Karim Jerbi
@karimjerbi.bsky.social
Professor @ Université de Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Comp Neuroscience & Cog Neuroimaging. Director of the Quebec Neuro-AI research center (UNIQUE Centre) | Biological & Artificial Cognition | Consciousness | Creativity | 🧠🤖 he/him
A high-level teaser of our recent paper on the impact of Samatha + Vipassana #meditation on the brain! 🧠 🧘
Work led by @annapasca.bsky.social
- fantastic collaboration with @lauramrz.bsky.social Vittorio Pizzella Antonino Raffone @robertoguidotti.bsky.social @jordanobyrne.bsky.social + many more!
Work led by @annapasca.bsky.social
- fantastic collaboration with @lauramrz.bsky.social Vittorio Pizzella Antonino Raffone @robertoguidotti.bsky.social @jordanobyrne.bsky.social + many more!
"Turn off your mind / Relax / Float downstream ... ?" Not quite so simple, @karimjerbi.bsky.social and co-researchers in Italy find. @annapasca.bsky.social #magnetoencephalography #Buddhism #meditation
nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2...
Meditation doesn’t rest the brain, it reshapes it
Meditation doesn’t 'empty the mind', as some imagine. In fact, brain scans reveal that the meditating mind is not in a resting state at all, but is highly active – and that's good for you.
nouvelles.umontreal.ca
January 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
A high-level teaser of our recent paper on the impact of Samatha + Vipassana #meditation on the brain! 🧠 🧘
Work led by @annapasca.bsky.social
- fantastic collaboration with @lauramrz.bsky.social Vittorio Pizzella Antonino Raffone @robertoguidotti.bsky.social @jordanobyrne.bsky.social + many more!
Work led by @annapasca.bsky.social
- fantastic collaboration with @lauramrz.bsky.social Vittorio Pizzella Antonino Raffone @robertoguidotti.bsky.social @jordanobyrne.bsky.social + many more!
✈️ Heading to #Boston today for the #DREAM #ENGINEERING Symposium this weekend at the @medialab.bsky.social an inspiring mix of scientists, multimedia artists & filmmakers!
👉 I’ll present a teaser of our unpublished work on the neural basis of dream recall, combining sleep #EEG 🧠💤 and #AI.
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👉 I’ll present a teaser of our unpublished work on the neural basis of dream recall, combining sleep #EEG 🧠💤 and #AI.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:44 PM
✈️ Heading to #Boston today for the #DREAM #ENGINEERING Symposium this weekend at the @medialab.bsky.social an inspiring mix of scientists, multimedia artists & filmmakers!
👉 I’ll present a teaser of our unpublished work on the neural basis of dream recall, combining sleep #EEG 🧠💤 and #AI.
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👉 I’ll present a teaser of our unpublished work on the neural basis of dream recall, combining sleep #EEG 🧠💤 and #AI.
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It was a pleasure to share our work on how studying play helps us understand natural intelligence & develop AI at the MAIN conference, organized by @karimjerbi.bsky.social & other amazing scientists.
Studying Play:
What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyTn...
Studying Play:
What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyTn...
Ida Momennejad - "Studying Play: What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines"
YouTube video by MAIN Conference
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:47 PM
It was a pleasure to share our work on how studying play helps us understand natural intelligence & develop AI at the MAIN conference, organized by @karimjerbi.bsky.social & other amazing scientists.
Studying Play:
What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyTn...
Studying Play:
What Games Reveal About Minds and Machines
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyTn...
The fourth and last Keynote of MAIN 2025!
Alison Gopnik
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
(University of California, Berkeley)
👉 Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.
Alison Gopnik
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
(University of California, Berkeley)
👉 Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The fourth and last Keynote of MAIN 2025!
Alison Gopnik
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
(University of California, Berkeley)
👉 Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.
Alison Gopnik
@alisongopnik.bsky.social
(University of California, Berkeley)
👉 Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning, Causal Learning as Empowerment Gain: A bridge between Bayesian causal hypothesis testing and reinforcement learning.
