The key detail everyone’s getting wrong about AI and the economy Opinion: Konrad Körding and Ioana Marinescu from the University of Pennsylvania argue artificial intelligence will likely have a limited impact on jobs because of the realities of physical work

With @imarinescu.bsky.social I argue that the economy is bottlenecked by the physical, rendering anything resembling a singularity unlikely: www.transformernews.ai/p/the-key-de...

What and how do babies see? Rhodri Cusack discusses early visual development.
Come to the session for the pics of babies (like the one below of baby watching "infant IMAX") and stay for the great science!
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And thanks for the critical enabling input from our clinical collaborators, Ailbhe Tarrant, Angela Byrne, Adrienne Foran and @eleanormolloy.bsky.social

Infant brain categorizes common objects by two months of age Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, fMRI scans suggest.

The Transmitter writes about @clionaod.bsky.social's work with
@ainedineen.bsky.social, @annatruzzi.bsky.social, Graham King, @lorinanaci.bsky.social, Keelin Harrison, Enna-Louise D'Arcy, Jessica White, @chiarac.bsky.social, Tamrin Holloway, Anna Kravchenko, @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social!

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Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.

Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer...
Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!

And thank you so much to all of our participants and their families!

Infants organise their visual world into categories at two-months-old! So happy to see these results published - congratulations Cliona and the rest of the FOUNDCOG team.

Delighted to announce with my colleagues Prof Yvonne Daly, Dublin City Uni; Prof Dave Walsh Walsh, De Montfort Uni; Prof Bennett Kleinberg, Tilburg Uni, we have secured an ERC Synergy grant entitled JUSTICE (or ‘Joining Unique Strategies Together For Interrogative Coercion Elimination).

We are delighted to be able to thank the @erc.europa.eu European Research Council (ERC) for the funding award of €10,403,517 for this six-year project. @tcddublin.bsky.social @trinityneuro.bsky.social & @tcdpsychology.bsky.social Trinity College Dublin will host my work.

infant data from experiment 1

conceptual schema for different habituation models

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results from experiment 2 with adults

Ever wonder how habituation works? Here's our attempt to understand:

A stimulus-computable rational model of visual habituation in infants and adults doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

This is the thesis of two wonderful students: @anjiecao.bsky.social @galraz.bsky.social, w/ @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social

Amazing talk from @sjblakemore.bsky.social at #flux2025 - childhood and the age of legal responsibility; voting age; graduated driving licenses.

Excited for our new OPM-MEG system!

Wearable TCD brain scanner a 'gamechanger' for research
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Finally got around to this interesting exchange. Much to like! However, in my view neonate cortex is building a foundation model while sub-cortical sensorimotor routes support newborn behaviours and, importantly, bias the inputs to the foundation model (e.g. orienting toward faces).

This is a great opportunity for rising stars and established research leaders particularly when combined with an ERC frontier research grant (€4-4.5 million including relocation-to-Europe supplement).

Deadline for expression of interest is Aug 28

The Trinity College institute of Neuroscience is located on Trinity's main campus in the heart of the city. Founded in 1592, Trinity is a research intensive university with strength across disciplines, currently ranked 75 in the world, valuing diversity, inclusion and kindness.

Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!

Very pleased that my commentary on Jonathan Birch's fantastic "The Edge of Sentience" has finally appeared. @birchlse.bsky.social and I agree on many things, but there was enough distance between our views to make this a productive exchange.

Thank you very much for the discussion, Martin, @marielgoddu.bsky.social and Ruthe! Look forward to discussing more. Will any of you make it to CCN in Amsterdam?

Interesting! Random exploration is consistent - the important thing is that the infant doesn't start to optimize decisions that corrupt learning by forcing early cheap solutions building on sub-optimal representations.

Eye movements are exploration too as @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social reminds me

I love the idea of explore-to-exploit transition in childhood! But, in the helpless period (first 6-8 months?) there's no reaching, crawling or walking, and humans get much less exploration done than a chicken or a lamb. Pre-exploration infantile chillaxing- that's what we're trying to explain.

I'm glad you like the fundamental point. The novel contribution is to suggest that the requirement for lots of self-supervised learning upfront could drive a long helpless period in human infants. Otherwise, helplessness is dangerous and such a lot of work for the caregivers!

Defending the foundation model view of infant development

Thanks to fellow defenders @clionaod.bsky.social, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, and @charvetcj.bsky.social

Defending the foundation model view of infant development www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

CCN 2025 Satellite Event Background The human visual system is full of optimisations—mechanisms designed to extract the most useful information from a constant stream of incoming data. The field of neuro-AI has made significa...

Not just one, but two fantastic chances to discuss how infant development can inform machine learning and vice-versa at CCN 2025 in Amsterdam!!! Satellite workshop sites.google.com/view/child2m...
and Generative Adversarial Collaboration sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/...

Defending the foundation model view of infant development In response to the opinion article by Cusack et al. [1], Zettersten et al. [2] challenge the proposal that human infants undergo a stage-like development from sensory to goal-directed actions. Zetters...

Excited to see our response published www.cell.com/trends/cogni... to Zettersten at al's thoughtful commentary www.cell.com/trends/cogni... on our TiCS perspective "Helpless infants are learning a foundation model" www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @trinityneuro.bsky.social @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social

Great to see this award to Peter Gorman, from Trinity-Columbia's joint BA programme. www.tcd.ie/news_events/... @trinityneuro.bsky.social

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283 University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

We are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely.
(Closing date: May 12)

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Fabulous chance to study brain health in athletes!

The developing Human Connectome Project fetal functional MRI release: Methods and data structures Abstract. Recent advances in fetal fMRI present a new opportunity for neuroscience to study functional human brain connectivity at the time of its emergence. Progress in the field, however, has been h...

Very pleased to share the fMRI pipeline paper from the fetal release or the developing human connectome project, a true labour of love and incredible work from Slava Karolis #dhcp #connectome #fmri direct.mit.edu/imag/article...