Subha Nawer Pushpita
pushpita1729.bsky.social
Subha Nawer Pushpita
@pushpita1729.bsky.social
Cognitive Computational Neuroscientist in Training
Neuro + ML PhD @ CMU'29 | BS in Math and in CS @ MIT' 23 & MEng' 24
8/n
Notably, our multimodal transformer independently rediscovered the brain’s modality organization, assigning higher visual weight to occipital regions, higher auditory weight to temporal areas, variable modality weight to switching areas, and balanced weight to jointly predicted areas.
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
7/n
The circular belts of regions that alternate their dominant sensory modality over time(shades of red below) , and the axis of regions along the occipito-temporal lobe that jointly track both modalities(shades of blue below), together form a bow-and-arrow-like pattern.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
PIP result
November 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
4/n
DIP reveals a pair of “bows” of modality switching - one posterior bow encircling category-selective visual cortex and another anterior bow spanning dorso-lateral frontal areas (purple to pink in the plot are switching regions)
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2/n
Using large-scale fMRI data collected while participants watched movies, we developed two computational approaches relying on prediction performance to analyze temporal dynamics of sensory processing across cortical regions
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM