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20242026
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7 papers

q-bio.NC2026

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…

cs.LG2026

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…

q-bio.NC2026

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…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Laws for Task-Optimized Models of the Primate Visual Ventral Stream

Abdulkadir Gokce, Martin Schrimpf

When trained on large-scale object classification datasets, certain artificial neural network models begin to approximate core object recognition behaviors and neural response patt…

q-bio.NC2025

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…

cs.CV2025

Contour Integration Underlies Human-Like Vision

Ben Lonnqvist, Elsa Scialom, Abdulkadir Gokce +3

Despite the tremendous success of deep learning in computer vision, models still fall behind humans in generalizing to new input distributions. Existing benchmarks do not investiga…