@CogCompNeuro Satellite Event:
COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE
Saturday, 1 August 2026
New York University
Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness
NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
#CCN2026
Excited to announce CCN @CogCompNeuro Satellite Event:
Modeling and Understanding Human Brain Computation at Scale
We explore how we can best leverage the many recent advances with neural network modeling and brain foundation models toward theoretical insight and benefit for humanity.
Sunday, August 2, 2026
@ZuckermanBrain
Organized with @Pinyuan3, @LibraCheng, Andrew Luo, and @KriegeskorteLab
@CogCompNeuro Satellite Event:
COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE
Saturday, 1 August 2026
New York University
Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness
NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
#CCN2026
@CogCompNeuro Satellite Event:
COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE
Saturday, 1 August 2026
New York University
Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness
NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
#CCN2026
@CogCompNeuro Satellite Event:
COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE
Saturday, 1 August 2026
New York University
Bringing computational modelling, neuroscience, and philosophy together to understand consciousness
NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
#CCN2026
Talks on experience vs inference by Paul Linton (@LintonVision), covert measures of consciousness by Sharif Kronemer (@sharifkronemer), and visual illusions by Srijani Saha (Harvard)
Organized by Paul Linton (@LintonVision), Mario Belledonne (MIT), Gal Vishne (@neuro_gal), Ned Block (@De_dicto), and David Chalmers (@davidchalmers42)
Sponsored by NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness
This was a really fun project -- I think we're getting a much better handle handle on the neural dynamics of vision. (and still a ways to go!). I've heard from folks that the 30ms recurrent circuit we seem to be finding has been found in a bunch of other places as well...
1/ New preprint with @dyamins team! Ventral visual representations within areas evolve over the course of the response along the same hierarchical complexity axis that distinguishes the visual areas, potentially driven by local recurrence.
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898ā¦
1/ How do we see 3D shape ā for grasping, reaching, navigating ā when the world is constantly in motion? We started with one piece of this puzzleāhow the brain recovers surface geometry from dynamic input. New preprint, a joint effort from Josh Tenenbaumās and Jim DiCarloās labs at MIT. (1/6)
doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.13.ā¦
ALT Kalanit Grill-Spector is the Susan S. and William H. Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, a professor of psychology, and an affiliate of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute.
1/ New preprint VSS poster! Attention has long been thought to enable efficient vision. But does it? First demonstration that attentionāconsuming just 4-5% of the energy budgetācan cut the energetic costs of vision in half. #VSS2026
Look. The snakes rotate.
Hold still. They stop.
Glance away. They spin again.
We asked 10 visual-motion models to play this game with us. Only one could. š
I'll present "Neural networks reveal candidate computational mechanisms underlying anomalous motion illusion" at #VSS2026
šļø May 19th, Tuesday 8:30ā12:30
š Pavilion, Board 53.435
Welcome to drop by! š
w/ @IsabellaRosario@ZitangSun@KriegeskorteLab
Finally, today is the day: Josefine Zerbe will present and release our new multi-echo 7T fMRI dataset LAION-fMRI during #VSS2026, with >30 fMRI session per subject and unprecedented stimulus diversity. Come to Talk Room 1 (Scene perception) today at 5:15. Details after the talk!
Ok -- I've started a substack -- The Principle Investigator! My goal is communicating advanced takes on ideas in NeuroAI . Here's the first substantive post: danyamins.substack.com/p/kol⦠Calculating the aesthetics of DNN models of the brain
Massive congratulations to DR Veronica Bossio Botero (@vbossiob) for a wonderful PhD defence:
"Mapping the representational geometry of human face perception with generative models of face space"
Watch this space for some exciting research!
Congratulations to our own @shadlen, MD, PhD, who was elected to the @americanacad! This recognition celebrates excellence and leadership in the sciences and across disciplines. Learn more about Shadlenās research on decision making:
zuckermaninstitute.columbia.ā¦
New paper/blog on temporally abstract world models # ICLR2026
What should a world model predict?
Video world models predict pixels. JEPA-style models predict latent states. Both iterate through time one frame after another.
Instead consider how you boil water for a cup of tea.
Wonderful talk today by Ilker Yildirim on āHow to Model the Mind Simultaneously Across the Computational, Algorithmic, and Neural Levelsā
Canāt wait for his VSS talk!!