We got a new octopus! She’s a starry night octopus (Callistoctopus luteus) …and she looks like a wizard 🥲🧙‍♀️

Are the invariances of artificial neural networks aligned with those of humans? Check out our paper, now out in Nature Neuroscience! w/ my PhD advisor Josh McDermott and collaborators Aleksander Madry & Guillaume Leclerc. See 🧵 for highlights. nature.com/articles/s4159… 🧵1/N

Hello yellow! It's Octopodober and we have a small special issue on #cephalopods and their amazing behavior and other soft skills.🐙🐙🐙 Check it out here!👇 cell.com/current-biolog…

Curious about cephalopod vision? Check out our review led by Judit Pungor judit on visual processing and behavior in cephalopods Current Biology. We know relatively little at the level of neural function, so there's still a lot of mysteries! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

As part of our #cephalopods special Tessa Montague introduces the spectacular color and shape shifting skills of #octopuses & #cuttlefish and their neural control cell.com/current-biolog…

#SfN23 Come to WCC 147A at 2pm tomorrow to hear my talk on the neural basis of cuttlefish camouflage✨ Even better, come to the whole session (1-3pm) for neuroethology of sensorimotor systems in spiders, hydra, bats, octopus & more! 🕷️🐙🦇🐒 @SFNtweets

Can’t wait for ceph neuro! 🤩

Who said cuttlefish don’t grow on trees

Cuttlefish camouflage: researchers are closer than ever to understanding how the creatures pull off one of the most impressive camouflage displays in the animal kingdom. Read more in my latest for nature, featuring Tessa Montague: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Chilling out in NYC with #MSRPBio alums MAYA ⁦Maya Taliaferro a grad student⁩ ⁦New York University⁩ & ERICA ⁦Erica Shook⁩ a grad student ⁦⁦Columbia University⁩ ⁦Reminiscing about the good times ⁦⁦MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences⁩ ⁦CBMM⁩

There are plenty of feedback connects in visual cortex, and they contribute to so many perceptual experiences (e.g imagination, de-occlusions, hallucinations), but HOW? In a #NeurIPS2023 paper, we show alignment of the feedback and feedforward is the key! arxiv.org/abs/2310.20599

Life of a cuttlefish scientist: Winter storm blocked all shrimp shipments, leaving our cuttlefish in urgent need of food. Enter Project Arctic Air Mass 🌬️: the team bought every ghost shrimp in NJ, Bklyn & Manhattan Petsmarts & Chinatown provided 2 kg of MASSIVE live shrimp 🦐💕

Doctoral student Thomas Barlow uses photography to illuminate research spaces and show people what scientists do. By Angie Voyles Askham and rebecca horne thetransmitter.org/the-transmitte…

We are halfway through the first ever Cephalopod Neuroscience Conference at the MBL. Over 200 participants. What an amazing expansion of new research. #cephneuro. sites.google.com/view/cephneuro…

Excited to share our new review: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… w/ Erica Shook, Thomas Barlow, Daniella Garcia-Rosales & Connor Gibbons We discuss the incredible color-changing skin behaviors of cephalopods, which broadcast the animal's perception of the world & internal state ✨ Img: Andre Hernandez

“I reasoned that if an animal is camouflaging, it's basically showing you what it sees on its skin. Therefore, it could teach us about the inner workings of the brain.” Check out the full Q&A with ENSS speaker Dr Tessa Montague (Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute): sainsburywellcome.org/web/qa/unveili…

Why does deep learning work? How do scientific experiments shed light on the inner workings of deep nets? Come to our workshop at #NeurIPS2024 if you’re interested in these questions and consider sending your work or participate in the challenge!

Please RT: I am looking to hire a research assistant to help recruit, schedule and run human participants in auditory perception experiments at MIT. Preferably full-time, but could be part-time. Ideal for someone looking to get more research experience in advance of grad school.

How do we sample from conditional densities with diffusion models, without estimating the exact conditional score? Check out our paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.11646. Joint work with Eero Simoncelli & Stephane Mallat

New paper from our lab, by Jarrod Hicks. Shows that people use the statistical properties of background noise to hear concurrent “foreground” sounds. Read on for highlights (1). pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… MIT Science MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences McGovern Institute CBMM