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2026
Category selectivity observed in the human brain is distinct from category selectivity in artificial neural networks
Alish Dipani, N Apurva Ratan Murty
bioarXiv (2026) Under Review
Closed-loop hypothesis generation and testing for characterizing representations in visually-responsive brain regions
Oliver Contier, Shu Fujimori, N Apurva Ratan Murty, Martin Hebart
bioarXiv (2026). Under Review
Topographic constraints shape brain-like component structure in auditory models
Haider Al Tahan, Mayukh Deb, Jenelle Feather, N Apurva Ratan Murty
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Proceedings (2026), Accepted (in Press)
Cortex-Canvas: An interactive web interface for executing and evaluating models of category-selective regions in human visual cortex.
Ruolin Wang, Yuxuan Li, Mayukh Deb, Kushal Reddy Dudipala, Kruthik Ravikanti, Sanjana Chillarege, Arya Bhanushali, Ranjani Koushik, Aashraya Katiyar, and N Apurva Ratan Murty
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26) (2026),
Can category-selective cortex predict categorization behavior?
Timothee Maniquet, Huangxu Fang, N Apurva Ratan, Hans op de Beeck
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2026), doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2629
Individual differences in artificial neural networks capture individual differences in human behavior
Herrick Fung, N Apurva Ratan Murty, Dobromir Rahnev
bioarXiv, Under Review
MOSAIC: A scalable framework for fMRI dataset aggregation and modeling of human vision
Benjamin Lahner, Mayukh Deb, N Apurva Ratan Murty*, Aude Oliva*
bioarXiv, Under Revision
2025
TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography
M Deb, M Deb, NA Ratan Murty
ICLR (2025) Spotlight (Top 2%)
Project Website: toponets.github.io
Object position, but not identity is decodable during object permanence with MEG
S Fohs, K Dobs*, NA Ratan Murty*
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting
End-to-end topographic auditory models replicate signatures of human auditory cortex
H Al Tahan, M Deb, J Feather, NA Ratan Murty
arXiv (2025)
Human-like individual differences emerge from random weight initializations in neural networks
H Fung, NA Ratan Murty, D Rahnev
NeurIPS , Unireps, Data on Brain and Mind
CONFORM: A project to create crowd-sourced open neuroscience fMRI foundation models
B. Lahner*, A Luo*, J Prince*, M Deb, M Henderson, J Pyles**, L Wehbe**, A Oliva**, NA Ratan Murty**, M Tarr
NeurIPS, Data on the Brain and Mind (Tutorial)
2025
TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography
Mayukh Deb, Mainak Deb, N Apurva Ratan Murty
ICLR (2025) Spotlight (Top 2%)
Project Website: toponets.github.io
Object position, but not identity is decodable during object permanence with MEG
Saskia Fohs, Katharina Dobs*, N Apurva Ratan Murty*
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Annual Meeting
End-to-end topographic auditory models replicate signatures of human auditory cortex
Haider Al Tahan, Mayukh Deb, Jenelle Feather, N Apurva Ratan Murty
arXiv (2025)
Human-like individual differences emerge from random weight initializations in neural networks
Herrick Fung, N Apurva Ratan Murty, Dobromir Rahnev
NeurIPS , Unireps, Data on Brain and Mind
CONFORM: A project to create crowd-sourced open neuroscience fMRI foundation models
Benjamin Lahner*, Andrew Luo*, Jacob Prince*, Mayukh Deb, Margaret Henderson, John Pyles**, Leyla Wehbe**, Aude Oliva**, N Apurva Ratan Murty**, Michael Tarr
NeurIPS, Data on the Brain and Mind (Tutorial)
Visual experience contributes to separation of face and language responses in the ventral stream
Elizabeth Saccone, Akshi, N Apurva Ratan Murty, Elizabeth Saccone, Judy Kim, Mengyu Tian, Nancy Kanwisher, Marina Bedny
arXiv (2025)
Targeted perturbations reveal brain-like local coding axes in robustified, but not standard, ANN-based brain models
Nikolas McNeal, N Apurva Ratan Murty
arXiv (2025)
The NeuroAI Turing Test
Jenelle Feather*, Meenakshi Khosla*, N Apurva Ratan Murty*, Aran Nayebi*
arXiv (2025), Link to paper
2024
Small-scale adversarial perturbations can expose differences between predictive encoding models of human fMRI responses
N McNeal*, M Deb*, NA Ratan Murty
