We're very happy to announce that SPAN2027 will be held at NYU on May 20-22, 2027. The conference will be hosted by the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness 🧠 A call for proposals will come soon!

Excited to have Taylor's work with me and Daphna Shohamy out in Open Mind now: even at the end of an event, it's not too late to prioritize it for long-term memory!

Taylor Chamberlain@tchamberlain.bsky.social · last mo.

Sometimes we know an experience is important in the moment. Other times, its importance only becomes clear after the fact. Do these two cases have different consequences for memory? In our new paper we found that both kinds of prioritization impact memory in different ways! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...

with @raphaelmilliere.com

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally, an attempt at some much needed clarification!

Really excited about this project! If you want to chat about repulsion and representational changes in hippocampus, come by our poster at #CCN2026 tomorrow at 9:30!

Anna Schapiro@annaschapiro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's where to find the Penn Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience next week! See you in NYC!

So excited to be presenting @cogcompneuro.bsky.social tomorrow! #CCN2026 🎉 Contributed talk: Tues 14:40, Learning & Memory Poster: Wed 9:30-11:15, Poster C33 2026.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=E... With @johnmorrison.bsky.social @michaelshadlen.bsky.social Nick Turk-Browne, Miranda Ye & Zoe Haynes

So excited to be part of this event! I'm up in 2 talks 😀

Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@cogcompneuro.bsky.social Satellite Event: COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE Saturday, 1 August 2026 New York University Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness #CCN2026

This should be fun! I'll be talking about what it means for a neural network to have a world model (joint work with @raphaelmilliere.com) and presenting new evidence that the standard example, Othello-GPT, does not have one (joint work with @shauli.bsky.social among others).

Eivinas Butkus@eivinas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

with Alexa Tartaglini, @zfjoshying.bsky.social, Ellen Su, @solimlegris.bsky.social, @soniajoseph.bsky.social, Patrick Butlin, @johnmorrison.bsky.social, @thisismyhat.bsky.social, @jennhu.bsky.social, Ilker Yildirim, @brendenlake.bsky.social, Niko Kriegeskorte

My reply to @liadmudrik.bsky.social et al.'s proposal that we should reengineer @neddo.bsky.social's famous phenomenal/access distinction.

Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Online Now: In defense of a distinction

Final paper from @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social's PhD! Extending her prev work by showing how two hippocampal sequences are linked together. Part of an issue on hipp predictions edited by @mariamaly.bsky.social @barense.bsky.social @peterkok.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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Mariam Aly@mariamaly.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes? The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions. New work w/ @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social – part of the theme issue on hippocampal predictions!

Do LLMs *understand* language? Do educational AI agents *understand* the material they teach (or their students)? Claims about what AI systems do or don't understand are pervasive, but assessing them requires an account of MACHINE UNDERSTANDING

Tomorrow, 10:45, talk room 2! Revisiting Iconic Memory with a New Experimental Paradigm @vssmtg.bsky.social #VSS2026

Gal Vishne@neurogal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Arrived @ #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social 😎🌴 If you're here - come check out my talk on Monday! Revisiting Iconic Memory with a New Experimental Paradigm Room 2 May 18th, 10:45 (1st talk) Super fun collaboration with @johnmorrison.bsky.social & my 1st study from @michaelshadlen.bsky.social lab 🤩

This talk will be 🔥. It should be of special interest to philosophers because of its implications for the overflow debate about consciousness. Gal won't have time to talk about those implications on Monday, but she'll be happy to talk about them after. Hope to see you there!

Gal Vishne@neurogal.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Arrived @ #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social 😎🌴 If you're here - come check out my talk on Monday! Revisiting Iconic Memory with a New Experimental Paradigm Room 2 May 18th, 10:45 (1st talk) Super fun collaboration with @johnmorrison.bsky.social & my 1st study from @michaelshadlen.bsky.social lab 🤩

Arrived @ #VSS2026 @vssmtg.bsky.social 😎🌴 If you're here - come check out my talk on Monday! Revisiting Iconic Memory with a New Experimental Paradigm Room 2 May 18th, 10:45 (1st talk) Super fun collaboration with @johnmorrison.bsky.social & my 1st study from @michaelshadlen.bsky.social lab 🤩

I have news! After 4 fabulous years at Northeastern, this July I will be moving to Duke—with tenure! It’s hard to convey how grateful I am to everyone who has made this possible: from old professors in Mexico and mentors in the US to students, colleagues, and, of course, my amazing wife and family.

