Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!

I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com

Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939

#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

Variance partitioning is used to quantify the overlap of two models. Over the years, I have found that this can be a very confusing and misleading concept. So we finally we decided to write a short blog to explain why.
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🔊New paper! Recomposer allows editing sound events within complex scenes based on textual descriptions and event roll representations. And we discuss the details that matter!

Work by the Sound Understanding folks
@GoogleDeepMind

arxiv.org/abs/2509.05256

If you are attending the Kempner symposium I encourage you to check out @gelbanna.bsky.social 's poster on models and benchmarks of continuous speech perception. He has many interesting results.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

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We are presenting our work “Discriminating image representations with principal distortions” at #ICLR2025 today (4/24) at 3pm! If you are interested in comparing model representations with other models or human perception, stop by poster #63. Highlights in 🧵
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My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

Impressive work to stimulate only the M-cones of the retina and make green appear greener than ever.

Coming (not too) soon to a theater near you!

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I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here:
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Now accepting applications for the summer 2025 cohort: STEMM opportunities for college students with Hearing loss to Engage in Auditory Research (STEMM-HEAR)

www.stemm-hear.bme.jhu.edu

Applications are open for the 2025 Flatiron Institute Junior Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop! A two-day workshop 7/10-7/11 in NYC for PhD students and postdocs. All travel paid. Apply by April 14th.🧠🗽🧑‍🔬http://jtnworkshop2025.flatironinstitute.org/
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org

Hope to see you there!
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If you are here at the last day of ARO, don’t miss Sagarika Alavilli’s talk on “Measuring and Modeling Multi-Source Environmental Sound Recognition”, happening at 9:45 in Ocean Ballroom 9 - 12.

Two posters from our lab on deep auditory models, presented today at ARO:

T107 - “Modeling Normal and Impaired Hearing With Deep Neural Networks Optimized for Ecological Tasks” by Mark Saddler et al.

T138 - “Modeling Continuous Speech Perception Using Artificial Neural Networks” by Gasser Elbanna

Two more posters from our lab are being presented today at ARO:

M133 - “Neural Network Models of Hearing Clarify Factors Limiting Cochlear Implant Outcomes” by Annesya Banerjee et al.

M166 - “Preferences for Loudness and Pitch Vary Across Cultures” by Malinda McPherson et al.

And a talk by Ian Griffith at 4:15pm: “Human-Like Feature Attention Emerges in Task-Optimized Models of the Cocktail Party Problem”

SU191 - “Deep Neural Network Models of Human Sound Localization Indicate Which Aspects of Localization Are Mediated by Explicit Binaural Processing” by Mathias Dietz et al.

SU185 - “Cross-Culturally Shared Sensitivity to Harmonic Structure Underlies Aspects of Pitch Discrimination” by Malinda McPherson et al.

If you are at ARO today, lots of stuff to see from our lab.

Posters:
SU181 - “Optimization Under Ecological Realism Reproduces Signatures of Human Speech Recognition” by Annika Magaro et al.

SU184 - “Texture Streaming in Auditory Scenes” by Jarrod Hicks

If at ARO today, check out Lakshmi Govindarajan's poster on "Confidence in Sound Localization Reflects Calibrated Uncertainty Estimation". Number S147 if you are at the meeting.

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Please to announce the successful thesis defense of Dr. Jarrod Hicks! His thesis provides the first thorough exploration of auditory scene analysis with environmental sounds. I’m excited to see what he does next.