NEU 290 Reading Assignments

20 papers in order of publication year — 3 assigned readers per paper

Papers are ordered from oldest to most recent. Vote counts reflect 8 ballots cast by class members. Each paper has 3 assigned readers, distributed as evenly as possible across the 9 participants: Brosler, Chuang, Fu, Hendrikx, Holmberg, Okuniewska, Park, Shim, Tang.
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0 votes Johnston, W. J., Palmer, S. E., & Freedman, D. J. (2020). Nonlinear mixed selectivity supports reliable neural computation. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(2), Article e1007544.
Readers: Brosler, Fu, Shim
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3 votes Rule, M. E., & O’Leary, T. (2022). Self-healing codes: How stable neural populations can track continually reconfiguring neural representations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(7), Article e2106692119.
Readers: Hendrikx, Okuniewska, Park
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0 votes Schoonover, C. E., Ohashi, S. N., Axel, R., & Fink, A. J. P. (2021). Representational drift in primary olfactory cortex. Nature, 594(7864), 541–546.
Readers: Brosler, Chuang, Holmberg
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0 votes Aitken, K., Garrett, M., Olsen, S., & Mihalas, S. (2022). The geometry of representational drift in natural and artificial neural networks. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(12), Article e1010716.
Readers: Fu, Park, Tang
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5 votes Driscoll, L. N., Duncker, L., & Harvey, C. D. (2022). Representational drift: Emerging theories for continual learning and experimental future directions. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 76, Article 102609.
Readers: Hendrikx, Okuniewska, Shim
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3 votes Flesch, T., Juechems, K., Dumbalska, T., Saxe, A., & Summerfield, C. (2022). Orthogonal representations for robust context-dependent task performance in brains and neural networks. Neuron, 110(7), 1258–1270.
Readers: Brosler, Okuniewska, Tang
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7 votes Ito, T., Yang, G. R., Laurent, P., Schultz, D. H., & Cole, M. W. (2022). Constructing neural network models from brain data reveals representational transformations linked to adaptive behavior. Nature Communications, 13(1), Article 673.
Readers: Chuang, Fu, Park
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3 votes Ito, T., Klinger, T., Schultz, D., Murray, J., Cole, M., & Rigotti, M. (2022). Compositional generalization through abstract representations in human and artificial neural networks. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35, 32225–32239.
Readers: Hendrikx, Holmberg, Shim
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2 votes Keller, A. S., Jagadeesh, A. V., Bugatus, L., Williams, L. M., & Grill-Spector, K. (2022). Attention enhances category representations across the brain with strengthened residual correlations to ventral temporal cortex. NeuroImage, 249, Article 118900.
Readers: Brosler, Chuang, Shim
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4 votes Sadeh, S., & Clopath, C. (2022). Contribution of behavioural variability to representational drift. eLife, 11, Article e77907.
Readers: Fu, Holmberg, Okuniewska
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4 votes Shahdloo, M., Çelik, E., Urgen, B. A., Gallant, J. L., & Çukur, T. (2022). Task-dependent warping of semantic representations during search for visual action categories. Journal of Neuroscience, 42(35), 6782–6799.
Readers: Hendrikx, Park, Tang
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1 vote Bidelman, G. M., et al. (2023). Continuous dynamics in behavior reveal interactions between perceptual warping and speech-in-noise perception. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, Article 1032369.
Readers: Brosler, Hendrikx, Tang
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2 votes Chapman, A. F., Chunharas, C., & Störmer, V. S. (2023). Feature-based attention warps the perception of visual features. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 6487.
Readers: Chuang, Okuniewska, Shim
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0 votes Doostani, K., Peelen, M. V., & Hickey, C. (2023). Attention modulates human visual responses to objects by tuning sharpening. eLife, 12, Article e89836.
Readers: Fu, Holmberg, Park
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1 vote Brissenden, J. A., Tobyne, S. M., & Somers, D. C. (2024). Errors of attention adaptively warp spatial cognition. bioRxiv.
Readers: Brosler, Park, Shim
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1 vote Kraeutner, S. N., Frank, C., Rieger, M., & Boe, S. G. (2024). Imagery and motor learning: A special issue on the neurocognitive mechanisms of imagery and imagery practice of motor actions. Psychological Research, 88(6), 1785–1789.
Readers: Chuang, Hendrikx, Holmberg
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5 votes Trentin, C., Falanga, L., Jeske, J., Olivers, C. N., & Slagter, H. A. (2024). Action similarity warps visual feature space in working memory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(49), Article e2413433121.
Readers: Fu, Okuniewska, Tang
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1 vote Dalal, D., Vashishtha, G., Mishra, U., Kim, J., Kanda, M., Ha, H., et al. (2025). Constructive distortion: Improving MLLMs with attention-guided image warping. arXiv.
Readers: Brosler, Chuang, Okuniewska
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3 votes Störmer, V. S., & Seger, C. A. (2025). Emergence of categorical representations in parietal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex across extended training. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(9), Article e1315242024.
Readers: Fu, Hendrikx, Shim
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5 votes Tafazoli, S., Bouchacourt, F. M., Ardalan, A., Markov, N. T., Uchimura, M., Mattar, M. G., Daw, N. D., & Buschman, T. J. (2025). Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces. Nature.
Readers: Holmberg, Park, Tang