Eghbal Hosseini
@eghbal-hosseini.bsky.social
PhD in computational neuroscience; Postdoc at MIT; working with @evfedorenko.bsky.social
eghbalhosseini.github.io
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Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks
Many artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained with ecologically plausible objectives on naturalistic data align with behavior and neural representations in biological systems. Here, we show that this...
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Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with Colton Casto, @nogazs.bsky.social , Colin Conwell, Mark Richardson, & @evfedorenko.bsky.social on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖
tinyurl.com/yckndmjt
tinyurl.com/yckndmjt
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Presenting this afternoon from 1-5pm!
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Presenting this afternoon from 1-5pm!
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The UniReps Workshop accepted papers are out! 🎉
Huge thanks to the authors, reviewers, and incredible AC committee for their dedication and effort in making this happen. 🙏 openreview.net/group?id=Neu...
Huge thanks to the authors, reviewers, and incredible AC committee for their dedication and effort in making this happen. 🙏 openreview.net/group?id=Neu...
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop UniReps
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for NeurIPS 2025 Workshop UniReps
openreview.net
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The UniReps Workshop accepted papers are out! 🎉
Huge thanks to the authors, reviewers, and incredible AC committee for their dedication and effort in making this happen. 🙏 openreview.net/group?id=Neu...
Huge thanks to the authors, reviewers, and incredible AC committee for their dedication and effort in making this happen. 🙏 openreview.net/group?id=Neu...
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🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
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This is an amazing opportunity: work with Vivian Paulun
@vivianpaulun.bsky.social, who has deep insights about perception, and extraordinary skills as an experimentalist and theorist.
@vivianpaulun.bsky.social, who has deep insights about perception, and extraordinary skills as an experimentalist and theorist.
🚨I am looking for a POSTDOC, LAB MANAGER/TECH and GRAD STUDENTS to join my new lab in beautiful Madison, WI.
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
We study how our brains perceive and represent the physical world around us using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging methods.
paulunlab.psych.wisc.edu
#VisionScience #NeuroSkyence
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is an amazing opportunity: work with Vivian Paulun
@vivianpaulun.bsky.social, who has deep insights about perception, and extraordinary skills as an experimentalist and theorist.
@vivianpaulun.bsky.social, who has deep insights about perception, and extraordinary skills as an experimentalist and theorist.
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Wow what a nice picture I wonder who took it :)
Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/social-behav...
By @callimcflurry.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/social-behav...
Robots marry natural neuroscience, experimental control to probe animal interactions
Faux fish and birds are helping researchers decipher some of the rules that govern schooling and squawking, among other social behaviors.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Wow what a nice picture I wonder who took it :)
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Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus.
Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A vector calculus for neural computation in the cerebellum
Null space theory predicts that neurons generate spikes not only to produce behavior but also to prevent the undesirable effect of other neurons on behavior. In this work, we show that this competitiv...
www.science.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Neuronal computation in the cerebellum via a vector calculus.
Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Work of Mohammad Amin Fakharian, Alden Shoup, Paul Hage, and Hisham Elseweifi
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A detailed schedule for CCN2025 is available on our website now, including the specific keynotes / GACs / community events taking place:
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!
May 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A detailed schedule for CCN2025 is available on our website now, including the specific keynotes / GACs / community events taking place:
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...
The early bird registration deadline is coming up this Friday (23rd May)!
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New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n 🧵
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n 🧵
The cerebellar components of the human language network
The cerebellum's capacity for neural computation is arguably unmatched. Yet despite evidence of cerebellar contributions to cognition, including language, its precise role remains debated. Here, we sy...
www.biorxiv.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New paper! 🧠 **The cerebellar components of the human language network**
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n 🧵
with: @hsmall.bsky.social @moshepoliak.bsky.social @gretatuckute.bsky.social @benlipkin.bsky.social @awolna.bsky.social @aniladmello.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1/n 🧵
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📣 Grad students and postdocs in computational and theoretical neuroscience: please consider applying for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! All expenses are covered. Apply by April 14. jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
April 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
📣 Grad students and postdocs in computational and theoretical neuroscience: please consider applying for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! All expenses are covered. Apply by April 14. jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org
I couldn’t recommend a better place to learn and work if you’re considering neuroscience grad school and want to interact with phenomenal scientists!
I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here:
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab
MIT - Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab - Cambridge MA 02139
careers.peopleclick.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I couldn’t recommend a better place to learn and work if you’re considering neuroscience grad school and want to interact with phenomenal scientists!
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So excited to have our work on conlangs out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Congrats, Saima, Maya, and the rest of the crew -- well done!
Here is the MIT news story:
news.mit.edu/2025/esperan...
Here is the MIT news story:
news.mit.edu/2025/esperan...
To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin
MIT research finds the brain’s language-processing network also responds to artificial languages such as Esperanto and languages made for TV, such as Klingon on “Star Trek” and High Valyrian and Dothr...
news.mit.edu
March 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
So excited to have our work on conlangs out in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Congrats, Saima, Maya, and the rest of the crew -- well done!
Here is the MIT news story:
news.mit.edu/2025/esperan...
Here is the MIT news story:
news.mit.edu/2025/esperan...
Very important work by @rarefin.bsky.social, Oscar Skean, @yann-lecun.bsky.social and @shwartzzzivravid.bsky.social on richness of information content in intermediate layers in LLMs. highly recommended
Recent work using info theory & geometric analysis by @rarefin.bsky.social, Oscar Skean, & CDS' @shwartzzzivravid.bsky.social and @yann-lecun.bsky.social shows intermediate layers in LLMs often outperform the final layer for downstream tasks.
nyudatascience.medium.com/middle-layer...
nyudatascience.medium.com/middle-layer...
