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Talia Konkle

@taliakonkle.bsky.social

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Cognitive computational neuroscientist and vision scientist. NeuroAI. Professor at Harvard University.

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Charlotte Volk @charlottevolk.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 New preprint alert!

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We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up.
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A 🧵:

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The curriculum effect in visual learning: the role of readout dimensionality

Generalization of visual perceptual learning (VPL) to unseen conditions varies across tasks. Previous work suggests that training curriculum may be integral to generalization, yet a theoretical explan...

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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 16d

⌛️ Deadline approaching!

Applications for the #KempnerInstitute Research Fellowships close Oct. 1.

We welcome postdocs exploring the foundations of #intelligence or applications of #AI to apply.

👉 Learn more & apply: bit.ly/3UvpSpe
#LLMs #NeuroAI #ML

Kempner Research Fellowship - Kempner Institute

The Kempner brings leading, early-stage postdoctoral scientists to Harvard to work on projects that advance the fundamental understanding of intelligence.

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · Aug 26

This paper shows that some human "gestalt" style visual processing can emerge in purely feedforward deep nets with the right inductive biases and fine-tuning:

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

A feedforward mechanism for human-like contour integration

Author summary A central challenge in vision science is understanding how the visual system links fragmented local features into coherent object representations. One foundational process supporting th...

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The Algonauts Project @algonautsproject.bsky.social · Jul 13

The Algonauts Challenge submission is over: > 60 teams participated! To be considered in the winners selection process, please post your report/code by July 25th. We will announce the winners on August 5th!

#NeuroAI #CompNeuro #neuroscience #AI #CCN2025 #hessianAI #CNeuroMod

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The Algonauts Project 2025

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Mehdi Azabou @mehdiazabou.bsky.social · Jul 11

Excited to announce the Foundation Models for the Brain and Body workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠📈 🧪

We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data.

Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · Jul 8

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions.

Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy

arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

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Hannes Mehrer @hannesmehrer.bsky.social · May 27

Announcement: Workshop at #CCN2025
🧠 Modeling the Physical Brain: Spatial Organization & Biophysical Constraints
🗓️ Monday, Aug 11 | 🕦 11:30–18:00 CET | 📍 Room A2.07
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/CCN-physical...
#NeuroAI @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

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Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (JLU) @jlugiessen.bsky.social · May 22

Herausragender Erfolg in der #Exzellenzstrategie: Gleich drei #Exzellenzcluster für die #JLUGiessen – #Herz-#Lungen-, #Batterie- und #Wahrnehmungsforschung konnten im Wettbewerb überzeugen @cpi-exstra.bsky.social @heroldlab.bsky.social @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Hauptgebäude der Universität Gießen im Konfettiregen

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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · Mar 14

New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs”
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n

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T. Anderson Keller @andykeller.bsky.social · Mar 10

In the physical world, almost all information is transmitted through traveling waves -- why should it be any different in your neural network?

Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant @mozesjacobs.bsky.social: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time"

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Amir Ozhan Dehghani @amirozhan.bsky.social · Mar 9

I am excited to share that my undergraduate research has now been accepted to #ICLR2025.
📎: openreview.net/pdf?id=wMgr7...
🧑‍💻: github.com/BashivanLab/...

Tweeprint🧵⬇️

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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · Mar 6

People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Jenelle Feather @jfeather.bsky.social · Mar 6

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/
@flatironinstitute.org @simonsfoundation.org

JTN - 2025

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Sarthak Chandra @sarthakc.bsky.social · Feb 19

1/ Our paper appeared in @Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Fiete Lab and @khonamikail.bsky.social .
Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇

Global modules robustly emerge from local interactions and smooth gradients - Nature

The principle of peak selection is described, by which local interactions and smooth gradients drive self-organization of discrete global modules.

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Sarthak Chandra @sarthakc.bsky.social · Jan 17

1/ Super-excited to share our new work “Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus”, that just appeared in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Key insights and ideas 👇#tweeprint

Episodic and associative memory from spatial scaffolds in the hippocampus - Nature

A neocortical–entorhinal–hippocampal network model based on grid cell states recapitulates experimental results and reconciles the spatial, associative and episodic memory roles of the hippocampus.

www.nature.com

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Jan 10

CCN 2025 Area Chair Nomination

Intrigued about supporting CCN’s new 8-page conference proceedings track? 📄

Fill out this form to nominate yourself or a colleague to act as (Senior) Area Chair at CCN25.

forms.gle/MTBgZZxQaDY8...

