Curiosity and the Development of the Hidden Foundations of Cognition

Project Information

FOUNDCOG

Grant agreement ID: 787981

DOI

10.3030/787981

Project closed

EC signature date 24 September 2018

Start date 1 January 2019

End date 30 June 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN
Ireland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (18)

Editorial: Empirical Research at a Distance: New Methods for Developmental Science

Author(s): Sho Tsuji, Dima Amso, Rhodri Cusack, Natasha Kirkham, Lisa M. Oakes
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.938995

The limitations of automatically generated curricula for continual learning

Author(s): Anna Kravchenko, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) e0290706, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290706

Naturalistic Audio-Movies and Narrative Synchronize “Visual” Cortices across Congenitally Blind But Not Sighted Individuals

Author(s): Rita E. Loiotile, Rhodri Cusack, Marina Bedny
Published in: The Journal of Neuroscience, Issue 39, 2023, Page(s) 8940-8948, ISSN 0270-6474
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0298-19.2019

A Global Perspective on Testing Infants Online: Introducing ManyBabies-AtHome.

Author(s): Lorijn Zaadnoordijk; Helen Buckler; Rhodri Cusack; Sho Tsuji; Christina Bergmann
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.703234

Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience

Author(s): Tim Bayne, Joel Frohlich, Rhodri Cusack, Julia Moser, Lorina Naci
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 27, 2023, Page(s) 1135-1149, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.018

Anatomical correlates of category-selective visual regions have distinctive signatures of connectivity in neonates

Author(s): Laura Cabral, Leire Zubiaurre-Elorza, Conor J. Wild, Annika Linke, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 58, 2022, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101179

Exploration of factors affecting webcam-based automated gaze coding

Author(s): Hiromichi Hagihara, Lorijn Zaadnoordijk, Rhodri Cusack, Nanako Kimura, Sho Tsuji
Published in: Behavior Research Methods, Issue 56, 2024, Page(s) 7374-7390, ISSN 1554-3528
Publisher: Psychonomic Society
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-024-02424-1

Typical and disrupted brain circuitry for conscious awareness in full-term and preterm infants

Author(s): Huiqing Hu, Rhodri Cusack, Lorina Naci
Published in: Brain Communications, Issue 4(2), 2022, ISSN 2632-1297
Publisher: Oxford Academic
DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcac071

Lessons from infant learning for unsupervised machine learning

Author(s): Lorijn Zaadnoordijk, Tarek R. Besold, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: Nature Machine Intelligence, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 510-520, ISSN 2522-5839
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s42256-022-00488-2

Auditory areas are recruited for naturalistic visual meaning in early deaf people

Author(s): Maria Zimmermann, Rhodri Cusack, Marina Bedny, Marcin Szwed
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52383-6

The development of intrinsic timescales: A comparison between the neonate and adult brain

Author(s): Anna Truzzi, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 275, 2023, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120155

Visual experience shapes functional connectivity between occipital and non-visual networks

Author(s): Mengyu Tian, Xiang Xiao, Huiqing Hu, Rhodri Cusack, Marina Bedny
Published in: eLife, 2024, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.93067.1

Responsiveness variability during anaesthesia relates to inherent differences in brain structure and function of the frontoparietal networks

Author(s): Feng Deng, Nicola Taylor, Adrian M. Owen, Rhodri Cusack, Lorina Naci
Published in: Human Brain Mapping, Issue 44(6), 2023, ISSN 1065-9471
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.26199

Infants Have Rich Visual Categories in Ventrotemporal Cortex at 2 Months Old

Author(s): Cliona O’Doherty, Áine T. Dineen, Anna Truzzi, Graham King, Lorijn Zaadnoordijk, Keelin Harrison, Enna-Louise D’Arcy, Jessica White, Chiara Caldinelli, Tamrin Holloway, Anna Kravchenko, Joern Diedrichsen, Ailbhe Tarrant, Angela T. Byrne, Adrienne Foran, Eleanor J. Molloy, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: Nature Neuroscience, 2025, ISSN 1097-6256
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group

The confound of head position in within-session connectome fingerprinting in infants

Author(s): Graham King; Anna Truzzi; Rhodri Cusack
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 119808, ISSN 1095-9572
Publisher: Elsevier Inc
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119808

Helpless infants are learning a foundation model

Author(s): Rhodri Cusack, Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Christine J. Charvet
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 726-738, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2024.05.001

Defending the foundation model view of infant development

Author(s): Rhodri Cusack, Cliona O’Doherty, Christine J. Charvet, Marc’Aurelio Ranzato
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 29, 2025, Page(s) 589-590, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.05.007

Naturalistic stimuli reveal a sensitive period in cross modal responses of visual cortex: Evidence from adult-onset blindness

Author(s): Elizabeth Musz, Rita Loiotile, Janice Chen, Rhodri Cusack, Marina Bedny
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 172, 2023, Page(s) 108277, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108277

Conference proceedings (3)

SemanticCMC - improved semantic self-supervised learning with naturalistic temporal co-occurrences

Author(s): Cliona O'Doherty, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: Workshop: Self-supervised learning: theory and practice,, 2020
Publisher: NeurIPS

Understanding CNNs as a model of the inferior temporal cortex: using mediation analysis to unpack the contribution of perceptual and semantic features in random and trained networks

Author(s): Anna Truzzi, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: 2020
Publisher: NeurIPS

Convolutional Neural Networks as a Model of Visual Activity in The Brain: Greater Contribution of Architecture Than Learned Weights

Author(s): Anna Truzzi, Rhodri Cusack
Published in: Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS) Workshop, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2020
Publisher: International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)