
Kohitij Kar
@kohitijkar
Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Visual Neuroscience, @yorkuniversity Previously: Postdoc(@MIT), PhD (@RutgersU)
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http://vital-kolab.org 26-09-2012 20:15:41
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It was absolutely fantastic to host Robert Geirhos for our monthly seminar series Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience !


It's been a very nice visit so far at the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Tsinghua University, Beijing, invited by xiaoxuan jia. The people, research and the campus are all really awesome here!


Shayna Rosenbaum 🎗️ presenting her work on hippocampus and memory for Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience.



🌟New preprint with Lynn Sörensen and James DiCarlo When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change? In their untrained state, animals can still see objects but can’t attach labels—so we don’t expect the ventral stream to fully


Our CCN 2022 GAC write up is finally out! doi.org/10.51628/001c.… (Hoping it’s a good read for all the trainees and colleagues!) Greta Tuckute Dawn Finzi Eshed Margalit @jcbyts Alona Fyshe (she/her) SueYeon Chung Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦 Nikolaus Kriegeskorte kalatwit


1/4 Excited to share our latest paper, led by Ghazal Darmani, published in Nature Communications. It was a privilege to work with a fantastic team University of Toronto —Dr. Chen’s Robert Chen and Dr. Lozano’s labs. Can SARICA Regina Annirood Talyta Grippe Jean-Francois Nankoo et al. nature.com/articles/s4146…


If you are at CosyneMeeting #COSYNE2025, please check out two posters from our lab today at 1:15 pm, one by Mualla (2-62), and the other by Jean de Dieu (2-127).



This year my lab is hosting undergraduates for the SURFiN program. If you want to come over to York University Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience Centre for Vision Research in Toronto and work on a Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative funded project on using brain-inspired AI for autism research please apply! simonsfoundation.org/grant/shenoy-u…


We are excited to share our latest research at #vss2025 VSS Meeting and learn about all things vision! Please come to our talks and posters. Looking forward to all your feedback!


And that’s a wrap for our academic efforts in #vss2025. As always, VSS Meeting never disappoints! And now … gearing up for Club Vision 🥳



Great scientifically stimulating couple of days at YorkU Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience Centre for Vision Research — hearing from some of my scientific heroes — James DiCarlo Marlene Behrmann Cohen kalatwit Josh McDermott and others Still to come Andrew Pruszynski and Daniel Wolpert !!


In the past weeks we have been around NETI at UT Austin, VSS Meeting 2025, and the Centre for Vision Research Centre for Integrative and Applied Neuroscience conf., to discuss early findings on modeling object motion in the macaque visual system by deep neural networks. Details to appear soon! Kohitij Kar


Had a great time speaking at the AI DLDA summer school at University of Udine, meeting Christian Micheloni and trainees with some great science discussions and food 🍝 and wine 🍷 Bonus — Leaning tower of Pisa!
