Imagine being able to control machines by thinking. This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ

Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision. Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca

Inspiring talk by theoretical neuroscientist Dr. Chris Eliasmith at the Fields Institute on building large-scale computational models of the brain. #neuroAI #compneuro

🧠 Imagine being able to control machines by thinking. @drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient. Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8

A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪

Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision. Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca

A nice application of our NeuroAI Turing Test! Check out @ithobani.bsky.social's thread for more details on comparing brains to machines!

I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597

The brain isn’t tabula rasa. Evolution has encoded strong inductive priors in our neural architectures and plasticity rules, providing structured initialization that enables efficient reinforcement learning and optimization. #neuroAI #compneuro m.youtube.com/watch?v=21EY...

Inferring learning rules during de novo task learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679295v1

Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖 * Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1) * Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin... * Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...

1/6 Recent discussions (e.g. Rich Sutton on @dwarkesh.bsky.social’s podcast) have highlighted why animals are a better target for intelligence — and why scaling alone isn’t enough. In my recent @cmurobotics.bsky.social seminar talk, “Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence”,

Our lab director Dr. Laschowski sat down with UofT neuroscience students to discuss brain science, AI, and machine learning www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3wJ... @uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca @uoft.bsky.social @drlaschowski.bsky.social #neuroAI

Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience? Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are open! 💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme 🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939 #AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

But models can readily use latent information in their context. We therefore suggest that natural intelligence solves the latent learning problem via the complementary strengths of episodic memory: reinstating experiences into context makes latent information accessible. 4/

It was an honour to give the grand rounds talk this morning in the Department of Surgery at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal. Thank you for the invitation. #neuroAI #compneuro

Are you a graduate student in #Ukraine interested in machine learning and neuroscience? My research lab at #UofT is now accepting applications for remote thesis supervision. (1/3) #neuroAI #compneuro @vectorinstitute.ai @uoft.bsky.social @uoftcompsci.bsky.social @uhn.ca

Dr. Andres Lozano, a neurosurgeon at UHN, is leading the Canadian clinical trials of the Neuralink brain implant. He shares how the implant will allow patients with spinal cord injuries to control a computer cursor with only their thoughts. Watch: https://bit.ly/4pcjcua

Despite its efficiency, the brain is oddly inefficient: requires ~8 hours of sleep for every 16 hours of runtime. We spend a third of our lives recharging.

Our clinical trial with Neuralink is officially underway! #neuroAI #compneuro @uhn.ca

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

We are proud to announce that Canada’s first Neuralink implant surgeries have been successfully completed at UHN. This achievement redefines possibilities in treatment for patients with paralysis. Learn more: www.uhn.ca/corporate/Ne...

Can self supervised learning help understand how the brain learns to see the world? Our latest study, led by Josephine Raugel (FAIR, ENS), is now out: 📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18226 🧵 thread below

I started in neuroscience. Then spent several years building artificial brains for robots. Now I'm back in neuroscience. Enjoy the journey. #neuroscience #AI @utoronto.ca

What is the mind? What is intelligence? In our lab, we’re working to answer these questions by reverse-engineering the brain. #neuroscience #neuroAI #AI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca

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

Well, neuroplasticity — you had a good run.

New talk by Dr. Peter Dayan, theoretical neuroscientist and one of the leading experts on reinforcement learning in brains and machines. #neuroAI #compneuro #AI #neuroscience www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OOG...

Calling all #UofT undergraduate students in Computer Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Engineering! We're still accepting applications to supervise undergraduate thesis research and course projects starting Fall 2025. #CompNeuro #NeuroAI @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social

Mechanistic interpretability is such a fascinating area of research, especially from a neuroscience and cognitive science perspective. Glad to Anthropic devoting considerable time and resources to understanding the internal mechanisms of neural networks. #neuroAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGKN...

Apply by August 25. We’re especially recruiting students who want to build neural mechanistic models and study topics such as mechanistic interpretability and representation alignment between biological and artificial neural networks. #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI #compneuro

In neuroscience, we often try to understand systems by analyzing their representations — using tools like regression or RSA. But are these analyses biased towards discovering a subset of what a system represents? If you're interested in this question, check out our new commentary! Thread:

My talk at Microsoft Research about building computational models for brain science. Thanks for the invite! #neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca @msftresearch.bsky.social www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Our new study comparing neural decoding algorithms for brain-machine interfaces led by student refugees from #Ukraine www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #NeuroAI #neuroscience #AI #compneuro @uoft.bsky.social @uhnresearch.bsky.social @uhntoronto.bsky.social

If you're interested in using #AI and neural networks to study the neuroscience of aging and to model age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, please reach out. We're actively pursuing research in this area. #neuroAI #compneuro @uoftcompneuro.bsky.social

Join us July 15-16 at #UofT for the 2025 Toronto Robotics Conference. Last year, we won Best Poster Award for building a new deep constructive learning algorithm for brain-machine interfaces. See you there! #neuroAI #compneuro @uoft.bsky.social robotics.utoronto.ca/2025-toronto...

Looking forward to speaking at the Computational Neuroscience Summer School at Український католицький університет in #Ukraine. #NeuroAI #CompNeuro apps.ucu.edu.ua/en/summersch...

Calling all #UofT undergraduate students in Computer Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, and Engineering! We're still accepting applications to supervise undergraduate thesis research and course projects starting Fall 2025. #CompNeuro #NeuroAI @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social

Are you a graduate student in #Ukraine interested in machine learning and neuroscience? My research lab at #UofT is now accepting applications for remote thesis supervision. (1/3) #neuroAI #compneuro @vectorinstitute.ai @uoft.bsky.social @uoftcompsci.bsky.social @uhn.ca

The brains of people writing an essay with ChatGPT are less engaged than those of people blocked from using any online tools for the task https://go.nature.com/44yqUXb

In a new study, Kempner associate faculty member Sam Gershman (@gershbrain.bsky.social) and collaborators found similarities between human intelligence and an AI decision-making system. Read more in the Harvard Gazette: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... #neuroscience #AI #NeuroAI

Out today in @nature.com: we show that individual neurons have diverse tuning to a decision variable computed by the entire population, revealing a unifying geometric principle for the encoding of sensory and dynamic cognitive variables. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In my lab, we're building new deep learning models for embodied visual intelligence, inspired by the visual information processing neural networks in the brain. For more information, check out orcid.org/0000-0003-20... #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI #compneuro @uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca @uoft.bsky.social

How do task dynamics impact learning in networks with internal dynamics? Excited to share our ICML Oral paper on learning dynamics in linear RNNs! with @clementinedomine.bsky.social @mpshanahan.bsky.social and Pedro Mediano openreview.net/forum?id=KGO...

Honoured to be giving a talk at the prestigious Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy! Thank you for the invitation ♥️🙏🏼 #neuroAI #neuroscience #AI #compneuro @uoft.bsky.social @uhn.ca

Excited to share this project specifying a research direction I think will be particularly fruitful for theory-driven cognitive science that aims to explain natural behavior! We're calling this direction "Naturalistic Computational Cognitive Science"

1/ Very much resonate w/ Sergey Levine here: we need agents that autonomously learn *in* the world. I've long argued online adaptive autonomy & memory are critical—1 of 4 essential challenges to build agents truly matching the brain’s capabilities. 👇 Thread on some of our recent efforts:

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nature research paper: An instantaneous voice-synthesis neuroprosthesis https://go.nature.com/4kLPolK