<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5b39b439-7fff-c9fc-c67a-839a400185b1"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We announce the 2023 challenge sponsored by </span><a href="http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How the Human Brain Makes Sense of Natural Scenes.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> We invite you to join us in a competition to develop the best computer model of how the human brain responds to natural scenes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ca14160f-7fff-ca2c-ef99-df486c3d2eec"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participants whose models most closely match recorded brain data (top 3) will receive monetary prizes and be invited to present their work on Aug. 24th at this year’s </span><a href="https://ccneuro.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN).</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission deadline: July 26, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Algonauts Project: </span><a href="http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,115,232);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">How the Human Brain Makes Sense of Natural Scenes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aug. 24, 2023</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizers will summarize the outcome and provide hands-on tutorials.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Challenge winners are invited to present the results of their work.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Panel discussion about challenges in NeuroAI.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to seeing you at the workshop in August, and we hope you will consider joining the challenge!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best wishes,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Algonauts Project Team</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b style="font-weight:normal"><br><br></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><i>Algonauts 2023 Project Team:</i></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Radoslaw Cichy, Freie Universität Berlin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kendrick Kay, University of Minnesota</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Aude Oliva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gemma Roig, Goethe University Frankfurt</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alessandro Gifford, Freie Universität Berlin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Benjamin Lahner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alex Lascelles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sari Saba-Sadiya, Goethe University Frankfurt & FIAS</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Martina Vilas, Goethe University Frankfurt & ESI</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-left:10pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>