Community Events

Date: August 13, 2025

Location: University of Amsterdam, REC-A building (main CCN 2025 conference venue)

Universality and Idiosyncrasy of Perceptual Representations

Organizers: Evelina Fedorenko, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Mick Bonner, Eghbal Hosseini, Brian Cheung, Jenelle Feather, Alex Williams, Tal Golan

 

Conversations on Consciousness: How the CCN Community Can Contribute

Organizers: Paul Linton, Megan Peters, Steve Fleming, Lars Muckli

 

Naturalistic Games as a Benchmark to Bridge Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience and AI: A Project Co-Design Workshop

Organizers: Laurence Hunt, Jascha Achterberg, Chris Summerfield, Anna Szekely

 

The algonauts project 2025 challenge

Organizers: Alessandro Gifford, Domenic Bersch, Marie St-Laurent, Basile Pinsard, Julie Boyle, Lune Bellec, Aude Oliva, Gemma Roig, Radoslaw Cichy

The Algonauts Project, first launched in 2019, is on a mission to bring biological and machine intelligence researchers together on a common platform to exchange ideas and pioneer the intelligence frontier. Inspired by the astronauts’ exploration of space, “algonauts” explore human and artificial intelligence with state-of-the-art algorithmic tools, thus advancing both fields.

The Algonauts Project 2025 challenge focuses on predicting responses in the human brain as participants perceive complex multimodal naturalistic movies. To enable data-hungry modeling, the challenge runs on data from CNeuroMod (https://www.cneuromod.ca/), the largest suitable brain dataset available–almost 80 hours of neural recordings for each of 4 human participants. To ensure the robustness and relevance of results, the challenge features a model selection process based on out-of-distribution evaluation.

During the first part of this session, the Algonauts project and challenge will be introduced, followed by talks by this year’s challenge winners. The second part of the session will be a panel discussion on challenges in cognitive computational neuroscience moderated by Alessandro Gifford, including the participation of Andreas Tolias, Fabian Sinz, Martin Schrimpf, Gemma Roig, and Radoslaw Cichy. The audience participation in the panel discussion is encouraged through both in-person contributions or digital engagement.

More information at https://algonautsproject.com/