Steven Scholte

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!

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:

CCN2025 kicks off this Tuesday in Amsterdam (with satellite events Monday)! Fun fact: We might be getting the best conference weather Amsterdam has ever seen ☀️
Can't wait to meet everyone and dive into the exciting program ahead. See you there!

Representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains, and deep neural networks | PNAS To decide how to move around the world, we must determine which locomotive actions (e.g., walking, swimming, or climbing) are afforded by the immed...

In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):

2 PHD-STUDENTS IN NEUROAI OF DEVELOPMENTAL VISION (M/F/X) - Academic Positions Join an interdisciplinary team to research developmental vision in NeuroAI. Requires a strong computational background, deep learning skills, and a Master's ...

There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision.

academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...

Phew decisions are out..!! Congratulations to the authors of the 26 papers selected for the first edition of the CCN Proceedings 📜 @eringrant.bsky.social @neurosteven.bsky.social @cogcompneuro.bsky.social 1/2

Made possible by an incredible group of people 2025.ccneuro.org/ccn-organize... shout-out to @irisgroen.bsky.social, @lauragwilliams.bsky.social, @angelaradulescu.bsky.social, @jaspervdb.bsky.social, @achterbrain.bsky.social, @eringrant.bsky.social, @niklasmuller.bsky.social, Lynn & Shauney (MP)

The conference features:
- 6 keynotes
- 4 tutorials, a hackathon, the outcome of the Algonauts 2025 challenge
- Mind matching event.
- 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 satellite events
- 5 poster and talks sessions.
- 1 swanky welcome reception & 1 wicked harbour party

We have started a DEI committee, that will continue with running the DEI luncheon, and has also started both a caregiver awards and a travel intended to support researchers from under-represented groups.

We're excited to announce that CCN2025 has successfully launched our new proceedings track, accepting just 25% of 104 submissions—creating a diamond-level open access venue that's highly selective while our traditional poster track (~610 posters) remains accessible to showcase innovative research.

🧠 #CCN2025 (August 12-15, Amsterdam) Update: Early registration deadline approaching!

⏰ Register by May 23 for early pricing ($375 student/$495 regular)
➡️ 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi...

Full schedule now available:
2025.ccneuro.org/schedule-of-...

I focussed on property binding because it is so obvious. For other types of binding, what needs to be solved for who and why? If you frame vision as seeking to reconstruct the outside world, are you not trying to solve the problems of Cartesianism?

Thanks! This paper not directly related to the work in lancet. Specifically this paper deals with theories (and problems with theories) at a higher level of integration.

Motion and edges are important elements in a scene. That does not mean that they should be processed independent from each other. Jack (probably the greatest empiricist of his generation) shows something about measuring signals, not how the brain integrates (he could have sampled the retina).

Van aardappelmicrobioom to zwaartekrachtgolven: 21 projecten van start bij Open Competitie ENW-M | NWO De onderwerpen variëren van onderzoek naar hoe het menselijke visuele systeem leert, kankeronderzoek, onderzoek naar materialen die zichzelf kunnen assembleren vanuit een ‘ontwerploze’ toestand en de ...

Waarom zien we wat we zien? 👀 @neurosteven.bsky.social en Sander Bohté starten onderzoek naar hoe onze hersenen supersnel leren wat belangrijk is om te zien. Hiervoor hebben ze nu geld van NWO ontvangen. Gefeliciteerd en veel succes met het onderzoek!🥳
www.nwo.nl/nieuws/van-a...

Cool. Ik duim mee dat het goedgekeurd wordt.

Thanks!

Or as the crow sings, long is the road, and hard.

Our alternative framework: The visual system processes naturally co-occurring patterns rather than isolated features, with organization emerging from environmental statistics and computational efficiency constraints.

Key evidence against modular organisation:
* No proof from Neurophysiology or Neuroimaging.
* Truly selective visual deficits are rare or nonexistent.
* Deep neural networks process vision without explicit binding mechanism.

We argue (as others) that the "binding problem" (how separately processed features combine into coherent percepts) is an artifact of our theoretical assumptions rather than a real computational challenge for the brain.

I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago.
📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣! CCN2025 submissions have closed with impressive results: 613 submissions. A 21% increase from last year! Thank you to everyone who contributed. Looking forward to welcoming you all to Amsterdam this summer for what promises to be our biggest conference yet! #CCN2025 #Amsterdam

A little less than 24hrs to go! ⏱️

@neurosteven.bsky.social and I are *very much* looking forward to receiving your 2-page abstract on your latest exciting findings at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience and AI ♟️🧠🤖 and to welcome you to Amsterdam in August!

bsky.app/profile/cogc...

ℹ️ Practical details:

Standard AV equipment and rooms (20-150 capacity) provided.
Selected events will be promoted through CCN channels.
Participants must be CCN attendees.

For format exceptions: h.s.scholte@uva.nl
#ComputationalNeuroscience #CogSci

⭐ Selection criteria:

Enhancement of main conference
Contribution to cognitive computational neuroscience
Feasibility and organization
Priority given to events engaging the local CCN community

📝 Proposal requirements (max 2 pages):

Event title and format
Preferred time slot
Expected attendance & recruitment plan
Budget details
Event description & objectives
Organizer contact info

Submit to: m.heilbron@uva.nl

🧠 We welcome proposals for satellite events on specialized topics in cognitive computational neuroscience or closely related fields.
Events can run for a full day (11:30-18:00) or half-day (morning/afternoon) at the main CCN venue (UvA REC buildings).

📢 CALL FOR SATELLITE EVENT PROPOSALS: CCN 2025 @ University of Amsterdam
Submit your workshop, tutorial or special session proposal for Aug 11, 2025 to complement the main CCN conference program.
Deadline: April 10, 2025
Details in thread 👇 #CCN2025 #CogNeuro

Approximately 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake

"Approximately 1 in 7 Scientific Papers Are Fake" - that is the title of @jamesheathers.bsky.social's provocative preprint. James submitted it to @metaror.bsky.social and we now have 3 peer reviews and an editorial assessment you can read here: metaror.org/kotahi/artic... !