The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is starting soon! And we're back in NYC, celebrating 10-ish years of conferencing. Let us know your reflections on CCN's past for our special Back2NY event And remember to share the work your presenting and learning about with the #CCN2026 hashtag

Angela Radulescu@angelaradulescu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some things get better with age. Like CCN... and Knicks basketball. 🧠🏀 As we return to New York and celebrate 10 years of @cogcompneuro.bsky.social , we'd love to hear your thoughts on how CCN has evolved. Share them in our pre-conference survey: shorturl.at/c19lJ

Excited to participate in a GAC discussion at #CCN2026 on Aug 4th! Is NeuroAI on the right track? What are the most glaring issues? Comment below and help us prepare for our panel discussion! sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#CCN2026 will feature three GAC debates: Does NeuroAI adopt suitable methods & frameworks to understand mind & brain? Do world models emerge in prediction networks? Should neural population activity explain representations or transformations? The review period is now open. 🖥️ 2026.ccneuro.org/gac

Heading to #ICML2026! Let's chat autonomous AI, RL, CogSci & neuro. 🧠 Our team (DevAI) is looking for an intern starting ~Oct/Nov in NYC (speech/multimodal, meta-learning) to build AI that mirrors human learning trajectories! Find me at the Meta booth or apply: www.metacareers.com/profile/job_...

Research Scientist Intern, FAIR - Language & Multimodal Foundations (PhD)

Meta is seeking Research Interns to join Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) Multimodal Foundations teams. These teams are committed to advancing the field o...

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Dongyan Lin@dongyanl1n.bsky.social · 3mo ago

(1/n) Thrilled to share my first paper at Meta FAIR! "EgoBabyVLM: Benchmarking Cross-Modal Learning from Naturalistic Egocentric Video Data" 👶 Human infants learn language from sparse, noisy multimodal input. Today's VLMs can't. We built a benchmark + challenge to close that gap. 🧵

Help us craft some productive conversation for the Generative Adversarial Collaboration we are hosting at @cogcompneuro.bsky.social in New York this year!

(1/n) Thrilled to share my first paper at Meta FAIR! "EgoBabyVLM: Benchmarking Cross-Modal Learning from Naturalistic Egocentric Video Data" 👶 Human infants learn language from sparse, noisy multimodal input. Today's VLMs can't. We built a benchmark + challenge to close that gap. 🧵

Check out our new work: how do humans and LLMs explore causal structures differently?

Mandana Samiei@mandanas.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We recently investigated how humans and AI reason through causal rules: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06464 Accepted at #CogSci2026. We gave adults and LLMs agency to actively experiment using a Blicket causal game, breaking down their process into the iterative loop shown in the following figure:

We recently investigated how humans and AI reason through causal rules: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06464 Accepted at #CogSci2026. We gave adults and LLMs agency to actively experiment using a Blicket causal game, breaking down their process into the iterative loop shown in the following figure:

The community feedback period for GAC workshops at CCN has now started - let us know what you think!

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#CCN2026 will feature three GAC debates: Does NeuroAI adopt suitable methods & frameworks to understand mind & brain? Do world models emerge in prediction networks? Should neural population activity explain representations or transformations? The review period is now open. 🖥️ 2026.ccneuro.org/gac

Goodfire released a megapost of all the random feature geometry stuff they're finding, and it's worth a read

The World Inside Neural Networks

How neural geometry will unlock understanding and control of AI

goodfire.ai

The Orange Cat Brain Atlas is here. 🧠🐈 Today, we published the first comprehensive cellular map of the orange cat brain. The new atlas reveals a single, specialized neuron responsible for behaviors like staring at walls, knocking objects off tables, and the 3am "zoomies."

Use this picture of the iconic Washington Square Park in the summer to motivate you to get to CCN at NYU.

Where are you on your abstract submission timeline? Slowly and steadily preparing your two-pager, or prepping to be up late on the 2nd like me 😅?

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⚠️ #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!

New position paper from Emmanuel Dupoux, Yann LeCun, Jitendra Malik: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.15381 CogSci insights, especially from evolution and early development, can be critical for a new AI paradigm that focuses on learning autonomously from a stream of interactive, multimodal data.

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience

Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

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Cosyne Viewing Parties Visas, costs, care responsibilities, and environmental concerns all limit Cosyne attendance. Luckily, the talks are livestreamed; but watching alone is the high road to an aneurism. Hence: viewing parties! Gather regionally to watch Cosyne talks! More info: shorturl.at/3DHZX.

