Brokoslaw Laschowski
@drlaschowski.bsky.social
Computational neuroscientist. Building neural networks to reverse-engineer the brain and human intelligence. Assistant Professor @UofT Research Scientist @UHN #compneuro
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First time holding the Neuralink implant. Our hospital network will be leading the first clinical trials here in Canada. Let’s go!
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca #Neuralink #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI #compneuro
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca #Neuralink #neuroscience #AI #neuroAI #compneuro
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🧠 Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
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Brains, minds & machines: A new algorithm for decoding intelligence [photo of Laschowski in a lab with a machine and a whiteboard with formulas]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dhvtfzwixsh4hqcey3nzqmff/bafkreigfjkryxn2lp4f2omj2hclhoejujlrcncg76y37rrmeothdycm2li@jpeg)
October 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🧠 Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
@drlaschowski.bsky.social (MIE) and his Computational Neuroscience Lab are working to make it possible. They've developed a new algorithm that could make brain decoding more accurate and efficient.
Read the story: uofteng.ca/25h7c8
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Honored to speak at Ottawa about how Canada can lead in #NeuroAI. With world-class talent, trusted institutions, & sustainable infrastructure, we can build a federated approach to AI that protects mental health & strengthens our society. Thanks @braincanada.bsky.social for the invitation!
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Honored to speak at Ottawa about how Canada can lead in #NeuroAI. With world-class talent, trusted institutions, & sustainable infrastructure, we can build a federated approach to AI that protects mental health & strengthens our society. Thanks @braincanada.bsky.social for the invitation!
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This trial has two goals: ensure the brain implant is safe; and to restore a person's ability to communicate with real-time speech
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
A brain implant that could rival Neuralink's enters clinical trials
Neurotechnology company Paradromics will test its device in a trial aimed at safely restoring speech for people with severe motor impairments.
go.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This trial has two goals: ensure the brain implant is safe; and to restore a person's ability to communicate with real-time speech
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
go.nature.com/4oSXuLj
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If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
If you're interested in dynamical systems analysis for neuroscience, definitely check out @oliviercodol.bsky.social 's revised version of our RL paper! Very cool results in the new Fig 6, worth it regardless of if you saw our previous version or if it's all new.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq...
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!
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Our work with @pawa-pawa.bsky.social is out in Nature Machine Intelligence! The choice of activation function affects the representations, dynamics, and circuit solutions that emerge in RNNs trained on cognitive tasks. Activation matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
October 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Our work with @pawa-pawa.bsky.social is out in Nature Machine Intelligence! The choice of activation function affects the representations, dynamics, and circuit solutions that emerge in RNNs trained on cognitive tasks. Activation matters!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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🧠 Thrilled to share our NeuroView with Ellie Pavlick!
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
October 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🧠 Thrilled to share our NeuroView with Ellie Pavlick!
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
"From Prediction to Understanding: Will AI Foundation Models Transform Brain Science?"
AI foundation models are coming to neuroscience—if scaling laws hold, predictive power will be unprecedented.
But is that enough?
Thread 🧵👇
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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
Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels - Nature
Aligning foundation models with human judgments enables them to more accurately approximate human behaviour and uncertainty across various levels of visual abstraction, while additionally improving th...
www.nature.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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
Join us December 5th at University of Toronto (in-person and online) for a special seminar by Dr. Aran Nayebi on reverse-engineering the brain and building neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence.
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Join us December 5th at University of Toronto (in-person and online) for a special seminar by Dr. Aran Nayebi on reverse-engineering the brain and building neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence.
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
#neuroAI #compneuro @anayebi.bsky.social @utoronto.ca @uoftcompsci.bsky.social
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Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
Brains, minds and machines: A new algorithm for decoding intelligence
Algorithms developed by Professor Brokoslaw Laschowski (MIE) and his lab are being used to decode the brain and interface with machines
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Imagine being able to control machines by thinking.
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
This communication link known as a brain-machine interface and a new algorithm developed in #UofT Prof. Brokoslaw Laschowski’s lab could soon make these interfaces more accurate and efficient. bit.ly/4qnMdDZ
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Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Inspiring talk by theoretical neuroscientist Dr. Chris Eliasmith at the Fields Institute on building large-scale computational models of the brain.
#neuroAI #compneuro
#neuroAI #compneuro
October 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Inspiring talk by theoretical neuroscientist Dr. Chris Eliasmith at the Fields Institute on building large-scale computational models of the brain.
#neuroAI #compneuro
#neuroAI #compneuro
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A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪
October 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A glimpse at what #NeuroAI brain models might enable: a topographic vision model predicts stimulation patterns that steer complex object recognition behavior in primates. This could be a key 'software' component for visual prosthetic hardware 🧠🤖🧪
Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
October 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Imagine a brain decoding algorithm that could generalize across different subjects and tasks. Today, we’re one step closer to achieving that vision.
