CBS CoCoNUT
@cbs-coconut.bsky.social
Passion for Cognitive Computational Neuroscience @ MPI CBS
Visit our website for upcoming events & a great collection of past talks: https://www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
Visit our website for upcoming events & a great collection of past talks: https://www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
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Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors
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The Max Planck Society offers Directors a unique platform for groundbreaking research and leadership in diverse scientific fields.
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September 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors
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Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩🎓 🧑🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩🎓 🧑🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩
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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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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 Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
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What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...
www.nature.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:03 PM
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in @natmachintell.nature.com led by @florianmahner.bsky.social & @lukasmut.bsky.social, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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We're happy to announce the Berlin Consciousness Symposium, an in-person event bringing together expert speakers to discuss new trends in the neuroscience of consciousness.
Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social
www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...
Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social
www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...
Berlin Consciousness Symposium: New Trends in the Neuroscience of Consciousness
www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de
June 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
We're happy to announce the Berlin Consciousness Symposium, an in-person event bringing together expert speakers to discuss new trends in the neuroscience of consciousness.
Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social
www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...
Date: 3rd of July 2025 at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social
www.ewi-psy.fu-berlin.de/en/psycholog...
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I'm super happy to see our project on topographic neural network models of visual processing out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Have a look at @zejinlu.bsky.social's thread for details.
Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com : “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I'm super happy to see our project on topographic neural network models of visual processing out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! Have a look at @zejinlu.bsky.social's thread for details.
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Thank you @lukasmut.bsky.social for the excellent talk & stimulating discussion!
For those who couldn’t join we will upload a recording soon.
For those who couldn’t join we will upload a recording soon.
March 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Thank you @lukasmut.bsky.social for the excellent talk & stimulating discussion!
For those who couldn’t join we will upload a recording soon.
For those who couldn’t join we will upload a recording soon.
Join us for the talk by @lukasmut.bsky.social (Google Deep Mind, TU Berlin) on
"Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision"
Starting soon at 10 AM (CET), March 28
Find the Zoom Link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
"Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision"
Starting soon at 10 AM (CET), March 28
Find the Zoom Link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
CBS CoCoNUT
CBS CoCoNUT: A new interest group that comes together every two weeks to have an informal exchange about cognitive computational neuroscience.
www.cbs.mpg.de
March 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Join us for the talk by @lukasmut.bsky.social (Google Deep Mind, TU Berlin) on
"Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision"
Starting soon at 10 AM (CET), March 28
Find the Zoom Link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
"Representational alignment of humans and machines for computer vision"
Starting soon at 10 AM (CET), March 28
Find the Zoom Link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
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ℹ️ Details and registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
UCL NeuroAI Talk Series
A series of NeuroAI themed talks organised by the UCL NeuroAI community. Talks will continue on a monthly basis.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
ℹ️ Details and registration:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-neuroa...
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Registration for CCN2025 is open! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...
Meeting Registration
2025.ccneuro.org
February 4, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Registration for CCN2025 is open! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...
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We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
Tools and Software
www.cbs.mpg.de
January 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We centralized our open-science contributions in a new "Tools & Software" section on our website; check out
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
- open stimuli (eg. 3D objects)
- open data (eg. MindBrainBody)
- tools (eg. excite-o-meter, AffectTracker)
- analysis scripts
- & more
www.cbs.mpg.de/departments/...
#researchtransparency
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I'm looking forward to give a talk at this great event👇
about scilaunch 🚀
shescher.github.io/scilaunch/
scilaunch 🚀 is a small convenience tool that I developed with the goal of easing the launch of new research projects, providing a useful skeleton for data, code, and organizational aspects.
about scilaunch 🚀
shescher.github.io/scilaunch/
scilaunch 🚀 is a small convenience tool that I developed with the goal of easing the launch of new research projects, providing a useful skeleton for data, code, and organizational aspects.
February 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'm looking forward to give a talk at this great event👇
about scilaunch 🚀
shescher.github.io/scilaunch/
scilaunch 🚀 is a small convenience tool that I developed with the goal of easing the launch of new research projects, providing a useful skeleton for data, code, and organizational aspects.
about scilaunch 🚀
shescher.github.io/scilaunch/
scilaunch 🚀 is a small convenience tool that I developed with the goal of easing the launch of new research projects, providing a useful skeleton for data, code, and organizational aspects.
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Re-Align returns to #ICLR2025! Please consider submitting if you work on how ML / CogSci / Neuro systems represent the world & what factors shape these representations 💭🧠🤖
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social
@sucholutsky.bsky.social
@eringrant.bsky.social
@siddsuresh97.bsky.social
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social
@sucholutsky.bsky.social
@eringrant.bsky.social
@siddsuresh97.bsky.social
🚨Call for Papers🚨
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025
Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd
representational-alignment.github.io
The Re-Align Workshop is coming back to #ICLR2025
Our CfP is up! Come share your representational alignment work at our interdisciplinary workshop at
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
Deadline is 11:59 pm AOE on Feb 3rd
representational-alignment.github.io
January 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Re-Align returns to #ICLR2025! Please consider submitting if you work on how ML / CogSci / Neuro systems represent the world & what factors shape these representations 💭🧠🤖
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social
@sucholutsky.bsky.social
@eringrant.bsky.social
@siddsuresh97.bsky.social
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social
@sucholutsky.bsky.social
@eringrant.bsky.social
@siddsuresh97.bsky.social
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(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
🥥🚨 If you have missed the excellent lecture by Sebastian Lapuschkin on #XAI last month , his talk can be found on our website:
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
... among many other great talks. 🚨🥥
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
... among many other great talks. 🚨🥥
Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, this is a kind reminder of today's (Nov 27) talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin on next-gen explainable A.I. #XAI
3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom
iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/
3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom
iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/
January 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🥥🚨 If you have missed the excellent lecture by Sebastian Lapuschkin on #XAI last month , his talk can be found on our website:
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
... among many other great talks. 🚨🥥
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
... among many other great talks. 🚨🥥
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📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
November 25, 2024 at 7:32 PM
📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de
Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social
#interoception
Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, this is a kind reminder of today's (Nov 27) talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin on next-gen explainable A.I. #XAI
3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom
iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/
3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom
iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/
November 27, 2024 at 9:33 AM
Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT, this is a kind reminder of today's (Nov 27) talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin on next-gen explainable A.I. #XAI
3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom
iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/
3 PM (CET), live @ @mpicbs.bsky.social & on Zoom
iphome.hhi.de/lapuschkin/
Delighted to announce our next CBS CoCoNUT 🧠🥥🤖 talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin, whose work has shaped the field of explainable AI #XAI in the last decade.
When: Nov 27, 3 PM (CET)
Where: Lecture Hall @ MPI CBS
& Zoom (link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)
#AI #DeepLearning #interpretability #LRP
When: Nov 27, 3 PM (CET)
Where: Lecture Hall @ MPI CBS
& Zoom (link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)
#AI #DeepLearning #interpretability #LRP
From attribution maps to human-understandable explanations through Concept Relevance Propagation - Nature Machine Intelligence
Local methods of explainable artificial intelligence identify where important features or inputs occur, while global methods try to understand what features or concepts have been learned by a model. T...
doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Delighted to announce our next CBS CoCoNUT 🧠🥥🤖 talk by Sebastian Lapuschkin, whose work has shaped the field of explainable AI #XAI in the last decade.
When: Nov 27, 3 PM (CET)
Where: Lecture Hall @ MPI CBS
& Zoom (link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)
#AI #DeepLearning #interpretability #LRP
When: Nov 27, 3 PM (CET)
Where: Lecture Hall @ MPI CBS
& Zoom (link here: www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)
#AI #DeepLearning #interpretability #LRP
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After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
November 12, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT,
Tomorrow, Friday, Nov 8, 11AM (CET)
@smnhfmnn.bsky.social will present 🚀 scilaunch (shescher.github.io/scilaunch/) a light-weight tool to set up your research projects.
Join us on Zoom (see www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)!
#open-science 🗝️ #python 🐍
Tomorrow, Friday, Nov 8, 11AM (CET)
@smnhfmnn.bsky.social will present 🚀 scilaunch (shescher.github.io/scilaunch/) a light-weight tool to set up your research projects.
Join us on Zoom (see www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)!
#open-science 🗝️ #python 🐍
Overview - scilaunch
A tiny program for you, setting up the ground for grand discoveries
shescher.github.io
November 7, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Dear friends of CBS CoCoNUT,
Tomorrow, Friday, Nov 8, 11AM (CET)
@smnhfmnn.bsky.social will present 🚀 scilaunch (shescher.github.io/scilaunch/) a light-weight tool to set up your research projects.
Join us on Zoom (see www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)!
#open-science 🗝️ #python 🐍
Tomorrow, Friday, Nov 8, 11AM (CET)
@smnhfmnn.bsky.social will present 🚀 scilaunch (shescher.github.io/scilaunch/) a light-weight tool to set up your research projects.
Join us on Zoom (see www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut)!
#open-science 🗝️ #python 🐍
The recording of the talk on how "Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models" by @adriendoerig.bsky.social from Friday can be found here:
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models
Adrien Doerig (University Osnabrück)
www.cbs.mpg.de
April 16, 2024 at 1:53 PM
The recording of the talk on how "Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models" by @adriendoerig.bsky.social from Friday can be found here:
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
We are delighted to welcome Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social , who will be giving a talk on how „Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models”
Join us on April 12 at 10:15 (CET) on Zoom, link via www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
#MLSky #neuroskyence 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #NeuroAI
Join us on April 12 at 10:15 (CET) on Zoom, link via www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
#MLSky #neuroskyence 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #NeuroAI
April 11, 2024 at 7:42 AM
We are delighted to welcome Adrien Doerig @adriendoerig.bsky.social , who will be giving a talk on how „Visual representations in the human brain align with large language models”
Join us on April 12 at 10:15 (CET) on Zoom, link via www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
#MLSky #neuroskyence 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #NeuroAI
Join us on April 12 at 10:15 (CET) on Zoom, link via www.cbs.mpg.de/en/cbs-coconut
#MLSky #neuroskyence 🧠🟦 🧠🤖 #NeuroAI
Find the recording of today's talk by Mariya Toneva about "Convergence and divergence between language models and human brains" here:
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
November 10, 2023 at 1:49 PM
Find the recording of today's talk by Mariya Toneva about "Convergence and divergence between language models and human brains" here:
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...
www.cbs.mpg.de/cbs-coconut/...