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Algonauts 2025 Challenge
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The Algonauts Project 2025 Challenge:
How the Human Brain Makes Sense of Multimodal Movies

The 2025 challenge edition focuses on explaining responses in the human brain as participants perceive complex multimodal movies. Through collaboration with the Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling (CNeuroMod), the challenge runs on the largest human brain dataset available, opening new venues for accurate models of neural responses to multimodal naturalistic stimulation. To promote more robust models of the brain, the 2025 challenge features a selection process based on out-of-distribution generalization. The challenge is organized in partnership with the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN).

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Past Challenges

Algonauts 2023 Challenge

The Algonauts Project 2023 Challenge: How the Human Brain Makes Sense of Natural Scenes

The 2023 challenge edition focuses on explaining responses in the human brain as participants perceive complex natural visual scenes. Through collaboration with the Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD) team, this challenge runs on the largest suitable brain dataset available, opening new venues for data-hungry modeling. The challenge is organized in partnership with the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN)

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Algonauts 2021 Challenge>

The Algonauts Project 2021 Challenge: How the Human Brain Makes Sense of a World in Motion

The 2021 challenge edition was centered around video perception and event understanding. The challenge focused on explaining responses in the human brain as subjects watched short video clips of everyday events.

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Algonauts 2019 Challenge

The Algonauts Project 2019 Challenge: Explaining the Human Visual Brain

The first challenge edition focused on explaining brain responses as human subjects studied still images of everyday objects.

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