Very cool talk by Richard Naud (University of Ottawa) @ #MAIN2025
“Modular Organization of Electrical Fluctuations in the Mouse Brain”
@neuronaud.bsky.social
“Modular Organization of Electrical Fluctuations in the Mouse Brain”
@neuronaud.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Very cool talk by Richard Naud (University of Ottawa) @ #MAIN2025
“Modular Organization of Electrical Fluctuations in the Mouse Brain”
@neuronaud.bsky.social
“Modular Organization of Electrical Fluctuations in the Mouse Brain”
@neuronaud.bsky.social
🔴 Live: Our MAIN 2025 Keynote #3
Yoshua Bengio
@yoshuabengio.bsky.social
(Université de Montréal & Mila)
“Scientist AI: disentangling agency and causal understanding”
#AI #Neuroscience #AIsafety #MAIN2025
Yoshua Bengio
@yoshuabengio.bsky.social
(Université de Montréal & Mila)
“Scientist AI: disentangling agency and causal understanding”
#AI #Neuroscience #AIsafety #MAIN2025
December 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🔴 Live: Our MAIN 2025 Keynote #3
Yoshua Bengio
@yoshuabengio.bsky.social
(Université de Montréal & Mila)
“Scientist AI: disentangling agency and causal understanding”
#AI #Neuroscience #AIsafety #MAIN2025
Yoshua Bengio
@yoshuabengio.bsky.social
(Université de Montréal & Mila)
“Scientist AI: disentangling agency and causal understanding”
#AI #Neuroscience #AIsafety #MAIN2025
👉 Very cool talk by Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social (Université de Montréal & Mila) in the videogaming session on Day 1 of MAIN 2025:
"AI Models of Human Brain and Behaviour During Naturalistic Videogame Play"
#videogaming #AI #fMRI
"AI Models of Human Brain and Behaviour During Naturalistic Videogame Play"
#videogaming #AI #fMRI
December 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
👉 Very cool talk by Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social (Université de Montréal & Mila) in the videogaming session on Day 1 of MAIN 2025:
"AI Models of Human Brain and Behaviour During Naturalistic Videogame Play"
#videogaming #AI #fMRI
"AI Models of Human Brain and Behaviour During Naturalistic Videogame Play"
#videogaming #AI #fMRI
#MAIN2025
Looks like everybody has disappeared for lunch 👻 …
Next up after lunch will be Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social
#Montreal #Neuroscience #AI
Looks like everybody has disappeared for lunch 👻 …
Next up after lunch will be Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social
#Montreal #Neuroscience #AI
December 12, 2025 at 6:52 PM
#MAIN2025
Looks like everybody has disappeared for lunch 👻 …
Next up after lunch will be Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social
#Montreal #Neuroscience #AI
Looks like everybody has disappeared for lunch 👻 …
Next up after lunch will be Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social
#Montreal #Neuroscience #AI
🔴 Live: Panel discussion #1: @ MAIN2025
The future of Neuroscience - The role of AI ?
with Andreas Tolias, Siva Reddy, Joao Sacramento, Ching Fang + Eva Portelance
Moderated by Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social
@andreastolias.bsky.social
The future of Neuroscience - The role of AI ?
with Andreas Tolias, Siva Reddy, Joao Sacramento, Ching Fang + Eva Portelance
Moderated by Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social
@andreastolias.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🔴 Live: Panel discussion #1: @ MAIN2025
The future of Neuroscience - The role of AI ?
with Andreas Tolias, Siva Reddy, Joao Sacramento, Ching Fang + Eva Portelance
Moderated by Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social
@andreastolias.bsky.social
The future of Neuroscience - The role of AI ?
