Publications

Selected publications of the Center for Cognitive Computation:

2025

Interplay of episodic and semantic memory arises from adaptive compression

DG NAGY, G ORBÁN, CM WU

PsyArXiv Preprint

 

Uncertainty in latent representations of variational autoencoders optimized for visual tasks

J CATONI, D MARTOS, F CSIKOR, E FERRANTE, DH MILONE, B MESZÉNA, G ORBÁN, R ECHEVESTE

arXiv 2404.15390

 

2024

Identifying Transfer Learning in the Reshaping of Inductive Biases

A SZÉKELY, B TÖRÖK, M KISS, K JANACSEK, D NÉMETH, G ORBÁN

PsyArXiv Preprints

 

Paying attention to natural scenes in area V1

A LAZAR, L KLEIN, J KLON-LIPOK, M BÁNYAI, G ORBÁN, W SINGER

iScience 27, 2024, 108816

 

Shifts in attention drive context-dependent subspace encoding in anterior cingulate cortex in mice during decision making

MA HAJNAL, D TRAN, Z SZABÓ, ET AL.

Nat Commun 15, 2024, 5559

 

Identifying Transfer Learning in the Reshaping of Inductive Biases

A SZÉKELY, B TÖRÖK, M KISS, K JANACSEK, D NÉMETH, G ORBÁN

Open Mind 8, 2024, 1107–1128

 

Bayes beyond the predictive distribution

A SZÉKELY, G ORBÁN

Behav Brain Sci 47, 2024, e166

 

Second-order forward-mode optimization of recurrent neural networks for neuroscience

Y YU, R XIA, Q MA, M LENGYEL, G HENNEQUIN

NeurIPS 2024

 

Structure transfer and consolidation in visual implicit learning

D GARBER, J FISER

eLife 13, 2024, RP100785

 

Neural correlates tracking different aspects of the emerging representation of novel visual categories

S JELLINEK, J FISER

Cerebral Cortex 34, 2024, bhad544

 

Eye movements reflect active statistical learning

J ARATÓ, CA ROTHKOPF, J FISER

J Vis 24, 2024, 17

 

2023

Top-down perceptual inference shaping the activity of early visual cortex

Ferenc Csikor, Balázs Meszéna, Gergő Orbán

bioRxiv 2023.11.29.569262; doi: 10.1101/2023.11.29.569262

2022

The effect of interference, offline sleep, and wake on spatial statistical learning

EA MCDEVITT, J ZHANG, KJ MACKENZIE, J FISER & SC MEDNICK

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 193, 2022,107650

 

Statistical Learning in Vision

G LENGYEL, J FISER

Annual Review of Vision Science 8, 2022

 

Adaptive erasure of spurious sequences in sensory cortical circuits

A BERNACCHIA, J FISER, G HENNEQUIN, M LENGYEL

Neuron (2022) 110, 1–12

 

Planning in the brain

M G MATTAR, M LENGYEL

Neuron (2022) 110, 914-934

 

2021

A universal probabilistic spike count model reveals ongoing modulation of neural variability

D LIU, M LENGYEL

bioRxiv 2021.06.27.450063 (Accepted to NeurIPS)

 

Contextual inference underlies the learning of sensorimotor repertoire?

J B HEALD, M LENGYEL, D M WOLPERT

Nature (2021) 600(7889):489-493

 

Representations of uncertainty: where art thou?

Á KOBLINGER, J FISER, M LENGYEL

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences (2021), 38:150–162

 

Statistically defined visual chunks engage object-based attention

G LENGYEL, M NAGY, J FISER

Nature Communications 12: 272 (2021)

2020

Optimal forgetting: Semantic compression of episodic memories

DG Nagy, B Török, G Orbán

PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY 16(10):e1008367.

 

Individualised dynamic internal representations from response times

B Török, DG Nagy, MM Kiss, K Janacsek, D Németh, G Orbán

biORXIV 2020.06.22.163295

 

Cortical-like dynamics in recurrent circuits optimized for sampling-based probabilistic inference

R Echeveste, L Aitchison, G Hennequin, M Lengyel

Nature Neuroscience 23, 1138–1149

 

Different mechanisms underlie implicit visual statistical learning in honey bees and humans

A Avarguès-Weber, V Finke, M Nagy, T Szabó, D d’Amaro, AG Dyer, J Fiser

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2020, 117 (41) 

 

Learning in the eyes: specific changes in gaze patterns track explicit and implicit visual learning

J Arato, CA Rothkopf, J Fiser

BIOARXIV  2020.08.03.234039

2019

A common probabilistic framework for perceptual and statistical learning

J Fiser, G Lengyel

Current opinion in neurobiology 58, 218-228

 

Noise correlations and perceptual inference

Bányai M, Orbán G

Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 58: 209-217.

 

Representational untangling by the firing rate nonlinearity in V1 simple cells    

ME Polack P-O, Golshani P, Lengyel M, Orbán G

eLife, 8:e43625 doi: 10.7554/eLife.43625

 

Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex

Bányai M, Lazar A, Klein L, Klon-Lipok J, Stippinger M, Singer W, and Orbán G

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, 10.1073/pnas.1816766116.

 

Unimodal statistical learning produces multimodal object-like representations.

LENGYEL G, ŽALALYTĖ G, PANTELIDES A, INGRAM JN, FISER J, LENGYEL M & WOLPERT DM

ELIFE 8:E43942

2018

Global and multiplexed dendritic computations under in vivo-like conditions.

Ujfalussy BB, Makara JK, Lengyel M*, Branco T*. (*equal contributions)

Neuron 100:579-592

 

The dynamical regime of sensory cortex: stable dynamics around a single stimulus-tuned attractor account for patterns of noise variability.

Hennequin G, Ahmadian Y#, Rubin DB#, Lengyel M*, Miller KD*. (#*equal contributions)

Neuron 98(4):846-860

2016

Perceptual decision-making as probabilistic inference by neural sampling

RM Haefner, P Berkes, J Fiser

Neuron 90 (3), 649-660

 

Neural variability and sampling-based probabilistic representations in the visual cortex.

Orbán G, Berkes P, Fiser J, Lengyel M

Neuron, 92:530–543.

 

Episodic memory as a prerequisite for online updates of model structure.

Nagy DG, Orbán G

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2699-2704.

Active sensing in the categorization of visual patterns.

Yang S-CH, Lengyel M*, Wolpert DM*. (*equal contributions)

eLife 5:e12215

2013

Age-dependent and coordinated shift in performance between implicit and explicit skill learning

D Nemeth, K Janacsek, J Fiser

Frontiers in computational neuroscience 7, 147

 

Cognitive tomography reveals complex, task-independent mental representations.

Houlsby NMT, Huszár F, Ghassemi MM, Orbán G, Wolpert DM, Lengyel M 

Current Biology 23: 2169-2175

2011

Spontaneous cortical activity reveals hallmarks of an optimal internal model of the environment

P Berkes, G Orbán, M Lengyel, J Fiser

Science 331 (6013), 83-87

2010

Statistically optimal perception and learning: from behavior to neural representations

J Fiser, P Berkes, G Orbán, M Lengyel

Trends in cognitive sciences 14 (3), 119-130

2008

Bayesian learning of visual chunks by human observers

G Orbán, J Fiser, RN Aslin, M Lengyel

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (7), 2745-2750

2005

Encoding multielement scenes: statistical learning of visual feature hierarchies.

J Fiser, RN Aslin

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 134 (4), 521

2004

Small modulation of ongoing cortical dynamics by sensory input during natural vision

J Fiser, C Chiu, M Weliky

Nature 431 (7008), 573

2002

Statistical learning of new visual feature combinations by infants

J Fiser, RN Aslin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (24), 15822-15826

2001

Unsupervised statistical learning of higher-order spatial structures from visual scenes

J Fiser, RN Aslin

Psychological science 12 (6), 499-504

1998

Distance modulation of neural activity in the visual cortex

AC Dobbins, RM Jeo, J Fiser, JM Allman

Science 281 (5376), 552-555


All publications:

Publications of the Computational Learning and Memory Group

Publications of the Computational Systems Neuroscience Lab

Publications of the VisionLab