5 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…
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…
Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior
Johannes Mehrer, Ben Lonnqvist, Anna Mitola +3
Brain stimulation is a powerful tool for understanding cortical function and holds promise for therapeutic interventions in neuropsychiatric disorders. Initial visual prosthetics a…
TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
Neil Rathi, Johannes Mehrer, Badr AlKhamissi +3
Neurons in the brain are spatially organized such that neighbors on tissue often exhibit similar response profiles. In the human language system, experimental studies have observed…
Dreaming Out Loud: A Self-Synthesis Approach For Training Vision-Language Models With Developmentally Plausible Data
Badr AlKhamissi, Yingtian Tang, Abdülkadir Gökce +2
While today's large language models exhibit impressive abilities in generating human-like text, they require massive amounts of data during training. We here take inspiration from…