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
Introducing the flagship paper of our brain decoding program: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroAI #compneuro @utoronto.ca @uhn.ca
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A nice application of our NeuroAI Turing Test! Check out
@ithobani.bsky.social's thread for more details on comparing brains to machines!
@ithobani.bsky.social's thread for more details on comparing brains to machines!
1/X Our new method, the Inter-Animal Transform Class (IATC), is a principled way to compare neural network models to the brain. It's the first to ensure both accurate brain activity predictions and specific identification of neural mechanisms.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02523
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02523
October 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A nice application of our NeuroAI Turing Test! Check out
@ithobani.bsky.social's thread for more details on comparing brains to machines!
@ithobani.bsky.social's thread for more details on comparing brains to machines!
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I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597
October 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597
The brain isn’t tabula rasa. Evolution has encoded strong inductive priors in our neural architectures and plasticity rules, providing structured initialization that enables efficient reinforcement learning and optimization.
#neuroAI #compneuro m.youtube.com/watch?v=21EY...
#neuroAI #compneuro m.youtube.com/watch?v=21EY...
Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
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October 2, 2025 at 1:29 AM
The brain isn’t tabula rasa. Evolution has encoded strong inductive priors in our neural architectures and plasticity rules, providing structured initialization that enables efficient reinforcement learning and optimization.
#neuroAI #compneuro m.youtube.com/watch?v=21EY...
#neuroAI #compneuro m.youtube.com/watch?v=21EY...
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Inferring learning rules during de novo task learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679295v1
September 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Inferring learning rules during de novo task learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679295v1
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Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
Faculty Position in Neuroscience
The School of Life Sciences at EPFL invites applications for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor position in Neuroscience. At EPFL researchers develop and apply innovative technologies to understand br...
www.epfl.ch
September 29, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Come be our colleague at EPFL! Several open calls for positions 🧪🧠🤖
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Neuroscience www.epfl.ch/about/workin... (deadline Oct 1)
* Life Science Engineering www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* CS general call www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
* Learning Sciences www.epfl.ch/about/workin...
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1/6 Recent discussions (e.g. Rich Sutton on @dwarkesh.bsky.social’s podcast) have highlighted why animals are a better target for intelligence — and why scaling alone isn’t enough.
In my recent @cmurobotics.bsky.social seminar talk, “Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence”,
In my recent @cmurobotics.bsky.social seminar talk, “Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence”,
September 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
1/6 Recent discussions (e.g. Rich Sutton on @dwarkesh.bsky.social’s podcast) have highlighted why animals are a better target for intelligence — and why scaling alone isn’t enough.
In my recent @cmurobotics.bsky.social seminar talk, “Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence”,
In my recent @cmurobotics.bsky.social seminar talk, “Using Embodied Agents to Reverse-Engineer Natural Intelligence”,
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Our lab director Dr. Laschowski sat down with UofT neuroscience students to discuss brain science, AI, and machine learning www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3wJ...
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca @uoft.bsky.social @drlaschowski.bsky.social #neuroAI
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca @uoft.bsky.social @drlaschowski.bsky.social #neuroAI
NeuroAI and the Brain-Machine Interaction with Dr. Brokoslaw Laschowski - NeurON Air #2
YouTube video by NeurotechUofT
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May 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Our lab director Dr. Laschowski sat down with UofT neuroscience students to discuss brain science, AI, and machine learning www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3wJ...
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca @uoft.bsky.social @drlaschowski.bsky.social #neuroAI
@uhnresearch.ca @uhn.ca @uoft.bsky.social @drlaschowski.bsky.social #neuroAI
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Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience?
Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are open!
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme
Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are open!
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Interested in a #PhD in machine learning & theoretical neuroscience?
Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are open!
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme
Applications for 2026 entry to the Gatsby Unit PhD programme are open!
💰 Fully-funded 4-year programme
🤝 Close links to @sainsburywellcome.bsky.social
ℹ️ www.ucl.ac.uk/life-sciences/gatsby/study-and-work/gatsby-unit-phd-programme
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Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
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September 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
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But models can readily use latent information in their context. We therefore suggest that natural intelligence solves the latent learning problem via the complementary strengths of episodic memory: reinstating experiences into context makes latent information accessible. 4/
September 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
But models can readily use latent information in their context. We therefore suggest that natural intelligence solves the latent learning problem via the complementary strengths of episodic memory: reinstating experiences into context makes latent information accessible. 4/
It was an honour to give the grand rounds talk this morning in the Department of Surgery at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal.
Thank you for the invitation. #neuroAI #compneuro
Thank you for the invitation. #neuroAI #compneuro
September 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It was an honour to give the grand rounds talk this morning in the Department of Surgery at CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal.
Thank you for the invitation. #neuroAI #compneuro
Thank you for the invitation. #neuroAI #compneuro