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#LaVCa: LLM-assisted visual cortex captioning https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13606 using "large language models (LLMs) to generate natural-language captions for images to which voxels are selective"; to be presented a…

LaVCa: LLM-assisted Visual Cortex Captioning
Understanding the property of neural populations (or voxels) in the human brain can advance our comprehension of human perceptual and cognitive processing capabilities and contribute to developing brain-inspired computer models. Recent encoding models using deep neural networks (DNNs) have successfully predicted voxel-wise activity. However, interpreting the properties that explain voxel responses remains challenging because of the black-box nature of DNNs. As a solution, we propose LLM-assiste…

macaque_neural: Macaque cortical connectivity (Young)
A network of cortical regions in the Macaque cortex.
This network has 47 nodes and 505 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/macaque_neural
Ridiculogram:

macaque_neural: Macaque cortical connectivity (Young)
A network of cortical regions in the Macaque cortex.
This network has 47 nodes and 505 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/macaque_neural
Ridiculogram:

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013714 "revealing a universal high-dimensional spectrum of visual information that emerges despite individual differenc…

Universal scale-free representations in human visual cortex
Author summary The human cerebral cortex is thought to encode sensory information in population activity patterns, but the statistical structure of these population codes has yet to be characterized. By examining large-scale neuroimaging recordings of human vision using a spectral approach more common in physics than neuroscience, we reveal the universal scale-free structure of population codes in visual cortex, which is found in all subjects and at multiple stages of visual processing. Moreove…

macaque_neural: Macaque cortical connectivity (Young)
A network of cortical regions in the Macaque cortex.
This network has 47 nodes and 505 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/macaque_neural
Ridiculogram:

macaque_neural: Macaque cortical connectivity (Young)
A network of cortical regions in the Macaque cortex.
This network has 47 nodes and 505 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/macaque_neural
Ridiculogram:

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space https://news.mit.edu/2026/to-flexibly-organize-thought-the-brain-makes-use-of-space-0120

To flexibly organize thought, the brain makes use of space
MIT researchers tested their theory of spatial computing, which holds that the brain recruits and controls ad hoc groups of neurons for cognitive tasks by applying brain waves to patches of the cortex.

(Flashback, 2012) Real-life science closes in on Star Trek as scientists show they can to hack into blind people's visual cortex to let them 'see' https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar

Real-life science closes in on Star Trek: TNG with new device to hack into blind people's visual cortex to let them 'see'
he Sensory Substitution Device, which uses an algorithm to translate visual data into sound, can actually activate the visual cortices of congenitally blind people, giving them the opportunity to see.

Neurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window (in ferret auditory cortex) https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01479-4 integration windows in human auditory cortex "range from a…

Decoding the ″bouba-kiki″ effect in early visual cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.17.700088v1 "V1 is capable to maintain differential representations of meaningless speech sounds if they are associated with visual shape categories.";