Vincent Taschereau-Dumouchel
@vincenttd.bsky.social
Assistant prof in psychiatry at the University of Montreal. Affective neuroscience & consciousness - Real-time brain imaging & neurofeedback - Computational psychiatry.
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More evidence of continuous flash suppression / binocular rivalry under anesthesia (in mice): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Continuous Flash Suppression responses in mouse visual cortex: stimulus laterality and anesthesia effects
We investigated whether binocularly conflicting stimuli adapted from primate binocular rivalry studies could induce binocular response suppression in mouse visual cortex. We presented binocularly conf...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
More evidence of continuous flash suppression / binocular rivalry under anesthesia (in mice): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈
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www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Perceptual Metacognition Beyond Confidence -
a little commentary piece by Tomoya Nakayama & yours truly (on @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social, & @smfleming.bsky.social’s recent Neuron paper)
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Perceptual Metacognition Beyond Confidence -
a little commentary piece by Tomoya Nakayama & yours truly (on @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social, & @smfleming.bsky.social’s recent Neuron paper)
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Perceptual metacognition beyond confidence
In this issue of Neuron, Dijkstra et al. showed that deciding whether a perceived
stimulus is actually present or whether it is just one’s own imagination depends on
specific signals in the fusiform g...
www.cell.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Perceptual Metacognition Beyond Confidence -
a little commentary piece by Tomoya Nakayama & yours truly (on @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social, & @smfleming.bsky.social’s recent Neuron paper)
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Perceptual Metacognition Beyond Confidence -
a little commentary piece by Tomoya Nakayama & yours truly (on @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social, Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social, & @smfleming.bsky.social’s recent Neuron paper)
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electrical stimulation to the dlPFC can alleviate neuropathic pain, but only if we hit the exact right spot
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July 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
electrical stimulation to the dlPFC can alleviate neuropathic pain, but only if we hit the exact right spot
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io/preprints/ps...
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After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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osf.io
July 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
After five years of confused staring at Greek letters, it is my absolute pleasure to finally share our (with @smfleming.bsky.social) computational model of mental imagery and reality monitoring: Perceptual Reality Monitoring as Higher-Order inference on Sensory Precision ✨
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Thrilled to share our new paper in Nature Human Behaviour!
nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵
Biological markers and psychosocial factors predict chronic pain conditions - Nature Human Behaviour
Fillingim et al. show that biological and psychosocial factors jointly predict conditions associated with chronic pain.
nature.com
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thrilled to share our new paper in Nature Human Behaviour!
nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵
nature.com/articles/s41...
We show that combining biological 🧬 and psychosocial 📋 data offers a much stronger, more reliable path to predicting pain and diagnosis. 🧵
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"... supporters of GNWT called IIT a pseudoscience. Such language has no place in a process designed to establish working relationships between competing groups"
i totally agree w/ the 2nd part. but we're not part of that process, nor the said competing groups ...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
i totally agree w/ the 2nd part. but we're not part of that process, nor the said competing groups ...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come
Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.
www.nature.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"... supporters of GNWT called IIT a pseudoscience. Such language has no place in a process designed to establish working relationships between competing groups"
i totally agree w/ the 2nd part. but we're not part of that process, nor the said competing groups ...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
i totally agree w/ the 2nd part. but we're not part of that process, nor the said competing groups ...
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Tom Dupré la Tour, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, and Jack L. Gallant:
The Voxelwise Encoding Model framework: A tutorial introduction to fitting encoding models to fMRI data
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
The Voxelwise Encoding Model framework: A tutorial introduction to fitting encoding models to fMRI data
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
May 16, 2025 at 2:08 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Tom Dupré la Tour, Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello, and Jack L. Gallant:
The Voxelwise Encoding Model framework: A tutorial introduction to fitting encoding models to fMRI data
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
The Voxelwise Encoding Model framework: A tutorial introduction to fitting encoding models to fMRI data
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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#INTELLIGENCEARTIFICIELLE | 🧠 Des chercheurs ont utilisé des réseaux neuronaux artificiels pour prédire certains symptômes liés à la santé mentale.
Recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#SantéMentale #Psychologie
Recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#SantéMentale #Psychologie
Et si l’IA devenait un outil de dépistage psychologique?
Des chercheurs se sont servis de réseaux neuronaux artificiels pour prédire si des personnes présentaient des symptômes souvent observés dans la dépression, l'anxiété ou la schizophrénie.
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April 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#INTELLIGENCEARTIFICIELLE | 🧠 Des chercheurs ont utilisé des réseaux neuronaux artificiels pour prédire certains symptômes liés à la santé mentale.
Recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#SantéMentale #Psychologie
Recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#SantéMentale #Psychologie
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i have uploaded this preprint a while back, but hadn't promoted it directly here. in this piece i explain why i can no longer recommend trainees to participate in my former home field.
