Presenting tomorrow at #CCN2026 NYU Unifying Gestalt Principles of Perceptual Organization Through Feedback-Mediated Learned Prior Integration Poster E86 in Poster Session E: Thursday, August 6, 10:30 am 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=f...

Seeking emergency reviewers for #NeurIPS for a couple of papers in my batch that are still awaiting reviews. If interested, please DM me your OpenReview ID.

We're inviting submissions for NeuroXR 2026, a @ieeeismar2026.bsky.social workshop for researchers working across #XR, #neuroscience, #HCI, affective computing, #neuroengineering, rehabilitation, and #AssistiveTech. Deadline: July 5, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE neuroxr-ws.github.io/www/

Jack Gallant on what makes a useful theory: "-Theorists should focus on formulating specific predictions that discriminate their preferred theories from highly-correlated competing theories." Representation of the world in the human brain www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFwH...

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

Perceptual multistability, observed across species and sensory modalities, offers valuable insights into numerous cognitive functions and dysfunctions. For instance, differences in temporal dynamics a...

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Online Now: Perceptual multistability: a multifaceted window into brain dysfunctions

How is the ON and OFF pathway split in the visual system? 🤔 The textbook standard, that bipolar cells are separated simply by the glutamate receptors they express, might be due for an update....a short 🧵

Have you ever been in an authorship conflict on an academic paper? You're not alone. This thread is for you.

authors.elsevier.com/c/1nA3C_KOmx... new paper in Neuron in which we argue that many claims on consciousness in AI & animals etc are inconsistent. they are driven by theories/views that are not really supported by empirical evidence. they confuse subjective experience w/ cognition or perception

There's one week left to apply to become this Fall's BCS Rising Star speaker 🌟 Please make sure to apply if you're a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences🧠 Reposts are appreciated! 🪐

Lynn Sörensen@lynnkasorensen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Are you a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences? 🧠 Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your work at MIT - apply by May 31! 🌟

Want a free copy of my new memoir, Emergence? Of course you do. :) 25 signed hardcovers up for grabs on Goodreads. It takes about ten seconds to enter. Good luck! 🤞 tinyurl.com/EmergenceGiv...

Book giveaway for Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind by David Sussillo May 23-Jun 08, 2026

Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from May 23-Jun 08, 2026. From group homes to the frontier of neuroscience and AI: a Nature-...

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Some incredibly exciting news that still feels a bit surreal: I am starting my research group @mpicybernetics.bsky.social! The best part? We are hiring at all levels! Curious about the science we plan to tackle, read along :) #NeuroSky

I'm giving a talk today at Vision Science Society #VSS2026 Feedback-Mediated Prior Integration Unifies Gestalt Perceptual Organization 5pm, Room 2 Come for the pretty (familiar!) pictures, stay for a theory of how the brain integrates priors with sensory processing. Another round, Tampa VSS!

100% minus the fact that Vafa's model mentioned here needed a regularization tweek that a work involving @andreastolias and @suryaganguli.bsky.social fixed.

Konrad Kording@kordinglab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tony is 100% right. This can't be said often enough.

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain

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Very excited to share new work by Leonardo Lupori. In mice, a single dose of the antipsychotic clozapine results in changes to behavior and cortical activity patterns that remain detectable a week later. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The recording of Mel Goodale's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kThw....

Melvyn Goodale - Linking Past and Present Worlds in the Visual Control of Behaviour

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Applications are now open for our Junior Theoretical Neuroscientists Workshop which will take place July 21 - 24, 2026 at the Center for Computational Neuroscience @flatironinstitute.org Learn more and apply by April 15 at www.simonsfoundation.org/event/jrwork...

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To accommodate applicants and PIs attending Cosyne, we’ve extended the MCN application deadline to Sunday, Mar 22. Please repost.

Roozbeh Kiani@roozbehkiani.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Join us in Woods Hole for Methods in Computational Neuroscience (MCN) at MBL (July 24–Aug 21). Four weeks of computational + systems neuroscience, hands-on training, and close interaction with an exceptional faculty.

Congratulations to Ian Thornton and colleagues who published their Mainz-Linez illusion in i-Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social): the red dots appears to wave left and right when one looks at one of the black dots, but they actually move straight journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Highly recommended!

Rainer Engelken@rainerengelken.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are recruiting PhD students and postdocs at UIUC ECE interested in learning dynamics, spiking networks, and dynamical systems. Details: rainerengelken.github.io/join/

I'll be at Cosyne workshops next week (16th and 17th). We are hiring at Astera NeuroAI. If you are at Cosyne workshops next week and want to learn more about this exciting research team we are building at Astera, please DM me or email me at dileep@astera.org

Dileep George @dileeplearning@dileeplearning.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Check out my blog fore more details on what we are up to: blog.dileeplearning.com/p/in-search-... 2/

I'm sad to have had to miss #Cosyne2026 last minute for multiple reasons. Do genetically-defined cell populations encode visual information in fundamentally different ways? 2-min video overview + interactive AI Q&A + full poster: toosi.github.io/research/cosyne2026-poster.html

The Cowley Group at CSHL has an opening for a bioAI PhD student to start Fall 2026 to work on closed-loop AI models for visual processing (see below). You *must* have a Master's degree in a quant/eng/cs field. www.cshl.edu/phd-program/... Please reach out to me if interested! I'll be at Cosyne.

Benjamin Cowley@benjocowley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G

Cool! This is generative inference’s prediction for human perception in this illusion: the squares are no longer squares! Try it for yourself here: huggingface.co/spaces/ttoos...

Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

Hi all! My lab at the University of Bern @unibe.ch 🇨🇭, funded by @snsf.ch, opening in April 2026, is looking for candidates for several fully-funded positions: a postdoctoral scientist, PhD student(s) and a laboratory technician. Please share (and apply)!

Why don’t neural networks learn all at once, but instead progress from simple to complex solutions? And what does “simple” even mean across different neural network architectures? Sharing our new paper @iclr_conf led by Yedi Zhang with Peter Latham arxiv.org/abs/2512.20607

A functional influence based circuit motif that constrains the set of plausible algorithms of cortical function https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.29.702557v1

Apply to work with Jeff. You'll enjoy great science and collaboration with a caring PI.

Jeff Johnston@wjj.bsky.social · 7mo ago

By the way, if you’re interested in working together on problems like this, I’m starting my lab at UCSF this summer. Get in touch if you’re interested in doing a postdoc! More info here: wj2.github.io/postdoc_ad (7/7)

Hierarchical processing and polarization encoding in the cephalopod visual system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.08.698312v1

I will be presenting part of this work in workshop on Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models, CogInterp Unifying Gestalt Principles Through Inference-Time Prior Integration Dec 7th, Room 5AB #NeurIPS2025 @neuripsconf.bsky.social Also, some cool papers!👇 coginterp.github.io/neurips2025/...

Tahereh Toosi@taherehtoosi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization? We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with @kenmiller.bsky.social! 🧵