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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Empathy + Action = A Better World

Thank you, Jane Goodall

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Hannah Small @hsmall.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to share new work with @hleemasson.bsky.social , Ericka Wodka, Stewart Mostofsky and @lisik.bsky.social! We investigated how simultaneous vision and language signals are combined in the brain using naturalistic+controlled fMRI. Read the paper here: osf.io/b5p4n
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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Tahereh! I’ll unfortunately not be at Neurips this year but will request Herrick to reach out directly. I’m sure he’d appreciate the feedback. He can also tell you about other things works and esp things that don’t work as well.

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · 15d

At Neurips? You can now check out @herrickfung.bsky.social ‘s new work on modeling individual differences at two workshops! Much more to say on this awesome colab with @dobyrahnev.bsky.social very soon. 🙂

Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 15d

Our work showing human-like individual differences in perceptual decisions emerge from random weight initializations in deep neural networks has been accepted in two NeurIPS workshops! 🎉 Awesome job by my student @herrickfung.bsky.social in collaboration with the amazing @apurvaratan.bsky.social.

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Marlene Cohen @marlenecohen.bsky.social · 15d

New preprint! How can you remember an image you saw once, even after seeing thousands of them? We find a role for humble mid-level visual cortex in high-capacity, one-shot learning. doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.22.677855 🧵🧪1/

Neuronal signatures of successful one-shot memory in mid-level visual cortex

High-capacity, one-shot visual recognition memory challenges theories of learning and neural coding because it requires rapid, robust, and durable representations. Most studies have focused on the hip...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 16d

Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 24

ATTN🚨: I will be looking for PhD students through NYU's Center for Data Science PhD program this year. Applicants should have an interest in either NeuroAI (specifically biological attention or AI interpretability) or ML for Remote Sensing. Visit my lab website for more info: lindsay-lab.github.io

PhD in Data Science: Admissions Requirements | NYU CDS

Discover the PhD in Data Science requirements at NYU. Learn about deadlines, required degrees, coursework, and application details for Fall 2025 admissions.

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · Aug 15

What fun to hang out in Amsterdam with former lab members, dear friends, and scientific rock stars @evfedorenko.bsky.social‬ @lisik.bsky.social‬ @apurvaratan.bsky.social‬ @carolinerobertson.bsky.social‬

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Aug 14

Omg seeing this just now. Happy birthday Iris!

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Find me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025

Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · Aug 11

Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm)
- Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs
- @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains
- Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations
- Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence

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Nick Blauch @nblauch.bsky.social · Jun 16

What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex?

Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut.

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Juan Linde-Domingo @lindedomingo.bsky.social · May 29

New preprint! 🚨→ Determinants of Visual Ambiguity Resolution. A new work with @ortiztudela.bsky.social @jvoeller.bsky.social @martinhebart.bsky.social and @gonzalezgarcia.bsky.social

We created ~2k images and collected ~100k responses to study visual ambiguity.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · May 18

#VSS2025 Tomorrow in Talk Room 2 at 9.15AM. Mayukh Deb will be presenting our work on TopoNets! You can read more about it at toponets.github.io. But there will be a lot more!

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · May 18

Come listen to Ben Lahner present a new combined fMRI dataset - MOSAIC. Happening soon at 1145 in Talk Room 2.

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Vivian Paulun @vivianpaulun.bsky.social · May 15

Kick off #VSS2025 with our symposium “25 Years of Seeing ‘Stuff’—Advances and Challenges in Material Perception” in Talk Room 2 on Friday morning 10:30am – 12:30pm.
We have a great lineup of speakers who will share deep insights and fun demos! 👀🧠🌊
@vssmtg.bsky.social #neuroskyence #visionscience

List of speakers for symposium: “25 Years of Seeing ‘Stuff’—Advances and Challenges in Material Perception”

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congratulations Emalie!!

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Aran Nayebi @anayebi.bsky.social · Apr 9

In case it's of interest, links to the technical details behind each topic:

1. NeuroAgents research program: tinyurl.com/yc48bnz4 & talk here: youtube.com/watch?v=9_7m...

2. NeuroAI Turing Test (with @jfeather.bsky.social, Meenakshi Khosla, and @apurvaratan.bsky.social): arxiv.org/abs/2502.16238

NeuroAI Emerging Leaders Webinar Series: Aran Nayebi

YouTube video by NeuroAI Emerging Leaders Webinar Series

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Emily Kubota @emilykubota.bsky.social · Mar 17

The latest paper from my PhD is now out in Nature Human Behavior! rdcu.be/edRwQ

White matter connections of human ventral temporal cortex are organized by cytoarchitecture, eccentricity and category-selectivity from birth

Nature Human Behaviour - Kubota et al. find that white matter connections of ventral temporal cortex are innately organized by cytoarchitecture, category and eccentricity from birth, and also...

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Vlad Ayzenberg @vayzenb.bsky.social · Feb 17

I'm hiring a full-time research assistant to start this Summer!

The lab studies perception and cognition from infancy to adulthood using neuroimaging, behavioral, and computational approaches

For more details about the lab and the position, see: vlad-lab.com/join

#psychjobs #neurojobs

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Jan 31

Thanks Katharina!

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Jan 30

Yes! Here you go! arxiv.org/abs/2501.16396

TopoNets: High Performing Vision and Language Models with Brain-Like Topography

Neurons in the brain are organized such that nearby cells tend to share similar functions. AI models lack this organization, and past efforts to introduce topography have often led to trade-offs betwe...

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thanks Pouya! :)

Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Jan 30

The paper is here: arxiv.org/abs/2501.16396
OpenReview link is here: openreview.net/forum?id=THq...
Project Website: toponets.github.io

TopoNets: High Performing Vision and Language Models with Brain-Like Topography

Neurons in the brain are organized such that nearby cells tend to share similar functions. AI models lack this organization, and past efforts to introduce topography have often led to trade-offs betwe...

arxiv.org

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Jan 30

and finally. Our experience with
@iclr-conf.bsky.social reviews was pretty great! The reviews were constructive, reviewers actively involved during discussion and encouraging in their response.. How refreshing! Appending a particularly favorite reviewer comment

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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · Jan 30

I also want to say that this work builds on a number of excellent prior work on topographic models! Here are a few: Hyo Lee, Eshed Margalit, Dan Yamins, Fenil Doshi, Taha Binhuraib, @bashivan.bsky.social, @mschrimpf.bsky.social, @taliakonkle.bsky.social @timkietzmann.bsky.social and others..

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