Mon., October 5 – Wed., October 7, 2026
We plan to bring together expert perspectives from human cognitive neuroscience, animal neuroscience and artificial intelligence from academia and (research-focused) industry in the US, Europe, and Asia. The hope is for some fruitful discussions about how we can understand intelligence and the brain, whether neuroscience can lead to better AI, whether neuroscience should keep using AI models that stray from biology, and related further topics.
Hybrid Event: In-Person and Online
Venue: Conference Room, CiNet Bldg., 1-4 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Program: (Subject to change) Download（PDF）
Abstracts: (Subject to change) Download（PDF）
Speakers: (Listed in alphabetical order)
Kentaro Abe, Tohoku University
Kailash Arulkumaran, Sakana AI
Wilma Bainbridge, University of Chicago
Katharina Dobs, University of Giessen
Kenji Doya, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
John Duncan, University of Cambridge
Benjamin Hayden, Baylor College of Medicine
Llion Jones, Sakana AI
Lis Kanashiro Pereira, CiNet, NICT
Andrew Lampinen, Anthropic
Robert Mok, CiNet, NICT
Ida Momennejad, Microsoft
Shinji Nishimoto, The University of Osaka
Martin Schrimpf, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne
Katherine Storrs, University of Auckland
Taro Toyoizumi, RIKEN Center for Brain Science
Takufumi Yanagisawa, The University of Osaka
Registration:
Note: Poster presentation submissions are also accepted.
Poster presentation:
Apply from the Registration URL above.
You will be requested to enter the title and short abstract.
The application will be closed at 17:00 JST on September 11.
Up to 20 posters per day (up to 60 posters in total) will be selected based on their relevance to the theme of this conference, and selection results will be notified by September 18.
Organizer: Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet),
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
Co-organizer: The University of Osaka
Conference Chair: Robert Mok, CiNet, NICT
Vice-Chair: Shinji Nishimoto, The University of Osaka
Conference Director: Shigeru Kitazawa, CiNet, NICT
Language: English (Machine translation available)
Capacity: In-person 150, on-line 500 ＊Registration will close once capacity is reached.
Inquires: cinet-conf at ml.nict.go.jp (Please replace “at” with “@”.)