🚨🧠🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨🧠🚨 in my lab: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Connectivity in Working Memory. Deadline 12 Nov! Apply via website; please repost.

*Neurocomputational architecture for syntax/learning* Neuroscience & Philo Salon: join our discussion with @elliot-murphy.bsky.social with commentaries by @wmatchin.bsky.social and @sandervanbree.bsky.social Nov 5, 10:30 am eastern US Register: umd.zoom.us/my/luizpesso... #neuroskyence

My commentary on @anilseth.bsky.social's BBS article: philpapers.org/rec/MICBOF. We should bet on functionalism.

🎉New Paper Alert!🎉 Really excited that this collaboration is finally out! It shows that combining oscillatory dynamics with hierarchical predictive frameworks generates speech perception that is robust to temporal distortions: similarly to human behavior and more so than current ASR models.

Great PhD opportunity!! ⬇️

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

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.11423 "Open Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems" by Samson Abramsky, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Leo S. D. Caves, Michael Levin, Penousal Machado, Charles Ofria, Susan Stepney, Roger White 🧪

Really looking forward to #CCN2025! On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠 Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity. Come by Poster A64 for more.

Despite recent criticism from Quiroga to our claim that Concept Neurons emerge from Conjunctive Coding Neurons we claim: “And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively!”. We hope it sparks a smile (and maybe a few debates). Read here: tinyurl.com/3ycv3vj2

How is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence 🧵 1/n

How strong is the Rhythm of Perception? Molly Henry, Jonathan Peelle, and team found out in a large-scale registered replication of Hickok, et al. 2015. @jpeelle.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

Enjoyed this discussion with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social We discussed scientific explanation, its types, causation, reduction/emergence, & other topics. Great to see the strength of bringing both science and philosophy to the table for hard topics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoY-...

Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

New manuscript published! ✍️👀 Concept neurons evolve from index neurons through overlapping memories. Check it out here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 1/15

We are hiring! Come work in sunny Marseille! NeuroSchool PhD contracts in neuroscience are available at Aix Marseille University, France: I submitted one project (#11) for the call for international PhDs: "Investigating Music Listening in Human and Non-Human Primates."

2.5 years after ‘the great debate’ at ASSC Amsterdam, we revisit it: Lamme, @standehaene.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social , Boly and @anilseth.bsky.social present their theories, and Melloni and myself try to extract some insights and criticisms. >>> www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New episode (1054), with Dr. Kathryn Nave (@kathrynnave.bsky.social). We talk about her great book, A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life. #Biology #Science YouTube: youtu.be/DKUAaqb9WnA Podcast: bit.ly/4jElnE1

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.

🚨 Also, I’ll soon be looking for a job! Feel free to dm me if you know someone who knows someone who works on something cool. I’m excited to connect and learn about post-doc opportunities (in Europe and beyond) (6/6)

Philosophy & Theory of Neuroscience Conference 🧠 next week @ Chapman & available via zoom.Talks by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social Newsome, Yassa, Roskies, Carolyn Parkinson, Frederick Eberhardt & many others! www.chapman.edu/scst/confere... #philsky #philsci #neuroskyence

Our review on the theoretical status of oscillations and field potentials is out! What are their effects, and what can electrophysiology signals reveal about how the brain works? w/ @dlevenstein.bsky.social @prokraustinator.bsky.social Bradley Voytek @rdgao.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

I promised to write about my thoughts on the status of the field of neuroAI, some of the big challenges we are facing, and the approaches we are taking to address them. This is super selective on the topic of finding a good model but in my view it affects the field as a whole. Here we go. 🧵

A quick selection of interesting papers from this year: 1) A level-headed intro to neural manifolds and how they tie into our current scientific project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... by Langdon et al.

I have not seen a starter pack for the study of brain rhythms. So, here's a start. go.bsky.app/A6zgHeE

✨We are organising an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: computationalcognitivescience.github.io/tm-workshop/ Registration is open! (spaces are limited) 🧵1/n

🚨 new preprint! 📝 Challenges for a Computational Explanation of Flexible Linguistic Inference, by Marieke Woensdregt, Mark Blokpoel, @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, and @andreaeyleen.bsky.social Martin (2024) doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Do we have good and bad days for cognitive performance? Our new preprint, led by Michael Aristodemou, set to find out, testing day-to-day stability of working memory (n=4150;t =1,048,576) and nonverbal reasoning performance (n=449;t=454,913) using hierarchical modeling osf.io/preprints/ps...

"electric fields...are causally relevant, and...informative." Why not? They are there. Evolution uses what's available Decoupling Measurements and Processes: On the Epiphenomenon Debate Surrounding Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials osf.io/preprints/ps... #neuroscience

Kazanina & Poeppel (2023) argue that spatial cell types in navigation areas offer the neural ingredients for a Language of Thought (LoT). In this commentary, I give four arguments against this proposal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cultural variation and universality in musical cognition across the world: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you are theoretically inclined neuroscientist, check out my new #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast at theoreticalneuroscience.no . Eight episodes out at present, with Grace Lindsay, Christof Koch, Arvind Kumar, Sacha van Albada, Li Zhaoping, Henrik Linden, Carina Curto and Konrad Kording.

This figure is the take home message from our recent paper proposing a framework for thinking about navigation across species, spearheaded by @katejj.bsky.social

Job offer: two postdoc positions (up to 2 years) in philosophy of science at UNamur (Belgium). Topic: emergence and reductionism in transitions. More information at (contact me for an English version): jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2023-... jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2023-... #philsci #philsky

@drmichaellevin.bsky.social and I are seeking an adventurous summer intern to help with experimental studies of learning in flatworms, including a fresh look at memory transfer (www.nature.com/articles/209...). Get in touch with me if you're interested.

"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition" w Ken Luo @robmok.bsky.social Whether place, border, head direction, Jennifer Aniston, or whatever cells, are we fooling ourselves? Are these intuitive findings scientific discoveries? 1/6 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share a new paper w Dani Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🍿 🎬 Compiled a set of (brief) videos on computational complexity for cognitive scientists irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/12/27/c...

New paper with @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social, investigating WM through small eye movements. We found that, even during attempted fixation, gaze patterns not only reflect memory content but also capture its dynamic evolution over time. Available on Nature Human Behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41...

direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... The path from linguistic theory to neural realization is messy and combinatorial. By tracing "derivation chains" we reduce our odds of getting lost along the way.

Great new paper by Yuening Yan & Philippe Schyns and colleagues. Uses MEG and very sophisticated analyses to demonstrate that the prediction of specific stimulus features, rather than coarse categories, biases perception. #neuroskyence #compneurosky

We integrated refractory dynamics and pulses of inhibition into the hidden layers of an ANN & show that oscillations enable multiplexing of simultaneous stimuli. Proof-of-concept paper with Marco Idiart, Marcel van Gerven & @olejensen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

PhD thesis submitted... Now on to Germany for a postdoc! 🇩🇪

A quick selection of interesting papers from this year: 1) A level-headed intro to neural manifolds and how they tie into our current scientific project. www.nature.com/articles/s41... by Langdon et al.

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

Is a universal brain decoder possible? Can we train a decoding system that easily transfers to new individuals/tasks? Check out our #NeurIPS2023 paper where we show that it’s possible to transfer from a large pretrained model to achieve SOTA! 🧠🟦 Link: poyo-brain.github.io 🧵

New preprint: "Tracking the distance to criticality in systems with unknown noise" By Brendan Harris, w/ Leonardo Gollo. We identify new, noise-robust time-series features for tracking the distance to criticality Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2310.14791 Code: github.com/brendanjohnh... #ComplexSystems