A really neat work on how representations evolve over time in DNNs

I believe a lot of value will come out of this undertaking by @dyamins.bsky.social substack.com/@danyamins/n...

Prolonged development of tonotopic tuning in human auditory cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.20.719686v1

Children exhibit visual understanding from limited experience, orders of magnitude less than our best models. We introduce the Zero-shot World Model (ZWM). Trained on a single child's visual experience, BabyZWM rapidly generates competence across diverse benchmarks with no task-specific training. 🧵

A retinotopic wiring principle of the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716412v1

Self-supervised learning yields representational signatures of category-selective cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.09.704031v1

Geometric constraints in the development of primate extrastriate visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.703881v1

Efficient task generalization and humanlike face perception in models that learn to discriminate face geometry https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703048v1

Early face deprivation leads to long-lasting deficits in cortical face processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.04.703627v1

Retinal waves shape starburst amacrine cell dendrite development through a direction-selective dendritic computation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.701812v1

Human cortical networks trade communication efficiency for computational reliability. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693716v1

Functional architecture for speed tuning in primary visual cortex of carnivores https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.04.686504v1

A semantotopic map in human hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685959v1

Re-emergence of orientation coding in primate IT cortex and deep networks reveals functional hubs for visual processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.23.684240v1

Representations in the hippocampal-entorhinal system emerge from learning sensory predictions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680189v1

Very exciting preprint from Dan Yamins' NeuroAI lab, proposing Probabilistic Structure Integration (PSI), a way to bootstrap from pixels to higher-level visual abstractions through a kind of visual prompting. One of the deepest and most original ideas I've read in a while. arxiv.org/abs/2509.09737

I've been arguing that #NeuroAI should model the brain in health *and* in disease -- very excited to share a first step from Melika Honarmand: inducing dyslexia in vision-language-models via targeted perturbations of visual-word-form units (analogous to human VWFA) 🧠🤖🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.24597

Haider Al-Tahan, Mayukh Deb, Jenelle Feather, N. Apurva Ratan Murty: End-to-end Topographic Auditory Models Replicate Signatures of Human Auditory Cortex https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24039 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24039 https://arxiv.org/html/2509.24039

Metabolic organization of macaque visual cortex reflects retinotopic eccentricity and category selectivity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.27.678945v1

Functional organization of the human visual system at birth and across late gestation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.22.677834v1

Unfolding spatiotemporal representations of 3D visual perception in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.03.668371v1

Visual Word Form Area demonstrates individual and task-agnostic consistency but inter-individual variability https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.23.666206v1

Many-Two-One: Diverse Representations Across Visual Pathways Emerge from A Single Objective https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.664908v1

I am excited to share that my work on "Confounder-Free Continual Learning via Recursive Feature Normalization" has been accepted at ICML 2025! Very grateful to @camgonza.bsky.social , @mhabbasi.bsky.social , @qingyuz.bsky.social, Kilian Pohl, and @eadeli.bsky.social for always supporting me. [1/n]

Retinal waves reveal axial biases in modular patterns of cortical activity that predict future orientation preferences https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.09.663735v1

Visual processing of manipulable objects in the ventral stream is modulated by inputs from parietal action systems https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.01.657280v1

Announcement: Workshop at #CCN2025 🧠 Modeling the Physical Brain: Spatial Organization & Biophysical Constraints 🗓️ Monday, Aug 11 | 🕦 11:30–18:00 CET | 📍 Room A2.07 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/CCN-physical... #NeuroAI @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

A two-dimensional space of linguistic representations shared across individuals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.21.655330v1

Wanhee Lee, Klemen Kotar, Rahul Mysore Venkatesh, Jared Watrous, Honglin Chen, Khai Loong Aw, Daniel L. K. Yamins 3D Scene Understanding Through Local Random Access Sequence Modeling https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03875