Kohitij Kar
@kohitij.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience, @yorkuniversity, Visiting Scientist @MIT, Previously: Postdoc(@MIT), PhD (@RutgersU)
🌟New Preprint
Work led by @sabinemuzellec.bsky.social, in collab with
Yousif Alghetaa, and Simon Kornblith
We introduce a neurally validated strategy "MAPS" leveraging current ANNs and XAI tools to approximate human visual strategies. Also, validated against Bubbles!
arxiv.org/abs/2510.12141
Work led by @sabinemuzellec.bsky.social, in collab with
Yousif Alghetaa, and Simon Kornblith
We introduce a neurally validated strategy "MAPS" leveraging current ANNs and XAI tools to approximate human visual strategies. Also, validated against Bubbles!
arxiv.org/abs/2510.12141
October 15, 2025 at 1:32 AM
🌟New Preprint
Work led by @sabinemuzellec.bsky.social, in collab with
Yousif Alghetaa, and Simon Kornblith
We introduce a neurally validated strategy "MAPS" leveraging current ANNs and XAI tools to approximate human visual strategies. Also, validated against Bubbles!
arxiv.org/abs/2510.12141
Work led by @sabinemuzellec.bsky.social, in collab with
Yousif Alghetaa, and Simon Kornblith
We introduce a neurally validated strategy "MAPS" leveraging current ANNs and XAI tools to approximate human visual strategies. Also, validated against Bubbles!
arxiv.org/abs/2510.12141
🧠 New preprint!
Recognition-trained ANNs miss a key dimension of IT coding: memorability. Jointly optimizing for both recognition and memorability yielded more brain-like visual models.
Another step toward multi-goal modeling of the ventral stream.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recognition-trained ANNs miss a key dimension of IT coding: memorability. Jointly optimizing for both recognition and memorability yielded more brain-like visual models.
Another step toward multi-goal modeling of the ventral stream.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🧠 New preprint!
Recognition-trained ANNs miss a key dimension of IT coding: memorability. Jointly optimizing for both recognition and memorability yielded more brain-like visual models.
Another step toward multi-goal modeling of the ventral stream.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Recognition-trained ANNs miss a key dimension of IT coding: memorability. Jointly optimizing for both recognition and memorability yielded more brain-like visual models.
Another step toward multi-goal modeling of the ventral stream.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Kohitij Kar
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Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
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September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.
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Two new preprints from our lab!
@sabinemuzellec.bsky.social leads work on reverse(Brain➡ ANN) predictivity showing gaps in forward(ANN ➡ Brain) metrics shorturl.at/bnoFl
@marenwehrheim.bsky.social leads work on facial expression emerging from shared not segregated neural subspaces. shorturl.at/QAIl4
@sabinemuzellec.bsky.social leads work on reverse(Brain➡ ANN) predictivity showing gaps in forward(ANN ➡ Brain) metrics shorturl.at/bnoFl
@marenwehrheim.bsky.social leads work on facial expression emerging from shared not segregated neural subspaces. shorturl.at/QAIl4
August 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Two new preprints from our lab!
@sabinemuzellec.bsky.social leads work on reverse(Brain➡ ANN) predictivity showing gaps in forward(ANN ➡ Brain) metrics shorturl.at/bnoFl
@marenwehrheim.bsky.social leads work on facial expression emerging from shared not segregated neural subspaces. shorturl.at/QAIl4
@sabinemuzellec.bsky.social leads work on reverse(Brain➡ ANN) predictivity showing gaps in forward(ANN ➡ Brain) metrics shorturl.at/bnoFl
@marenwehrheim.bsky.social leads work on facial expression emerging from shared not segregated neural subspaces. shorturl.at/QAIl4
I am thankful to the Ontario Govt for awarding me Ontario’s early researcher award (ERA).The award supports us in advancing knowledge and building a strong team of trainees to develop future research leaders in Ontario. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
Special thanks to my awesome lab!
Special thanks to my awesome lab!
Provincial recognition for York U early-career researchers - YFile
Professors Eric Kennedy and Kohitij Kar have been recognized with Ontario’s Early Researcher Award for impactful work that will advance wildfire predictive services and understanding how those with au...
www.yorku.ca
May 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I am thankful to the Ontario Govt for awarding me Ontario’s early researcher award (ERA).The award supports us in advancing knowledge and building a strong team of trainees to develop future research leaders in Ontario. www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
Special thanks to my awesome lab!
Special thanks to my awesome lab!