NeurIPS, UniReps (2024)
Fine-grained neural coding of bodies and body parts in human visual cortex
KG Ramirez, M Vanhoyland, NA Ratan Murty, T Decramer, WV Paesschen, S Bracci, H op de Beeck, N Kanwisher, P Janssen, T Theys
PNAS (2024) Accepted In Press
Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results
X Luo, A Rechardt, G Sun, KK Nejad, F Yáñez, B Yilmaz, K Lee, AO Cohen, V Borghesani, A Pashkov, D Marinazzo, J Nicholas, A Salatiello, I Sucholutsky, P Minervini, S Razavi, R Rocca, E Yusifov, T Okalova, N Gu, M Ferianc, M Khona, KR Patil, P-S Lee, R Mata, NE Myers, JK Bizley, S Musslick, IP Bilgin, G Niso, JM Ales, M Gaebler, NA Ratan Murty, CM Hall, J Dafflon, SD Bao, BC Love
Nature Human Behavior (2024) Accepted In Press
Linking faces to social cognition: The temporal pole as a potential social switch
A Dipani, N McNeal, NA Ratan Murty
PNAS (Commentary) (2024)
Modeling short visual events through the BOLD moments video fMRI dataset and metadata
B Lahner, K Dwivedi, P Iamshchinina, M Hraumann, A Lascelles, G Roig, AT Gifford, B Pan, S Jin, NA Ratan Murty, K Kay, A Oliva, R Cichy
Nature Communications (2024), 15, 6241
pre-2024
The bandwidth of perceptual awareness is constrained by specific high-level visual features
M Cohen*, K Lydic, NA Ratan Murty*
Neurips SVRHM Spotlight (Oral Presentation) psyarXiv (2023),
A highly selective response to food in human visual cortex revealed by hypothesis-free voxel decomposition
Khosla M, Ratan Murty NA, Kanwisher N
Current Biology (2022) 32 (19), 4159-4171. e9
Decoding perceptual awareness across the brain with a no-report fMRI masking paradigm
E Hatamimajoumerd, NA Ratan Murty, M Pitts, M Cohen
Current Biology (2022) 32 (19), 4139-4149
Using child-friendly movie stimuli to study the development of face, place and object regions from age 3 to 12 years
F Kamps*, H Richardson*, NA Ratan Murty, N Kanwisher, R Saxe
Human Brain Mapping (2021) doi:10.1002/hbm.25815
Computational models of category-selective brain regions enable high-throughput tests of selectivity
Ratan Murty NA*, Bashivan P*, Abate A, DiCarlo JJ, Kanwisher K
Nature Communications (2021) 12 (1) 5540
Release of the Algonauts Project 2021 Challenge: How the human brain makes sense of a world in motion
RM Cichy, K Dwivedi, B Lahner, A Lascelles, P Iamshchinina, M Graumann, A Andonian, NA Ratan Murty, K Kay, G Roig, A Oliva
arXiv (2021)
How does visual experience shape representations and transformations along the ventral stream?
M Bedny, N Kanwisher, O Collignon, I Yildrim, E Saccone, NA Ratan Murty, S Mattioni
CCN Generative Adversarial Collaboration (2020)
Visual experience is not necessary for the development of face selectivity in the lateral fusiform gyrus
NA Ratan Murty, S Teng, D Beeler, A Mynick, A Oliva & N Kanwisher
PNAS (2020) 117(37), 23011-23020
Integrative benchmarking to advance neurally mechanistic models of human intelligence
Schrimpf M, Kubilius J, Lee MJ, Ratan Murty NA, Ajemian R, DiCarlo JJ
Neuron (2020) 108 (3) 413-423
Multiplicative mixing of object identity and attributes in single IT neurons
NA Ratan Murty & SP Arun
PNAS (2018) 115 (14), E3276-E3285
Effect of silhouetting and inversion on view invariance in the monkey inferotemporal cortex
NA Ratan Murty & SP Arun
Journal of Neurophysiology (2017) 118 (1), 353-362
A Balanced Comparison of Object Invariances in Monkey IT Neurons
NA Ratan Murty & SP Arun
eNeuro (2017) 4 (2), ENEURO. 0333-16.2017
Seeing a straight line on a curved surface: decoupling of patterns from surfaces by single IT neurons
NA Ratan Murty & SP Arun
Journal of Neurophysiology (2017) 117 (1), 104-116
To what extent does global shape influence category representation in the brain?
NA Ratan Murty & RT Pramod
Journal of Neuroscience Journal Club (2016) 36 (15), 4149-4151
Dynamics of 3d view invariance in monkey inferotemporal cortex
NA Ratan Murty & SP Arun
Journal of Neurophysiology (2015) 113 (7), 2180-2194
γ-Glutamyl transpeptidase from Bacillus pumilus KS 12: decoupling autoprocessing from catalysis and molecular characterization of N-terminal region
NA Ratan Murty, E Tiwary, R Sharma, N Nair & R Gupta
Enzyme and Microbial Technology (2012) 50 (3), 159-164
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