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5 papers

q-bio.NC2026

Overcoming Output Dimension Collapse: When Sparsity Enables Zero-shot Brain-to-Image Reconstruction at Small Data Scales

Kenya Otsuka, Yoshihiro Nagano, Yukiyasu Kamitani

Advances in brain-to-image reconstruction are enabling us to externalize the subjective visual experiences encoded in the brain as images. A key challenge in this task is data scar…

q-bio.NC2025

Advancing credibility and transparency in brain-to-image reconstruction research: Reanalysis of Koide-Majima, Nishimoto, and Majima (Neural Networks, 2024)

Ken Shirakawa, Yoshihiro Nagano, Misato Tanaka +2

A recent high-profile study by Koide-Majima et al. (2024) claimed a major advance in reconstructing visual imagery from brain activity using a novel variant of a generative AI-base…

q-bio.NC2025

Readout Representation: Redefining Neural Codes by Input Recovery

Shunsuke Onoo, Yoshihiro Nagano, Yukiyasu Kamitani

Sensory representation is typically understood through a hierarchical-causal framework where progressively abstract features are extracted sequentially. However, this causal view f…

q-bio.NC2025

Spurious reconstruction from brain activity

Ken Shirakawa, Yoshihiro Nagano, Misato Tanaka +4

Advances in brain decoding, particularly visual image reconstruction, have sparked discussions about the societal implications and ethical considerations of neurotechnology. As the…

q-bio.NC2025

Exploring internal representation of self-supervised networks: few-shot learning abilities and comparison with human semantics and recognition of objects

Asaki Kataoka, Yoshihiro Nagano, Masafumi Oizumi

Recent advances in self-supervised learning have attracted significant attention from both machine learning and neuroscience. This is primarily because self-supervised methods do n…