Brokoslaw Laschowski
@drlaschowski.bsky.social
Computational neuroscientist. Building neural networks to reverse-engineer the brain and human intelligence. Assistant Professor @UofT Research Scientist @UHN #compneuro
https://kite-uhn.com/scientist/brokoslaw-laschowski
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First time holding the Neuralink implant. Our hospital network will be leading the first clinical trials here in Canada. Let’s go!
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca #Neuralink #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI #compneuro
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca #Neuralink #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI #compneuro
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
🧠 Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
![U of T Engineering News
Brains, minds & machines: A new algorithm for decoding intelligence [photo of Laschowski in a lab with a machine and a whiteboard with formulas]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dhvtfzwixsh4hqcey3nzqmff/bafkreigfjkryxn2lp4f2omj2hclhoejujlrcncg76y37rrmeothdycm2li@jpeg)
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🧠 Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
Thank you Dr. Sergiy and Tetyana Kryvoruchko for supporting our students. 🇺🇦🙏
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Thank you Dr. Sergiy and Tetyana Kryvoruchko for supporting our students. 🇺🇦🙏
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
Honored to speak at Ottawa about how Canada can lead in #NeuroAI. With world-class talent, trusted institutions, & sustainable infrastructure, we can build a federated approach to AI that protects mental health & strengthens our society. Thanks @braincanada.bsky.social for the invitation!
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Honored to speak at Ottawa about how Canada can lead in #NeuroAI. With world-class talent, trusted institutions, & sustainable infrastructure, we can build a federated approach to AI that protects mental health & strengthens our society. Thanks @braincanada.bsky.social for the invitation!
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
This trial has two goals: ensure the brain implant is safe; and to restore a person's ability to communicate with real-time speech
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
A brain implant that could rival Neuralink's enters clinical trials
Neurotechnology company Paradromics will test its device in a trial aimed at safely restoring speech for people with severe motor impairments.
go.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This trial has two goals: ensure the brain implant is safe; and to restore a person's ability to communicate with real-time speech
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
Our work with @pawa-pawa.bsky.social is out in Nature Machine Intelligence! The choice of activation function affects the representations, dynamics, and circuit solutions that emerge in RNNs trained on cognitive tasks. Activation matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Our work with @pawa-pawa.bsky.social is out in Nature Machine Intelligence! The choice of activation function affects the representations, dynamics, and circuit solutions that emerge in RNNs trained on cognitive tasks. Activation matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
🧠 Thrilled to share our NeuroView with Ellie Pavlick!
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🧠 Thrilled to share our NeuroView with Ellie Pavlick!
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3
Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels - Nature
Aligning foundation models with human judgments enables them to more accurately approximate human behaviour and uncertainty across various levels of visual abstraction, while additionally improving th...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3
Congratulations
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Congratulations
Join us December 5th at University of Toronto (in-person and online) for a special seminar by Dr. Aran Nayebi on reverse-engineering the brain and building neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence.
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Join us December 5th at University of Toronto (in-person and online) for a special seminar by Dr. Aran Nayebi on reverse-engineering the brain and building neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence.
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
Congrats SueYeon
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Congrats SueYeon
Rumelhart et al.’s 1986 Nature paper, which introduced backprop for neural networks, was 4 pages in total.
November 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Rumelhart et al.’s 1986 Nature paper, which introduced backprop for neural networks, was 4 pages in total.
@mark-carney.bsky.social thank you for visiting
November 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
@mark-carney.bsky.social thank you for visiting
and retain top Canadian talent. Lest we forget—the border goes both ways.
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
and retain top Canadian talent. Lest we forget—the border goes both ways.
Congrats to my colleague, Dr. Sheena Josselyn.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Congrats to my colleague, Dr. Sheena Josselyn.
Some things are bigger than science.
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Some things are bigger than science.
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
Brains, minds and machines: A new algorithm for decoding intelligence
Algorithms developed by Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski (MIE) and his lab are being used to decode the brain and interface with machines
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
Reposted by Brokoslaw Laschowski
Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Inspiring talk by theoretical neuroscientist Dr. Chris Eliasmith at the Fields Institute on building large-scale computational models of the brain.
#neuroAI #compneuro
#neuroAI #compneuro
October 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Inspiring talk by theoretical neuroscientist Dr. Chris Eliasmith at the Fields Institute on building large-scale computational models of the brain.
#neuroAI #compneuro
#neuroAI #compneuro
Amazing talks
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Amazing talks
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A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪
October 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪
To learn more about our research, follow @compneurolab.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
To learn more about our research, follow @compneurolab.bsky.social