Ghislain's paper on variation in the geometry of concept manifolds across human visual cortex is now available on bioRxiv! Read it here.
Elizabeth accepts a full-ride scholarship to attend UNC Chapel Hill! Congratulations Elizabeth!!
Ghislain's paper on brain-optimized neural networks for non-hierarchical visual representations is now available on Nature Communications! Read it here.
Hayden Johnson joins the lab as a Researcher. Welcome Hayden!
Reese Kneeland joins the lab as Research Assistant. Welcome Reese!
Jordyn Ojeda joins the lab as Research Assistant. Welcome Jordyn!
Ghislain's paper on brain-optimized networks and the visual hierarchy is now available on bioRxiv! Read it here.
Koustav Banerjee joins the lab as Research Assistant. Welcome Koustav!
Our paper, with Kendrick Kay's lab, describing the Natural Scenes Dataset is now out in Nature Neuroscience! Check it out here.
Tiasha Saha Roy joins the lab as a post-doc. Welcome Tiasha!
Maggie Mae Mell successfully defends her thesis: “Investigating the Source and Structure of Unexplained Variance in Natural Scenes fMRI Data”. Watch her defense here. Congratulations Dr. Mell!
The Natural Scenes Dataset is coming soon! Sneak peaks here and here.
The Naselaris Lab has moved to the University of Minnesota! We’re thrilled to join the Neuroscience Department at UMN, and to be part of the Medical Discovery Team on Optical Imaging and Brain Science at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.
Watch Thomas’ (virtual) talk at the Instituto de Neurobiologia de la UNAM here.
Jesse + Ghislain’s paper on mental imagery encoding models now published!
If you are interested in the relationship between AI and Neuroscience, check out Paul Middlebrooks' amazing Brain-Inspired podcast ! Thomas' interview is available here.
Zahraa’s J. Neuro paper in early release: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0900-19.2019
New editorial on CCN in Nature Machine Intelligence! [PDF]
Maggie’s CCN 2019 paper on numerosity in natural scenes available now!
Ghislain’s CCN paper on unifying mental imagery and attention available now!
Thomas’ talk at the Algonauts Workshop, MIT: watch here!
Thomas and Kendrick Kay awarded a CRCNS grant from the NSF to build a massive fMRI database of brain responses to natural scenes. See our recent SFN abstract here!
Naselaris lab is presenting at CCN 2018! The submitted papers are available at the following links:
A variational image reconstruction algorithm reveals distortion and uncertainty in mental imagery.
Voxel-to-voxel encoding models reveal unexpected structure in unexplained variance.
A massive benchmark high-field fMRI dataset of responses to natural scenes. in collaboration with CVN Lab.
CCN 2018 will be held in Philadelphia, Sept. 5-8. Check out the amazing speaker lineup!
New paper on brain decoding with GAN's is available on bioRxiv.
Ghislain will present this work at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics in Miyazaki, Japan.
The inaugural conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience is sold out! Hope to see you there!
Ghislain's paper on feature-weighted receptive fields is now online at NeuroImage.
Jesse and Ghislain will present posters on mental imagery and generative adversarial decoding at CCN.
Thomas is Co-PI on an NSF conference grant to fund CCN. The inaugural meeting of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience will take place at Columbia University on September 6 - 8, 2017.
Thomas will spend a month as invited fellow at the Centre for Mind, Brain and Cognitive Evolution, Ruhr University, Bochum DE.
Thomas will chair a symposium on mental imagery at the ASSC 2017 conference in Beijing.
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) is now accepting submissions! The inaugural CCN conference will be held at Columbia University in NYC, September 6-8. CCN will bring together researchers in AI, cognitive science, and neuroscience who are dedicated understanding the neural computations that underlie complex behavior.
The Naselaris Lab welcomes new postdoc Mohammad Babakmehr! Mohammad is a recent EECS Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines.
Naselaris Lab presents new work on mental imagery at SFN 2016.
Naselaris Lab presents at BRAIN Initiative Awardees Conference. Abstract available HERE.
Naselaris Lab awarded BRAIN Initiative grant. The Naselaris Lab joins the labs of Kamil Ugurbil (U. Minnesota), Cheryl Olman (U. Minnesota) and Prakash Kara (MUSC) on a quest to understand the functional significance of cortical layers and the relationship between BOLD and neural activity.
Naselaris Lab welcomes our newest Graduate Student, Magge Mae Mell.
Naselaris Lab presents new work on mental imagery at VSS 2016.
The Naselaris Lab welcomes our newest Post-Doc, Ghislain St-Yves, Ph.D..
The Naselaris Lab welcomes our newest Graduate Student, Jesse Breedlove.
The Naselaris Lab welcomes our new post-doc, Aicko Schumann, Ph.D..
The Naselaris Lab welcomes our new undergraduate volunteer, Nick DeSisto.
Thomas joins the faculty of MUSC's new Ph.D. program in Biomedical Imaging.
New paper on mental imagery. Available HERE.
Thomas' VSS 2014 Symposium talk now available online HERE.
The Naselaris lab welcomes our new graduate student, Zahraa Sabra.