Provocative correspondence in Nature today: nature.com/articles/d4158… I have to admit that I don't really understand these arguments, though...

There are two tracks to participate in (behavioral + neural), both with multiple prizes. Submissions are due by the end of June, and the winners will be invited to present at MIT in August at a workshop co-occurring with CCN. Happy benchmarking! /fin

If you're interested in the AI x Cognitive Neuroscience space, this is a great venue! And lots of fun opportunities for stimulating discussion, like GACs!

Chickadees activate unique neural “barcodes” each time they hide food. These barcoded #memories then light up in the brain when they retrieve it. More in Cell: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute Selmaan Chettih, Emily Mackevicius, Stephanie Hale, & Dmitriy Aronov

📣 Join us in Analytical Connectionism our summer school on the foundations of higher-level cognition. Join experts from neuroscience, psychology & ML for lectures, tutorials, and a hackathon! Aug 12-23, 2024 in NYC Flatiron Institute New York University [events.simonsfoundation.org/event/e070287e…] 🐭🤖

These monkeys make no sense nature.com/articles/d4158…

Excited to announce the 2nd Analytical Connectionism summer school! How can we mathematically understand neural network models of higher level cognition? Where: Flatiron CCN, New York When: Aug 12-23, 2024 Info: events.simonsfoundation.org/event/e070287e… Apply by May 17, travel awards available!

💡New work! Do LLMs learn foundational concepts required to build world models? We address this question with 🌐🐨EWoK (Elements of World Knowledge)🐨🌐, a flexible cognition-inspired framework to test knowledge across physical and social domains ewok-core.github.io 🧵👇

Can a new mash-up of neuroscience, AI, linguistics, and philosophy help us better understand the brain? McGovern scientists weigh in. Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Katharina Dobs Eghbal Hosseini thetransmitter.org/neural-network…

Just out, from Jingyang Zhou and Lyndon Duong at Flatiron CCN and NYU Center for Neural Science Co-existence of Weber’s Law, Steven’s Law, Fechner’s Law (and their generalizations). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312293121

We are bursting with pride! Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] has won this year's The Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for her discovery of a specialized system within the brain to recognize faces. 🥳 MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Science mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/06/12/kav…

Delighted to share our perspective piece “Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought” now out in Nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… (with long-term collaborators (and friends) steven t. piantadosi and Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT) 1/n

Thoughts exist without language.

📢Excited to announce the Workshop on Scientific Methods for Understanding Deep Learning #NeurIPS2024 🥳 ➡️Submission Deadline: Sep 10 ‘24 ➡️Speaker lineup: scienceofdlworkshop.github.io ➡️Call for paper: scienceofdlworkshop.github.io/submissions/ ➡️Our ✨Debunking ✨ challenge: scienceofdlworkshop.github.io/challenge/

Why does deep learning work? How do scientific experiments shed light on the inner workings of deep nets? Come to our workshop at #NeurIPS2024 if you’re interested in these questions and consider sending your work or participate in the challenge!

Thanks Nature Rev Neurosci for the chance to clarify that1️⃣the language network is not monolithic (we never said it was, but happy to emphasize); and2️⃣language network boundaries don't depend on a specific 'localizer' and can be recovered from task-free data: tinyurl.com/5y3rhfrh

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Ev Fedorenko studies the neuroscience of language. To listen to the full interview and learn more, follow the link below! 🧠 storiesofwin.org/profiles/2024/… #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInNeuro #StoriesOfWiN

Please RT: I am looking to hire a research assistant to help recruit, schedule and run human participants in auditory perception experiments at MIT. Preferably full-time, but could be part-time. Ideal for someone looking to get more research experience in advance of grad school.

What aspects of human knowledge are vision models missing, and can we align them with human knowledge to improve their performance and robustness on cognitive and ML tasks? Excited to share this new work led by Lukas Muttenthaler! 1/10

Three cheers to all the award winners, including Eero Simoncelli (Swartz Prize)!!!