Quantitative Biology (Neurons and Cognition)

Efficient coding under constraint drives neural systems towards criticality and sloppiness He Xiao, Xinyue Zhao, Weikang Wang arxiv.org/abs/2605.22598 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Learning sequence timing and control of replay speed in networks of spiking neurons Melissa Lober, Younes Bouhadjar, Markus Diesmann, Tom Tetzlaff arxiv.org/abs/2605.22523 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

A simple model of co-emergence of grid and place fields Zhaoze Wang, Genela Morris, Dori Derdikman, Pratik Chaudhari, Vijay Balasubramanian arxiv.org/abs/2605.21356 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Stimulus symmetries can confound representational similarity analyses Farhad Pashakhanloo, Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth arxiv.org/abs/2605.21324 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶]

Platonic Representations in the Human Brain: Unsupervised Recovery of Universal Geometry Pablo Marcos-Manchón, Rishi Jha, Lluís Fuentemilla arxiv.org/abs/2605.20496 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚅] 💬Code: github.com/memory-formati…

Beyond Prediction Accuracy: Target-Space Recovery Profiles for Evaluating Model-Brain Alignment Ken Nakamura, Tomoya Nakai, Ryuto Yashiro, Ayumu Yamashita, Kaoru Amano arxiv.org/abs/2605.20127 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶]

Performance of low vision individuals when selecting a target with head-pointing in virtual reality Camille Bordeau, Célia Passerel, Ambre Denis-Noël, Jean-Baptiste Melmi, Marianne Vaugoyeau, Carlos Aguilar, Iliana Huyet, … arxiv.org/abs/2605.19816 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

BCI-sift: An automated feature selection toolbox for Brain Computer Interface applications Elena C Offenberg, Dirk Keller, Mariska J Vansteensel, Zachary V Freudenburg, Nick F Ramsey, Julia Berezutskaya arxiv.org/abs/2605.19646 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶]

Brain alignment of reasoning and action representations from vision-language and action models during naturalistic gameplay Subba Reddy Oota, Anant Khandelwal, Khushbu Pahwa, Satya Sai Srinath Namburi, … arxiv.org/abs/2605.19352 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸 𝚌𝚜.𝙻𝙶]

Computational Auditory Periphery Models: the Return of the Rodent Morgan Thienpont, F. Deloche, S. Keshishzadeh, D. Kiselev, J. Bourien, J. -L. Puel, B. N. Buran, N. Bramhall, S. Verhulst arxiv.org/abs/2605.19070 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Conserved Kinematic Representations enable Zero-Shot Decoding in Handwriting BCIs Srinivas Ravishankar, Virginia de Sa arxiv.org/abs/2605.19048 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Functional Whole-Brain Models: A New Framework for Unifying Brain Structure and Cognitive Function Mario Senden, Leonardo Dalla Porta, Jan Fousek, Jorge F. Mejias, Gorka Zamora-López arxiv.org/abs/2605.18118 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Von Economo neurons enable reliable social skill acquisition in recurrent spiking neural networks: a computational account with clinical predictions Esila Keskin arxiv.org/abs/2605.17399 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚜.𝙽𝙴]

Geometric Phase Transition Enables Extreme Hippocampal Memory Capacity Prashant C. Raju arxiv.org/abs/2605.17199 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍-𝚖𝚊𝚝.𝚍𝚒𝚜-𝚗𝚗 𝚙𝚑𝚢𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚜.𝚋𝚒𝚘-𝚙𝚑]

MIRAGE: Robust multi-modal architectures translate fMRI-to-image models from vision to mental imagery Reese Kneeland, Cesar Kadir Torrico Villanueva, Jordyn Ojeda, Shuhb Khanna, Jonathan Xu, Paul S. Scotti, Thomas Naselaris arxiv.org/abs/2605.17198 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚌𝚜.𝙲𝚅]

The Complex Brain Hypothesis: Resolving the Entropy-Content Conundrum in Minimal Phenomenal Experience Jonas Mago, Edmundo Lopez-Sola, Jakub Vohryzek, Michael Lifshitz, Robin Carhart-Harris, Karl Friston, Shamil Chandaria arxiv.org/abs/2605.16146 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Beyond Flickering: Introducing Code-Modulated Motion Visual Evoked Potentials for Brain-Computer Interfacing Hanneke Scheppink, Rainer Herpers, Jordy Thielen, Ivan Volosyak arxiv.org/abs/2605.15801 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Are cortical microcircuits optimized for information flux? – A simulation-based reverse engineering study Claus Metzner, Ali Ghebleh, Karin Prebeck, Achim Schilling, Andreas Maier, Thomas Kinfe, Patrick Krauss arxiv.org/abs/2605.14680 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Multiple mechanisms of rhythm switching in recurrent neural networks with adaptive time constants Yutaka Yamaguti, Shota Nakamura arxiv.org/abs/2605.14388 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲]

Approximate Macroscopic Dynamics of Spiking Neural Networks Based on Solutions to the Transport Equation Wilten Nicola, Sue Ann Campbell arxiv.org/abs/2605.14319 [𝚚-𝚋𝚒𝚘.𝙽𝙲 𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚑.𝙳𝚂]