12 papers
Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model
Badr AlKhamissi, Johannes Mehrer, Lara Marinov +3
Nearby neurons in cortex share similar response profiles, producing systematic spatial organization across sensory and cognitive systems. Recent topographic models reproduce aspect…
MIRAGE: Adaptive Multimodal Gating for Whole-Brain fMRI Encoding
Abdulkadir Gokce, Badr AlKhamissi, Martin Schrimpf
Recent progress in task-optimized neural networks has established encoding models as a powerful tool for predicting brain responses to naturalistic stimuli, yet most existing appro…
Mixture of Cognitive Reasoners: Modular Reasoning with Brain-Like Specialization
Badr AlKhamissi, C. Nicolò De Sabbata, Greta Tuckute +3
Human cognitive behavior arises from the interaction of specialized brain networks dedicated to distinct functions, such as language, logic, and social reasoning. Inspired by this…
Large Language Models Align with the Human Brain during Creative Thinking
Mete Ismayilzada, Simone A. Luchini, Abdulkadir Gokce +5
Creative thinking is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, and divergent thinking-the capacity to generate novel and varied ideas-is widely regarded as its core generative engin…
Inducing Dyslexia in Vision Language Models
Melika Honarmand, Ayati Sharma, Badr AlKhamissi +2
Dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent reading difficulties, is often linked to reduced activity of the visual word form area (VWFA) in the ventral occ…
Apertus: Democratizing Open and Compliant LLMs for Global Language Environments
Project Apertus, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Alexander Hägele +100
We present Apertus, a fully open suite of large language models (LLMs) designed to address two systemic shortcomings in today's open model ecosystem: data compliance and multilingu…