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Lynn Sörensen
There's one week left to apply to become this Fall's BCS Rising Star speaker 🌟 Please make sure to apply if you're a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences🧠 Reposts are appreciated! 🪐
Are you a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences? 🧠 Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your work at MIT - apply by May 31! 🌟
🧠 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...
Join us for the #CCN2025 local meetup, we're hosting at MIT's McGovern Institute on Aug 13-15!
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Thanks! Happy this work with Gwangsu Kim & Jim DiCarlo is out. Amygdala neurons are famously multimodal with complex visual selectivity. We find that the relationship between visual and valence responses is also specific and can be partially captured in models, like the visual responses themselves.
Now out in Nature Neuroscience: "Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand".
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our eyes don't linger because recognition is hard; they linger to remember. Let me take you on a quick tour. 🧵
Atlanta community: we are organizing a CCN @cogcompneuro.bsky.social watch party!
Watch the talks, engage in structured discussions, and (optionally) present your own work.
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JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/
I have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15).
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Lynn Sörensen
Lynn Sörensen
Lynn Sörensen
Are you a postdoc in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences? 🧠 Don't miss this opportunity to showcase your work at MIT - apply by May 31! 🌟
Steven Scholte
By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...
The MIT BCS Postdoc Association is looking for a Rising Star 🌟
Showcase your work and meet folks in the department! Deadline 31st May 2026!
@picowerinstitute.bsky.social
<p><span>Are you interested in using AI to unravel the mysteries of the brain? Do you want to perform cutting-edge NeuroAI research and leverage deep learning to understand human vision? Then check out the vacancy below and apply for a PhD position in this exciting research direction.</span></p>
This form is to register to attend a 'local meetup' for CCN 2025 held at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (https://2025.ccneuro.org/local-meetups/). We will watch the conference talks,...
Join us for the #CCN2025 local meetup, we're hosting at MIT's McGovern Institute on Aug 13-15!
Think: conference talks 🧠 + local discussions over food & snacks 💬+ meeting awesome researchers in your backyard 🏠 Open to all researchers in the area!
Intrigued? Sign up here: forms.gle/oq6Rw3TvUja6...
Lynn Sörensen
Rob Mok
Iris Groen
Sreeparna Pradhan
The MIT BCS Postdoc Association is looking for a Rising Star 🌟
Showcase your work and meet folks in the department! Deadline 31st May 2026!
@picowerinstitute.bsky.social
This form is to register to attend a 'local meetup' for CCN 2025 held at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (https://2025.ccneuro.org/local-meetups/). We will watch the conference talks,...
Very interesting preprint. Anyone who has recorded in primate amygdala using natural scenes can attest to the specificity of visual processing in amygdala. By far the dominant encoding scheme during reinforcement learning (this figure from our paper in 2019).
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
