Skirball Theater events will again be streamed live 🖥️: 2026.ccneuro.org/skirball-the... We aim to provide recordings of all parallel events after the conference. Full event schedule: 2026.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
CBS CoCoNUT
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Passion for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience @ MPI CBS Visit our website for upcoming events & a great collection of past talks: https://www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
We are very much looking forward to our next CBS CoCoNUT talk by @mickbonner.bsky.social (Johns Hopkins) on "Computational principles of natural image representation in visual cortex" When: June 26, 2026, 9:30 am (CET) Where: Zoom & @mpicbs.bsky.social More: www.cbs.mpg.de/events/46063...
Prof. Mick Bonner | Computational principles of natural image representation in visual cortex
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Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, We are excited to announce our next session, in which @nicohinrichs.bsky.social (@mpicbs.bsky.social, NeurDS Lab) will present his research: "On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks" When: June 12, 2026, 11:00 am (CET) Where: see below 👇
CBS CoCoNUT
CBS CoCoNUT: A new interest group that comes together every two weeks to have an informal exchange about cognitive computational neuroscience.
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Excited to present my work with Noah Guzmán and @mweber.bsky.social, "On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks" this Friday 12th, 11AM CEST for a joint Neurogeometry and @cbs-coconut.bsky.social meeting in the Wundt Room at @mpicbs.bsky.social and also on Zoom. More info: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
Excited to present my work with Noah Guzmán and @mweber.bsky.social, "On a Geometry of Interbrain Networks" this Friday 12th, 11AM CEST for a joint Neurogeometry and @cbs-coconut.bsky.social meeting in the Wundt Room at @mpicbs.bsky.social and also on Zoom. More info: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵
LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision
LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.
laion-fmri.hebartlab.com
Meet & discuss with the 3 winning teams 🏆 of the 🌍-wide Algonauts Challenge 2025 (@algonautsproject.bsky.social). Join us for a deep dive into predicting 🧠 activity from natural movies with teams from @mpicbs.bsky.social & Meta Research. 🗓️ April 21 | 4 PM (CET) 📍 MPI CBS & Zoom (link below)
Meet & discuss with the 3 winning teams 🏆 of the 🌍-wide Algonauts Challenge 2025 (@algonautsproject.bsky.social). Join us for a deep dive into predicting 🧠 activity from natural movies with teams from @mpicbs.bsky.social & Meta Research. 🗓️ April 21 | 4 PM (CET) 📍 MPI CBS & Zoom (link below)
🧠 the Digital Brain Project is now live: $5M total · up to $500k per selected team Let's open-source the modeling of the human brain brain activity! ➡️Apply on: digitalbrainproject.org
1/N: Dear colleagues, I would like to share a new paper on the subiculum, part of my PhD with the Neural Computation Group @andrejbicanski.bsky.social @mpicbs.bsky.social . We present “A theory of subicular function and generalized vector coding” that we call Disco. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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⚠️ #CCN2026 submissions close soon! → GACs, Keynotes, Tutorials & Community Events: March 31 (AoE) → Extended Abstracts: April 2 (AoE) CCN brings together cognitive science, neuroscience, and AI to discuss the computations underlying complex behavior. Submit your work now!
1/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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I recently created this overview of fMRI datasets for visual reconstruction, aimed at AI/ML people. Originally this was a 2018 post on a now inactive PhD lab blog. I had drafts expanding it for long time and thought now it's about time. RFC and feel free to share :) github.com/seelikat/neu...
GitHub - seelikat/neuro-visual-reconstruction-dataset-index: Index and overview of neuroimaging datasets for visual perception reconstruction.
Index and overview of neuroimaging datasets for visual perception reconstruction. - seelikat/neuro-visual-reconstruction-dataset-index
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Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩🎓 🧑🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩
🧠 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...
New Open dataset alert: 🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience! N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks! 🧵below
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...
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We're happy to announce the Berlin Consciousness Symposium, an in-person event bringing together expert speakers to discuss new trends in the neuroscience of consciousness. Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...
Berlin Consciousness Symposium: New Trends in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
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I'm super happy to see our project on topographic neural network models of visual processing out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Have a look at @zejinlu.bsky.social's thread for details.
Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you @lukasmut.bsky.social for the excellent talk & stimulating discussion! For those who couldn’t join we will upload a recording soon.
Join us for the talk by @lukasmut.bsky.social (Google Deep Mind, TU Berlin) on "Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision" Starting soon at 10 AM (CET), March 28 Find the Zoom Link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
CBS CoCoNUT
CBS CoCoNUT: A new interest group that comes together every two weeks to have an informal exchange about cognitive computational neuroscience.
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Registration for CCN2025 is open! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...
Meeting Registration
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We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out - open stimuli (eg. 3D objects) - open data (eg. MindBrainBody) - tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker) - analysis scripts - & more www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/... #researchtransparency
Tools and Software
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I'm looking forward to give a talk at this great event👇 about scilaunch 🚀 shescher.github.io/scilaunch/ scilaunch 🚀 is a small convenience tool that I developed with the goal of easing the launch of new research projects, providing a useful skeleton for data, code, and organizational aspects.
Overview - scilaunch
A tiny program for you, setting up the ground for grand discoveries
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🔍 New to research data management? Want to make your projects open-science-ready with ease? Join our Data Story to explore scilaunch 🚀, a simple, beginner-friendly tool for organizing, standardizing & sharing research. 📅 Feb 12, 2025 | 12 PM 🎙️ @smnhfmnn.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/GwrdC #LoveData25
Re-Align returns to #ICLR2025! Please consider submitting if you work on how ML / CogSci / Neuro systems represent the world & what factors shape these representations 💭🧠🤖 w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social @sucholutsky.bsky.social @eringrant.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
🚨Call for Papers🚨 The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025 Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at @iclr-conf.bsky.social Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd representational-alignment.github.io
(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
The Algonauts Project 2025
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🥥🚨 If you have missed the excellent lecture by Sebastian Lapuschkin on #XAI last month , his talk can be found on our website: www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/... ... among many other great talks. 🚨🥥
Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, this is a kind reminder of today's (Nov 27) talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin on next-gen explainable A.I. #XAI 3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/
📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception