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Keith B. Doelling @kbdoelling.bsky.social · 10d

🎉New Paper Alert!🎉

Really excited that this collaboration is finally out! It shows that combining oscillatory dynamics with hierarchical predictive frameworks generates speech perception that is robust to temporal distortions: similarly to human behavior and more so than current ASR models.

Nature Computational Science @natcomputsci.nature.com · 12d

📢Out now! Olesia Dogonasheva and colleagues from @neurospeech.bsky.social present a predictive model for speech processing in the auditory cortex. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #compneurosky

🔓 rdcu.be/eImit

Rhythm-based hierarchical predictive computations support acoustic−semantic transformation in speech processing - Nature Computational Science

This study presents a brain rhythm-based inference model (BRyBI) for speech processing in the auditory cortex. BRyBI shows how rhythmic neural activity enables robust speech processing by dynamically predicting context and elucidates mechanistic principles that allow robust speech parsing in the brain.

www.nature.com

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · 15d

Great PhD opportunity!! ⬇️

Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 15d

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

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ALT: a man wearing a white shirt and tie smiles in front of a window

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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.

cds.nyu.edu

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · Aug 18

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2508.11423

"Open Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems"

by Samson Abramsky, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Leo S. D. Caves, Michael Levin, Penousal Machado, Charles Ofria, Susan Stepney, Roger White

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Open Questions about Time and Self-reference in Living Systems

Living systems exhibit a range of fundamental characteristics: they are active, self-referential, self-modifying systems. This paper explores how these characteristics create challenges for convention...

arxiv.org

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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Aug 11

Really looking forward to #CCN2025!

On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠

Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity.

Come by Poster A64 for more.

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Luca Kolibius @lucakolibius.bsky.social · Jul 2

Despite recent criticism from Quiroga to our claim that Concept Neurons emerge from Conjunctive Coding Neurons we claim: “And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively!”.
We hope it sparks a smile (and maybe a few debates).

Read here: tinyurl.com/3ycv3vj2

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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · Jun 18

How is high-level visual cortex organized?

In a new preprint with @martinhebart.bsky.social & @kathadobs.bsky.social, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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Greg Hickok @gregoryhickok.bsky.social · Jun 11

How strong is the Rhythm of Perception? Molly Henry, Jonathan Peelle, and team found out in a large-scale registered replication of Hickok, et al. 2015. @jpeelle.bsky.social

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

How strong is the rhythm of perception? A registered replication of Hickok et al. (2015) | Royal Society Open Science

Our ability to predict upcoming events is a fundamental component of human cognition. One way in which we do so is by exploiting temporal regularities in sensory signals: the ticking of a clock, falli...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · May 29

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Cover of the textbook used in the workshop

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ckerren.bsky.social @ckerren.bsky.social · Apr 29

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences.

We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · Mar 22

Enjoyed this discussion with @drmichaellevin.bsky.social

We discussed scientific explanation, its types, causation, reduction/emergence, & other topics.

Great to see the strength of bringing both science and philosophy to the table for hard topics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoY-...

Conversation with Lauren Ross #1

YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content

www.youtube.com

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AntonioFR @antferrui.bsky.social · Mar 17

Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

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Luca Kolibius @lucakolibius.bsky.social · Mar 5

New manuscript published! ✍️👀

Concept neurons evolve from index neurons through overlapping memories.

Check it out here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 1/15

On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus

The hippocampus is essential for episodic memory, yet its coding mechanism remains debated. In humans, two main theories have been proposed: one suggests that concept neurons represent specific elemen...

www.cell.com

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Benjamin Morillon @bnmorillon.bsky.social · Mar 5

We are hiring! Come work in sunny Marseille!
NeuroSchool PhD contracts in neuroscience are available at Aix Marseille University, France:

I submitted one project (#11) for the call for international PhDs:
"Investigating Music Listening in Human and Non-Human Primates."

neuro-marseille.org

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Liad Mudrik @liadmudrik.bsky.social · Feb 17

2.5 years after ‘the great debate’ at ASSC Amsterdam, we revisit it: Lamme, @standehaene.bsky.social , @smfleming.bsky.social , Boly and @anilseth.bsky.social present their theories, and Melloni and myself try to extract some insights and criticisms. >>>
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Unpacking the complexities of consciousness: Theories and reflections

As the field of consciousness science matures, the research agenda has expanded from an initial focus on the neural correlates of consciousness, to de…

www.sciencedirect.com

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The Dissenter @thedissenteryt.bsky.social · Feb 3

New episode (1054), with Dr. Kathryn Nave (@kathrynnave.bsky.social). We talk about her great book, A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life. #Biology #Science

YouTube: youtu.be/DKUAaqb9WnA
Podcast: bit.ly/4jElnE1

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Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Jan 23

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Plus PhD positions for April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky

We had to re-start the process after our preferred candidate withdrew. Info 👇.

Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Oct 7

PLEASE SHARE: apply to my postdoc in Osaka. Comp cogneuro of learning, control, & concept representation. fMRI, cognitive models & deep nets.

Initial deadline Oct 18. The deadline will be extended once so don't worry if u need more time.

#neuroskyence #psychscisky #compneurosky

Rob Mok @robmok.bsky.social · Oct 1

POSTDOC position: cognitive and/or computational neuroscientist to study how learning of new concepts and categories leads to long-term semantic concepts using multi-session fMRI & comp modelling (hippocampal-cortical interactions). Listing 2024R-148: www.nict.go.jp/en/employmen.... 3/

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Oliver Contier @olivercontier.bsky.social · Jan 21

🚨 Also, I’ll soon be looking for a job! Feel free to dm me if you know someone who knows someone who works on something cool. I’m excited to connect and learn about post-doc opportunities (in Europe and beyond)
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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · Jan 17

I think the representation part is necessary for it to be cognitive. I think plants and bacteria achieve complex behavior through non-cognitive mechanisms that rely on input from the environment without operations over models of referents in that world.

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · Jan 17

Where "non-trivial" means the operations have some minimum description length, "causal" means that interventions on the operations alter downstream events like behavior, thought, or activity, and "internal representation" means a mapping within the system to some referent in our outside the system.

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · Jan 17

All processes in any biological or non-biological system in which inputs are transformed into outputs by a non-trivial sequence of causal operations over internal representations.

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Lauren Ross @laurennross.bsky.social · Jan 12

Philosophy & Theory of Neuroscience Conference 🧠 next week @ Chapman & available via zoom.Talks by @drmichaellevin.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social Newsome, Yassa, Roskies, Carolyn Parkinson, Frederick Eberhardt & many others!

www.chapman.edu/scst/confere...

#philsky #philsci #neuroskyence

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · Jan 6

We offer our gratitude to the TICS editor, the reviewers for their constructive comments, and folks listed in the Acknowledgments section.

Public discussion hosted by @pessoabrain.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=myx9...

Read here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials: Epiphenomenon or Causally Efficacious?

YouTube video by Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · Jan 6

On the whole, we view our contribution to be one of clarification. If two scientists have starkly different conceptions in mind when they discuss oscillations in their writing or conversation, this will hamper empirical progress.

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Sander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · Jan 6

Finally, we outline a view in which oscillations in processes across levels of organization orchestrate neuronal computation via three processing syntaxes. We explain and consider empirical results in favor of each mode.

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