🚨 Preprint alert! 🧠 What happens to the brain under LSD? Using #MEG & Machine Learning, our latest study led by PhD candidate @venkateshness.bsky.social reveals that LSD speeds up neural oscillations and boosts brain fractality. 📄 👉 shorturl.at/suhPU Some highlights below 🧵1/n

Quick note from the CoCo Lab: As a lab director, currently mentoring students from Venezuela & Iran, I’m reminded how heavy things can be for international students when events back home bring uncertainty & concern for loved ones. This is a moment for solidarity, simple check-ins & mutual support.

🚨 New article in #NCONSC Meditation induces shifts in neural oscillations, brain complexity, and critical dynamics: novel insights from MEG academic.oup.com/nc/article/2... @karimjerbi.bsky.social #consciousness 🧠🧪

#AI Good news ... for now. "Even the best AI systems still fall short of the levels reached by the most creative humans," according to our @karimjerbi.bsky.social & @yoshuabengio.bsky.social. #ScientificReports @natureportfolio.nature.com nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

📣 Out Today! Have AI systems surpassed human-level creativity ? Excited to share that our large-scale study comparing the #creativity of #LLMs to 100,000 humans was published today in Nature’s Scientific Reports. Curious? 👀 nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...

A high-level teaser of our recent paper on the impact of Samatha + Vipassana #meditation on the brain! 🧠 🧘 Work led by @annapasca.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with @lauramrz.bsky.social Vittorio Pizzella Antonino Raffone @robertoguidotti.bsky.social @jordanobyrne.bsky.social + many more!

✈️ Heading to #Boston today for the #DREAM #ENGINEERING Symposium this weekend at the @medialab.bsky.social an inspiring mix of scientists, multimedia artists & filmmakers! 👉 I’ll present a teaser of our unpublished work on the neural basis of dream recall, combining sleep #EEG 🧠💤 and #AI. 1/2🧵

It was a pleasure to share our work on how studying play helps us understand natural intelligence & develop AI at the MAIN conference, organized by @karimjerbi.bsky.social & other amazing scientists. Studying Play: What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines 1/n www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyTn...

The fourth and last Keynote of MAIN 2025! Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social (University of California, Berkeley) 👉 Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.

Very cool talk by Richard Naud (University of Ottawa) @ #MAIN2025 “Modular Organization of Electrical Fluctuations in the Mouse Brain” @neuronaud.bsky.social

🔴 Live: Our MAIN 2025 Keynote #3 Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social (Université de Montréal & Mila)  “Scientist AI: disentangling agency and causal understanding” #AI #Neuroscience #AIsafety #MAIN2025

👉 Very cool talk by Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social (Université de Montréal & Mila) in the videogaming session on Day 1 of MAIN 2025: "AI Models of Human Brain and Behaviour During Naturalistic Videogame Play"  #videogaming #AI #fMRI

#MAIN2025 Looks like everybody has disappeared for lunch 👻 … Next up after lunch will be Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social #Montreal #Neuroscience #AI

🔴 Live: Panel discussion #1: @ MAIN2025 The future of Neuroscience - The role of AI ?  with Andreas Tolias, Siva Reddy, Joao Sacramento, Ching Fang + Eva Portelance Moderated by Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social @andreastolias.bsky.social

Our first Keynote lecture of this year’s MAIN 2025…..🥁 Andreas Tolias(Stanford, CA, USA) @andreastolias.bsky.social "Foundation models and digital twins of the brain" #Foundationmodels #MAIN2025 #Neuroscience #AI

🔴 Live : Talk #4 @ MAIN2025 Siva Reddy (McGill & Mila) “The role of memory in long chain-of-thought reasoning” 👉 main2025.org #MAIN2025

Montreal AI & Neuroscience 2025 started this morning! 🧠X🤖 www.main2025.org #MAIN2025 #NeuroAI #Neuroscience #AI

Live : Talk #3 at #MAIN2025 Joao Sacramento (Google): “Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning” #RL #NeuroAI

🌐 Our submission "Reclaiming #Creativity: Cultural Rights, #AI, and the Future of Human Expression", with Antoine Bellemare, Suzanne Kite, @karimjerbi.bsky.social, has been positively received by the #UN Human Rights Office and cited their report for the UN General Assembly!

#NEUROSCIENCE “Criticality offers a powerful framework for understanding #brain function and dysfunction,” says UdeM's Karim Jerbi. He's in the cover story of this week's @newscientist.com. #psychology #chaos www.newscientist.com/article/2493...

Very cool looking paper out today from Jess Thompson and Chris Summerfield, showing how to get rapid (zero-shot) generalization in counting behaviour with a dual stream deep network: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 🧠📈 #NeuroAI