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Roddy Grieves@roddy-grieves.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Can humans & animals really use internal maps to take shortcuts? Tolman famously said yes - based largely on his Sunburst maze. Our new review & meta-analysis suggests evidence is far weaker than you might think. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1111/ejn.... @uofgpsychneuro.bsky.social @ejneuroscience.bsky.social

Proud to be one of the signatories. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09...

Over 100 Columbia and Barnard professors file amicus brief opposing deportation order for Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24

A group of 108 current and former Columbia and Barnard faculty members filed a Sept. 17 amicus brief in support of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, who is appealing a deportation order.

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We're number one! (in suppressing free speech) www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09...

Barnard and Columbia claim bottom two spots in annual FIRE college free speech rankings

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression ranked Barnard and Columbia last and second to last, respectively, in its 2026 College Free Speech Rankings.

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New review on how changes in cell type composition in and outside the brain contribute to the evolution of behavior. 🧪 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lihM,LqAZ...

I wrote a substack article: open.substack.com/pub/youngert...

What Columbia Sacrificed In Its Deal With The Trump Administration

Ken Miller

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How can algorithms from cognitive science inform our understanding of neural networks? In this 9-min overview from #CCN, I present recent work with @pebenjamters.bsky.social and Niko Kriegeskorte. My talk begins at 38:00: hva-uva.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Page...

5 years since our first pilot, and 25,000 participants later, I'm super happy this work with Makaela Nartker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and Howard Egeth on inattentional blindness is now out in eLife! A little 🧵 of what we found... 1/12 elifesciences.org/articles/100...

Sensitivity to visual features in inattentional blindness

As a group, inattentionally blind participants can successfully report the location, color, and shape of stimuli they deny noticing, and exhibit a systematic bias to report not noticing.

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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵

Chris Baldassano is not only an incredibly talented scientist, he's also an incredibly nice person. Teaching Intro to Cog Sci with him has been pure joy. Check out this accessible overview of his research 👇

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2y ago

With the help of machine learning and a handful of old movie clips, neuroscientist Christopher Baldassano is pioneering new ways to decode complex fMRI data. https://buff.ly/4171o8x

😎 SPAN2025 Keynotes, invited symposia speakers, and sponsored symposia just dropped! Take a look at who will be at SPAN2025 and then submit your abstract so you can be there too! More invited speakers will be announced soon. Visit our website for all the details: philandneuro.com

For #CCN2025 in Amsterdam, we will, for the first time, have conference proceedings that include both full length peer-reviewed papers and the traditional 2-page track! Deadlines for submissions: 17th February for full papers ( abstract only; full paper on 20th FEB) & 10th April for 2 pagers.

SPP 2025 will be at Cornell, June 18-21!

Barnard and Columbia are going through a difficult period. Here's more information about the latest crisis at Barnard: www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/12...

With $252 million in projected debt, Barnard makes cuts to faculty and staff benefits

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Delighted to share a new preprint with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social! We combine human psychophysics and evolutionary constraints to propose a new hypothesis about the functions of conscious vision. This has been in the pipeline a long time- exciting to get it out in the world! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Nature, Neurons, Mushrooms, Biochemistry, and Consciousness (or the lack thereof). My top illustrations of 2023 summarize my current interests pretty well. Let's hope that in 2024 I can finally find the time to thread some of these into a coherent story. 🧠 #artvsartist #sciart #sciviz

I'm giving the university seminar in cognitive neuroscience on Monday the 27th at Columbia. I will suggest a definition of "representation" that could be useful to neuroscientists. There's a dinner afterward and they're asking for RSVPs. More details here: psychology.columbia.edu/events/cogni...