🧠 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...

Datasets like NSD & THINGS offer rich stimuli but often test a single task. After great conversations at #CCN2025 on multi-task studies & generalization in brains & models, I thought I would repost our perspective for those interested in this topic. We need multiple tasks!👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,

That's a wrap for CCN2025 -- and so planning for CCN2026 in New York is starting today! Save travels to all participants and remember to fill out the feedback survey sent via email!

The moment we've all been waiting for— #CCN2025 is HERE! Today we start with satellite events, and tomorrow the main conference begins in Amsterdam! We'll be sharing daily updates about each day's program, so follow the CCN account to stay in the loop. Can't wait to see everyone!

After preparing for a full year together with @neurosteven.bsky.social and all other amazing organizers of @cogcompneuro.bsky.social, #CCN2025 is finally here! While I'm proud of the entire program we put together, I'd now like to highlight my own lab's contributions, 6 posters total:

CCN2025 kicks off this Tuesday in Amsterdam (with satellite events Monday)! Fun fact: We might be getting the best conference weather Amsterdam has ever seen ☀️ Can't wait to meet everyone and dive into the exciting program ahead. See you there!

In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):

There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision. academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...

Phew decisions are out..!! Congratulations to the authors of the 26 papers selected for the first edition of the CCN Proceedings 📜 @eringrant.bsky.social @neurosteven.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social 1/2

🧠 #CCN2025 (August 12-15, Amsterdam) Update: Early registration deadline approaching! ⏰ Register by May 23 for early pricing ($375 student/$495 regular) ➡️ 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Full schedule now available: 2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...

Waarom zien we wat we zien? 👀 @neurosteven.bsky.social en Sander Bohté starten onderzoek naar hoe onze hersenen supersnel leren wat belangrijk is om te zien. Hiervoor hebben ze nu geld van NWO ontvangen. Gefeliciteerd en veel succes met het onderzoek!🥳 www.nwo.nl/nieuws/van-a...

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...

📣! CCN2025 submissions have closed with impressive results: 613 submissions. A 21% increase from last year! Thank you to everyone who contributed. Looking forward to welcoming you all to Amsterdam this summer for what promises to be our biggest conference yet! #CCN2025 #Amsterdam

A little less than 24hrs to go! ⏱️ @neurosteven.bsky.social and I are *very much* looking forward to receiving your 2-page abstract on your latest exciting findings at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience and AI ♟️🧠🤖 and to welcome you to Amsterdam in August! bsky.app/profile/cogc...

📢 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

"Approximately 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake" - that is the title of @jamesheathers.bsky.social's provocative preprint. James submitted it to @metaror.bsky.social and we now have 3 peer reviews and an editorial assessment you can read here: metaror.org/kotahi/artic... !

New preprint (#neuroscience #deeplearning doi.org/10.1101/2025...)! We trained 20 DCNNs on 941235 images with varying scene segmentation (original. object-only, silhouette, background-only). Despite object recognition varying (27-53%), all networks showed similar EEG prediction.

I wrote a commentary on a very nice paper that just appeared in @brain1878.bsky.social by @selmalugtmeijer.bsky.social, Sobolewska, de Haan & @neurosteven.bsky.social. Spoiler: It's about modularity in mid-level vision. 🤓 Original paper: doi.org/10.1093/brai... Commentary: doi.org/10.1093/brai...

We are extremely excited to announce Hava Siegelmann from the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a keynote speaker of CCN2025! If you want to contribute to this year’s CCN program, the March 14 deadline for special event submissions is approaching rapidly (details below!).

Excellent and provocative lecture by @ulrichschimmack.bsky.social on measurement at the 4M winterschool. "It is hard to reward people for thinking." "There is nothing wrong with exploring the data. How else will we discover new things? Especially when your crappy model does not fit."

127 8-page submissions for #CCN2025. Abstracts look great. We had hoped for 80. CCN Proceedings appears to have launched successfully. Will yield 30-35 great papers. 🙏 to the Debbie Yee, Sneha Aenugu, and especially @jaspervdb.bsky.social and @eringrant.bsky.social

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

Hey Bsky friends on #neuroskyence! Very excited to share our @iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...

Next week registration for CCN2025 will open. Do not forget to check this years social. It will be at IJver, nested in Amsterdam North's iconic NDSM wharf. There will be a 7 course walking dinner.

First conference paper submissions landing for #CCN2025! 📄 Abstract deadline: Feb 17, full papers: Feb 20. Given that this is a new 8-page conference format very exciting to see comming in. Fantastic work by the Technical Program Committee, o.a. @jaspervdb.bsky.social @eringrant.bsky.social

People, just stop doing Frontiers special issues. Find a nice diamond open access journal, and self-publish and collaboratively peer review the set of papers you all want to write. Do not give Frontiers money. They add no value. If anything, they hurt your reputation. MDPI is of course even worse.

1/5 New study challenges modular view of visual processing! academic.oup.com/brain/advanc... Analysis of 307 stroke patients shows mid-level visual processing are distributed across neural networks rather than confined to specific brain regions.

The #CCN2025 conference 2025.ccneuro.org is looking for area and senior area chairs for the new 8-page track. You can sign up for area chair and form this list we will also invite senior area chairs. We might also nominate you ourselves :-) forms.gle/MTBgZZxQaDY8...

(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

ML competitions have revolutionized scientific progress by challenging researchers to build better models on standardized datasets, with rigorous evaluation on hidden test data. Thrilled that the Algonauts 2025 challenge results (arxiv.org/pdf/2501.00504) are heading to CCN2025 in Amsterdam.

So happy that Anna Schapiro will be a keynote speaker at CCN 2025 (2025.ccneuro.org) in Amsterdam (12-15 aug), and do not forget about the new option to submit a full conference paper.

I've been arguing that we will be able to train foundation models on neural data from different species, because I suspect that there are sufficiently preserved motifs in neural computation across the phylgenetic tree. This paper appears to support that idea! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... 🧠📈 🧪

This paper from Claudia Clopath's lab is very exciting for me. I've been musing for a while now that the challenge of approximating gradient descent is probably made way easier in the brain by feedback signals for control. Here they show it!!! openreview.net/forum?id=xav... 🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪

We are going to launch an 8-pager format for CCN2025 next to the 2 page format. We have organised 2 zoom sessions for questions about this new format and CCN2025 in general. Today (21:00 CET, 15:00 EST) and on the 21st (10:00 CET, 16:00 EST). See 2025.ccneuro.org/call-for-pap... for reg.

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro