<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-6e9816a0-7fff-bdc5-62fe-ff083839cd1d" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear colleagues,</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: 10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We are pleased to announce a new challenge sponsored by </span><a href="http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Algonauts Project</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">How the Human Brain Makes Sense of a World in Motion.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> We invite you to join us in a competition to develop the best computer model of how the human brain perceives videos of everyday events. Participants who come up with a model that most closely matches recorded brain data will be invited to present their work at a virtual workshop on Sept. 7, 2021 at this year’s </span><a href="https://ccneuro.org/2021/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">).</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: 10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Submission deadline: Aug. 15, 2021.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Algonauts Project: </span><a href="http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(26, 115, 232); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/</span></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: 10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">CCN Workshop: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">How the Human Brain Makes Sense of a World in Motion</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Sept. 7, 2021</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Organizers will summarize the outcome and provide hands-on tutorials.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Challenge winners will present the results of their work.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We look forward to seeing you at the workshop in September, and we hope you will consider joining the challenge!</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left: 10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Best wishes,</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Algonauts Project Team</span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Algonauts 2021 Project Team:</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Radoslaw Cichy, Freie Universität Berlin</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Gemma Roig, Goethe University Frankfurt</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Alex Andonian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Kshitij Dwivedi, Goethe University Frankfurt</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Monika Graumann, Freie Universität Berlin</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Polina Iamshchinina, Freie Universität Berlin</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Kendrick Kay, University of Minnesota</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Benjamin Lahner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Alex Lascelles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 10pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">N Ratan Murty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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