We are excited to share our latest research at #vss2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social and learn about all things vision! Please come to our talks and posters. Looking forward to all your feedback!
May 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We are excited to share our latest research at #vss2025 @vssmtg.bsky.social and learn about all things vision! Please come to our talks and posters. Looking forward to all your feedback!
Our lab had a great time sharing our work at the NETI Workshop at @utaustin.bsky.social. Lots of new, exciting work is going on in systems neuroscience!
April 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Our lab had a great time sharing our work at the NETI Workshop at @utaustin.bsky.social. Lots of new, exciting work is going on in systems neuroscience!
My lab is hosting undergraduates for the SURFiN program. If you want to come to @yorku-neurophys.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social in Toronto and work on a @simonsfoundation.org funded project on using brain-inspired AI for autism research please apply!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/shenoy...
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/shenoy...
Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)
Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN) on Simons Foundation
www.simonsfoundation.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:20 AM
My lab is hosting undergraduates for the SURFiN program. If you want to come to @yorku-neurophys.bsky.social @yorku-cian.bsky.social in Toronto and work on a @simonsfoundation.org funded project on using brain-inspired AI for autism research please apply!
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/shenoy...
www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/shenoy...
Reposted by Kohitij Kar
Thank you Dr. John Reynolds from @salkinstitute.bsky.social
for a fascinating presentation.
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@connectedminds.bsky.social
#neuroscience
for a fascinating presentation.
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@connectedminds.bsky.social
#neuroscience
April 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Thank you Dr. John Reynolds from @salkinstitute.bsky.social
for a fascinating presentation.
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@connectedminds.bsky.social
#neuroscience
for a fascinating presentation.
@jdcrawford.bsky.social
@connectedminds.bsky.social
#neuroscience
If you are at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #cosyne2025 , please check out two posters from our lab today, one by Mualla (2-62), and the other by Jean de Dieu (2-127).
March 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If you are at @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #cosyne2025 , please check out two posters from our lab today, one by Mualla (2-62), and the other by Jean de Dieu (2-127).
Reposted by Kohitij Kar
Join us on March 7 for this month's seminar. @jdcrawford.bsky.social @bjorges.bsky.social @connectedminds.bsky.social @yorkuniversity.bsky.social #neuroscience
February 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Join us on March 7 for this month's seminar. @jdcrawford.bsky.social @bjorges.bsky.social @connectedminds.bsky.social @yorkuniversity.bsky.social #neuroscience
(1/3) 🌟New preprint with @lynnkasorensen.bsky.social and Jim DiCarlo
When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The effects of object category training on the responses of macaque inferior temporal cortex are consistent with performance-optimizing updates within a visual hierarchy
How does the primate brain coordinate plasticity to support its remarkable ability to learn object categories? To address this question, we measured the consequences of category learning on the macaqu...
www.biorxiv.org
December 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM
(1/3) 🌟New preprint with @lynnkasorensen.bsky.social and Jim DiCarlo
When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This new article perfectly concludes my time & lessons in Jim’s lab.@JamesJDiCarlo and I propose +review SMART models of object recognition
✅ Sensory computable
✅ Mechanistic
✅ Anatomically Referenced
✅ Testable
Coming in Annual Reviews 2024
Preprint: bit.ly/3tk7u8D
✅ Sensory computable
✅ Mechanistic
✅ Anatomically Referenced
✅ Testable
Coming in Annual Reviews 2024
Preprint: bit.ly/3tk7u8D
December 12, 2023 at 3:20 AM
This new article perfectly concludes my time & lessons in Jim’s lab.@JamesJDiCarlo and I propose +review SMART models of object recognition
✅ Sensory computable
✅ Mechanistic
✅ Anatomically Referenced
✅ Testable
Coming in Annual Reviews 2024
Preprint: bit.ly/3tk7u8D
✅ Sensory computable
✅ Mechanistic
✅ Anatomically Referenced
✅ Testable
Coming in Annual Reviews 2024
Preprint: bit.ly/3tk7u8D
Was at the launch yesterday at the Simons Foundation Social at #SFN2023! Very excited to see how this works and develops. Super cool idea (from my limited understanding)!
We are thrilled to announce the launch of The Transmitter, a publication for the neuroscience community that offers news and analysis of the field, written by journalists and scientists.
Explore thetransmitter.org
Explore thetransmitter.org
November 14, 2023 at 5:31 PM
Was at the launch yesterday at the Simons Foundation Social at #SFN2023! Very excited to see how this works and develops. Super cool idea (from my limited understanding)!