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

227 papers, page 1 of 5

1. NeurIPS 2026(Strongly) Replicable Distribution Testers imply High Probability Distribution Testers
2. NeurIPS 2026$\mathrm{Bounded\mbox{-}RS}$: A Bounded Evaluation Protocol and Testbed for Representational Systematicity
3. NeurIPS 2026A Hebbian Recurrent Neural Network Explains the Hierarchical Geometry of Sequence Memory
4. NeurIPS 2026A latent control model for realistic rodent motion
5. NeurIPS 2026A Matter of Interest: Understanding Interestingness Judgments of Math Problems in Humans and Language Models
6. NeurIPS 2026Active Probabilistic Reasoning in Humans and LLMs
7. NeurIPS 2026Adaptive Multi-Frame Learning for Expressive and Stable Atomic Representations
8. NeurIPS 2026AffordSim: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark for Affordance-Aware Robotic Manipulation
9. NeurIPS 2026Agentic Abstention: Do Agents Know When to Stop Instead of Act?
10. NeurIPS 2026Aligning MLLMs with the Latent Structure of Human Cognition via Behavior-Derived Semantic Dimensions
11. NeurIPS 2026AlphaPROBE: Alpha Mining via principled retriveval and on-graph biased evolution
12. NeurIPS 2026Announced Breaks Separate Conformal Reliability from Frequency Calibration
13. NeurIPS 2026Anymotion: A Dataset, Benchmark, and Baseline for Controllable Human Motion Editing
14. NeurIPS 2026Approximate Matrix–Vectors Under a Bounded $\ell_1$ Assumption and Applications to Kernel Matrices
15. NeurIPS 2026Attention-based Routing for Interpretable Multimodal Brain Encoding
16. NeurIPS 2026AUTOMEM: Automated Learning of Memory as a Cognitive Skill
17. NeurIPS 2026B[FM]$^2$: Brain Foundation Model via Flow Matching with SplitUNet
18. NeurIPS 2026Beyond DSA: Conjugacy-based Comparison of Dynamical Systems
19. NeurIPS 2026Beyond High and Low: Evaluating Graded Cognitive Diversity in LLM Persona Simulations
20. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Raw Observations: Distilling and Storing Invariant Driving Memories for Generalizable Autonomous Driving
21. NeurIPS 2026Beyond Task Success: Probing Cognitive Primitives in Web Agents
22. NeurIPS 2026Beyond the Full Slate: Evaluating MNL Algorithms on All Slates
23. NeurIPS 2026Bias, Measurement Error, and Double-Dipping: When Can GNN Convolutions Help Brain Connectome Prediction?
24. NeurIPS 2026Binding Visual Features Point by Point
25. NeurIPS 2026Bounds on Extrapolation across Phase Transitions with Generalized Regression
26. NeurIPS 2026Brain-OF: An Omnifunctional Foundation Model for fMRI, EEG and MEG
27. NeurIPS 2026Brain2voice 2.0: High-performance voice synthesis brain-computer interface
28. NeurIPS 2026Calibrated Target Noise Recovers Curvature from the Gradients
29. NeurIPS 2026Cannistraci-Hebb Channel-wise Dynamic Sparse Training of Convolutional Neural Networks with Contextual Modulation
30. NeurIPS 2026Capturing Membrane Dynamics and Spike Timing of Human Neurons at Scale using Neural Operators
31. NeurIPS 2026CASL-VAE: Learning Structured Latent Variables from Unpaired Data for Semi-supervised Clustering and Paired Sample Generation
32. NeurIPS 2026Castle-in-the-Air: Probing the Foundational Visual Deficits of MLLMs via Bottom-Up Cognitive Factors
33. NeurIPS 2026Chem-PerturBridge: a harmonized compendium of small molecule perturbation transcriptomic effects
34. NeurIPS 2026Clustering with Weak Distance Oracles
35. NeurIPS 2026Co-Evolving Interpolants and Flows via Path-Flow Alignment
36. NeurIPS 2026CogBench: Evaluating Cognitive-Level Control in LLM Question Generation
37. NeurIPS 2026Computationally Efficient Replicable Learning of Parities and Applications
38. NeurIPS 2026Concise and Logically Consistent Conformal Sets for Neuro-Symbolic Concept-Based Models
39. NeurIPS 2026Conditional independence and graphical models for rankings
40. NeurIPS 2026Conformal Prediction with Paraphrase-Aware Scoring for LLM Uncertainty Quantification
41. NeurIPS 2026Constrained Bombieri Point Processes
42. NeurIPS 2026Constrained Modulatory Reservoirs for Context-Dependent Computation
43. NeurIPS 2026Correctable Fork Tokens: Verifier-Anchored Selective Credit Assignment for Tool-Integrated RLVR
44. NeurIPS 2026CORTEG: Foundation Models Enable Cross-Modality Representation Transfer from Scalp to Intracranial Brain Recordings
45. NeurIPS 2026Cortically-Resolved Recurrent Architecture for fMRI
46. NeurIPS 2026Coupled Integral PINN for Discontinuity
47. NeurIPS 2026CryoAtlas: A Large Curated Dataset and Unified Benchmark for Cryo-EM Atomic Model Building
48. NeurIPS 2026CSBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Project-Level System Construction in Computer Science
49. NeurIPS 2026CutAttn: Discovering Cognitive Transition Layers for Efficient Long-Context Prefilling
50. NeurIPS 2026CyBiasBench: Benchmarking Bias in LLM Agents for Cyber-Attack Scenarios

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.