Murty Lab @ VSS 2026

Explore the research our lab is showcasing at the conference, including 1 Symposium Talk, 1 satellite event, 2 talks, 3 posters! Looking forward to connecting!

Symposium talk

Friday, May 15, 1:45 – 3:45 pm · Talk Room 1

Using cognitive tests to reveal the strengths and limits of brain encoding models

Speaker N Apurva Ratan Murty

Session Beyond Prediction: Interpretable Brain Encoding Models for Understanding Vision

Portrait of N Apurva Ratan Murty
Satellite event

Sunday, May 17, 12:45 – 2:15 pm · Blue Heron

In-silico replications and hypothesis testing for model benchmarking

Organizer Ruolin Wang

Speakers N Apurva Ratan Murty, Nancy Kanwisher, Antônio Mello, Brad Duchaine, Mayukh Deb, Ruolin Wang

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Portrait of Ruolin Wang Portrait of Mayukh Deb Portrait of N Apurva Ratan Murty
Talk

Tuesday, May 19, 8:15 – 9:45 am · Talk Room 2

Cortex: A unified framework for evaluating the predictive and cognitive alignment of vision models entirely zero-shot

Speaker Ruolin Wang

Session Functional Organization of Visual Pathways 2 · Talk 51.21

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Talk

Tuesday, May 19, 2:45 – 4:30 pm · Talk Room 1

Robustness aligns the local coding axes of artificial and biological vision

Speaker Nikolas McNeal

Session Theory · Talk 54.14

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Poster

Saturday, May 16, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm · Banyan Breezeway

Linking neural representations to behavior with a unified model of human vision

Presenter Kushal Dudipala

Session Undergraduate Just-In-Time 1 · Poster 23.349

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Poster

Saturday, May 16, 2:45 – 6:45 pm · Pavilion

Category-selectivity in ANNs differs systematically from human fMRI responses

Presenter Alish Dipani

Session Theory · Poster 26.461

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Poster summary: comparing category-selective fMRI responses in FFA, EBA, and PPA to ANN units; human responses cluster while model responses scatter.
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Portrait of Alish Dipani
Poster

Sunday, May 17, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm · Banyan Breezeway

Functionally distinct sub-regions of the parahippocampal place area revealed by model-based neural control

Presenter Ranjani Koushik

Session Undergraduate Just-In-Time 2 · Poster 33.350

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Other highlights from Psychological and Brain Sciences @ Georgia Tech

See more fantastic talks and posters from our colleagues!

Talk 52.21 · Tuesday, May 19, 10:45 am – 12:15 pm · Talk Room 2

A re-analysis of 55 experiments reveals two factors that drive confidence for error trials

Herrick Fung · Decision Making

Poster 23.456 · Saturday, May 16, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm · Pavilion

When the Wait Matters: Differences in Cognitive Ability Contributions to Simultaneous vs. Sequential Visual Discrimination

Yoonsang Lee · Decision Making: Perception 1

Poster 43.453 · Monday, May 18, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm · Pavilion

Probability versus Evidence: Comparing Confidence Models in Multi-Alternative Perceptual Decision Making

Kai Xue · Decision Making: Actions, metacognition

Poster 53.325 · Tuesday, May 19, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm · Banyan Breezeway

Exploring the Mental Representation of Visualization Complexity through Measurement Methods

Kylie Lin · Perceptual Organization: Grouping

Poster 53.432 · Tuesday, May 19, 8:30 am – 12:30 pm · Pavilion

Representation of auditory motion in hMT+ of early blind individuals

Yang YANG · Motion: Mechanisms, models