The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps...
but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything.
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The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps...
but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything.
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OSF
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April 30, 2025 at 11:18 PM
i have uploaded this preprint a while back, but hadn't promoted it directly here. in this piece i explain why i can no longer recommend trainees to participate in my former home field.
The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps...
but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything.
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The End of Conscioussness - osf.io/preprints/ps...
but i've learned a lot. thank you for everything.
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🧠 Ce que vous voyez dans une image pourrait-il trahir votre état mental? Des chercheurs ont entraîné une #IA à le deviner.
Une recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#IntelligenceArtificielle #SantéMentale #Psychologie
Une recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#IntelligenceArtificielle #SantéMentale #Psychologie
Et si l’IA devenait un outil de dépistage psychologique?
Des chercheurs se sont servis de réseaux neuronaux artificiels pour prédire si des personnes présentaient des symptômes souvent observés dans la dépression, l'anxiété ou la schizophrénie.
nouvelles.umontreal.ca
April 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
🧠 Ce que vous voyez dans une image pourrait-il trahir votre état mental? Des chercheurs ont entraîné une #IA à le deviner.
Une recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#IntelligenceArtificielle #SantéMentale #Psychologie
Une recherche menée par @shwnmnl.bsky.social, @vincenttd.bsky.social, Jean Gagnon et Frédéric Gosselin.
#IntelligenceArtificielle #SantéMentale #Psychologie
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Here is our collaborative work with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @vincenttd.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social presented at CNS2025 on the comparison between behavioral similarity judgments on different properties, fMRI, and AI/algorithmic Representational spaces. qr.me-qr.com/es/link-list...
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Here is our collaborative work with @meganakpeters.bsky.social @vincenttd.bsky.social and @brianodegaard.bsky.social presented at CNS2025 on the comparison between behavioral similarity judgments on different properties, fMRI, and AI/algorithmic Representational spaces. qr.me-qr.com/es/link-list...
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new preprint just dropped!
Revealing higher-order neural representations with generative artificial intelligence
led by @hazimi.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14333
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Revealing higher-order neural representations with generative artificial intelligence
led by @hazimi.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14333
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Revealing higher-order neural representations with generative artificial intelligence
Studies often aim to reveal how neural representations encode aspects of an observer's environment, such as its contents or structure. These are ``first-order" representations (FORs), because they're ...
arxiv.org
March 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
new preprint just dropped!
Revealing higher-order neural representations with generative artificial intelligence
led by @hazimi.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14333
thread 👇
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Revealing higher-order neural representations with generative artificial intelligence
led by @hazimi.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2503.14333
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En attendant notre séance de samedi, revivez la passionnante conférence d' @axc.bsky.social (de l' @ulbruxelles.bsky.social et membre de l' #Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique), La conscience : comment et pourquoi ? #neuroskyence 🧪
youtu.be/8IVI8y8I0xo
youtu.be/8IVI8y8I0xo
Axel Cleeremans : La conscience : comment et pourquoi ?
YouTube video by Académie de Médecine (ARMB)
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March 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
En attendant notre séance de samedi, revivez la passionnante conférence d' @axc.bsky.social (de l' @ulbruxelles.bsky.social et membre de l' #Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique), La conscience : comment et pourquoi ? #neuroskyence 🧪
youtu.be/8IVI8y8I0xo
youtu.be/8IVI8y8I0xo
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Fetuses have the right signatures according to IIT for consciousness, especially if they're premature and male (apparently): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There are consequences of IIT in the real world. For real people. It clearly already has the juice to be a practical concern.
There are consequences of IIT in the real world. For real people. It clearly already has the juice to be a practical concern.
Sex differences in prenatal development of neural complexity in the human brain - Nature Mental Health
A magnetoencephalography study provides evidence that neural signal complexity declines with brain maturation in human fetuses and newborns and the decline occurs faster in male fetuses.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Fetuses have the right signatures according to IIT for consciousness, especially if they're premature and male (apparently): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
There are consequences of IIT in the real world. For real people. It clearly already has the juice to be a practical concern.
There are consequences of IIT in the real world. For real people. It clearly already has the juice to be a practical concern.
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i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT.
inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
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inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
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finale: reply to Gomez-Marin & Seth about the scientific status of IIT
here i respond to a commentary written by Alex Gomez-Marin and Anil Seth, on a paper explaining why IIT is unscientific . the latter articl...
inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com
March 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
i used to have blog on consciousness. i just uploaded my final post there, in which i responded to Alex Gomez-Marin & Anil Seth's recent commentary on the scientific status of IIT.
inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
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inconsciousnesswetrust.blogspot.com/2025/03/fina...
so long, folks.
the world is going nuts. pls take care.
