arXiv:2609.31204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent fMRI foundation models differ substantially in the spatial scale at which they represent brain activity. ROI- and connectivity-based models ar...
arXiv:2606. 04772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding the relationship between deep visual representations and the human visual system is a fundamental challenge in computational neuroscience.
arXiv:2606. 00121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstructing visual stimuli from brain recordings has been a meaningful and challenging task in brain decoding.
Understanding the relationship between deep visual representations and the human visual system is a fundamental challenge in computational neuroscience. While modern vision models achieve strong performance in image recognition, their correspondence with the hierarchical organization of the human visual cortex remains an open question.
NEvo is a neural‑guided evolutionary video synthesis framework that generates dynamic stimuli optimized for specific brain regions in the visual cortex. It performs evolutionary search over a structured prompt space, guided by a dynamic encoding model that predicts voxel‑level responses to video inputs, thereby discovering hyper‑activating videos that outperform handcrafted localizers. The synthesized videos recover known selectivities across ventral, dorsal, and lateral pathways and reveal systematic differences in sensitivity to temporal dynamics, offering new insights into the progression of social‑dynamic features along the lateral stream.
arXiv:2503. 13212v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Alignment between human brain networks and artificial models has become an active research area in vision science and machine learning.
The human brain processes dynamic visual input through hierarchically organized, functionally specialized regions. While recent in silico brain encoding models can synthesize optimal stimuli to probe selectivity in different brain regions, prior work has been largely limited to static images, leaving dynamic visual processing underexplored.
The study investigates whether sensory-aligned receptive fields provide computational benefits beyond mere resource efficiency in recurrent networks of Expressive Leaky Memory neurons. Across auditory and event-based visual classification tasks, receptive fields aligned with task-relevant sensory coordinates improve test accuracy compared to budget-matched random fields, but this advantage disappears when coordinates are scrambled or irrelevant. The benefit diminishes as neuronal expressivity increases, and generic synaptic sparsity regularization only partially recovers performance, indicating that structured receptive fields act as a computational prior beyond sparsity alone.
arXiv:2609.27729v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In neuropsychiatry, the primary goal is often not only to decode brain activity but to change it, for example to lessen a negative affective bias or...
arXiv:2609.36366v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding how the brain parses actions and events from time-varying natural inputs is a central challenge in neuroscience. Recent work has used d...
arXiv:2607. 15693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We describe a model of perceptual inference in primary visual cortex (V1) equivalent to a minimal diffusion model whose function can be readily understood from its parameters.
arXiv:2609.24136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Brain-to-image retrieval seeks to identify the visual stimulus that elicited a non-invasive neural response. Candidate images are typically represented...