Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science went from 183 papers in 2023 to 753 in 2026, roughly 4.1x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science work: 824 papers from 2023 to 2026, 41% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Diffusion Models: papers tagged with both rose from 4 in 2023 to 44 in 2026.
• Among the 10 topics under Application Domains, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Applications · health medicine, is up 61x versus 4.1x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026(Strongly) Replicable Distribution Testers imply High Probability Distribution Testers
• ICML 2026(Be Cautious!) Bio-Foundation Models Are Not Yet Robust to Biologically Plausible Perturbations and ML Transformations
• ICLR 2026A Biologically Plausible Dense Associative Memory with Exponential Capacity
• CVPR 2026Globscope Toward a Global View of the Loss Landscape
• NeurIPS 2025$\mu$PC: Scaling Predictive Coding to 100+ Layer Networks
• ICML 2025Can Biologically Plausible Temporal Credit Assignment Rules Match BPTT for Neural Similarity? E-prop as an Example
• ICLR 2025A Computational Framework for Modeling Emergence of Color Vision in the Human Brain
• CVPR 2025Blurred LiDAR for Sharper 3D: Robust Handheld 3D Scanning with Diffuse LiDAR and RGB
• NeurIPS 2024$\textit{NeuroPath}$: A Neural Pathway Transformer for Joining the Dots of Human Connectomes
• ICML 2024$\bf{\Phi}_\textrm{Flow}$: Differentiable Simulations for PyTorch, TensorFlow and Jax
• ICLR 2024A Cognitive Model for Learning Abstract Relational Structures from Memory-based Decision-Making Tasks
• CVPR 2024Efficient Detection of Long Consistent Cycles and its Application to Distributed Synchronization
• NeurIPS 2023Adaptive whitening with fast gain modulation and slow synaptic plasticity
• ICML 2023Accuracy on the Curve: On the Nonlinear Correlation of ML Performance Between Data Subpopulations
• ICLR 2023A framework for benchmarking Class-out-of-distribution detection and its application to ImageNet
• CVPR 20233D Line Mapping Revisited
• NeurIPS 2026$\mathrm{Bounded\mbox{-}RS}$: A Bounded Evaluation Protocol and Testbed for Representational Systematicity
• ICML 2026A hitchhiker's guide to Poisson gradient estimation
• ICLR 2026A Brain Graph Foundation Model: Pre-Training and Prompt-Tuning across Broad Atlases and Disorders
• CVPR 2026LASAR Towards Spatio-temporal Reasoning with Latent Cognitive Map

All Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers

824 papers, page 13 of 17

601. NeurIPS 2024BrainBits: How Much of the Brain are Generative Reconstruction Methods Using?
602. NeurIPS 2024Bridging semantics and pragmatics in information-theoretic emergent communication
603. NeurIPS 2024Bridging the Divide: Reconsidering Softmax and Linear Attention
604. NeurIPS 2024Can LLMs Implicitly Learn Numeric Parameter Constraints in Data Science APIs?
605. NeurIPS 2024Can Transformers Smell Like Humans?
606. NeurIPS 2024Collaborative Cognitive Diagnosis with Disentangled Representation Learning for Learner Modeling
607. NeurIPS 2024Compositional Generalization Across Distributional Shifts with Sparse Tree Operations
608. NeurIPS 2024Consistency Models for Scalable and Fast Simulation-Based Inference
609. NeurIPS 2024Construction and Application of Materials Knowledge Graph in Multidisciplinary Materials Science via Large Language Model
610. NeurIPS 2024Continuous Spatiotemporal Events Decoupling through Spike-based Bayesian Computation
611. NeurIPS 2024Contrastive-Equivariant Self-Supervised Learning Improves Alignment with Primate Visual Area IT
612. NeurIPS 2024Controlled maximal variability along with reliable performance in recurrent neural networks
613. NeurIPS 2024Cooperate or Collapse: Emergence of Sustainable Cooperation in a Society of LLM Agents
614. NeurIPS 2024Crafting Interpretable Embeddings for Language Neuroscience by Asking LLMs Questions
615. NeurIPS 2024DARNet: Dual Attention Refinement Network with Spatiotemporal Construction for Auditory Attention Detection
616. NeurIPS 2024Designing Cell-Type-Specific Promoter Sequences Using Conservative Model-Based Optimization
617. NeurIPS 2024Differentially Private Equivalence Testing for Continuous Distributions and Applications
618. NeurIPS 2024Discovering plasticity rules that organize and maintain neural circuits
619. NeurIPS 2024DisenGCD: A Meta Multigraph-assisted Disentangled Graph Learning Framework for Cognitive Diagnosis
620. NeurIPS 2024Disentangling the Roles of Distinct Cell Classes with Cell-Type Dynamical Systems
621. NeurIPS 2024Divergences between Language Models and Human Brains
622. NeurIPS 2024Divide-and-Conquer Predictive Coding: a structured Bayesian inference algorithm
623. NeurIPS 2024Doing Experiments and Revising Rules with Natural Language and Probabilistic Reasoning
624. NeurIPS 2024Du-IN: Discrete units-guided mask modeling for decoding speech from Intracranial Neural signals
625. NeurIPS 2024EEG2Video: Towards Decoding Dynamic Visual Perception from EEG Signals
626. NeurIPS 2024EEGPT: Pretrained Transformer for Universal and Reliable Representation of EEG Signals
627. NeurIPS 2024Empowering and Assessing the Utility of Large Language Models in Crop Science
628. NeurIPS 2024Energy-Based Modelling for Discrete and Mixed Data via Heat Equations on Structured Spaces
629. NeurIPS 2024EnOF-SNN: Training Accurate Spiking Neural Networks via Enhancing the Output Feature
630. NeurIPS 2024Entropy testing and its application to testing Bayesian networks
631. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating alignment between humans and neural network representations in image-based learning tasks
632. NeurIPS 2024Evaluating Numerical Reasoning in Text-to-Image Models
633. NeurIPS 2024Exact Gradients for Stochastic Spiking Neural Networks Driven by Rough Signals
634. NeurIPS 2024Exploring Behavior-Relevant and Disentangled Neural Dynamics with Generative Diffusion Models
635. NeurIPS 2024Exploring the trade-off between deep-learning and explainable models for brain-machine interfaces
636. NeurIPS 2024FasMe: Fast and Sample-efficient Meta Estimator for Precision Matrix Learning in Small Sample Settings
637. NeurIPS 2024FastSurvival: Hidden Computational Blessings in Training Cox Proportional Hazards Models
638. NeurIPS 2024Feedback control guides credit assignment in recurrent neural networks
639. NeurIPS 2024FEEL-SNN: Robust Spiking Neural Networks with Frequency Encoding and Evolutionary Leak Factor
640. NeurIPS 2024Flexible Context-Driven Sensory Processing in Dynamical Vision Models
641. NeurIPS 2024Flexible mapping of abstract domains by grid cells via self-supervised extraction and projection of generalized velocity signals
642. NeurIPS 2024Flexible task abstractions emerge in linear networks with fast and bounded units
643. NeurIPS 2024Flow Snapshot Neurons in Action: Deep Neural Networks Generalize to Biological Motion Perception
644. NeurIPS 2024fMRI predictors based on language models of increasing complexity recover brain left lateralization
645. NeurIPS 2024From Linear to Linearizable Optimization: A Novel Framework with Applications to Stationary and Non-stationary DR-submodular Optimization
646. NeurIPS 2024Gaussian Approximation and Multiplier Bootstrap for Polyak-Ruppert Averaged Linear Stochastic Approximation with Applications to TD Learning
647. NeurIPS 2024GENOT: Entropic (Gromov) Wasserstein Flow Matching with Applications to Single-Cell Genomics
648. NeurIPS 2024Geodesic Optimization for Predictive Shift Adaptation on EEG data
649. NeurIPS 2024Geometric Analysis of Nonlinear Manifold Clustering
650. NeurIPS 2024Geometry of naturalistic object representations in recurrent neural network models of working memory

FAQ

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

2,033 in total: 183 in 2023, 424 in 2024, 673 in 2025, 753 in 2026.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 227 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 342 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 229 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 151 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 263 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 157 the year before.

How many Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 34 Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers, versus 23 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Applications · neuroscience and cognitive science papers?

NeurIPS, with 824 papers from 2023 to 2026.