Statistical methods for dissecting interactions between brain areas www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

Could we understand vision as a type of problem-solving? In this new paper, we develop a computational model that iteratively refines the hypothesis about the visual input with evolutionary search. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... work led by @tarunkhajuria.bsky.social #visionscience #neuroAI

This is really funny…

Can large language models play simple arcade games? Kind of. Sometimes. Slowly, and not as well as a simple search algorithm. And only if you format the input right. Of course, we made a benchmark to investigate this in more detail, because that's what we do. Paper here: arxiv.org/html/2508.08...

Great and detailed blog post on compositionality, written by Eric Elmoznino: ericelmoznino.github.io/blog/2025/08... #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience

#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,

I'm curious if any senior nonhuman primate Neuro-AI researchers would be interested in joining Queen's University if we were to obtain a research chair position (full professor level)? Could you please send me a confidential message to indicate your interest? [email protected]

Sad to miss #CCN2025. It will be the 1st conference where a PhD working w/ me will speak 😭 go see Lubna's talk (Friday) about distributed neural correlates of flexible decision making in 🐒, work done in collaboration w/ @scottbrincat.bsky.social @siegellab.bsky.social & @earlkmiller.bsky.social

The registration desk for the first day is now open! If you are looking for information to get to the venue, you can find it here: 2025.ccneuro.org/venue-inform... Look out for the CCN banners!

Less than 2 weeks until CCN 2025 in Amsterdam! Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the 8th Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, August 12-15 at University of Amsterdam 🧠

I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers. I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing. So next question: how do we do this?

#NeuroAI finds itself facing an interesting question these days: 1) which of these now-many schemes for bio-plausible credit assignment actually operate in the brain? -and if more than one- 2) how the hell do they operate when they, inevitably, interact?

Now out 🚨 🧪 : our preprint describing dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network (4 cortical regions) in monkeys solving complex multi-step spatial problems! We observe distributed codes for goals, states, and planned moves across PFC! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience #compneuro 🧵👇

On behalf of Nicole Carr: new preprint from the Chand/Moore labs! High-resolution laminar recordings reveal structure-function relationships in monkey V1. 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Screen shots from BBC Click during the experiment. Now to reveal some of that that mad experiment is telling us:

Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!

🧠 #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-...

🧵how to: figures that fit

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I think we're overdue for a rollup of the best papers of the past year in NeuroAI. Candidates?

Preprint Alert 🚀 Can we simultaneously learn transformation-invariant and transformation-equivariant representations with self-supervised learning? TL;DR Yes! This is possible via simple predictive learning & architectural inductive biases – without extra loss terms and predictors! 🧵 (1/10)

#Overleaf down 2 days before NeurIPS deadlines

Great to see @rebecaianov.bsky.social paper out! #compneuro #neuroscience

Impressive study from Richard Morris's group: Hippocampal reactivation of planned trajectories is required for effective goal choice in an allocentric memory task #hippocampus #neuroskyence #navigation #memory #planning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#neuroskyence people (maybe vision people in particular): how do you think information is "read out" from the visual system? Do downstream areas like PFC get to query anything from V1 to IT? Or just later areas? How plastic are these readouts? Etc. IMO this is always under constrained in modeling.

Because we must build good things while we scream about the bad, I have started a "Data for Good" team @data-for-good-team.bsky.social that partners with organizations needing short-term data science help. We have three projects ongoing & will add more as our capacity grows. data-for-good-team.org

New work by @liushuze.bsky.social establishes an empirical link between policy complexity and neural dimensionality: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super interesting work with a computational model of how auditory hallucinations may arise: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... #neuroscience #compneuro

How do cognitive maps fail? And how can this help us understand/treat psychosis? My lab at @oxexppsy.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc tinyurl.com/2p935hhz and RA tinyurl.com/3myfpb78 to answer these questions in mouse models. Here's why you might want to join: 🧵

📢 Fantastic post doc job opportunity in my group and co-supervised by DeepMind's @mariaeckstein.bsky.social - now live! Ad here: tinyurl.com/26rafzdc - deadline May 29th. This is part of a very exciting collaboration with @melgaby.bsky.social and Matt Nour, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

Joining us for CCN2025 in Amsterdam? Early registration discount is still available until the 23rd May! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Need financial support? We got travel awards & caregiver grants available: 2025.ccneuro.org/travel-awards/ 2025.ccneuro.org/caregiver-aw...

Attending CCN in Amsterdam this August? Come and join our workshop! Details/sign-up info below.

Hot takes/kind reminders a) “the bitter lesson”’s promise of scale did not deliver wrt AI reasoning & higher cog functions—O3 hallucinates 2x more than O1 b) prediction is not understanding, hallucinating is worse c) gen AI could help neuroAI but following latest AI trends is not a paradigm shift

My paper on hierarchical plans is out in Cognition!🎉 tldr: We ask participants to generate hierarchical plans in a programming game. People prefer to reuse beyond what standard accounts predict, which we formalize as induction of a grammar over actions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBQr2Hx2x...

Neural dynamics of an extended frontal lobe network in goal-subgoal problem solving https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.06.652442v1

We are hosting a workshop on using Naturalistic Games within #NeuroAI at CCN2025 in August @cogcompneuro.bsky.social ! Below you can let us know if you would like to join / have relevant work to share / have any ideas for the workshop in general! #compneuro #neuroscience forms.gle/BPPMfeWZu8dh...

Take our short 5-min anonymous survey on the Neuromorphic field’s current state & future: 📋 tinyurl.com/3jkszrnr 🗓️ Open until May 12, 2025 Results will be shared openly and submitted for publication. Your input will help us understand how interdisciplinary trends are shaping the field.

Some scientists think they are doing this "on purpose", whether learned or by happenstance of selective breeding. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Super cool paper on a canonical circuit motif, replicating typical neuronal dynamics like attractors, winner-take-all behavior etc. in neurmorphic hardware! By team surrounding @melikapayvand.bsky.social & @giacomoi.bsky.social #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚀Exciting News! 🚀 Join us for the first UniReps x @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social Meetup at @ucl.ac.uk @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social on Sept 8, 2025! 🎉 🎙️ Keynote by @irisgroen.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) 📍 Register now! 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Time to get your abstracts / 2-pagers in for CCN2025! #compneuro #neuroAI #neuroscience

Another nail in the STDP coffin

This is an awesome feed!

As our community increasingly shifts toward embracing the complexity of the brain, this new book by Xiao-Jing Wang will be an essential go-to. He is among a small, prescient group that embraced important ideas before the rest of us. Here he unpacks them. 1/2 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...

Looking for an exciting fellowship in AI & Neuro, with competitive salary (~£100k)? We got a new position in the lab at Oxford, working with @somnirons.bsky.social and me! 🧪 Our project: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh... General info: encode.pillar.vc #compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

If you’re in SF, come build tools-for-science with us later this month! 🛠️ #opensource #neuroskyence #openscience #machinelearning #compchem #chemsky

Interested in building new tools for accelerating the natural sciences and based in the Bay Area? Join for this super exciting hackathon at the end of March! 🧪 #neuroscience #NeuroAI

I’m thrilled to share that I just joined @LilaSciences as SVP of Open-Endedness! You can join my team here: For Research Scientist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78... For Research Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78...