Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience

Nature research paper: Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex go.nature.com/3OKRXZU

What is the relationship between memorization and generalization in AI? Is there a fundamental tradeoff? In infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/memorizati... I’ve reviewed some of the evolving perspectives on memorization & generalization in machine learning, from classic perspectives through LLMs.

Two more posters from our lab at ARO today: T152 A Model of Speech Recognition Reproduces Signatures of Human Speech Perception and Reveals Mechanisms of Contextual Integration, by Gasser Elbanna T171 Hearing-Impaired Deep Neural Networks Predict Real-World Hearing Difficulties, by Mark Saddler

If at ARO today, check out the presentations from our lab: talk at 3:15pm: Optimized Models of Uncertainty Explain Human Confidence in Auditory Perception, by Lakshmi Govindarajan poster 28: In-Silico fMRI Experiments Enable Comparisons of Speech Models to Human Auditory Cortex, by Gasser Elbanna

Should you go to academia or industry for research in AI or cognitive science? It's the most common question I get asked by PhD students, and I've written up some of my thoughts on the answer, as an epilogue to my research-focused series on these fields: infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/on-researc...

The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇

🧠 Hiring a Research Assistant/Lab Manager! Share widely! 📍 St. Louis | ⏰ Full-time We're launching the How We Learn Lab @WashU, studying attention, learning & memory interactions. Perfect for anyone interested in dev cog neuro who wants hands-on experience before grad school. deckerlab.com

If you’re still at #NeurIPS2025, come say hi at our poster at @unireps.bsky.social in Ballroom 20D! I'm presenting work co-led by Ivy Brundege and me, with @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social, showing that in silico fMRI experiments of speech models reveal notable discrepancies with human auditory cortex.

Not attending NeurIPS this year, but very much looking to connect. I’m seeking a PhD research internship next summer in AI for Science, especially where AI meets brain and cognitive sciences. 🧠 If you’re hiring, I’d love to connect! bkhmsi.github.io

Special issue of Neuropsychologia celebrating the career of John Duncan. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... #neuroscience

New pre-print from our lab, by Lakshmi Govindarajan with help from Sagarika Alavilli, introducing a new type of model for studying sensory uncertainty. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Here is a summary. (1/n)

Looking for a PhD program where you can study computational neuroscience? NYU has a fantastic array of researchers covering the field: groups.google.com/g/systems-ne...

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab in Fall 2026! The Shared Minds Lab at @usc.edu will combine deep learning and ecological human neuroscience to better understand how we communicate our thoughts from one brain to another.

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨! I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

It has been "known" that musical experience improves auditory coding in the brainstem. But...a new multilab study concludes "Our findings provide no evidence for associations between early auditory neural responses and either musical training or musical ability." 👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My first paper with @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social is finally out in @natcomms.nature.com ! rdcu.be/eACGf TL;DR: asymmetric learning rates can be induced by shifts in tonic dopamine giving rise to pessimistic/optimistic biases in agents or animals undergoing reinforcement learning .

NeurIPS is endorsing EurIPS, an independently-organized meeting which will offer researchers an opportunity to additionally present NeurIPS work in Europe concurrently with NeurIPS. Read more in our blog post and on the EurIPS website: blog.neurips.cc/2025/07/16/n... eurips.cc

What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex? Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut. 🧵 ↓ 1/n

At Frontiers in NeuroAI symposium @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social, I will be presenting a poster entitled "A Model of Continuous Phoneme Recognition Reveals the Role of Context in Human Speech Perception" (Poster #17). Work done with @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social. #NeuroAI2025 🧵1/4

I have been teaching my trainees exactly this for years... universityaffairs.ca/career-advic... This is exactly why @kordinglab.bsky.social tells everyone to write abstracts and aims pages first before starting projects / writing grants

Check out our new work on making robots process touch more like brains! Surprisingly, ConvRNNs best matched mouse cortex—passing the NeuroAI Turing Test. We also developed tactile-specific SSL augmentations and an Encoder-Attender-Decoder framework unifying ConvRNNs, SSMs & Transformers.

If returns on science investment are shrinking, there are plenty of potential culprits https://go.nature.com/4k9FVUQ

✨Discovering dynamical laws for speech gestures ✨ ➡️ I’m delighted to announce my new article out today in Cognitive Science, where I discover simple mathematical laws that govern articulatory control in speech. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @cogscisociety.bsky.social

New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network** with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n 🧵

Top-down prediction signals from the medial prefrontal cortex govern auditory cortex prediction errors doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroscience

Eid Mubarak to all! We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 4th Muslims in Machine Learning (MusIML) Workshop, co-located with ICML 2025, on Sunday, July 13, 2025, in Vancouver, Canada. 🧵(1/5)

A growing number of cognitive neuroscientists have taken on the challenge of performing task-based fMRI experiments in awake babies. The method is poised to answer questions about how and when the infant mind takes shape. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/cognitive-ne...

Applications are open for the summer school 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. compneuronrsn.org Application deadline: March 31, 2025 Located in beautiful Eresfjord, Norway 🇳🇴 #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience #KavliNeuro @kavlintnu.bsky.social

1. @alisongopnik.bsky.social, Cosma Shalizi, James Evans and myself have a new piece in Science on "AI" Large Models, pushing back against much of the collective wisdom about what they can and can't do. Official below, unpaywalled at henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod... . So why this now?

In the physical world, almost all information is transmitted through traveling waves -- why should it be any different in your neural network? Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant @mozesjacobs.bsky.social: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time" 1/14

Why Statistical Physics Can’t Give Us an ‘Ideal Gas Law’ for the Brain . medium.com/@kording/why...

Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑‍🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/ @flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org

🚨 Deadline approaching! Interested in showcasing your #NeuroAI research among leaders in the field? There's still time to submit an abstract for the #KempnerInstitute's Frontiers in NeuroAI symposium! Details: bit.ly/3QKQD6Z @shamkakade.bsky.social @blsabatini.bsky.social

We have released the March 2025 Swiss AI Call for Large Projects! Call Document: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Highlights: - 1-year projects - 2 M CHF for personnel - 10 M GPUh Let's change the scale of academic research! Deadline: March 31st, 2025

🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪

I bet not many have ever seen this: a set of CDs for the legendary WSJ0 dataset🤩 (Cleaning up before our lab's renovation)

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

The theory of quantum mechanics works wonderfully, explaining things from lasers and chemistry to the Higgs boson and the stability of matter. But physicists don’t know why. Or at least, if some of us think we know why, most others don’t agree. https://go.nature.com/4hr97Ft

Dendrites doing AI problems, so great to see the increased activity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/ Super-excited to share our new work “Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus”, that just appeared in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key insights and ideas 👇#tweeprint

Ever wondered what different layer-5 PC types do for learning? Our work suggests that one (IT PCs) does representational learning whereas the other (ET PCs) encodes representational value! A great exp-theory collaboration with the Larkum and Takahashi's labs!

Join us in Zambia for the third TReND-CaMinA course: computational neuroscience & machine learning in Africa. 📆Applications open until 15.01. 🧠🧪 trendinafrica.org/trend-camina/

Cutting it a bit fine, but here’s my review of the year in neuroscience for 2024 The eighth of these, would you believe? We’ve got dark neurons, tiny monkeys, the most complete brain wiring diagram ever constructed, and much more… Published on The Spike Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

🚨 New Paper! Can neuroscience localizers uncover brain-like functional specializations in LLMs? 🧠🤖 Yes! We analyzed 18 LLMs and found units mirroring the brain's language, theory of mind, and multiple demand networks! w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, @abosselut.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social 🧵👇

We are pleased to announce our first ever Kempner Institute Symposium, Frontiers in NeuroAI, a two-day event in Allston, MA. Virtual and in-person options available. Learn more: bit.ly/41wSYJA #KempnerInstitute #NeuroAI

And here is my condensed guide on how to science: top 5 Rules