with Andreas Tolias, Siva Reddy, Joao Sacramento, Ching Fang + Eva Portelance
Moderated by Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social
@andreastolias.bsky.social
Our first Keynote lecture of this year’s MAIN 2025…..🥁
Andreas Tolias(Stanford, CA, USA)
@andreastolias.bsky.social
"Foundation models and digital twins of the brain"
#Foundationmodels #MAIN2025 #Neuroscience #AI
Andreas Tolias(Stanford, CA, USA)
@andreastolias.bsky.social
"Foundation models and digital twins of the brain"
#Foundationmodels #MAIN2025 #Neuroscience #AI
December 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Our first Keynote lecture of this year’s MAIN 2025…..🥁
Andreas Tolias(Stanford, CA, USA)
@andreastolias.bsky.social
"Foundation models and digital twins of the brain"
#Foundationmodels #MAIN2025 #Neuroscience #AI
Andreas Tolias(Stanford, CA, USA)
@andreastolias.bsky.social
"Foundation models and digital twins of the brain"
#Foundationmodels #MAIN2025 #Neuroscience #AI
🔴 Live : Talk #4 @ MAIN2025
Siva Reddy (McGill & Mila)
“The role of memory in long chain-of-thought reasoning”
👉 main2025.org
#MAIN2025
Siva Reddy (McGill & Mila)
“The role of memory in long chain-of-thought reasoning”
👉 main2025.org
#MAIN2025
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔴 Live : Talk #4 @ MAIN2025
Siva Reddy (McGill & Mila)
“The role of memory in long chain-of-thought reasoning”
👉 main2025.org
#MAIN2025
Siva Reddy (McGill & Mila)
“The role of memory in long chain-of-thought reasoning”
👉 main2025.org
#MAIN2025
Montreal AI & Neuroscience 2025 started this morning! 🧠X🤖
www.main2025.org
#MAIN2025
#NeuroAI
#Neuroscience
#AI
www.main2025.org
#MAIN2025
#NeuroAI
#Neuroscience
#AI
December 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Montreal AI & Neuroscience 2025 started this morning! 🧠X🤖
www.main2025.org
#MAIN2025
#NeuroAI
#Neuroscience
#AI
www.main2025.org
#MAIN2025
#NeuroAI
#Neuroscience
#AI
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🌐 Our submission "Reclaiming #Creativity: Cultural Rights, #AI, and the Future of Human Expression", with Antoine Bellemare, Suzanne Kite, @karimjerbi.bsky.social, has been positively received by the #UN Human Rights Office and cited their report for the UN General Assembly!
October 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🌐 Our submission "Reclaiming #Creativity: Cultural Rights, #AI, and the Future of Human Expression", with Antoine Bellemare, Suzanne Kite, @karimjerbi.bsky.social, has been positively received by the #UN Human Rights Office and cited their report for the UN General Assembly!
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#NEUROSCIENCE “Criticality offers a powerful framework for understanding #brain function and dysfunction,” says UdeM's Karim Jerbi. He's in the cover story of this week's @newscientist.com. #psychology #chaos
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
The crucial role of chaos in our brain’s most extraordinary functions
That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity
www.newscientist.com
September 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
#NEUROSCIENCE “Criticality offers a powerful framework for understanding #brain function and dysfunction,” says UdeM's Karim Jerbi. He's in the cover story of this week's @newscientist.com. #psychology #chaos
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
www.newscientist.com/article/2493...
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Very cool looking paper out today from Jess Thompson and Chris Summerfield, showing how to get rapid (zero-shot) generalization in counting behaviour with a dual stream deep network:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 #NeuroAI
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 #NeuroAI
Zero-shot counting with a dual-stream neural network model
How does the brain represent the structure of a visual scene (the relations among items, e.g., the cardinality) independent of scene contents (the objects in the scene, e.g., item identity)? Thompson et al. propose a dual-stream neural network model based on the parallel pathways of the primate visual system.
www.cell.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Very cool looking paper out today from Jess Thompson and Chris Summerfield, showing how to get rapid (zero-shot) generalization in counting behaviour with a dual stream deep network:
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 #NeuroAI
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
🧠📈 #NeuroAI