Awesome Neurons & Cognition

Key papers

• Speaking the Language of Science: Toward a General-Purpose Generative Foundation Model for the Natural Sciences (2026)
  Mingyang Li et al.
  8.01
• Morpheus: A Morphology-Aware Neural Tokenizer and Word Embedder for Turkish (2026)
  Tolga \c{S}akar
  5.88
• Aligning Quantum Operators with Large Language Models (2026)
  Rogerio Feris et al.
  5.49
• Neuron Level Analysis of Large Language Model in Legal Domain Reasoning (2026)
  Eri Onami et al.
  5.49
• Position: Hippocampal Explicit Memory Is the Cornerstone for AGI (2026)
  Sangjun Park
  5.01
• A formal definition and meta-model for a machine theory of mind (2026)
  Fabio Cuzzolin
  4.39
• Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model (2026)
  Badr AlKhamissi et al.
  4.39
• Generative Modeling of Bach-Style Symbolic Music: A Comparative Study of Autoregressive, Latent-Variable, and Adversarial Approaches (2026)
  Dezhi Yu et al.
  4.39
• When Language Representations Interact: Separability and Cross-Lingual Effects in LLMs (2026)
  Boris Marinov et al.
  4.39
• Moonlight in Latent Space: Chirality and Structural Correspondence Between Beethoven's Op. 27 No. 2 and Machine Learning Mechanisms (2026)
  Chen Ying Claude et al.
  4.39
• Context Compression Is Not One Thing: Readable Symbolic Re-expression vs. Coherent Summary at Matched Budget (2026)
  Sisong Bei et al.
  4.39
• Simplifying the Modeling of Arbitrary Conditionals in Natural Language (2026)
  Yinhan Lu et al.
  4.39
• LLM-Assisted Stance Detection in Scientific Discourse: A Test Case in Bayesian Cognitive Science (2026)
  Eyup Engin Kucuk et al.
  4.39
• Overcoming the Impedance Mismatch: A Theoretical Roadmap for Fusing Foundation Models and Knowledge Graphs (2026)
  Sahil Rajesh Dhayalkar
  4.39
• Vernier: Probing Representational Misalignment Behind Lexical Gaps in Causal Reasoning (2026)
  Zhenyu Yu
  4.39
• Rhythm of the Deep: A Computational-Linguistic Test of Duality of Patterning in Sperm Whale Codas (2026)
  Mudit Sinha et al.
  4.39
• Creative Collision: Directorial Persona Steering and Competition in Large Language Models (2026)
  Subramanyam Sahoo et al.
  4.39
• A Mechanistic Understanding of Pronoun Fidelity in LLMs (2026)
  Katharina Trinley et al.
  4.39
• Infant Spontaneous Movement Noise Improves Exploration in Deep RL (2026)
  Francisco M. L\'opez et al.
  4.39
• Connecting Speech to Words through Images (2026)
  Gabriel Pirlogeanu et al.
  4.39
• Does Traversal Order Matter? A Systematic Study of Tree Traversal Methods in Transformer Grammars (2026)
  Zongru Liu et al.
  4.39
• Data-Driven Decoding of Russell's Circumplex Model of Affect (2026)
  Amdjed Belaref et al.
  4.39
• Revisiting the Systematicity in Negation in the Era of In-Context Learning (2026)
  Hitomi Yanaka et al.
  4.39
• Contrastive-Difference CKA Reveals Concept-Specific Structural Alignment Across Language Model Architectures (2026)
  Xueping Gao
  4.39
• Scalable Circuit Learning for Interpreting Large Language Models (2026)
  Naiyu Yin et al.
  4.39
• The Importance of Phase in Neural Representations: An Internal Oppenheim-Lim Test of Image Classifiers (2026)
  Alper Y{\i}ld{\i}r{\i}m
  4.39
• How Well Do Large Language Models Capture Human Personality? (2026)
  Aanisha Bhattacharyya et al.
  4.39
• LLM Parameters for Math Across Languages: Shared or Separate? (2026)
  Behzad Shomali et al.
  4.39
• Concept Modulation Models: A Unified Framework for Identifiability and Extrapolation (2026)
  Soheun Yi et al.