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LLMs have shown impressive performance in some reasoning tasks, but what internal mechanisms do they use to solve these tasks? In a new preprint, we find evidence that abstract reasoning in LLMs depends on an emergent form of symbol processing arxiv.org/abs/2502.20332 (1/N)
Emergent Symbolic Mechanisms Support Abstract Reasoning in Large Language Models
Many recent studies have found evidence for emergent reasoning capabilities in large language models, but debate persists concerning the robustness of these capabilities, and the extent to which they ...
arxiv.org
March 10, 2025 at 7:08 PM
LLMs have shown impressive performance in some reasoning tasks, but what internal mechanisms do they use to solve these tasks? In a new preprint, we find evidence that abstract reasoning in LLMs depends on an emergent form of symbol processing arxiv.org/abs/2502.20332 (1/N)
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Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
Why Tononi’s Defense of IIT Fails to Convince Me
I am one of the co-signers of the letter labeling IIT as “pseudoscience” for numerous reasons. These include a definition of…
medium.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Why Tononi et al's defense of IIT fails to convince me. medium.com/@kording/86f...
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New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
What makes a theory of consciousness unscientific? - Nature Neuroscience
Theories of consciousness have a long and controversial history. One well-known proposal — integrated information theory — has recently been labeled as ‘pseudoscience’, which has caused a heated open ...
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March 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
New version of "the letter" in Nature Neuroscience. Like many others in the field, I signed because I believe that IIT threatens to deligitimize the scientific study of consciousness: www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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🚀 Thrilled to share my first first-author paper, published in PCN !
We explore how our unique subjective experiences of the world affect mental health using a combination of psychometrics, NLP and genAI.
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/pcn....
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We explore how our unique subjective experiences of the world affect mental health using a combination of psychometrics, NLP and genAI.
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/pcn....
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Towards a latent space cartography of subjective experience in mental health
Aims The way that individuals subjectively experience the world greatly influences their own mental well-being. However, it remains a considerable challenge to precisely characterize the breadth and...
doi.org
February 16, 2025 at 9:29 PM
🚀 Thrilled to share my first first-author paper, published in PCN !
We explore how our unique subjective experiences of the world affect mental health using a combination of psychometrics, NLP and genAI.
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/pcn....
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We explore how our unique subjective experiences of the world affect mental health using a combination of psychometrics, NLP and genAI.
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/pcn....
🧵👇
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Let's do something fun! I have access to ChatGPT Deep Research. It will give you 10-30 page reports about esoteric topics by aggregating information from a few dozen sources, with citations. What do you want to ask it?
February 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Let's do something fun! I have access to ChatGPT Deep Research. It will give you 10-30 page reports about esoteric topics by aggregating information from a few dozen sources, with citations. What do you want to ask it?
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@alexanderhuth.bsky.social - in your amazing 2016 Nature paper u showed that semantic content as triggered by spoken words is broadly represented by pretty much the entire cortex.
if one did the same analysis w/ movies, would it be less widespread? 🧠📈 🧠💻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
if one did the same analysis w/ movies, would it be less widespread? 🧠📈 🧠💻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
WATCH The Brain Dictionary
From the award-winning Nature Video team
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February 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
@alexanderhuth.bsky.social - in your amazing 2016 Nature paper u showed that semantic content as triggered by spoken words is broadly represented by pretty much the entire cortex.
if one did the same analysis w/ movies, would it be less widespread? 🧠📈 🧠💻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
if one did the same analysis w/ movies, would it be less widespread? 🧠📈 🧠💻
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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General ML question: If a high-dimensional model predicts the training set 100%, but generalizes to held-out data to a realistic degree (e.g. an r2 of 0.1-0.2), is it overfit? Or is it only overfitting if it fails to generalize?
January 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
General ML question: If a high-dimensional model predicts the training set 100%, but generalizes to held-out data to a realistic degree (e.g. an r2 of 0.1-0.2), is it overfit? Or is it only overfitting if it fails to generalize?
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My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition - Nature Communications
Measuring metacognitive ability is one of the enduring challenges in cognitive science. The current paper develops formal tests of the quality of different measures and assesses how current metrics pe...
www.nature.com
January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
My article "A comprehensive assessment of current methods for measuring metacognition" is finally out in Nature Communications 🎉 If you work on metacognition and think you know the psychometric properties of your favorite measure, you may be surprised.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NOW OUT in Scientific Reports! the latest from @mehdiorouji.bsky.social, me, and many others!
Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
NOW OUT in Scientific Reports! the latest from @mehdiorouji.bsky.social, me, and many others!
Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
thread 🧵👇
Task relevant autoencoding enhances machine learning for human neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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