Middle Layers Excel: New Research Challenges Final-Layer Focus in Language Models
New research shows that intermediate layers in LLMs often capture better representations than the final layer.
nyudatascience.medium.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Very important work by @rarefin.bsky.social, Oscar Skean, @yann-lecun.bsky.social and @shwartzzzivravid.bsky.social on richness of information content in intermediate layers in LLMs. highly recommended
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🚨 First preprint from the lab! 🚨 Josh Rozner (w/@weissweiler.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social) uses counterfactual experiments on LMs to show that word distributions can provide a learning signal for diverse syntactic constructions, including some hard cases.
Constructions are Revealed in Word Distributions
Construction grammar posits that constructions (form-meaning pairings) are acquired through experience with language (the distributional learning hypothesis). But how much information about…
arxiv.org
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🚨 First preprint from the lab! 🚨 Josh Rozner (w/@weissweiler.bsky.social and @kmahowald.bsky.social) uses counterfactual experiments on LMs to show that word distributions can provide a learning signal for diverse syntactic constructions, including some hard cases.
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What should count as a good model of intelligence?
AI is advancing rapidly, but how do we know if it captures intelligence in a scientifically meaningful way?
We propose the *NeuroAI Turing Test*—a benchmark that evaluates models based on both behavior and internal representations.
AI is advancing rapidly, but how do we know if it captures intelligence in a scientifically meaningful way?
We propose the *NeuroAI Turing Test*—a benchmark that evaluates models based on both behavior and internal representations.
February 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What should count as a good model of intelligence?
AI is advancing rapidly, but how do we know if it captures intelligence in a scientifically meaningful way?
We propose the *NeuroAI Turing Test*—a benchmark that evaluates models based on both behavior and internal representations.
AI is advancing rapidly, but how do we know if it captures intelligence in a scientifically meaningful way?
We propose the *NeuroAI Turing Test*—a benchmark that evaluates models based on both behavior and internal representations.
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Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking that leads to “random walk science.” Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments towards deeper insights, writes @gershbrain.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...
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Nature research paper: Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics
https://go.nature.com/40PT3pT
https://go.nature.com/40PT3pT
Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics - Nature
Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is taught in school.
go.nature.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Nature research paper: Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics
https://go.nature.com/40PT3pT
https://go.nature.com/40PT3pT
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📢 Applications are open for 2025 Analytical Connectionism!
Topical focus: bias in learning
Learn key connectionist models & analytical tools for neural-network analysis, and work on novel projects with faculty & postdoc mentors
⏰ Apply by 18 April
ℹ️ www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025
Topical focus: bias in learning
Learn key connectionist models & analytical tools for neural-network analysis, and work on novel projects with faculty & postdoc mentors
⏰ Apply by 18 April
ℹ️ www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025
February 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📢 Applications are open for 2025 Analytical Connectionism!
Topical focus: bias in learning
Learn key connectionist models & analytical tools for neural-network analysis, and work on novel projects with faculty & postdoc mentors
⏰ Apply by 18 April
ℹ️ www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025
Topical focus: bias in learning
Learn key connectionist models & analytical tools for neural-network analysis, and work on novel projects with faculty & postdoc mentors
⏰ Apply by 18 April
ℹ️ www.analytical-connectionism.net/school/2025
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Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.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 16, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Our representational alignment workshop returns to #ICLR2025! Submit your work on how ML/cogsci/neuro systems represent the world & what shapes these representations 💭🧠🤖
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
w/ @thisismyhat.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social, @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social @siddsuresh97.bsky.social
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Check our latest in which we leverage shape metrics to compare neural geometry across regions, sessions or subjects and how their differences predict behavior.
w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong, @sarah-harvey.bsky.social, Brincat, @siegellab.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social & @itsneuronal.bsky.social
w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong, @sarah-harvey.bsky.social, Brincat, @siegellab.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social & @itsneuronal.bsky.social
Quantifying Differences in Neural Population Activity With Shape Metrics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.10.632411v1
January 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Check our latest in which we leverage shape metrics to compare neural geometry across regions, sessions or subjects and how their differences predict behavior.
w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong, @sarah-harvey.bsky.social, Brincat, @siegellab.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social & @itsneuronal.bsky.social
w/ Nejatbakhsh, Duong, @sarah-harvey.bsky.social, Brincat, @siegellab.bsky.social, @earlkmiller.bsky.social & @itsneuronal.bsky.social
Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with Colton Casto, @nogazs.bsky.social , Colin Conwell, Mark Richardson, & @evfedorenko.bsky.social on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖
tinyurl.com/yckndmjt
tinyurl.com/yckndmjt
Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks
Many artificial neural networks (ANNs) trained with ecologically plausible objectives on naturalistic data align with behavior and neural representations in biological systems. Here, we show that this...
tinyurl.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Why do diverse ANNs resemble brain representations? Check out our new paper with Colton Casto, @nogazs.bsky.social , Colin Conwell, Mark Richardson, & @evfedorenko.bsky.social on “Universality of representation in biological and artificial neural networks.” 🧠🤖
tinyurl.com/yckndmjt
tinyurl.com/yckndmjt
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New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing - Nature Communications
Ears encode sound with precisely timed spikes, but the perceptual role of this temporal coding remains uncertain. Here, the authors report that high-fidelity temporal coding is necessary for neural ne...
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:13 PM
New paper from our lab, by Mark Saddler, using machine learning to test the role of temporal coding in hearing. Here is a quick summary. (1/n)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...