  4.39
• Contextualizing Biological Language Models across Modalities via Logit-Space Contrastive Alignment (2026)
  Yanjun Shao et al.
  4.39
• Closing the Loop: PID Feedback Control for Interpretable Activation Steering in Symbolic Music Generation (2026)
  Ioannis Prokopiou et al.
  4.39
• As Easy as Rocket Science: Assessing the Ability of Large Language Models to Interpret Negation in Figurative Language (2026)
  Jasmine Owers et al.
  4.39
• Dango: A Strictly L1-Only Large Language Model for Studying Second Language Acquisition (2026)
  Shiho Matta et al.
  4.39
• The Holistic Storage of Verb+Up Phrases in Text-based and Audio-based Language Models (2026)
  Zachary Nicholas Houghton et al.
  3.51
• The Linguistics Olympiads: Towards a New Corpus for Linguistics Research? (2026)
  Vlad A. Neacsu
  3.51
• Fodor and Pylyshyn's Systematicity Challenge Still Stands (2026)
  Michael Goodale et al.
  3.51
• Do Large Language Models Have Emotions? (2026)
  Amit Goldenberg et al.
  3.51
• Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and Simulated Consciousness (2026)
  Ryota Kanai et al.
  3.51
• Bag of Dims: Training-Free Mechanistic Interpretability via Dimension-Level Sign Patterns (2026)
  Varun Reddy Nalagatla
  3.49
• The Sensation Modulating Network:Haltability as the architectural ground for object-directed phenomenology (2026)
  G. Nagarjuna et al.
  3.45
• The Long Delay to Arithmetic Generalization: When Learned Representations Outrun Behavior (2026)
  Laura Gomezjurado Gonzalez
  3.39
• Token-Level Entropy Reveals Demographic Disparities in Language Models (2025)
  Messi H. J. Lee
  2.65
• Beyond Neural Incompatibility: Cross-Scale Knowledge Transfer in Language Models through Latent Semantic Alignment (2026)
  Jian Gu et al.
  2.00
• The Lattice Representation Hypothesis of Large Language Models (2026)
  Bo Xiong
  2.00
• Convergent Representations of Linguistic Constructions in Human and Artificial Neural Systems (2026)
  Pegah Ramezani et al.
  2.00
• The Frequency Confound in Language-Model Surprisal and Metaphor Novelty (2026)
  Omar Momen et al.
  2.00
• From Pixels to Prompts: Vision-Language Models (2026)
  Khang Hoang Nhat Vo
  2.00
• Leveraging Speech to Identify Signatures of Insight and Transfer in Problem Solving (2026)
  Linas Nasvytis et al.
  2.00
• From BERT to T5: A Study of Named Entity Recognition (2026)
  Mei Jia
  2.00
• Probing for Representation Manifolds in Superposition (2026)
  Alexander Modell
  2.00
• Key-Gram: Extensible World Knowledge for Embodied Manipulation (2026)
  Jingjing Fan et al.
  2.00
• NeSyCat Torch: A Differentiable Tensor Implementation of Categorical Semantics for Neurosymbolic Learning (2026)
  Daniel Romero Schellhorn et al.
  2.00
• Supplemental Material for I React to Bodies but Not Faces, a Replication and Extension of Aviezer et al. (2012) (2026)2.00
• Reaching for domain-general syntax: Sentence processing and tool-use reach-to-grasp share neural patterns in the basal ganglia (2026)
  Simon Thibault et al.
  2.00
• From Mechanistic to Compositional Interpretability (2026)
  Ward Gauderis et al.
  1.94
• EmoMind: Decoding Affective Captions from Human Brain fMRI (2026)
  Bilal A. Mohammed et al.
  1.94
• FLiP: Towards understanding and interpreting multimodal multilingual sentence embeddings (2026)
  Santosh Kesiraju et al.
  1.89
• Independent-Component-Based Encoding Models of Brain Activity During Story Comprehension (2026)
  Kamya Hari et al.
  1.89
• Probing Semantic Alignment, Lexical Invariance, and Syntactic Influence in LLM Metaphor Processing (2025)
  Fengying Ye et al.
  1.56
• Modeling Sarcastic Speech: Semantic and Prosodic Cues in a Speech Synthesis Framework (2025)
  Zhu Li et al.
  1.56