Our latest paper has been published in Imaging Neuroscience! We used fNIRS to study the development of social perception during the first 5 years of life 👶🧠
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Johann Benerradi, Sarah Lloyd-Fox, et al:
Functional specialisation across the first five years of life: A longitudinal characterisation of social perception with fNIRS
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG.a.1368
What we've been up to lately. More to come!
We’re grateful to the fNIRS community for sharing raw data so we wanted to give back! 🙏
We did the heavy lifting on processing so you can focus on ML.
Introducing FineKyber:
🧠 3M+ standardised fNIRS samples
👥 517 subjects
🏷️ Signal quality annotations
huggingface.co/datasets/neur…
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Thrilled to share our new paper "How to design real-world functional near-infrared spectroscopy studies: a primer" for anyone interested in using fNIRS in naturalistic research! spiedigitallibrary.org/journ…
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🏨Book your accommodations before August 17 to enjoy exclusive hotel discounts we have secured for #fnirsUK participants !
Find all the details at the link below :
🔗fnirsuk.gitlab.io/venue.html
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🚨 Registration deadline is approaching for #fnirsUK 2025!
⏳ Register by 29th August to join the workshops, conference, and social event on the 18th and 19th September.
🗓️ See the full programme: fnirsuk.gitlab.io/programme.…
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Don’t let this idea - ahem - slip your mind. The deadline for @ieee_smcs' THMS #Brain Discovery & #Neurotechnology Special Issue is Aug 31. Share your research submitted to our upcoming 2025 @IEEEBrain Workshop and help shape #neurotech's future: bit.ly/3G5DpQF
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Deadline for abstract submission is extended!
Great news if you need a few extra days to finish your abstract: the deadline has now been extended to 15th June.
Please find detailed guidelines here: fnirsuk.gitlab.io/abstracts.…
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🔔 Workshop deadline extended to 15th June!
Wanted to propose a workshop but missed the deadline? Good news - the call is still open, and we look forward to hearing your ideas!
Details: fnirsuk.gitlab.io/workshops.…
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👀 Passionate about running educational tutorials or sharing your hands-on experiences?
Good news: Call for workshops is on!
⏰️ Submit your proposal by 18th May 2025 through email: [email protected]
👉 Details here: fnirsuk.gitlab.io/workshops.…
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#BabyLab users are working hard to bring some engaging educational entertainment to you ⚙️🧠👶
For this year's #FamilyWeekend members of our varied research groups will host activities across ✌️ sites!
Come and check us out March 29-30💥
@CMBLab @CFR32 @CommonExpArea #CamFest25 – at Cambridge, England
Find us among the hundreds of events, with talks, family activities and workshops🙌
🍃March, 29-30:
> Old Cavendish, New Museums Site 🏛️
> Main Building, Downing Site 🏢
#psychology #developmental #political #perception #camfest #camfest2025 @CFR32 @CommonExpArea @CamBabylab
⚡️ Happy to announce the Cambridge multimodal imaging neuroscience data hackathon (CamMIND): 28-29th April at West Hub! Combine neuroimaging modalities (EEG, fNIRS, fMRI) and compete for prizes up to £500! More info here: cam-mind.github.io
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We’re happy to announce fNIRS UK 2025 is taking place in Cambridge on the 18th & 19th of September 2025, so please save the date! Submission deadline: 31st May 2025, more information coming soon on the abstract and workshop submission on the website: fnirsuk.gitlab.io
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New 3h31m video on YouTube:
"Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT"
This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full training stack of how the models are developed, along with mental models of how to think about their "psychology", and how to get the best use them in practical applications.
We cover all the major stages:
1. pretraining: data, tokenization, Transformer neural network I/O and internals, inference, GPT-2 training example, Llama 3.1 base inference examples
2. supervised finetuning: conversations data, "LLM Psychology": hallucinations, tool use, knowledge/working memory, knowledge of self, models need tokens to think, spelling, jagged intelligence
3. reinforcement learning: practice makes perfect, DeepSeek-R1, AlphaGo, RLHF.
I designed this video for the "general audience" track of my videos, which I believe are accessible to most people, even without technical background. It should give you an intuitive understanding of the full training pipeline of LLMs like ChatGPT, with many examples along the way, and maybe some ways of thinking around current capabilities, where we are, and what's coming.
(Also, I have one "Intro to LLMs" video already from ~year ago, but that is just a re-recording of a random talk, so I wanted to loop around and do a lot more comprehensive version of this topic. They can still be combined, as the talk goes a lot deeper into other topics, e.g. LLM OS and LLM Security)
Hope it's fun & useful!
youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLP…
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#Babylab users prepared something very special for you this year👀 Come to our new site - Old Cavendish Building, the home of the legendary laboratory that hosted the scientists who uncovered the double helix structure of DNA over 70 years ago!🧬
#psychology #genetics #research
🗓️ A DATE FOR YOUR 2025 DIARY 🗓️
#CamFest will be back in 2025 with an exciting programme of over 350 events open to everyone.
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Truly honored to have contributed to this much-needed work in the field of developmental neuroimaging. Congratulations to the leading authors, and thank you @FIT_NGIn for providing this valuable networking opportunity sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Neurophotonics is launching a special issue on 𝐟𝐍𝐈𝐑𝐒 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡
spiedigitallibrary.org/journ…
Edited by @MeryemAYucel, @avolu_neurotech, Mamadou Diop, Anna Blasi Ribera
Opens for submissions 1 Feb 2025!
#GlobalHealth #Neurophotonics #fNIRS #Neuroimaging
What a nice @fNIRS2024 conference! It was great to see old and new friends!
Great also to have had the chance to share our work and get feedback!
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🔵 Poster about self-supervised learning with fNIRS ➡ docs.google.com/presentation…
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🔵 Workshop about machine learning with fNIRS ➡ docs.google.com/presentation…
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