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ArticleNature2026

Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex.

Benjamin R Cowley, Patricia L Stan, Jonathan W Pillow, Matthew A Smith

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Curvature tuning in areas V2 and V4 of the developing macaque.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. A TALE OF TWO TAILS: PREFERRED AND ANTI-PREFERRED NATURAL STIMULI IN VISUAL CORTEX.... International Conference on Learning Representations · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Benjamin R CowleyCold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. cowley@cshl.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2681-2448
Patricia L StanNeuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Jonathan W Pillow *Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3638-8831
Matthew A Smith *Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. mattsmith@cmu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-9942

Funding

Subcortical Neural Coding and DynamicsU19NS104648 · NINDS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI TANK, DAVID W · 2017 to 2021
$15.3M
Dissecting Sensorimotor Pathways Underlying Social Interactions: Models, Circuits, and BehaviorR01NS104899 · NINDS · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI BIALEK, WILLIAM, MURTHY, MALA · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
Slow time scale fluctuations in neurons and behaviorR01MH128393 · NIMH · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI MATTHEW A SMITH · 2022 to 2026
$2.2M
Dynamic population codes for perceptionR01EY029250 · NEI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, MATTHEW A · 2020 to 2023
$1.3M
CRCNS: Unraveling the visual system's temporal code for dynamic scene processingR01EY037194 · NEI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI MATTHEW A SMITH · 2024 to 2026
$1.2M
Real-time statistical algorithms for controlling neural dynamics and behaviorR01EB026946 · NIBIB · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · PI PARK, IL MEMMING, PILLOW, JONATHAN WILLIAM · 2018 to 2020
$1.1M
CRCNS: Interhemispheric coordination for memory and actionR01NS147766 · NINDS · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI Joseph Patrick Mayo, MATTHEW A SMITH · 2025 to 2026
$750k
The influence of task context on neural population activity during natural scene discriminationF31EY031975 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI STAN, PATRICIA LENA · 2021 to 2022
$93k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A powerful approach to understand the computations carried out by the visual cortex is to build models that predict neural responses to any arbitrary image. Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as the leading predictive models

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Deep LearningModels, NeurologicalVisual CortexAnimalsMacaca mulattaMaleNeural Networks, ComputerNeurons

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PMID41741656
PMCPMC13359075

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