Who would’ve thought that a talk on LLMs would involve a deep plunge into wasp nest building? Great keynote bij @alonaf.bsky.social at #CCN2026!

The GAC on World Models at #CCN2026 was SO good. Clearly very well prepared, clear division in proponents and skeptics, lots of concrete examples, beautiful synthesis at the end (and a poll on how audience opinions moved because of it). I learned a lot!

❤️ #CCN2026 word cloud describing @cogcompneuro.bsky.social !!!

Mind-blowing opening keynote by Doris Tsao at #CCN2026, presenting an ambitious research program to understand ánd engineer consciousness…!

#CCN2026 make sure to check Luca’s poster - lots of opportunity to contribute to this exciting initiative!

@re-vision-init.bsky.social · 4d ago

(1/6) Do our visual neuroscience findings actually replicate? And do they generalize beyond the datasets they were found in? We've lauched re:vision, a community-driven initiative to answer these questions, and we are looking for scientistis to participate. re-vision-initiative.org

A true @cogcompneuro.bsky.social PRO of course brings last years’s cup to #CCN2026 ☕️😎 First coffee in NYC, soooo good to be back! 🤩

Feeling fortunate and excited to be able to return to #NYC and @nyu.edu to attend #CCN2026! I'll try to justify making a second transatlantic flight this year 🫣 by presenting no less than 3 times in total: 📣👇

CCN began at Columbia in 2017. As #CCN2026 returns to New York City, a special Back2NY event will feature a crowd-sourced panel discussion on how the community has grown, prior challenges, and future perspectives. Share your experiences in the community survey: 2026.ccneuro.org/back2ny/

CCN 2028 will be hosted in North America again! We invite researchers & institutions to submit a proposal for 2028. Organizing chairs don't just host — they help shape CCN's organizational and scientific identity. Submit your proposal 👇 2026.ccneuro.org/host-ccn-pro... #CCN2028

Hey video-aficionados #VSS2026, this morning @sargechris.bsky.social presents our recent ICLR paper on benchmarking video ANNs on human EEG, suggesting an extended phase of mid-level video feature processing beyond the feed-forward sweep! (Pavilion 425) (paper here: openreview.net/pdf?id=bSsNS...)

Looking forward to this! Come and hear how you can participate!

Martin Hebart@martinhebart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today at #VSS2026 we are introducing re:vision, a community driven replication/generalization initiative based on our newly released LAION-fMRI dataset. Come to the satellite at 2pm to learn more about it & why you may want to participate! The room Blue Heron is in the upstairs region of the lobby.

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

EXCITED to travel to #VSS2026 to contribute 2 talks and 2 posters from our lab! Me and @niklasmuller.bsky.social will talk scene encoding models on Fri & Sat, @sargechris.bsky.social and @annewzonneveld.bsky.social will discuss their cool work on video models on Tue (schedule👇for exact times).

Come and see our #ICLR2026 poster on our video model-human brain alignment study, led by two stellar students from the lab!

Christina Sartzetaki @ ICLR@sargechris.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Curious about this AND attending #ICLR 26 🇧🇷? Come to our poster with @annewzonneveld.bsky.social 📆 Sat Apr 25, Poster session 5, 10:30-13:00 📍Pavillion 3 P3 - #1525, to learn how video models align with dynamic brain representations! 🕸️ sergeantchris.github.io/brain_dynami...

🚨 #CCN2026 Submission Updates! 🧠 The deadline for Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynote+Tutorials, and Community Events has been extended until March 31st! For more information on those event types, see the CCN 2026 website.

Reminder: CCN 2026 Proceedings abstracts are due today, Feb 9, Anywhere on Earth (AOE).

CogCompNeuro@cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.

🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.

I have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/

Check this out - yesterday I was on Dutch national television to discuss the intersection between #AI and the #brain, how we are addressing the fundamental questions there @uva.nl, and how we plan to tackle video understanding in my #NWO #VIDI project next! 🧠🤖📽️ npo.nl/start/afspel...

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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

On the train to Brussels, towards the biannual NeuroCog meeting, whose theme this edition is “AI and the brain” neurocog.be Prepping my talk and looking forward to learning about exciting new research and immersing myself in some good discussions in the next two days!

📣 New preprint by a stellar team 🤩 I’m most excited by “phase III” in the alignment time course, which is best captured by mid-layers of temporally integrating video models! While we do not directly compare with image-EEG (yet - will do so in the #VIDI) I suspect this is unique to video vision 🎥🔥

Anne Zonneveld @annewzonneveld.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢 New preprint, together with @sargechris.bsky.social! Building on @sargechris.bsky.social's previous work, we benchmark 100+ image and video models 🤖 on brain representational alignment, this time to EEG data of humans 🧠 watching videos! 🧵⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq... Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!

Andrew Lampinen@lampinen.bsky.social · 3y ago

What is representational alignment? How can we use it to study or improve intelligent systems? What challenges might we face? In a new paper (arxiv.org/abs/2310.13018 ), we describe a framework that attempts to unify ideas from cognitive science, neuroscience and AI to address these questions. 1/2

Honoured to receive an NWO #VIDI grant to study 'the TikTok Brain': representational alignment of brains and deep nets for #video! I'm hugely thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their enthusiasm and for the opportunity to grow and sustain my lab. Job ads coming soon! www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-...

Our exciting new preprint emphasizing the role of texture/local statistics in brain-DNN alignment (for EEG), online now!

Steven Scholte@neurosteven.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🧠 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...

Honored & looking forward to give this lecture tomorrow @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social!

UniReps@unireps.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🧠✨ How closely do AI models mirror the human brain? Join us for @irisgroen.bsky.social’s talk: “Alignment of visual representations in AI and human brains: beyond object recognition” 📅 8th September @unireps.bsky.social x @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social meetup 🔗 Zoom link: ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160 1/4

📢 10 days left to submit to the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 📝 Call for: • Findings (4 or 8 pages) • Tutorials If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track! 🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io

Somewhat exhausted but very happily and proudly looking back at #CCN2025 & ready to pass the torch to NEW Amsterdam for #CCN2026 🥳Please fill out the survey 👇 to give input to the organizing team led by @neurograce.bsky.social and @toddgureckis.bsky.social @NYU!

Grace Lindsay@neurograce.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!

Final day of CCN 2025! 🎉 Ellie Pavlick opens with a keynote on neural compositionality, we have our last contributed talks and poster session, then Pieter Roelfsema gives the last keynote of the conference. Thread below 👇