Apurva Ratan Murty
@apurvaratan.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Assistant Professor of Cognition and Brain Science @ GeorgiaTech Prev: Postdoc @ MIT, PhD @ IISc Bangalore
www.murtylab.com
www.murtylab.com
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Hey Bsky friends on #neuroskyence! Very excited to share our
@iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...
@iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...
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Excited to share our work on mechanisms of naturalistic audiovisual processing in the human brain 🧠🎬!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Excited to share our work on mechanisms of naturalistic audiovisual processing in the human brain 🧠🎬!!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
November 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026.
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social.
Please apply here until Nov 25:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
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Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
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"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Delighted to share our new paper, now out in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
"Hierarchical dynamic coding coordinates speech comprehension in the brain"
with dream team @alecmarantz.bsky.social, @davidpoeppel.bsky.social, @jeanremiking.bsky.social
Summary 👇
1/8
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Empathy + Action = A Better World
Thank you, Jane Goodall
Thank you, Jane Goodall
October 2, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Empathy + Action = A Better World
Thank you, Jane Goodall
Thank you, Jane Goodall
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Excited to share new work with @hleemasson.bsky.social , Ericka Wodka, Stewart Mostofsky and @lisik.bsky.social! We investigated how simultaneous vision and language signals are combined in the brain using naturalistic+controlled fMRI. Read the paper here: osf.io/b5p4n
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September 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Excited to share new work with @hleemasson.bsky.social , Ericka Wodka, Stewart Mostofsky and @lisik.bsky.social! We investigated how simultaneous vision and language signals are combined in the brain using naturalistic+controlled fMRI. Read the paper here: osf.io/b5p4n
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At Neurips? You can now check out @herrickfung.bsky.social ‘s new work on modeling individual differences at two workshops! Much more to say on this awesome colab with @dobyrahnev.bsky.social very soon. 🙂
Our work showing human-like individual differences in perceptual decisions emerge from random weight initializations in deep neural networks has been accepted in two NeurIPS workshops! 🎉 Awesome job by my student @herrickfung.bsky.social in collaboration with the amazing @apurvaratan.bsky.social.
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
At Neurips? You can now check out @herrickfung.bsky.social ‘s new work on modeling individual differences at two workshops! Much more to say on this awesome colab with @dobyrahnev.bsky.social very soon. 🙂
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New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/
Neuronal signatures of successful one-shot memory in mid-level visual cortex
High-capacity, one-shot visual recognition memory challenges theories of learning and neural coding because it requires rapid, robust, and durable representations. Most studies have focused on the hip...
doi.org
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/
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Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1
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ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io
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August 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io
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What fun to hang out in Amsterdam with former lab members, dear friends, and scientific rock stars @evfedorenko.bsky.social @lisik.bsky.social @apurvaratan.bsky.social @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
What fun to hang out in Amsterdam with former lab members, dear friends, and scientific rock stars @evfedorenko.bsky.social @lisik.bsky.social @apurvaratan.bsky.social @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
Find me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025
Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm)
- Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs
- @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains
- Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations
- Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence
- Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs
- @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains
- Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations
- Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence
August 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Find me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025
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What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex?
Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut.
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Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut.
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June 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex?
Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut.
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Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut.
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New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
May 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#VSS2025 Tomorrow in Talk Room 2 at 9.15AM. Mayukh Deb will be presenting our work on TopoNets! You can read more about it at toponets.github.io. But there will be a lot more!
May 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
#VSS2025 Tomorrow in Talk Room 2 at 9.15AM. Mayukh Deb will be presenting our work on TopoNets! You can read more about it at toponets.github.io. But there will be a lot more!
Come listen to Ben Lahner present a new combined fMRI dataset - MOSAIC. Happening soon at 1145 in Talk Room 2.
May 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Come listen to Ben Lahner present a new combined fMRI dataset - MOSAIC. Happening soon at 1145 in Talk Room 2.
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Kick off #VSS2025 with our symposium “25 Years of Seeing ‘Stuff’—Advances and Challenges in Material Perception” in Talk Room 2 on Friday morning 10:30am – 12:30pm.
We have a great lineup of speakers who will share deep insights and fun demos! 👀🧠🌊
@vssmtg.bsky.social #neuroskyence #visionscience
We have a great lineup of speakers who will share deep insights and fun demos! 👀🧠🌊
@vssmtg.bsky.social #neuroskyence #visionscience
May 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Kick off #VSS2025 with our symposium “25 Years of Seeing ‘Stuff’—Advances and Challenges in Material Perception” in Talk Room 2 on Friday morning 10:30am – 12:30pm.
We have a great lineup of speakers who will share deep insights and fun demos! 👀🧠🌊
@vssmtg.bsky.social #neuroskyence #visionscience
We have a great lineup of speakers who will share deep insights and fun demos! 👀🧠🌊
@vssmtg.bsky.social #neuroskyence #visionscience
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In case it's of interest, links to the technical details behind each topic:
1. NeuroAgents research program: tinyurl.com/yc48bnz4 & talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=9_7m...
2. NeuroAI Turing Test (with @jfeather.bsky.social, Meenakshi Khosla, and @apurvaratan.bsky.social): arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
1. NeuroAgents research program: tinyurl.com/yc48bnz4 & talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=9_7m...
2. NeuroAI Turing Test (with @jfeather.bsky.social, Meenakshi Khosla, and @apurvaratan.bsky.social): arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
NeuroAI Emerging Leaders Webinar Series: Aran Nayebi
YouTube video by NeuroAI Emerging Leaders Webinar Series
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April 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In case it's of interest, links to the technical details behind each topic:
1. NeuroAgents research program: tinyurl.com/yc48bnz4 & talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=9_7m...
2. NeuroAI Turing Test (with @jfeather.bsky.social, Meenakshi Khosla, and @apurvaratan.bsky.social): arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
1. NeuroAgents research program: tinyurl.com/yc48bnz4 & talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=9_7m...
2. NeuroAI Turing Test (with @jfeather.bsky.social, Meenakshi Khosla, and @apurvaratan.bsky.social): arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238
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The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth
Nature Human Behaviour - Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also...
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March 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ
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I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer!
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
February 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer!
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches
For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join
#psychjobs #neurojobs
Hey Bsky friends on #neuroskyence! Very excited to share our
@iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...
@iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...
January 30, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Hey Bsky friends on #neuroskyence! Very excited to share our
@iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...
@iclr-conf.bsky.social paper: TopoNets! High-performing vision and language models with brain-like topography! Expertly led by grad student Mayukh and Mainak! A brief thread...
Finally making the switch! Who do I follow and what did I miss? 🙂
January 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Finally making the switch! Who do I follow and what did I miss? 🙂