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

523 papers, page 1 of 11

1. ICLR 20263DCS: Datasets and Benchmark for Evaluating Conformational Sensitivity in Molecular Representations
2. ICLR 2026A Biologically Plausible Dense Associative Memory with Exponential Capacity
3. ICLR 2026A Brain Graph Foundation Model: Pre-Training and Prompt-Tuning across Broad Atlases and Disorders
4. ICLR 2026A Brain-Inspired Gating Mechanism Unlocks Robust Computation in Spiking Neural Networks
5. ICLR 2026A Cognitive Process-Inspired Architecture for Subject-Agnostic Brain Visual Decoding
6. ICLR 2026A Derandomization Framework for Structure Discovery: Applications in Neural Networks and Beyond
7. ICLR 2026A foundation model with multi-variate parallel attention to generate neuronal activity
8. ICLR 2026A Function-Centric Graph Neural Network Approach for Predicting Electron Densities
9. ICLR 2026A tale of two tails: Preferred and anti-preferred natural stimuli in visual cortex
10. ICLR 2026Accelerating Benchmarking of Functional Connectivity Modeling via Structure-aware Core-set Selection
11. ICLR 2026Adaptive Canonicalization with Application to Invariant Anisotropic Geometric Networks
12. ICLR 2026Adaptive Mamba Neural Operators
13. ICLR 2026Advancing Spatiotemporal Representations in Spiking Neural Networks via Parametric Invertible Transformation
14. ICLR 2026AlphaBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Formulaic Alpha Factor Mining
15. ICLR 2026AlphaSteer: Learning Refusal Steering with Principled Null-Space Constraint
16. ICLR 2026An Information-Theoretical Framework For Optimizing Experimental Design To Distinguish Probabilistic Neural Codes
17. ICLR 2026Animal behavioral analysis and neural encoding with transformer-based self-supervised pretraining
18. ICLR 2026Are EEG Foundation Models Worth It? Comparative Evaluation with Traditional Decoders in Diverse BCI Tasks
19. ICLR 2026Assembling the Mind's Mosaic: Towards EEG Semantic Intent Decoding
20. ICLR 2026ATOM: A Pretrained Neural Operator for Multitask Molecular Dynamics
21. ICLR 2026AutoDV: An End-to-End Deep Learning Model for High-Dimensional Data Visualization
22. ICLR 2026Automatic and Structure-Aware Sparsification of Hybrid Neural ODEs with Application to Glucose Prediction
23. ICLR 2026Autoregressive Visual Decoding from EEG Signals
24. ICLR 2026Bayesian Test-Time Adaptation via Dirichlet feature projection and GMM-Driven Inference for Motor Imagery EEG Decoding
25. ICLR 2026Beyond Grid-Locked Voxels: Neural Response Functions for Continuous Brain Encoding
26. ICLR 2026Beyond Hearing: Learning Task-agnostic ExG Representations from Earphones via Physiology-informed Tokenization
27. ICLR 2026Beyond the Known: An Unknown-Aware Large Language Model for Open-Set Text Classification
28. ICLR 2026Bidirectional Predictive Coding
29. ICLR 2026BigMaQ: A Big Macaque Motion and Animation Dataset Bridging Image and 3D Pose Representations
30. ICLR 2026Biologically Plausible Learning via Bidirectional Spike-Based Distillation
31. ICLR 2026BOLT: Decision‑Aligned Distillation and Budget-Aware Routing for Constrained Multimodal QA on Robots
32. ICLR 2026Bound by semanticity: universal laws governing the generalization-identification tradeoff
33. ICLR 2026Brain-IT: Image Reconstruction from fMRI via Brain-Interaction Transformer
34. ICLR 2026Brain-Semantoks: Learning Semantic Tokens of Brain Dynamics with a Self-Distilled Foundation Model
35. ICLR 2026Building spatial world models from sparse transitional episodic memories
36. ICLR 2026Cannistraci-Hebb Training on Ultra-Sparse Spiking Neural Networks
37. ICLR 2026CaRe-BN: Precise Moving Statistics for Stabilizing Spiking Neural Networks in Reinforcement Learning
38. ICLR 2026Causal Interpretation of Neural Network Computations with Contribution Decomposition (CODEC)
39. ICLR 2026Characterizing Human Semantic Navigation in Concept Production as Trajectories in Embedding Space
40. ICLR 2026CityLens: Evaluating Large Vision-Language Models for Urban Socioeconomic Sensing
41. ICLR 2026CodeBrain: Towards Decoupled Interpretability and Multi-Scale Architecture for EEG Foundation Model
42. ICLR 2026CogMoE: Signal-Quality–Guided Multimodal MoE for Cognitive Load Prediction
43. ICLR 2026CogniLoad: A Synthetic Natural Language Reasoning Benchmark With Tunable Length, Intrinsic Difficulty, and Distractor Density
44. ICLR 2026CogniMap3D: Cognitive 3D Mapping and Rapid Retrieval
45. ICLR 2026Common Corpus: The Largest Collection of Ethical Data for LLM Pre-Training
46. ICLR 2026Compositional Neuro-Symbolic Concepts in Neural Activities
47. ICLR 2026Continuous multinomial logistic regression for neural decoding
48. ICLR 2026Controlling Repetition in Protein Language Models
49. ICLR 2026Convex Efficient Coding
50. ICLR 2026Count Bridges enable Modeling and Deconvolving Transcriptomic Data

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.