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New preprint (#neuroscience #deeplearning doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…)! We trained 20 DCNNs on 941235 images with varying scene segmentation (original. object-only, silhouette, background-only). Despite object recognition varying (27-53%), all networks showed similar EEG prediction.

With infinite compute, would it make a difference to use Transformers, RNNs, or even vanilla Feedforward nets? They’re all universal approximators after all. We prove that Yes! You end up with different sample complexity, no matter how much compute/memory you have.👇

Recurrent circuits in the brain, what do they do? This one looks like a must read! arxiv.org/abs/2501.10521

What is a theory? a model? falsifiable (scientific)? for, e.g., attention, recognition, decision? Systems Vision Science summer school and Symposium shorturl.at/Ytm91 where we have great theorists and experimentalists: Peter Dayan, Jan Koenderink, Jonathan Victor, Bill

Grateful to be featured at GQ Magazine in this article on David Lynch's legacy, Transcendental Meditation, and the David Lynch Foundation. gq.com/story/david-ly…

Sequential predictive learning may explain how hippocampal replay emerges and supports offline memory processing. Dan Levenstein, from Mila - Institut québécois d'IA / McGill University and an SWC ENSS winner, discusses new insights into hippocampal function. Read the Q&A: sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/replayi…

Want to know what synaptic plasticity rules operate in-vivo to support learning? Read our new paper, combining computational modeling and analysis of place field trajectories during familiarization using data from Can Dong & Anqi Jiang in Mark Sheffield #BTSP #STDP #CA1 #CA3

New paper on self-supervised optical flow and occlusion estimation from video foundation models. Stefan Stojanov Jiajun Wu Seungwoo (Simon) Kim Rahul Venkatesh tinyurl.com/dpa3auzd @

12 lessons students learn in the Sinclair Lab: Lesson 1. Write the way you speak

CDS founding director Yann LeCun (Yann LeCun) and team show that deep neural networks trained on natural videos can develop intuitive physics understanding, challenging the need for hardwired core knowledge in AI systems. arxiv.org/abs/2502.11831

Firing rates in visual cortex show representational drift, while temporal spike sequences remain stable sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Great work by Boris Sotomayor and with Francesco Battaglia

📢 We have an opportunity for students to join our PhD programme in Theoretical Neuroscience and Machine Learning this September. Application deadline is 27 May 2025. Information & how to apply 👉 ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/study-a…

At our Meditation Research Program at Mass General MassGeneral News and Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School , my team and I are on a mission to demystify and democratise advanced meditation and related altered states of consciousness—from mystical and ecstatic experiences to

what do you teach at the first-year graduate course on machine learning, in this era of LLM and large-scale compute? here's my experiment on answering this question: let's teach everything that admits SGD and that is not LLM, and ask students to read old papers.

Finally review on spontaneous activity as a generative model across species and scales is out Sea sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Please find this English masters program in Neurophysics. Study the brain, artificial neural networks and complex systems through the lens of mathematical modeling and physics. Radboud University / Donders (Netherlands) is one of Europe’s leading universities in Neuroscience. 1/3

New preprint, on prediction in vision – in mice! We've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features The aligns with recent developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex

For "international" students abandoning their plans of studying in the US: There are excellent English master programs in Europe like this Neurophysics program or Cognitive Neuroscience at the Donders Institute (and relatively low tuition & job search visa after graduation!)

New paper shows causal effects of gaze-contingent stimulation on learning feature-based attention: Treuting et al. (2025) Adaptive Reinforcement Learning is causally supported by Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Striatum. Neuron cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 1/2

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