3 papers
q-bio.NC2026
Animal behavioral analysis and neural encoding with transformer-based self-supervised pretraining
Yanchen Wang, Han Yu, Ari Blau +5
The brain can only be fully understood through the lens of the behavior it generates -- a guiding principle in modern neuroscience research that nevertheless presents significant t…
q-bio.NC2026
Neuro-Symbolic Decoding of Neural Activity
Yanchen Wang, Joy Hsu, Ehsan Adeli +1
We propose NEURONA, a neuro-symbolic framework for fMRI decoding and concept grounding in neural activity. Leveraging image- and video-based fMRI question-answering datasets, NEURO…
q-bio.NC2025
Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale
Yizi Zhang, Yanchen Wang, Mehdi Azabou +7
Recent work has demonstrated that large-scale, multi-animal models are powerful tools for characterizing the relationship between neural activity and behavior. Current large-scale…