arXiv:2604. 09229v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: von Economo neurons (VENs) are large bipolar projection neurons found exclusively in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and frontal insula of species with complex social cognition, including humans, great apes, cetaceans, and elephants.
arXiv:2609.01170v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models exhibit a modular internal organization that mirrors well-studied functional networks of the human brain, but how this organizati...
arXiv:2507. 05888v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vernon Mountcastle hypothesized that the basis for intelligence in mammals is the replication of a general computational unit, the cortical column.
arXiv:2604. 16875v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: CORRECTION (August 2026): an evaluation-mode defect affected the predictive-coding and STDP conditions of this study; those results should not be used pending re-computation.
arXiv:2508. 08289v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Attention is widely understood as an associative memory, but that description alone does not predict how the memory will behave.
arXiv:2607. 11958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under the free energy principle, a predictive system does not observe reality directly; it maintains a generative model of the world and experiences that model's best current hypothesis.
arXiv:2604. 23878v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: ZenBrain is a seven-layer, neuroscience-derived memory architecture for LLM agents that unifies fifteen mechanisms - from Two-Factor synaptic consolidation to a Simulation-Selection sleep loop - under a single MemoryCoordinator: nine foundational algorithms plus six Predictive Memory Architecture components.
The paper investigates how language models can covertly encode a hidden trait—termed subliminal learning—through seemingly unrelated outputs. By systematically measuring output co‑variation, fixed output‑vector alignment, hidden‑state readability, and causal control across a range of model sizes and prompting protocols, the authors find that fixed geometry and observational readability do not reliably predict behavior, while causal timing and multi‑token measurements reveal stronger, concept‑wide effects. These distinct properties highlight that token‑level explanations are insufficient to pinpoint the mechanism behind training‑time trait transfer.
arXiv:2603.15412v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The mammalian brain, most extensively studied in rodents and bats, solves an enormous variety of non-spatial cognitive tasks using neural circuitry...
arXiv:2607. 16292v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Brain-encoding foundation models predict fMRI responses to video, audio, and text well enough to win the Algonauts 2025 challenge.
arXiv:2606. 09902v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reservoir computing exploits the fixed dynamics of a recurrent network for temporal processing, requiring only a trained linear readout.
arXiv:2609.24379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic interpretability of vision transformers seeks to decompose model computation into human-readable units, but learned representations entan...
The paper investigates how multi‑neuromodulatory dynamics—driven by dopamine, acetylcholine, serotonin, and noradrenaline—can improve artificial neural networks’ continuous adaptive learning and mitigate catastrophic forgetting. It demonstrates that neuromodulators interact across multiple spatial and temporal scales, creating a complex many‑to‑many mapping between neuromodulators and tasks. The authors propose neuromodulation‑aware learning rules, architectural formulations, and a conceptual Go/No‑Go study to illustrate how biologically inspired mechanisms can enhance ANN robustness and adaptability.