Publications and Preprints
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Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling
Nicholas M. Blauch, David C. Plaut, Raina Vin, Marlene Behrmann (2024). bioRXiv.
TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model
Neil Rathi, Johannes Mehrer, Badr AlKhamissi, Taha Binhuraib, Nicholas M. Blauch, & Martin Schrimpf (2024). arXiv.
Topoformer: brain-like topographic organization in Transformer language models through spatial querying and reweighting
Taha BinHuraib, Greta Tuckute, Nicholas M. Blauch (2024). ICLR Re-Align Workshop.
Visual word processing engages a hierarchical, distributed, and bilateral cortical network
Raina Vin, Nicholas M. Blauch, David C. Plaut, Marlene Behrmann. (2024). iScience.
A connectivity-constrained computational account of topographic organization in high-level visual cortex
Nicholas M. Blauch (2023). Ph.D Thesis. Carnegie Mellon University.
A connectivity-constrained computational account of topographic organization in primate high-level visual cortex
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, David C. Plaut. (2022). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Computational insights into human perceptual expertise for familiar and unfamiliar face recognition
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann, David C. Plaut. (2021). Cognition, 208, 104341.
Uncharacteristic task-evoked pupillary responses implicate atypical locus coeruleus activity in autism
Michael C. Granovetter, Charlie S. Burlingham, Nicholas M. Blauch, Nancy J. Minshaw, David J. Heeger, Marlene Behrmann (2020). Journal of Neuroscience.
Representing Faces in 3D
Nicholas M. Blauch, Marlene Behrmann. (2019). Nature Human Behavior.
Functionally localized representations contain distributed information: insights from simulations of deep convolutional neural networks
Nicholas M. Blauch, Elissa Aminoff, Michael J. Tarr. (2017) 39th Annual Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, London U.K.