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(1/2) The EEG Moments Dataset (EMD) is now public! EMD is a large-scale dataset of simultaneous EEG and eye-tracking recordings of 6 participants for 1,102 naturalistic 3-second videos (while maintaining central fixation), together with rich video metadata. arxiv.org/abs/2608.28768

Two weeks left to sign up for Re:vision! Let's figure out how well visual neuroscience findings replicate! Participants can: - become a coauthor on the paper - win cash prizes up to $2500 - use your replication to write a separate paper. Sign up now, it's super easy: re-vision-initiative.org

Now out in Current Biology! Object decoding and DNN–brain alignment dissociate: more object information ≠ more alignment. What neural networks share with the brain is mid-level image statistics. Free 50-day access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 Our department @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience! Join our lovely community here in beautiful Amsterdam! 🧠🔥 Deadline: October 15 Apply: workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/as...

Yes #CCN2026 has grown again! Onwards and upwards! @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

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!

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

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

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

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? 🧵

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

🚨 #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).

🚨 #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...

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 🎥🔥

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!

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!

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

📢 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!

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 👇

Als zelfs een 'betrouwbaar' wetenschappelijk medium foutieve AI-gegenereerde informatie c.q. definities deelt als de waarheid. Lees vooral ook de mailwisseling met het medium onder het artikel.

I’ve had 40 birthdays so far, but this is the first one chairing a major international conference 👩‍💻! Thanks to the nearly 1000 attendees of #CCN2025 for coming to my birthday this year 😉

Lots of talks on Thursday of CCN 2025! 🎙️ David Poeppel's keynote, four contributed talk sessions, three K&T tracks, and tonight's social event. Details in thread 👇

Welcome to the second day of #CCN2025 ! 🌟Today we have Yasuo Kuniyoshi's keynote on embodiment, four parallel community events, and our GAC debate sessions. More details in the thread below 👇

Welcome to the first day of #CCN2025 ! 🧠 Today, we're starting with networking, opening remarks, and two fantastic keynotes from Nancy Kanwisher and Anna Schapiro. More details in the thread below 👇

#CCN2025, we’re ready for you!

The moment we've all been waiting for— #CCN2025 is HERE! Today we start with satellite events, and tomorrow the main conference begins in Amsterdam! We'll be sharing daily updates about each day's program, so follow the CCN account to stay in the loop. Can't wait to see everyone!