Rob Mok
@Rob_Mok
Computational Cognitive Neuroscientist at CiNet & Osaka University. Category learning to concepts, ageing in models & brains.
Check our latest preprint! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… We present the first population-specific brain charts for China, developed through the Chinese Lifespan Brain Mapping Consortium (Phase I) using high-quality MRI data from 43,037 participants (aged 0-100 years,384 sites). (1/6)
NSD has profoundly shaped vision science. Inspired by it, we combined fMRI and Neuropixels to build a macaque dataset with 1,000 natural images. We’re excited to share Triple-N and welcome feedback from the community!
(1/6) Thrilled to share our triple-N dataset (Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes)! It captures thousands of high-level visual neuron responses in macaques to natural scenes using #Neuropixels. Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
🚀 New Open-Source Release! PyTorchTNN 🚀 A PyTorch package for building biologically-plausible temporal neural networks (TNNs)—unrolling neural network computation layer-by-layer through time, inspired by cortical processing. PyTorchTNN naturally integrates into the…
JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! 1/
Our new study in @NatComputSci, led by Haibao Wang, presents a neural code converter aligning brain activity across individuals & scanners without shared stimuli by minimizing content loss, paving the way for scalable decoding and cross-site data analysis. nature.com/articles/s4358…
New paper out with LaurenWilliams, @timothyfbrady, and @violastoermer in JEP: G "Limits of verbal labels in cognition: Category labels do not improve visual working memory performance for obfuscated objects" psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-34…
Excited to announce that this paper is now out in @ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
What do artificial and biological vision have in common? Shared architectures? Shared task objectives? In this preprint, we suggest a more general explanation: they share universal dimensions of natural image representation.
✅ Our Version of Record (or what will become it) is now up on @eLife :) We've now added several supporting analyses since the first version. Thanks to the reviewers for their constructive critiques 🤝 More work along this line to come soon... 👀 elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…
To my surprise, our Nature Reviews Neuroscience review on the Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Inhibitory Control of Thought has landed on the cover! Cover art below! For an "explainer thread", see our earlier tweet. @mrccbu #memory #ptsd x.com/Memory_Control…
How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with S. Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia integrating 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this function. @mrccbu nature.com/articles/s4158… #memory #ptsd @PsychToday @Psychonomic_Soc…
New blog w @ken_lxl, “Giving LLMs too much RoPE: A limit on Sutton’s Bitter Lesson”. The field has shifted from flexible data-driven position representations to fixed approaches following human intuitions. Here’s why and what it means for model performance bradlove.org/blog/position-…
Now out in Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav: “End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour”. Please check our NHB link: nature.com/articles/s4156…
Dear MAGA friends, I have been worrying about STEM in the US a lot, because right now the Senate is writing new laws that cut 75% of the STEM budget in the US. Sorry for the long post, but the issue is really important, and I want to share what I know about it. The entire…
Our new discovery reveals how anesthesia causes unconsciousness. This advances our understanding of consciousness and can help make anesthesia safer.
A new study by @MillerLabMIT finds that an easily measurable shift of brainwave phase may be a universal marker of unconsciousness under anesthesia picower.mit.edu/news/different… #neuroscience #anesthesia #consciousness @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT
A nice first day. Excited to start at the great CiNet @cinet_info! Looking forward to meeting everybody and to start building the lab!