In this piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social, I argue that ecological neuroscience should leverage generative video and interactive models to simulate the world from animals' perspectives. The technological building blocks are almost here - we just need to align them for this application. 🧠🤖

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Generative AI will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between neural function and behavior, writes @shahabbakht.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/artificial-i...

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org

Great piece by @natolambert.bsky.social on the current state of human exhaustion in the AI world. Makes this important point:

Nathan Lambert@natolambert.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A new essay on the crazy, all or nothing approach to work happening in AI today, the looming human costs, and the lack of a finish line. I wouldn't say it's okay, but I'm not sure how to fix it. www.interconnects.ai/p/burning-out

This work has been accepted to #COLM2025. If you are in Montreal this week for COLM and would like to chat about this (or anything related to discovery / exploration / RL), drop me a note! Poster session 2: Tuesday Oct 7, 4:30-6:30pm Poster number 68

Anthony GX-Chen@agx-chen.bsky.social · last yr.

Language model (LM) agents are all the rage now—but they may exhibit cognitive biases when inferring causal relationships! We evaluate LMs on a cognitive task to find: - LMs struggle with certain simple causal relationships - They show biases similar to human adults (but not children) 🧵⬇️

Nice write-up on the top-performing models of Algonauts 2025 competition by @humanscotti.bsky.social paulscotti.substack.com/p/insights-f... None of the teams trained the models from scratch, mainly relied on pre-trained foundation models, and ensembling seemed to be the key ingredient. 🧠🤖

Insights from the Algonauts 2025 Winners

What did we learn from a contest to predict fMRI brain activity to movie viewing?

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Levine's take on the success of LLMs compared to video models is interesting, but I'll expand on how efforts toward AI could take two different paths, and why I think AI and NeuroAI could take different approaches moving forward. 🧵 🧠🤖 #MLSky

Shahab Bakhtiari@shahabbakht.bsky.social · last yr.

AI may still need some neuroscience: "AI systems will not acquire the flexibility and adaptability of human intelligence until they can actually learn like humans do, shining brightly with their own light rather than observing a shadow from ours." 🧠🤖 sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-m...

Alona Fyshe @alonaf.bsky.social on the BabyLM Challenge, a competition that trains language models (LMs) on smaller datasets, more akin to how a baby learns, in search of solutions to some of the major challenges of today’s LLMs. #NeuroAI #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...

Can babies inspire more efficient learning algorithms?

A competition that trains language models on smaller datasets, more akin to how a baby learns, seeks solutions to some of LLM’s major challenges.

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New work: AI agents learn from adult data, inheriting our biases when making decisions. What if we trained them to think like kids, who rigorously explore and make causal inferences?

Anthony GX-Chen@agx-chen.bsky.social · last yr.

Language model (LM) agents are all the rage now—but they may exhibit cognitive biases when inferring causal relationships! We evaluate LMs on a cognitive task to find: - LMs struggle with certain simple causal relationships - They show biases similar to human adults (but not children) 🧵⬇️

Fascinating preprint from with our "blicket detector" paradigm from Chen et al at NYU& Mila. LLM's make the same causal inference mistakes that adults make but 4 year olds don't! Of course, models are trained on adult data, kids figure it out for themselves. im-ant.github.io/publications...

Preprint Alert 🚀 Can we simultaneously learn transformation-invariant and transformation-equivariant representations with self-supervised learning? TL;DR Yes! This is possible via simple predictive learning & architectural inductive biases – without extra loss terms and predictors! 🧵 (1/10)

Want to spend 3 weeks in South Africa for an unforgettable summer school experience? Imbizo 2026 (imbizo.africa) student applications are OPEN! Lectures, new friends, and Noordhoek beach await. Apply by July 1! More info and apply: imbizo.africa/apply/ #Imbizo2026 #CompNeuro

on my way back to NYC, i met wise Leon Bottou in the airport. we talked. then i told him "you should tweet that!" and, he delivered much more than a tweet: a blog post with thoughts and insights on AI research only he can deliver this clearly and succinctly. leon.bottou.org/news/two_les...

It feels so good to see Imbizo students doing great things! @imbizo.bsky.social #imbizo

allen institute@alleninstitute.org · last yr.

Last year, Jessica Oparebea was joined students from across the African continent at @trendcamina.bsky.social - a computational neuroscience workshop. Inspired by her experience, she is hosting her own webinar to help others. Dive deeper into her journey: alleninstitute.org/news/jessica...

Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain and computationally distinct, but rarely modeled in deep neural networks. What happens when a DNN has biologically-inspired top-down feedback? 🧠📈 Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...