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

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• 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 6 of 17

251. NeurIPS 2025Anatomically inspired digital twins capture hierarchical object representations in visual cortex
252. NeurIPS 2025ArchCAD-400K: A Large-Scale CAD drawings Dataset and New Baseline for Panoptic Symbol Spotting
253. NeurIPS 2025Are Large Language Models Sensitive to the Motives Behind Communication?
254. NeurIPS 2025AstroVisBench: A Code Benchmark for Scientific Computing and Visualization in Astronomy
255. NeurIPS 2025AtmosSci-Bench: Evaluating the Recent Advance of Large Language Model for Atmospheric Science
256. NeurIPS 2025Auditing Meta-Cognitive Hallucinations in Reasoning Large Language Models
257. NeurIPS 2025AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling
258. NeurIPS 2025BaRISTA: Brain Scale Informed Spatiotemporal Representation of Human Intracranial Neural Activity
259. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Pairwise Connections: Extracting High-Order Functional Brain Network Structures under Global Constraints
260. NeurIPS 2025Beyond Prediction: Managing the Repercussions of Machine Learning Applications
261. NeurIPS 2025Bézier Splatting for Fast and Differentiable Vector Graphics Rendering
262. NeurIPS 2025BioOSS: A Bio-Inspired Oscillatory State System with Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
263. NeurIPS 2025Bipolar Self-attention for Spiking Transformers
264. NeurIPS 2025Bounds on the computational complexity of neurons due to dendritic morphology
265. NeurIPS 2025Brain Harmony: A Multimodal Foundation Model Unifying Morphology and Function into 1D Tokens
266. NeurIPS 2025Brain network science modelling of sparse neural networks enables Transformers and LLMs to perform as fully connected
267. NeurIPS 2025Brain-Informed Fine-Tuning for Improved Multilingual Understanding in Language Models
268. NeurIPS 2025Brain-Inspired fMRI-to-Text Decoding via Incremental and Wrap-Up Language Modeling
269. NeurIPS 2025Brain-Like Processing Pathways Form in Models With Heterogeneous Experts
270. NeurIPS 2025Brain-tuning Improves Generalizability and Efficiency of Brain Alignment in Speech Models
271. NeurIPS 2025BrainFlow: A Holistic Pathway of Dynamic Neural System on Manifold
272. NeurIPS 2025BrainMoE: Cognition Joint Embedding via Mixture-of-Expert Towards Robust Brain Foundation Model
273. NeurIPS 2025BrainODE: Neural Shape Dynamics for Age- and Disease-aware Brain Trajectories
274. NeurIPS 2025BrainOmni: A Brain Foundation Model for Unified EEG and MEG Signals
275. NeurIPS 2025Breaking the Batch Barrier (B3) of Contrastive Learning via Smart Batch Mining
276. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Brains and Concepts: Interpretable Visual Decoding from fMRI with Semantic Bottlenecks
277. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Critical Gaps in Convergent Learning: How Representational Alignment Evolves Across Layers, Training, and Distribution Shifts
278. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Equivariant GNNs and Spherical CNNs for Structured Physical Domains
279. NeurIPS 2025Bridging Scales: Spectral Theory Reveals How Local Connectivity Rules Sculpt Global Neural Dynamics in Spatially Extended Networks
280. NeurIPS 2025Bridging the Gap Between Cross-Domain Theory and Practical Application: A Case Study on Molecular Dissolution
281. NeurIPS 2025Caption This, Reason That: VLMs Caught in the Middle
282. NeurIPS 2025CellVerse: Do Large Language Models Really Understand Cell Biology?
283. NeurIPS 2025CGBench: Benchmarking Language Model Scientific Reasoning for Clinical Genetics Research
284. NeurIPS 2025Characterizing control between interacting subsystems with deep Jacobian estimation
285. NeurIPS 2025ChemPile: A 250 GB Diverse and Curated Dataset for Chemical Foundation Models
286. NeurIPS 2025CLiFT: Compressive Light-Field Tokens for Compute Efficient and Adaptive Neural Rendering
287. NeurIPS 2025Cloud4D: Estimating Cloud Properties at a High Spatial and Temporal Resolution
288. NeurIPS 2025Coarse-to-Fine 3D Part Assembly via Semantic Super-Parts and Symmetry-Aware Pose Estimation
289. NeurIPS 2025Cognitive Mirrors: Exploring the Diverse Functional Roles of Attention Heads in LLM Reasoning
290. NeurIPS 2025Cognitive Predictive Processing: A Human-inspired Framework for Adaptive Exploration in Open-World Reinforcement Learning
291. NeurIPS 2025CogPhys: Assessing Cognitive Load via Multimodal Remote and Contact-based Physiological Sensing
292. NeurIPS 2025Comparator-Adaptive $\Phi$-Regret: Improved Bounds, Simpler Algorithms, and Applications to Games
293. NeurIPS 2025Compress, Gather, and Recompute: REFORMing Long-Context Processing in Transformers
294. NeurIPS 2025Concept-Guided Interpretability via Neural Chunking
295. NeurIPS 2025Conformal Linguistic Calibration: Trading-off between Factuality and Specificity
296. NeurIPS 2025Connectome-Based Modelling Reveals Orientation Maps in the Drosophila Optic Lobe
297. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Consolidation of Top-Down Modulations Achieves Sparsely Supervised Continual Learning
298. NeurIPS 2025Contribution of task-irrelevant stimuli to drift of neural representations
299. NeurIPS 2025Controlled Visual Hallucination via Thalamus-Driven Decoupling Network for Domain Adaptation of Black-Box Predictors
300. NeurIPS 2025Cross-modal Associations in Vision and Language Models: Revisiting the Bouba-Kiki Effect

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.