Tim Kietzmann

Years in the making: 304 papers cited in a huge effort to characterise this emerging field that we hold dearly. Read this paper to find out what we are doing, why and how, and why we think that ANNs are a central tool for understand brain computations. #neuroconnectionism

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @lu_zejin @martisamuser and Radoslaw Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

#AI and #computervision folks: this will be interesting to you! Robust visual inference beyond scale, but achieved by taking inspiration from how infant vision develops. Shown to work across many architectures and comes with a neat preprocessing pipeline that you can use.

In this study, Lu et al. introduce All-Topographic Neural Networks (All-TNN) as a parsimonious model of the human visual cortex. nature.com/articles/s4156…

How can we build neural networks that develop the same topographic organization as primate visual cortex and better predict human spatial visual behavior?@NatureHumBehav "End-to-end topographic networks as models of cortical map formation and human visual behaviour" • The…

Introducing All-TNNs: Topographic deep neural networks that exhibit ventral-stream-like feature tuning and a better match to human behaviour than the gold standard. Now out in Nature Human Behaviour. 👇

Come to our CCN workshop! Blending iophysical constraints and neural networks. Topographical ANNs + and much more. @meenakshik93 @talia_konkle @PouyaBashivan @nmblauch @TimKietzmann @GwilliamsL @apurvaratan @jakhmack @Pieters_Tweet @martin_schrimpf Andrew Miri Nabil Imam

Announcement: Workshop at #CCN2025 🧠 Modeling the Physical Brain: Spatial Organization & Biophysical Constraints 🗓️ Monday, Aug 11 | 🕦 11:30–18:00 CET |📍 Room A2.07 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/CCN-physical-b… #NeuroAI @CogCompNeuro

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I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/articl….