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

424 papers, page 9 of 9

401. NeurIPS 2024Task-Agnostic Machine-Learning-Assisted Inference
402. NeurIPS 2024Temporal-Difference Learning Using Distributed Error Signals
403. NeurIPS 2024The Bayesian sampling in a canonical recurrent circuit with a diversity of inhibitory interneurons
404. NeurIPS 2024The Intelligible and Effective Graph Neural Additive Network
405. NeurIPS 2024The motion planning neural circuit in goal-directed navigation as Lie group operator search
406. NeurIPS 2024The Selective $G$-Bispectrum and its Inversion: Applications to $G$-Invariant Networks
407. NeurIPS 2024The State of Data Curation at NeurIPS: An Assessment of Dataset Development Practices in the Datasets and Benchmarks Track
408. NeurIPS 2024Time Makes Space: Emergence of Place Fields in Networks Encoding Temporally Continuous Sensory Experiences
409. NeurIPS 2024To Learn or Not to Learn, That is the Question — A Feature-Task Dual Learning Model of Perceptual Learning
410. NeurIPS 2024Towards a "Universal Translator" for Neural Dynamics at Single-Cell, Single-Spike Resolution
411. NeurIPS 2024Towards Accurate and Fair Cognitive Diagnosis via Monotonic Data Augmentation
412. NeurIPS 2024Towards Croppable Implicit Neural Representations
413. NeurIPS 2024Towards Heterogeneous Long-tailed Learning: Benchmarking, Metrics, and Toolbox
414. NeurIPS 2024Trading Place for Space: Increasing Location Resolution Reduces Contextual Capacity in Hippocampal Codes
415. NeurIPS 2024Transductive Active Learning: Theory and Applications
416. NeurIPS 2024Unconditional stability of a recurrent neural circuit implementing divisive normalization
417. NeurIPS 2024Understanding and Improving Training-free Loss-based Diffusion Guidance
418. NeurIPS 2024Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problem
419. NeurIPS 2024UniAR: A Unified model for predicting human Attention and Responses on visual content
420. NeurIPS 2024Uniform Last-Iterate Guarantee for Bandits and Reinforcement Learning
421. NeurIPS 2024Unsupervised Discovery of Formulas for Mathematical Constants
422. NeurIPS 2024UrbanDataLayer: A Unified Data Pipeline for Urban Science
423. NeurIPS 2024Visual Decoding and Reconstruction via EEG Embeddings with Guided Diffusion
424. NeurIPS 2024Visual Pinwheel Centers Act as Geometric Saliency Detectors

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.