Iris Groen
Associate Professor @UvA_Amsterdam | Cognitive neuroscience, Scene perception, Computational vision | Chair of CCN2025 | www.irisgroen.com
- 1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
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- 6/7 Our results further highlight the first year of life as a time of intricate brain function. Infants possess the foundations of visual cognition to group the world from very early on. Read more in Nature Neuroscience! 📖🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41....
- Breaking news: New Dutch cabinet reversing €1.5 billion in cuts to education and science www.scienceguide.nl/2026/01/kabi...
[This post could not be retrieved]- Going to #AAAI2026? Join us at the “Neuro for AI & AI for Neuro: Towards Multi-Modal Natural Intelligence” workshop! Co-organized by our own Anton Arkhipov and @shixnya.bsky.social 🔗 neuroai-multimodal-workshop.github.io @aaai.org
- Missed the Re-Align hackathon at ICLR or CCN 2025 — or want more? 🙂 Re-Align is back at ICLR 2026 🚀 Beyond the paper track, we’re launching a persistent shared-task challenge + challenge paper track. Can’t wait to see your creative & critical takes on representational alignment 🔥🥳
- 🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/
- Check out our new work on motor learning across multiple brain regions!
- 🧠 New year, new preprint! Why does motor learning involve multiple brain regions? We propose that the cortico-cerebellar system learns a "map" of actions where similar movements are nearby, while basal ganglia do RL in this simplified space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Published @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social with @drewlinsley.bsky.social & @tonyfeng.bsky.social: As vision models scale to human/superhuman accuracy, they’re becoming worse models of primate vision—benchmark engineering isn’t neuroscience. @carneyinstitute.bsky.social @browncopsy.bsky.social
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- This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
- Would love to hear expert views on this paper. It appears to show that the operationalization of brain activity the field has relied on for 3 decades—the BOLD response—is not actually a sensible measure of brain activity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Happy to share this new paper from the lab led by Angus Chapman, now out in PLoS Biology! It presents an integrated spatiotemporal normalization model for continuous vision. @afchapman.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
- Looking forward to seeing everyone again at NVP (@brain-cognition-nl.bsky.social) today. The CAP-Lab is well represented, with 4 posters and 4 talks. (Also, check the CAP-Lab website, www.cap-lab.net, for a number of recent publications.) Ending the year with a BANG. See you all there 💜
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- All the videos of our #NeuroAI symposium at @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social are now online! 📺 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
- 🧠 Excited to share the full program of our #NeuroAI workshop at the @fieldsinstitute.bsky.social (next Monday & Tuesday) 📍 Toronto + Online: fields.utoronto.ca/activities/2... 🎙️ Talks by VanRullen, @neurograce.bsky.social, Eliasmith, Pitkow, Kanai, Thompson & more.
- Need more fMRI data (beyond the amazing NSD)? Introducing MOSAIC! Incredible effort led expertly by Ben Lahner, with help from grad student Mayukh Deb. Work in collaboration with the amazing Aude Oliva! @neurosky.bsky.social. More below..
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- New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.
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- 🥳 I am incredibly humbled and grateful to share that our work, "Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels," has been published today in @nature.com ⬇️
- What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3
- What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3
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- New preprint led by @pablooyarzo.bsky.social together with @kohitij.bsky.social, Diego Vidaurre & Radek Cichy. Using EEG + fMRI, we show that when humans recognize images that feedforward CNNs fail on, the brain recruits cortex-wide recurrent resources. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/n)
- My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more
- #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺 This Friday, November 7th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Simon Van Gaal giving a talk entitled "Linking global state fluctuations and recurrent processing to conscious perception in humans" In person or online. For more information: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
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- Honoured to receive an NWO #VIDI grant to study 'the TikTok Brain': representational alignment of brains and deep nets for #video! I'm hugely thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their enthusiasm and for the opportunity to grow and sustain my lab. Job ads coming soon! www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-...
- Fantastic! Congratulations Iris
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- Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application? Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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- Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
- Komende maandag (22 sep) geven @irisgroen.bsky.social, @theodanes.bsky.social, Jackie Higgins, Yaïr Pinto en ik een lezing bij @sggroningen.bsky.social. Een spannende avond vol mooie verhalen en wetenschap! 🌿🦇🤖🌍 Kom ook! @rug-gmw.bsky.social #groningen #wetenschap 👇
- Een wereld vol denkers: een avond vol #psychologie, #neurowetenschap 🧠, #biologie 🪴 en #AI 🤖! Met bijdragen van @irisgroen.bsky.social, Jackie Higgins en Yaïr Pinto. Ma 22 september 🗓️ bij @sggroningen.bsky.social in het academiegebouw van @rug.nl. Kaartjes 👉 sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement... 1/2
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- Excited to share our new paper w/ @cibaker.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com linking active vision & memory! We provide evidence that gaze reinstatement & neural reactivation are deeply related phenomena that jointly reflect the experiences constructed during recall. doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵1/9
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- Now out in @natneuro.nature.com What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed? Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7 🧵1/18
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- #CCN2025 is over. Over 5 days there were 6 fantastic keynotes, 550 posters, 3 community events, 3 keynote & tutorials, 3 generative adversarial collaborations, 8 Satellite events, 1 community lunch meeting, 1 cross-conference hackathon, 1 competition, coffee all day, stroopwafels on day 1,
- a reception in Hotel Arena, an epic-party in Ijver (with about 40% of attendees on the dance floor), and above all 929 community members who brought a lot of energy and hopefully had, on multiple dimensions a fantastic conference. So proud to be, together with @irisgroen.bsky.social chair.
- @claires012345.bsky.social @mheilbron.bsky.social Angela Radulescu @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social @dotadotadota.bsky.social Tyler bonnen Sneha Aenugu @hannesmehrer.bsky.social @debyee.bsky.social Julian Kosciessa @anne-urai.bsky.social @mdhk.net @tdado.bsky.social Shauney Wilson, Shawna Lampkin,
- Lynn Flannery, Kerry Miller, Jeff Wilson, Kevin Koenrades, Brenda Klappe and our Volunteers: Nina Fitzmaurice, Ole Jürgensen, Denise Kittelmann, Elif Ayten Maithe van Noort, Mohanna Hoveyda, Caroline Harbison, Yamil Vidal, Sotirios Panagiotou,Sofie Wahlberg, Danting Meng, Mobina Tousian.
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- What shapes the topography of high-level visual cortex? Excited to share a new pre-print addressing this question with connectivity-constrained interactive topographic networks, titled "Retinotopic scaffolding of high-level vision", w/ Marlene Behrmann & David Plaut. 🧵 ↓ 1/n
- I’m happy to be at #VSS2025 and share what our lab has been up to this year! I’m also honored to receive this year’s young investigator award and will give a short talk at the awards ceremony Monday
- So excited for CCN2026!!! 🧠🤔🤖🗽
- The rumors are true! #CCN2026 will be held at NYU. @toddgureckis.bsky.social and I will be executive-chairing. Get in touch if you want to be involved!
- That's a wrap for CCN2025 -- and so planning for CCN2026 in New York is starting today! Save travels to all participants and remember to fill out the feedback survey sent via email!
