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Iris Groen
@irisgroen.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Cognitive neuroscience, Scene perception, Computational vision | Chair of CCN2025 | www.irisgroen.com
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · 26d
Our exciting new preprint emphasizing the role of texture/local statistics in brain-DNN alignment (for EEG), online now!
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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · Sep 8
🧠 New preprint: Why do deep neural networks predict brain responses so well?
We find a striking dissociation: it’s not shared object recognition. Alignment is driven by sensitivity to texture-like local statistics.
📊 Study: n=57, 624k trials, 5 models doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Sep 7
Honored & looking forward to give this lecture tomorrow @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social!
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UniReps @unireps.bsky.social · Sep 2
🧠✨ How closely do AI models mirror the human brain?
Join us for @irisgroen.bsky.social’s talk: “Alignment of visual representations in AI and human brains: beyond object recognition”
📅 8th September @unireps.bsky.social x @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social meetup
🔗 Zoom link: ethz.zoom.us/j/66426188160
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Data on the Brain & Mind @NeurIPS2025 @dataonbrainmind.bsky.social · Aug 25
📢 10 days left to submit to the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop at #NeurIPS2025!

📝 Call for:
• Findings (4 or 8 pages)
• Tutorials

If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track!
🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io
Data on the Brain & Mind
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 15
Somewhat exhausted but very happily and proudly looking back at #CCN2025 & ready to pass the torch to NEW Amsterdam for #CCN2026 🥳Please fill out the survey 👇 to give input to the organizing team led by @neurograce.bsky.social and @toddgureckis.bsky.social @NYU!
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Aug 15
The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 15
Final day of CCN 2025! 🎉 Ellie Pavlick opens with a keynote on neural compositionality, we have our last contributed talks and poster session, then Pieter Roelfsema gives the last keynote of the conference. Thread below 👇
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 14
You’re welcome to do a surprise act Sush 😄
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Petra Meijers @petrameijers.bsky.social · Aug 14
Als zelfs een 'betrouwbaar' wetenschappelijk medium foutieve AI-gegenereerde informatie c.q. definities deelt als de waarheid. Lees vooral ook de mailwisseling met het medium onder het artikel.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 12
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am researching at t…
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 14
I’ve had 40 birthdays so far, but this is the first one chairing a major international conference 👩‍💻! Thanks to the nearly 1000 attendees of #CCN2025 for coming to my birthday this year 😉
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 14
Lots of talks on Thursday of CCN 2025! 🎙️ David Poeppel's keynote, four contributed talk sessions, three K&T tracks, and tonight's social event. Details in thread 👇
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 13
Welcome to the second day of #CCN2025 ! 🌟Today we have Yasuo Kuniyoshi's keynote on embodiment, four parallel community events, and our GAC debate sessions. More details in the thread below 👇
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 12
Welcome to the first day of #CCN2025 ! 🧠 Today, we're starting with networking, opening remarks, and two fantastic keynotes from Nancy Kanwisher and Anna Schapiro. More details in the thread below 👇
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 12
#CCN2025, we’re ready for you!
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 11
The moment we've all been waiting for— #CCN2025 is HERE! Today we start with satellite events, and tomorrow the main conference begins in Amsterdam! We'll be sharing daily updates about each day's program, so follow the CCN account to stay in the loop. Can't wait to see everyone!
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
All together a diverse set of studies, grouped around the central question of how human-aligned deep neural networks are, and how we can use them to learn more about the brain! Looking forward to discuss, hearing your thoughts, and to an exciting and immersive week full of science ahead 😀🧠🤖🧑‍💻📈📊🥳
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
Finally, Otto Márton, an MSc student in the lab, shows small but consistent benefits of DNNs with hyperbolic geometry for capturing human representations of objects in behavior (using THINGS) and the brain (THINGS-EEG and NSD) 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=b... Poster C109, 14:00-17:00.
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
On Friday, niklasmuller.bsky.social shows that estimating population receptive fields (pRF) using DNN feature maps but without assuming a Gaussian pRF shape yields better predictions of THINGS ephys data, uncovering surprising pRF geometries! 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=1... Poster C105, 14:00-17:00
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
Next, on Wednesday, another Proceedings paper by Amber Brands, showing that PredNet, a well-known predictive coding DNN, does not exhibit signatures of short-term adaptation that are ubiquitous in the brain, such as repetition suppression 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=y... Poster B131, 13:00-16:00
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
In the EEG study, accepted as Proceedings, we replicate these findings in the temporal domain, showing unique processing of locomotive affordances around 200 ms, which is independent of object or GIST features, and not well captured by DNNs 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=6... Poster A69, 13:30-16:30
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
And in a third Tuesday poster, Clemens Bartnik presents very neat EEG results complementing his recent PNAS paper that used fMRI to demonstrate unique representations of locomotive affordance perception in the human brain www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10...
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
Also on Tuesday,
@annewzonneveld.bsky.social
reports whether video-DNNs exhibit temporal straightening, a computational motif found in brains thought to aid future state prediction. Spoiler: some CNNs straighten, Transformers do not! 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=E... Poster A152, 13:30-16:30
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
On her CCN poster, Christina zooms in on a specific set of multi-pathway video-DNN that separately compute motion features and image features, to explore alignment of static vs. dynamic representations with cortical processing streams 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=s... Poster A154, 13:30-16:30
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
On Tuesday,
@sargechris.bsky.social
will present a follow-up on her earlier ICLR paper (openreview.net/pdf?id=LM4PY...), where we performed large-scale benchmarking of video-DNNs agains the BOLD Moments fMRI dataset, to see how well such models are representationally aligned with the human brain;
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 10
After preparing for a full year together with @neurosteven.bsky.social and all other amazing organizers
of @cogcompneuro.bsky.social, #CCN2025 is finally here!

While I'm proud of the entire program we put together, I'd now like to highlight my own lab's contributions, 6 posters total:
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Aug 1
Or, blend in with the Amsterdam locals and rent a bicycle for the duration of the conference 🚲😀
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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 1
Less than 2 weeks until CCN 2025 in Amsterdam! Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the 8th Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, August 12-15 at University of Amsterdam 🧠
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