Generative Adversarial Collaborations

A part of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference series!

About the CCN GAC Project

What are the most exciting challenges and controversies in cognitive computational neuroscience right now? How can we form feasible plans to solve them collaboratively? As part of the 2024 CCN Program, the CCN Program Committee is organizing the fifth installment of our innovative event type: the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs). The goal of a CCN GAC is to identify, debate, and make concrete plans to address the most challenging, controversial, and exciting theoretical and empirical debates in our field. Check out the proposals, workshops recordings, and position papers of our previous 15 GACs from 2020-2023.

We highly encourage the CCN community to actively engage in the CCN GAC online discussions throughout the summer preceding the CCN annual meeting, the in-person GAC workshops as part of the CCN annual meeting in August, and the ensuing GAC publications and solicited commentaries.

Selected CCN GAC proposals will participate in the following:

Learn more about how to submit a GAC proposal.

Read more about the GAC process in our new preprint "Generative Adversarial Collaborations: A practical guide for conference organizers and participating scientists", summarizing the GAC experience and lessons learned from the perspective of organizers and participating teams.

CCN GACs are organized by the CCN Program Committee - GAC subgroup: Gunnar Blohm, Benjamin Peters, and Megan Peters. Email questions to gac@ccneuro.org.