool work!

Reconstructing visual illusory experiences from human brain activity www.science.org/doi/full/10.... via @peterkok.bsky.social; "framework offers a way to materialize subjective experiences"; #neuroscience

Mariya Tonevas talk in a few minutes at 11AM CET!

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

A few more detailed reports about the modeling strategies used in the 2023 Algonauts challenge appeared: algonauts.csail.mit.edu/challenge.html

New paper out, from an effort led by Patrick Butlin and Robert Long. This report takes a cautious and thorough approach to the sensationalized topic of AI consciousness, working from the theories neuroscientists use to study consciousness in brains. #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky