CMC lab
@cmc-lab.bsky.social
Computational Machinery of Cognition (CMC) lab focuses on understanding the computational and neural machinery of goal-driven behavior | PI: @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social | https://shervinsafavi.github.io/cmclab/
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Very much looking forward to this exciting lineup!
Also excited about presenting our work on how timescales of environmental dynamics affect foraging decisions (Wednesday), a work together w/ Tiffany Ona, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social, Bruno Cruz, @xindipoo.bsky.social and Peter Dayan
Also excited about presenting our work on how timescales of environmental dynamics affect foraging decisions (Wednesday), a work together w/ Tiffany Ona, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social, Bruno Cruz, @xindipoo.bsky.social and Peter Dayan
🚨Registration for Mechanistic Basis of Foraging 2025 closes October 20th 🚨
Speakers
@mkflugge.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social
@davidrobbe.bsky.social @dlbarack.bsky.social @becketebs.bsky.social
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Speakers
@mkflugge.bsky.social @aaronbornstein.bsky.social @benhayden.bsky.social @ellileadbeater.bsky.social
@davidrobbe.bsky.social @dlbarack.bsky.social @becketebs.bsky.social
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November 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Very much looking forward to this exciting lineup!
Also excited about presenting our work on how timescales of environmental dynamics affect foraging decisions (Wednesday), a work together w/ Tiffany Ona, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social, Bruno Cruz, @xindipoo.bsky.social and Peter Dayan
Also excited about presenting our work on how timescales of environmental dynamics affect foraging decisions (Wednesday), a work together w/ Tiffany Ona, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social, Bruno Cruz, @xindipoo.bsky.social and Peter Dayan
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The final paper of my PhD is now out as a preprint. This is a follow-up piece in series of two companion papers modelling awareness and suppression in a new variant of continuous flash suppression.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154
🧵 1/3
arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154
🧵 1/3
A Minimal Quantitative Model of Perceptual Suppression and Breakthrough in Visual Rivalry
When conflicting images are presented to either eye, binocular fusion is disrupted. Rather than experiencing a blend of both percepts, often only one eye's image is experienced, whilst the other is su...
arxiv.org
October 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The final paper of my PhD is now out as a preprint. This is a follow-up piece in series of two companion papers modelling awareness and suppression in a new variant of continuous flash suppression.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154
🧵 1/3
arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154
🧵 1/3
Don't miss our posters at #BernsteinConference 😍
If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
Bernstein Conference 2025
Conference Abstracts
abstracts.g-node.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Don't miss our posters at #BernsteinConference 😍
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If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
Bernstein Conference 2025
Conference Abstracts
abstracts.g-node.org
September 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
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What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
September 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
Don't miss today's workshop by two of our members (@armanbehrad.bsky.social and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) on brain state!
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
September 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Don't miss today's workshop by two of our members (@armanbehrad.bsky.social and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) on brain state!
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
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Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state!
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
September 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state!
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
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On the Thursday's morning we continue with @colehurwitz.bsky.social, @engeltatiana.bsky.social, @apalmigiano.bsky.social, @acnavasolive.bsky.social, and I (4/4)
September 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
On the Thursday's morning we continue with @colehurwitz.bsky.social, @engeltatiana.bsky.social, @apalmigiano.bsky.social, @acnavasolive.bsky.social, and I (4/4)
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We continue with @memming.bsky.social, Justus Kautz, @maryamshanechi.bsky.social (3/4)
September 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We continue with @memming.bsky.social, Justus Kautz, @maryamshanechi.bsky.social (3/4)
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On the first day, we start with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social, @mehranahmadlou.bsky.social, @vmsruetten.bsky.social (2/4)
September 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
On the first day, we start with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social, @mehranahmadlou.bsky.social, @vmsruetten.bsky.social (2/4)
Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
September 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
September 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
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🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Aug 18, Thu, 2pm CET), Samuel Liebana will tell us about his paper (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... [joint work w/ @saxelab.bsky.social & @laklab.bsky.social]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
www.cell.com
September 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Aug 18, Thu, 2pm CET), Samuel Liebana will tell us about his paper (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... [joint work w/ @saxelab.bsky.social & @laklab.bsky.social]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social on Aug 28th, Thursday, 2 PM CET, @trinityjchung.com will tell us about her recent paper (👇). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do?
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social on Aug 28th, Thursday, 2 PM CET, @trinityjchung.com will tell us about her recent paper (👇). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
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1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do?
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
May 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do?
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
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#CCN2025, Poster C160: We present MoDSA – a fully unsupervised method for identifying behaviorally relevant neural states in both biological & artificial systems.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
An unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on naturalistic plum tracking task. Visit poster C160, Fri 2-5pm, talk to @armanbehrad.bsky.social 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
Poster Presentation
2025.ccneuro.org
August 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
#CCN2025, Poster C160: We present MoDSA – a fully unsupervised method for identifying behaviorally relevant neural states in both biological & artificial systems.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Wanna know how do agents forge better when have a model of their environment? Go to our wonderful collaborator, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social B90 poster!
We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...
Looking forward to attending #CCN2025 for the first time and presenting the first steps of my postdoc project! If you’re interested in how learning the temporal structure of the environment affects foraging decisions and how we’re testing this in a naturalistic experiment come by poster B90, Wed.
August 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Wanna know how do agents forge better when have a model of their environment? Go to our wonderful collaborator, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social B90 poster!
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We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...
Looking forward to attending #CCN2025 for the first time and presenting the first steps of my postdoc project! If you’re interested in how learning the temporal structure of the environment affects foraging decisions and how we’re testing this in a naturalistic experiment come by poster B90, Wed.
August 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...
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If you are around for #CCN2025, come to B71 poster to know more how we (internally) forage for information and how RL can explain it!
Wanna know about *internal* reinforcement learning? We'll show you seemingly random switches during perceptual multistability is a form informational foraging, is task-modulated & how RL explain them all! Poster B71, Wed 2-5pm, talk to @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
Poster Presentation
2025.ccneuro.org
August 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
If you are around for #CCN2025, come to B71 poster to know more how we (internally) forage for information and how RL can explain it!
Reposted by CMC lab
Excited about #CCN2025 and sharing our research in @cmc-lab.bsky.social!
We are heading to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam with 3 awesome posters! Thread below 👇
B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
Poster Presentation
2025.ccneuro.org
August 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Excited about #CCN2025 and sharing our research in @cmc-lab.bsky.social!
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Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...).
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
x.com
x.com
December 13, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...).
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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In interested, also check our previous papers: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (bsky.app/profile/neur...)
August 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In interested, also check our previous papers: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (bsky.app/profile/neur...)
We are heading to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam with 3 awesome posters! Thread below 👇
B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
Poster Presentation
2025.ccneuro.org
August 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We are heading to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam with 3 awesome posters! Thread below 👇
B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
Reposted by CMC lab
Looking forward to attending #CCN2025 for the first time and presenting the first steps of my postdoc project! If you’re interested in how learning the temporal structure of the environment affects foraging decisions and how we’re testing this in a naturalistic experiment come by poster B90, Wed.
August 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Looking forward to attending #CCN2025 for the first time and presenting the first steps of my postdoc project! If you’re interested in how learning the temporal structure of the environment affects foraging decisions and how we’re testing this in a naturalistic experiment come by poster B90, Wed.