Calling on the community to band together and contribute to this Replication Project. Check out Luca’s poster if you’re at #CCN2026!

@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

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

Today is the 5th anniversary of the #MetaCogSci meeting! With @dobyrahnev.bsky.social @luciecharlesneuro.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social -- cannot wait! www.metacognitivescience.org

Do world models emerge in neural networks trained for prediction? Generative Adversarial Collaboration (GAC) at #CCN2026

I am *thrilled* to share this review in @currentbiology.bsky.social out today, by yours truly, @myoo.bsky.social, @michalk.bsky.social, Taro Toyoizumi, @tyrellturing.bsky.social, @taylorwwebb.bsky.social, & @hakwan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵👇

Looking to the brain to improve energy efficiency of AI

Modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems have achieved remarkable capabilities, but at an extraordinary energy cost. Training and running large-sca…

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Now officially published: our paper "Sensory horizons and the functions of conscious vision" w/ @smfleming.bsky.social, with the commentaries, and our response: Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One of the biggest limitations of today’s VR headsets is the vergence-accommodation conflict (VAC). Most approaches try to solve it with new hardware. Our new paper asks a different question: Can we compensate for it computationally instead? 🧵

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 · 4w ago

Online Now: In defense of a distinction

New paper alert from our lab! nature.com/articles/s41... We used stimuli sequences following 1/f statistical patterns—an ubiquitous statistical structure in natural stimuli—to probe predictive processing in the human brain. How does the brain predict upcoming sensory inputs based on past inputs?

The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social

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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Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · 2mo 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

I wrote the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science entry on 'Intuitive Physics': oecs.mit.edu/pub/m27ympza... --- for those who don't know it yet, OECS (@oecs-bot.bsky.social) has accessible, informative, free, serious entries on many basic topics in cognitive science

Our major conceptual and technical update on findings that describe a new medial temporal lobe (MTL) computation, now posted. Kudos to Simon Bohn for listening to community feedback, thinking hard, and solidifying what these clear differences between brain regions imply. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A two-stage algorithm underlies the transformation from vision to familiarity in the primate brain

How is the act of seeing an image transformed into the memory that it has been seen? To investigate, we leveraged the systematic variation with which some images are better remembered than others, ima...

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Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Last week, we published the surprising result below (visual cortex == hippocampus). Today, we've posted a revised preprint showing something that's actually different between the two structures. Evidence for a novel medial temporal lobe computation! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On the last day of SIGGRAPH this year, we will hold a new technical workshop called "From Human Vision to Machine Vision", with talks ranging from low-level human visual perception, to applied perception, art & photography, and to machine vision. #SIGGRAPH For more info, see: fromhv2mv.github.io

Lovely to see the full range of excellent commentaries on our BBS article with @matthiasmichel.bsky.social, together with our response, now out: Target article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Commentaries: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Our response: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Matthias Michel@matthiasmichel.bsky.social · last yr.

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 🧵

check out the inaugural cohort of @neuromatch.bsky.social AI Sentience Scholars! this is a seriously impressive bunch!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉 Introducing the 2026 Neuromatch AI Sentience Scholars cohort! Learn more about them, the projects they will be working on, and their mentors! ⬇️ neuromatch.io/ai-sentience... We're just kicking off this 6 month program and already incredibly proud! #AISentience #AIResearch #ConsciousnessStudies

If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Understanding the brain in theory and practice

A series of interactive workshops on building better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience.

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Thank you for the invitation! I will hopefully not be a zombie after coming straight from the airport!

Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · last mo.

Delighted Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) is able to join us as a speaker! Over 160 people registered so far! Full schedule: computationalconsciousness.github.io

Delighted Megan Peters (@meganakpeters.bsky.social) is able to join us as a speaker! Over 160 people registered so far! Full schedule: computationalconsciousness.github.io

If you join this committee, your ideas will influence the educations & scientific trajectories of thousands of students. Neuromatch's interactive student body has topped 14,000, estimated 40,000 engaging with Neuromatch activities & materials. One of the most impactful things you can do in science!

Neuromatch@neuromatch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Neuromatch Academy & @connectedminds.bsky.social are forming a #ComputationalBehaviour Course Creation Committee!. It's a #volunteer role for researchers w a PhD. 🤓 Learn more about the course: neuromatch.io/computationa... 🙋 Full role description and application: neuromatch.io/volunteer/

New work with Roberta Raileanu: A Compositional Framework for Open-ended Intelligence Open-ended intelligence is the capacity to adapt to novel problems & environments that are substantially different from those seen in training. But most models of open-mindedness don't have compositionality. 1/n

A Compositional Framework for Open-ended Intelligence

Open-ended intelligence is the capacity to adapt to novel problems and environments that are substantially different from those in training. A mathematics of open-ended intelligence requires two pilla...

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Open post-doc position in the study of perceptual fluctuations Position: post-doctoral (2 years) Locations: Paris, France (Ecole Normale Supérieure / CNRS) and Lausanne, Switzerland (University of Lausanne / CHUV) Deadline: September 4th, 2026 Start Date: Fall 2026 (with some flexibility) (1/8)

New paper draft: On Cheap Artificial Consciousness. When investigating AI consciousness, it's natural to look at what theories of consciousness tell us. Problem: you can build simple systems that meet their conditions. So, what should we say? A thread. (Paper in the last post)

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Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · 2mo 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

Excited to announce #CCN2026 satellite event: Modeling and Understanding Human Brain Computation at Scale Organized with Hossein Adeli, Fan Cheng, Andrew Luo, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte Link for details and registration: tinyurl.com/3jf2urze @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

New paper out ! 📣 Across a careful and extensive set of experiments spearheaded by @rimskyrobert.bsky.social, we show that conscious access to a word’s meaning can occur *without* access to its appearance or low-level sensory features. #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

Communications Psychology@commspsychol.nature.com · 2mo ago

New research Article in the journal by Daphné Rimsky Robert and colleagues: www.nature.com/articles/s44... (in Press) @rimskyrobert.bsky.social @clairesergent.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social

@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

So excited to be a part of this, join us!!

Paul Linton@lintonvision.bsky.social · 2mo 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

@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

With profound sadness we announce the sudden and unexpected death of our Editor-in-Chief, Tim Meese. A founding editor of i-Perception, Tim was a pillar of the vision science community and instrumental in shaping the landscape of scientific publishing in our field.