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Now published in Nature Human Behavior doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02252-z Human vision is mediated by a complex interconnected network of cortical brain areas that jointly represent visual information. While these areas are…

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Many AI models trained on natural images develop representations that resemble those of the human brain. However, the factors that drive this brain-model similarity remain poorly understood. To disentangle how the model, training and data…

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Human physical reasoning relies on internal "body" representations - coarse, volumetric approximations that capture an object's extent and support intuitive predictions about motion and physics. While psychophysical evidence suggests humans…

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Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) tractography is an advanced imaging technique that enables in vivo mapping of the brain's white matter connections at macro scale. Over the last two decades, the study of brain connectivity using…

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