CCN 2025 Area Chair Nomination

Area Chairs nominated to serve for the 8-page conference proceedings track at CCN 2025 should meet the following requirements: be a senior researcher (professor, research fellow, postdoc); have author...

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Dec 20

For #CCN2025 in Amsterdam, we will, for the first time, have conference proceedings that include both full length peer-reviewed papers and the traditional 2-page track!

Deadlines for submissions: 17th February for full papers ( abstract only; full paper on 20th FEB) & 10th April for 2 pagers.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Dec 17

It is very convenient to be able to point people to @neuromatch.bsky.social materials to get them up to speed for a compneuro modeling project. All computational fields should create one of these courses!

(except climate science, deep learning, and neuroAI for which we also already have them!)

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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · Dec 13

Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately Predict Human AND Macaque Visual Brain Activity
Colin Conwell, @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social, Akshay Vivek Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken, @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social, @jacob-prince.bsky.social, George Alvarez, @taliakonkle.bsky.social and Marge Livingstone

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Nora Belrose @norabelrose.bsky.social · Dec 11

How do a neural network's final parameters depend on its initial ones?

In this new paper, we answer this question by analyzing the training Jacobian, the matrix of derivatives of the final parameters with respect to the initial parameters.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07003

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Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations @neurreps.bsky.social · Dec 11

Ready for #NeurReps2024?

Our schedule at @neuripsconf.bsky.social
is out 📅
neurips.cc/virtual/2024...

Join us this Saturday! 🧠

With @eerosim.bsky.social @taliakonkle.bsky.social Stefanie Jegelka, Srinivas Turaga, Ilker Yildirim and Savannah Thais

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Dec 10

Another cool "digital twin" work from Wood’s lab

After the virtual chicks, this time:
"We embodied artificial neural networks in artificial fish and raised the artificial fish in virtual fish tanks that mimicked the rearing conditions of biological fish"

#NeuroAI

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Parallel development of social behavior in biological and artificial fish - Nature Communications

The learning algorithms that produce social behavior are unknown. Here the authors show that artificial fish, modeled via embodied deep neural networks, learn the same social behaviors as real fish, s...

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Ulises Pereira Obilinovic @ulisespereirao.bsky.social · Dec 7

I am excited to share the last work of my postdoc as a Swartz Fellow at NYU on the dynamic routing of large-scale cognitive networks in the neocortex! 🌐🧠 Here's a quick breakdown: 🧵

preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cognitive networks interactions through communication subspaces in large-scale models of the neocortex

The neocortex-wide neural activity is organized into distinct networks of areas engaged in different cognitive processes. To elucidate the underlying mechanism of flexible network reconfiguration, we ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · Dec 3

NEW: we have an exciting opportunity for a tenure-track professor at the #KempnerInstitute and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Read the full description & apply today: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14362
#ML #AI

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Nov 28

Wish we had polls here but in their absence: can ML people tell me how they would define "ablation" or "ablation study"?

As someone who frequently translates between neuroscience and ML, I fear this is another term that we both use, but slightly differently. #MLsky

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Talia Konkle @taliakonkle.bsky.social · Nov 24

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Harvard Brain Science Initiative @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social · Nov 22

Unveiling the Possible Origins of Visual Category Information in the Brain
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Unveiling the Possible Origins of Visual Category Information in the Brain - Harvard Brain Science Initiative

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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · Nov 21

Want to be part of the NeuroAI community CSHL ?

Applications are open for outstanding graduate students in Artificial Intelligence to spend the summer at CSHL as NeuroAI Interns.

Deadline: Dec 10th, 2024. Please spread the word!

www.schooljobs.com/careers/cshl...

@cshlaboratory.bsky.social

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Zubair Irshad @zubair-irshad.bsky.social · Nov 21

How do we represent 3D world knowledge for spatial intelligence in next-generation robots? We recently wrote an extensive survey paper on this emerging topic, covering recent state-of-the-art! 🦾 🚀
Check it out below. Feedback/Suggestions welcome!

📖arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2410.20220

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