Conference Presentations

Brain-like functional organization in topographic transformer models of language processing
Taha Binhuraib, Greta Tuckute, Nicholas M. Blauch
Poster at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2024, Cambridge, MA, USA.

A computational model of the topography of human ventral temporal cortex
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, David C. Plaut
Poster at Organization for Human Brain Mapping 2022, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.

Connectivity constraints, viewing biases, and task demands within a bi-hemispheric interactive topographic network account for the layout of human ventral temporal cortex
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, David C. Plaut
Talk at Vision Sciences 2022, St Pete Beach, FL, USA.

Developing topographic organization in a recurrent neural network model with biological constraints
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, David C. Plaut
Talk at Vision Sciences 2021, Virtual.

Cortical organization as optimization under distance-dependent constraints
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, David C. Plaut
Poster at Vision Sciences 2020, Virtual.

Visual expertise and the familiar face advantage
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, David Plaut.
Poster at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2019, Berlin Germany.

Assessing the similarity of object and scene representations through cross-validated voxel encoding models
Nicholas M. Blauch, Filipe De Avile Belbute Peres, Alireza Chaman Zar, Juhi Farooqui, David Plaut, Marlene Behrmann.
Poster at Vision Sciences 2019, St. Pete Beach, FL.

Task and stimulus normalization effects in face perception: an fMRI study
Nicholas M. Blauch, Rosemary A. Cowell.
Poster at Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 2018, Philadelphia, PA.

Functionally localized representations contain distributed information
Nicholas M. Blauch, Elissa Aminoff, Michael J. Tarr.
Talk at Cognitive Science 2017, London, U.K.