katja seeliger
@seelikat.bsky.social
Links between human and machine vision. #DeepLearning, #Neuroscience.
📍 Leipzig, Koffer in Berlin.
🌍 seelikat.github.io
𝕏 x.com/seelikat
📍 Leipzig, Koffer in Berlin.
🌍 seelikat.github.io
𝕏 x.com/seelikat
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Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima arxiv.org/abs/2511.07960 by @ykamit.bsky.social et al. via @seelikat.bsky.social; #neuroscience #AI
Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)
A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-based method. However, o...
arxiv.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima arxiv.org/abs/2511.07960 by @ykamit.bsky.social et al. via @seelikat.bsky.social; #neuroscience #AI
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Now accepting paper submissions for the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop at #AAAI2026!
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Now accepting paper submissions for the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop at #AAAI2026!
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
🔗 https://neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io/
@aaai.org
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For a long time, some have daydreamed about whether neural networks can learn to effectively synthesize stimulation patterns to write information into the brain.
Introducing 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Introducing 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
For a long time, some have daydreamed about whether neural networks can learn to effectively synthesize stimulation patterns to write information into the brain.
Introducing 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Introducing 𝐃𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐱
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Our article is out in Annual Review of Vision Science: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation”
We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation | Annual Reviews
Visual image reconstruction, the decoding of perceptual content from brain activity into images, has advanced significantly with the integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative models. T...
www.annualreviews.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Our article is out in Annual Review of Vision Science: “Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation”
We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
We trace the path from early brain decoding to modern NeuroAI, highlight progress & pitfalls, and discuss future directions www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Reposted by katja seeliger
A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain. Intriguing new preprint by Roy & Naselaris et al for anyone interested in mental imagery!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain
Extensive work has shown that the visual cortex is reactivated during mental imagery, and that models trained on visual data can predict imagery activity and decode imagined stimuli. These findings ma...
www.biorxiv.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A transformation from vision to imagery in the human brain. Intriguing new preprint by Roy & Naselaris et al for anyone interested in mental imagery!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Music genre fMRI dataset by Nishimoto lab: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Music genre neuroimaging dataset
This dataset includes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data collected while five subjects extensively listened to 540 music pieces from 10…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Music genre fMRI dataset by Nishimoto lab: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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🧠 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...
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...
September 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
🧠 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...
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...
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Had a blast chatting with @neildegrassetyson.com on @startalkradio.bsky.social ’s podcast about how AI and neuroscience come together
startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...
startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...
Mindreading with Jean Rémi-King - StarTalk Special Edition
What would it take to read someone’s mind? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly explore the science of decoding our thoughts w/ Jean-Rémi King.
startalkmedia.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Had a blast chatting with @neildegrassetyson.com on @startalkradio.bsky.social ’s podcast about how AI and neuroscience come together
startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...
startalkmedia.com/show/mindrea...
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Can we hear what's inside your head? 🧠→🎶
Our new paper, led by Jong-Yun Park, presents an AI-based method for reconstructing arbitrary natural sounds directly from a person's brain activity measured with fMRI.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Our new paper, led by Jong-Yun Park, presents an AI-based method for reconstructing arbitrary natural sounds directly from a person's brain activity measured with fMRI.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
July 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Can we hear what's inside your head? 🧠→🎶
Our new paper, led by Jong-Yun Park, presents an AI-based method for reconstructing arbitrary natural sounds directly from a person's brain activity measured with fMRI.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Our new paper, led by Jong-Yun Park, presents an AI-based method for reconstructing arbitrary natural sounds directly from a person's brain activity measured with fMRI.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Martin Schrimpf wants to build a “digital twin” of the brain. “If we have a model of dyslexia, we can probe it and find changes to the text that make it easier for someone to read.”
How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain | Quanta Magazine
Martin Schrimpf is crafting bespoke AI models that can induce control over high-level brain activity.
www.quantamagazine.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Martin Schrimpf wants to build a “digital twin” of the brain. “If we have a model of dyslexia, we can probe it and find changes to the text that make it easier for someone to read.”
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🚨 Our new paper is out in @natmachintell.nature.com!
🤔 Deep neural nets (DNNs) often align with humans in performance and even representations — but do they "think" like us?
📄 “Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans”
🤔 Deep neural nets (DNNs) often align with humans in performance and even representations — but do they "think" like us?
📄 “Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans”
June 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
🚨 Our new paper is out in @natmachintell.nature.com!
🤔 Deep neural nets (DNNs) often align with humans in performance and even representations — but do they "think" like us?
📄 “Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans”
🤔 Deep neural nets (DNNs) often align with humans in performance and even representations — but do they "think" like us?
📄 “Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans”
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I am devastated to learn of my dear friend and fellow philosopher Helen De Cruz’s passing.
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
Donate to Support Helen's Children After Her Passing, organized by Marcus Arvan
Help provide Helen De Cruz's children with a better start in life after her un… Marcus Arvan needs your support for Support Helen's Children After Her Passing
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June 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I am devastated to learn of my dear friend and fellow philosopher Helen De Cruz’s passing.
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
With Helen's blessing, her husband Johan and I agreed to circulate a GoFundMe on their children’s behalf.
Please feel free to share and circulate widely.
www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...
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Hello, World!
After years of broadcasting into the void, I'm retuning my antenna:
Professional signal → Bluesky & LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/umguec/)
Personal noise → Instagram (instagram.com/umguec/)
Let the decentralized brain dump commence. 🧠💩
After years of broadcasting into the void, I'm retuning my antenna:
Professional signal → Bluesky & LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/umguec/)
Personal noise → Instagram (instagram.com/umguec/)
Let the decentralized brain dump commence. 🧠💩
June 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Hello, World!
After years of broadcasting into the void, I'm retuning my antenna:
Professional signal → Bluesky & LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/umguec/)
Personal noise → Instagram (instagram.com/umguec/)
Let the decentralized brain dump commence. 🧠💩
After years of broadcasting into the void, I'm retuning my antenna:
Professional signal → Bluesky & LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/umguec/)
Personal noise → Instagram (instagram.com/umguec/)
Let the decentralized brain dump commence. 🧠💩
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📣 We won the "Dutch ICT Oscar"!
🏆 At the end of last year, our team was honored with the Computable Award in Digital Innovation 2024, “for visual prosthetics for the blind.”
🏆 At the end of last year, our team was honored with the Computable Award in Digital Innovation 2024, “for visual prosthetics for the blind.”
June 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
📣 We won the "Dutch ICT Oscar"!
🏆 At the end of last year, our team was honored with the Computable Award in Digital Innovation 2024, “for visual prosthetics for the blind.”
🏆 At the end of last year, our team was honored with the Computable Award in Digital Innovation 2024, “for visual prosthetics for the blind.”
Review on visual perception reconstruction by kamitanilab:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08429
"From a psychological perspective, brain decoding supports Fechner’s concept of inner psychophysics, linking neural data with subjective experience."
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08429
"From a psychological perspective, brain decoding supports Fechner’s concept of inner psychophysics, linking neural data with subjective experience."
Visual Image Reconstruction from Brain Activity via Latent Representation
Visual image reconstruction, the decoding of perceptual content from brain activity into images, has advanced significantly with the integration of deep neural networks (DNNs) and generative models. T...
arxiv.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Review on visual perception reconstruction by kamitanilab:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08429
"From a psychological perspective, brain decoding supports Fechner’s concept of inner psychophysics, linking neural data with subjective experience."
arxiv.org/abs/2505.08429
"From a psychological perspective, brain decoding supports Fechner’s concept of inner psychophysics, linking neural data with subjective experience."
Alignment between CLIP embeddings and ventral occipitotemporal cortex activity is left‐lateralized, and sensitive to language‐vision pathways: arxiv.org/abs/2501.13628
Language modulates vision: Evidence from neural networks and human brain-lesion models
Comparing information structures in between deep neural networks (DNNs) and the human brain has become a key method for exploring their similarities and differences. Recent research has shown better a...
arxiv.org
May 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Alignment between CLIP embeddings and ventral occipitotemporal cortex activity is left‐lateralized, and sensitive to language‐vision pathways: arxiv.org/abs/2501.13628
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New Paper: Continuous Thought Machines
pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute, but this is largely ignored in modern neural nets. We believe neural timing is key for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence.
Thread ↓
pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute, but this is largely ignored in modern neural nets. We believe neural timing is key for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence.
Thread ↓
May 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
New Paper: Continuous Thought Machines
pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute, but this is largely ignored in modern neural nets. We believe neural timing is key for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence.
Thread ↓
pub.sakana.ai/ctm/
Neurons in brains use timing and synchronization in the way that they compute, but this is largely ignored in modern neural nets. We believe neural timing is key for the flexibility and adaptability of biological intelligence.
Thread ↓
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Pet parrots were taught to do video calls, and it was a hit.
The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots.
Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare.
🧪🦜
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots.
Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare.
🧪🦜
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
May 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Pet parrots were taught to do video calls, and it was a hit.
The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots.
Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare.
🧪🦜
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
The birds not only made friends with each other, and selected who they wanted to call and when, but also picked up new skills from fellow parrots.
Good enrichment option for improving captive parrot welfare.
🧪🦜
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 14, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The model now most aligned with the higher visual system is CLIP.
It learns a joint image-text embedding space via contrastive loss - pulling semantically related pairs together, pushing unrelated ones apart.
(1/2)
It learns a joint image-text embedding space via contrastive loss - pulling semantically related pairs together, pushing unrelated ones apart.
(1/2)
April 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The model now most aligned with the higher visual system is CLIP.
It learns a joint image-text embedding space via contrastive loss - pulling semantically related pairs together, pushing unrelated ones apart.
(1/2)
It learns a joint image-text embedding space via contrastive loss - pulling semantically related pairs together, pushing unrelated ones apart.
(1/2)
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Reposted by katja seeliger
(1/4) The Algonauts Project 2025 challenge is now live!
Participate and build computational models that best predict how the human brain responds to multimodal movies!
Submission deadline: 13th of July.
#algonauts2025 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI
algonautsproject.com
Participate and build computational models that best predict how the human brain responds to multimodal movies!
Submission deadline: 13th of July.
#algonauts2025 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI
algonautsproject.com
The Algonauts Project 2025
homepage
algonautsproject.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
(1/4) The Algonauts Project 2025 challenge is now live!
Participate and build computational models that best predict how the human brain responds to multimodal movies!
Submission deadline: 13th of July.
#algonauts2025 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI
algonautsproject.com
Participate and build computational models that best predict how the human brain responds to multimodal movies!
Submission deadline: 13th of July.
#algonauts2025 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI
algonautsproject.com
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It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com
Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…
www.online-tribute.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire
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The Algonauts Project 2025 Challenge is on! This year, it focuses on building encoding models that explain human brain responses during movie viewing (based on the incredible CNeuroMod dataset)! Very cool project!! youtu.be/KvLDpsIO2eg
January 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The Algonauts Project 2025 Challenge is on! This year, it focuses on building encoding models that explain human brain responses during movie viewing (based on the incredible CNeuroMod dataset)! Very cool project!! youtu.be/KvLDpsIO2eg
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Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
December 2, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N