Article in Nature about mass editorial resignations at journals: nature.com/articles/d4158… If you are a disgruntled cognitive science editor, reach out to me and Ted Gibson (Ted Gibson, Language Lab MIT). We run Open Mind (direct.mit.edu/opmi). Free to publish, free to read.

Giving a talk on this work with Kim Stachenfeld at #ICLR2024, Tuesday 10 AM for oral session 1A! We relate deep RL representation learning to multi-region computations in the brain. Our poster will be right after the oral session. Come say hi 😀

Our paper, Crows ‘count’ the number of self-generated vocalizations, is out! With this amazing team (Katharina Brecht, Lena Veit, A_Nieder), we uncovered that crows are able to control the number of vocalizations produced. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🔥We are hiring🔥! The ClopathLab is looking for Postdocs, come and do cool science😎 with us! Just ping me informally if you are interested!

New preprint, w/ Kim Stachenfeld! We characterize the compositional generalization behavior of kernel models. Our theory derives a new compositional generalization class, highlights key failure modes, and is empirically valid for deep neural networks. (1/24) arxiv.org/abs/2405.16391

The deadline to book rooms at the discounted conference rate for #CCN2024 is fast approaching! * Kendall Hotel (June 27 / until sold out) * MIT Dormitory (July 15 / until sold out) Visit 2024.ccneuro.org/accommodations/ for info on booking.

📢 The open community review period for Generative Adversarial Collaboration Workshops (GACs) is now open! We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting two GAC kickoff workshops at #CCN2024:

With Harvard University, we built a ‘virtual rodent’ powered by AI to help us better understand how the brain controls movement. 🧠 With deep RL, it learned to operate a biomechanically accurate rat model - allowing us to compare real & virtual neural activity. → dpmd.ai/3RobU7e

I'm looking for a postdoc interested in computational cognitive modeling and deep reinforcement learning! Submit a CV and references here: apply.interfolio.com/150309 Please share with anyone who might be interested!

#CCN2024 starts tomorrow! We're excited to welcome attendees to Boston. Here is a thread with some helpful know-before-you-go info for attendees.

For folks who aren't able to attend in-person, we are excited to be able to stream all talks this year on our youtube channel: youtube.com/@cogcompneuro Papers can be found here: 2024.ccneuro.org/poster-session… Please share!

Excited to be here in Boston for #CCN2024 CogCompNeuro!

Congrats to colleagues Maria Eckstein summerfieldlab @summerfieldlab.bsky.social Nathaniel Daw Kevin Miller on getting this thought-provoking work, questioning whether humans actually use reinforcement learning to learn from reinforcement 🙃

Had tons of fun CogCompNeuro 2024! One reflection: there was quite a lot of discussion of metrics for comparing neural systems. In our recent paper on representation biases, we highlight some phenomena that might make for an interesting test case for future battles! 1/5

We are looking for data from the community to help us prepare for #CCN2025! If you have a few minutes to help out, fill out this survey: forms.gle/6q6CA3VPp1f5rT… - due Aug 31 - 2-10 min (depending on how much optional feedback) - Open to *both* #CCN2024 attendees + non-attendees

Dear all, the survey below is relevant to give input and contribute to CCN2025. Also if you did not attend CCN2024 but are interested in attending the conference.

2 more days to submit thoughts for #CCN2025 and feedback on #CCN2024! Link: forms.gle/oQe9jE9Yqrvw5M…