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

673 papers, page 9 of 14

401. NeurIPS 2025Contrastive Consolidation of Top-Down Modulations Achieves Sparsely Supervised Continual Learning
402. NeurIPS 2025Contribution of task-irrelevant stimuli to drift of neural representations
403. NeurIPS 2025Controlled Visual Hallucination via Thalamus-Driven Decoupling Network for Domain Adaptation of Black-Box Predictors
404. NeurIPS 2025Cross-modal Associations in Vision and Language Models: Revisiting the Bouba-Kiki Effect
405. NeurIPS 2025Cross-Modal Representational Knowledge Distillation for Enhanced Spike-informed LFP Modeling
406. NeurIPS 2025CRRL: Learning Channel-invariant Neural Representations for High-performance Cross-day Decoding
407. NeurIPS 2025CSBrain: A Cross-scale Spatiotemporal Brain Foundation Model for EEG Decoding
408. NeurIPS 2025Curl Descent : Non-Gradient Learning Dynamics with Sign-Diverse Plasticity
409. NeurIPS 2025DAAC: Discrepancy-Aware Adaptive Contrastive Learning for Medical Time series
410. NeurIPS 2025DAWP: A framework for global observation forecasting via Data Assimilation and Weather Prediction in satellite observation space
411. NeurIPS 2025DCA: Graph-Guided Deep Embedding Clustering for Brain Atlases
412. NeurIPS 2025Decomposing motor units through elimination for real-time intention driven assistive neurotechnology
413. NeurIPS 2025Decomposing stimulus-specific sensory neural information via diffusion models
414. NeurIPS 2025Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments
415. NeurIPS 2025Dendritic Resonate-and-Fire Neuron for Effective and Efficient Long Sequence Modeling
416. NeurIPS 2025DevFD : Developmental Face Forgery Detection by Learning Shared and Orthogonal LoRA Subspaces
417. NeurIPS 2025Dimensionality Mismatch Between Brains and Artificial Neural Networks
418. NeurIPS 2025Disentangling Superpositions: Interpretable Brain Encoding Model with Sparse Concept Atoms
419. NeurIPS 2025Distributional Autoencoders Know the Score
420. NeurIPS 2025Does Object Binding Naturally Emerge in Large Pretrained Vision Transformers?
421. NeurIPS 2025Don’t Give Up on Democratizing AI for the Wrong Reasons
422. NeurIPS 2025DSRF: A Dynamic and Scalable Reasoning Framework for Solving RPMs
423. NeurIPS 2025Dual-Res Tandem Mamba-3D: Bilateral Breast Lesion Detection and Classification on Non-contrast Chest CT
424. NeurIPS 2025DyMU: Dynamic Merging and Virtual Unmerging for Efficient Variable-Length VLMs
425. NeurIPS 2025Dynamic Siamese Expansion Framework for Improving Robustness in Online Continual Learning
426. NeurIPS 2025Dynamical modeling of nonlinear latent factors in multiscale neural activity with real-time inference
427. NeurIPS 2025Dynamical Properties of Tokens in Self-Attention and Effects of Positional Encoding
428. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Allocation of Working Memory Resource for Utility Maximization in Humans and Recurrent Neural Networks
429. NeurIPS 2025Efficient Training of Minimal and Maximal Low-Rank Recurrent Neural Networks
430. NeurIPS 2025egoEMOTION: Egocentric Vision and Physiological Signals for Emotion and Personality Recognition in Real-world Tasks
431. NeurIPS 2025EgoExOR: An Ego-Exo-Centric Operating Room Dataset for Surgical Activity Understanding
432. NeurIPS 2025Elucidated Rolling Diffusion Models for Probabilistic Forecasting of Complex Dynamics
433. NeurIPS 2025Enhanced Self-Distillation Framework for Efficient Spiking Neural Network Training
434. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing LLM Watermark Resilience Against Both Scrubbing and Spoofing Attacks
435. NeurIPS 2025Error Broadcast and Decorrelation as a Potential Artificial and Natural Learning Mechanism
436. NeurIPS 2025Error Forcing in Recurrent Neural Networks
437. NeurIPS 2025ESCA: Enabling Seamless Codec Avatar Execution through Algorithm and Hardware Co-Optimization for Virtual Reality
438. NeurIPS 2025Estimating cognitive biases with attention-aware inverse planning
439. NeurIPS 2025Estimating Hitting Times Locally at Scale
440. NeurIPS 2025Event-Driven Dynamic Scene Depth Completion
441. NeurIPS 2025EvoBrain: Dynamic Multi-Channel EEG Graph Modeling for Time-Evolving Brain Networks
442. NeurIPS 2025Explicitly Modeling Subcortical Vision with a Neuro-Inspired Front-End Improves CNN Robustness
443. NeurIPS 2025Exploring and Leveraging Class Vectors for Classifier Editing
444. NeurIPS 2025Exponential Dynamic Energy Network for High Capacity Sequence Memory
445. NeurIPS 2025Extracting task-relevant preserved dynamics from contrastive aligned neural recordings
446. NeurIPS 2025EyeBench: Predictive Modeling from Eye Movements in Reading
447. NeurIPS 2025Far from the Shallow: Brain-Predictive Reasoning Embedding through Residual Disentanglement
448. NeurIPS 2025Fast Inference for Augmented Large Language Models
449. NeurIPS 2025Fast Solvers for Discrete Diffusion Models: Theory and Applications of High-Order Algorithms
450. NeurIPS 2025Feature Unlearning: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Applications with Shuffling

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.