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5 papers

cs.CL2026

Independent-Component-Based Encoding Models of Brain Activity During Story Comprehension

Kamya Hari, Taha Binhuraib, Jin Li +2

Encoding models provide a powerful framework for linking continuous stimulus features to neural activity; however, traditional voxelwise approaches are limited by measurement noise…

cs.CL2026

LITcoder: A General-Purpose Library for Building and Comparing Encoding Models

Taha Binhuraib, Ruimin Gao, Anna A. Ivanova

We introduce LITcoder, an open-source library for building and benchmarking neural encoding models. Designed as a flexible backend, LITcoder provides standardized tools for alignin…

cs.CL2025

Topoformer: brain-like topographic organization in Transformer language models through spatial querying and reweighting

Taha Binhuraib, Greta Tuckute, Nicholas Blauch

Spatial functional organization is a hallmark of biological brains: neurons are arranged topographically according to their response properties, at multiple scales. In contrast, re…

cs.CL2025

From Language to Cognition: How LLMs Outgrow the Human Language Network

Badr AlKhamissi, Greta Tuckute, Yingtian Tang +3

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable similarity to neural activity in the human language network. However, the key properties of language shaping brain-like representati…

cs.CL2025

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…