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

523 papers, page 8 of 11

351. ICLR 2025Scalable and Certifiable Graph Unlearning: Overcoming the Approximation Error Barrier
352. ICLR 2025Score-based free-form architectures for high-dimensional Fokker-Planck equations
353. ICLR 2025Self-Attention-Based Contextual Modulation Improves Neural System Identification
354. ICLR 2025Sensitivity-Constrained Fourier Neural Operators for Forward and Inverse Problems in Parametric Differential Equations
355. ICLR 2025Shared-AE: Automatic Identification of Shared Subspaces in High-dimensional Neural and Behavioral Activity
356. ICLR 2025SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments
357. ICLR 2025SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour
358. ICLR 2025SleepSMC: Ubiquitous Sleep Staging via Supervised Multimodal Coordination
359. ICLR 2025Solving Differential Equations with Constrained Learning
360. ICLR 2025Sparse components distinguish visual pathways & their alignment to neural networks
361. ICLR 2025SPDIM: Source-Free Unsupervised Conditional and Label Shift Adaptation in EEG
362. ICLR 2025Spiking Vision Transformer with Saccadic Attention
363. ICLR 2025Syntactic and Semantic Control of Large Language Models via Sequential Monte Carlo
364. ICLR 2025Synthesizing Realistic fMRI: A Physiological Dynamics-Driven Hierarchical Diffusion Model for Efficient fMRI Acquisition
365. ICLR 2025TabReD: Analyzing Pitfalls and Filling the Gaps in Tabular Deep Learning Benchmarks
366. ICLR 2025Temporal Flexibility in Spiking Neural Networks: Towards Generalization Across Time Steps and Deployment Friendliness
367. ICLR 2025The 3D-PC: a benchmark for visual perspective taking in humans and machines
368. ICLR 2025The impact of allocation strategies in subset learning on the expressive power of neural networks
369. ICLR 2025The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Deeper Layers
370. ICLR 2025TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
371. ICLR 2025TopoNets: High performing vision and language models with brain-like topography
372. ICLR 2025Toward Generalizing Visual Brain Decoding to Unseen Subjects
373. ICLR 2025Towards Homogeneous Lexical Tone Decoding from Heterogeneous Intracranial Recordings
374. ICLR 2025Tracking objects that change in appearance with phase synchrony
375. ICLR 2025TVNet: A Novel Time Series Analysis Method Based on Dynamic Convolution and 3D-Variation
376. ICLR 2025Underdamped Diffusion Bridges with Applications to Sampling
377. ICLR 2025Vision CNNs trained to estimate spatial latents learned similar ventral-stream-aligned representations
378. ICLR 2025WeatherGFM: Learning a Weather Generalist Foundation Model via In-context Learning
379. ICLR 2025XAIguiFormer: explainable artificial intelligence guided transformer for brain disorder identification
380. ICLR 2025ZAPBench: A Benchmark for Whole-Brain Activity Prediction in Zebrafish
381. ICLR 2024A Cognitive Model for Learning Abstract Relational Structures from Memory-based Decision-Making Tasks
382. ICLR 2024A differentiable brain simulator bridging brain simulation and brain-inspired computing
383. ICLR 2024A Framework for Inference Inspired by Human Memory Mechanisms
384. ICLR 2024A Lie Group Approach to Riemannian Batch Normalization
385. ICLR 2024A Plug-and-Play Image Registration Network
386. ICLR 2024A Progressive Training Framework for Spiking Neural Networks with Learnable Multi-hierarchical Model
387. ICLR 2024A Stable, Fast, and Fully Automatic Learning Algorithm for Predictive Coding Networks
388. ICLR 2024A Unified and General Framework for Continual Learning
389. ICLR 2024Adaptive deep spiking neural network with global-local learning via balanced excitatory and inhibitory mechanism
390. ICLR 2024An operator preconditioning perspective on training in physics-informed machine learning
391. ICLR 2024Automatic Functional Differentiation in JAX
392. ICLR 2024Bayesian Bi-clustering of Neural Spiking Activity with Latent Structures
393. ICLR 2024Brain decoding: toward real-time reconstruction of visual perception
394. ICLR 2024BrainLM: A foundation model for brain activity recordings
395. ICLR 2024BrainSCUBA: Fine-Grained Natural Language Captions of Visual Cortex Selectivity
396. ICLR 2024CAMIL: Context-Aware Multiple Instance Learning for Cancer Detection and Subtyping in Whole Slide Images
397. ICLR 2024CellPLM: Pre-training of Cell Language Model Beyond Single Cells
398. ICLR 2024CLIP-MUSED: CLIP-Guided Multi-Subject Visual Neural Information Semantic Decoding
399. ICLR 2024COCO-Periph: Bridging the Gap Between Human and Machine Perception in the Periphery
400. ICLR 2024Complete and Efficient Graph Transformers for Crystal Material Property Prediction

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.