Uri Hasson

מהדורה שניה, יוני 1980.

Olivia > Academics, check if your book is on the list of the Anthropic AI $1.5 billion settlement. Each author will get at least $3,000 per book. Claims must be made by March 30th. Repost to help authors whose works were illegally appropriated.
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Applications are open for the 2026/27 MSc in Cognitive Science at @cimecunitrento.bsky.social.

First-call deadline for non-EU applicants: 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Apply now: corsi.unitn.it/en/cognitive...

#cimec_unitrento #neuroscience

New Study Says Unfairness Really Ruffles Crows' Feathers A new experiment found crows and ravens have a sense of fairness, just like people and dogs.

www.popsci.com/science/arti...

How does the brain generate predictive models of own actions?

We will soon open a **Postdoc position** to address this question in my lab. If you are interested, please write to moritz.wurm@unitn.it.

this shorter version once cost me 4 days of work
rm * .txt
since then rm is aliased to move files to a trash dir

ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression The hypothesis that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are inherently texture-biased has shaped much of the discourse on feature use in deep learning. We revisit this hypothesis by examining limitat...

The results challenge the texture-bias hypothesis of Geirhos et al. (2019).

This is one of those cases where a deep, careful review can add real value.

arxiv.org/abs/2509.20234

🧠🤖 #MLSky

Modeling Human Concepts with Subspaces in Deep Vision Models | ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems Improving the modeling of human representations of everyday semantic categories, such as animals or food, can lead to better alignment between AI systems and humans. Humans are thought to represent su...

@annabavaresco.bsky.social and
@tlmnhut.bsky.social show: supervised pruning of a DNN’s feature space better aligns with human category representations, selects distinct subspaces for different categories, and more accurately predicts people’s preferences for GenAI images.
doi.org/10.1145/3768...

Representational magnitude as a geometric signature of image and word memorability What makes some stimuli more memorable than others? While memory varies across individuals, research shows that some items are intrinsically more memorable, a property quantifiable as “memorability”. ...

New preprint out together with @mheilbron.bsky.social

We find that a stimulus' representational magnitude—the L2 norm of its DNN representation—predicts intrinsic memorability not just for images, but for words too.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very interesting! Does this mean the most memorable images are just those that maximize activation length in the embedding space, or are there boundary conditions (e.g. within-category effects)?

YouTube video by ubershizzles top secret - german lessons

It is part of a meta joke in the opening scene of Top Secret. Here are 77sec to brighten your day youtu.be/2w_mBnzyVTg?...

Improved Robustness and Functional Localization in Topographic CNNs Through Weight Similarity Topographic neural networks are computational models that can simulate the spatial and functional organization of the brain. Topographic constraints in neural networks can be implemented in multiple w...

New lab preprint, led by @tlmnhut.bsky.social. We show that certain topographic CNNs offer computational advantages, including greater weight matrix robustness, better handling of OOD noisy data, and higher entropy of unit activation.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043

Nhut Truong, Uri Hasson: Improved Robustness and Functional Localization in Topographic CNNs Through Weight Similarity https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00043 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00043 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.00043

Does it seem like Spam is just mocking us at this point?
"I hope your day is as positive as you are.
We are very fortunate to associate with eminent people like you.... If you dont want to receive our email, reply as Terminate."

I have a 'prior literature' directory exactly for this.

#Calcium_imaging in sleeping #bees: Antennal lobe neurons synchronise stronger during #sleep, likely due to reduced GABAergic coupling. #SNN simulations show reduced #odour processing, similar to human sleep: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
Thanks to all collaborators at #CIMeC, e.g. @urihasson.bsky.social

Explore vision, motor control & predictive processing with a funded PhD @cimecunitrento.bsky.social

Project: Predictive neural representations of dynamic events, supervisor Moritz Wurm @moritzwurm.bsky.social

🧠 Apply by June 5, 2025
🔗 Info: phd.unitn.it/drcimec

#neuroscience #cognitivescience

It's not just CogSci; see this list of conferences and travel awards funded by SBE in the last decade
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Neuronal correlates of sleep in honey bees Honey bees Apis mellifera follow the day-night cycle for their foraging activity, entering rest periods during darkness. Despite considerable research…

Now online: We used two-photon calcium imaging to provide the first demonstration of how topological signatures of bees’ brain connectivity differ between sleep and wakefulness. Project guided by Albrecht Haase; first author: Sebastián Moguilner.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Manipulating and measuring variation in deep neural network (DNN) representations of objects We explore how DNNs can be used to develop a computational understanding of individual differences in high-level visual cognition given their ability …

if interested in computing distances between domains (measurement-by-channel/feature) then this www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... is an interesting review/application. This arxiv.org/abs/2411.14633 is more specific to ANN embeddings.

PhD opening. We've been working in recent years on human-oriented and explainable AI, studying interpretable DNN models of conceptual knowledge. Looking for a PhD student (4 years, Trento, Italy) to develop that direction. If interested, get in touch by email: my first name at my last name dot org

Explaining Human Comparisons Using Alignment-Importance Heatmaps - Computational Brain & Behavior We present a computational explainability approach for human comparison tasks, using Alignment Importance Score (AIS) heatmaps derived from deep-vision models. The AIS reflects a feature map’s unique ...

DNNs can predict human similarity judgments—but why? In a new #XAI study, we introduce Alignment Importance Scores (AIS), a method that improves AI-human alignment and generates heatmaps highlighting the image features that drive this alignment. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
TheRiseRegistry.org

Every author is required to serve as a reviewer.

ICCV has an interesting policy that can be easily adopted by other societies.

One of the first things to do should be to file a FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) request to see the reason for the rejection as indicated by the POs internal recommendation (typically reflecting the panel's opinion about intellectual merit/BI) and the DDs decision based on that.

Dept of Transportation memo ordering all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, policy, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice

Department of Transportation orders all personnel to "identify and eliminate" every order, directive, rule, regulation, policy, notice, guidance document, funding arrangement, or program that even mentions climate change, diversity, or environmental justice

www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

Former NSF insider cannot articulate just how completely this memo tramples over the concept of merit-based review

As a former NSF program director, I find it difficult to put into words the extent to which the content and tone of this memo go against the grain of anything and everything that defines merit-based review at NSF.

Interesting analyses from Hanson et al., the strain on scientific publishing. Many more articles, more special issues (namely Frontiers, MDPI), but stagnation in number of PHDs granted. "in 2022 the article total was ∼47% higher than in 2016".
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Quantifying sighting dominance using on-display projections of monocular and binocular views - Behavior Research Methods Sighting dominance is an important behavioral property which has been difficult to measure quantitatively with high precision. We developed a measurement method that is grounded in a two-camera model ...

New paper with Giuseppe Notaro presenting a method for quantitative measurement of sighting eye dominance link.springer.com/article/10.3...