Publications

Latest list on Google Scholar. * denotes equal contributionHighlighted: representative work

  1. [9]

    Braintree: An agentic framework for in-silico vision neuroscience

    Deb, M., Wang, R., Dipani, A., & Ratan Murty, N. A.

    bioRxiv, 2026Under reviewPaper
    BibTeX
    @article{deb2026braintree,
      title={Braintree: An agentic framework for in-silico vision neuroscience},
      author={Deb, Mainak and Wang, Ruolin and Dipani, Alish and Ratan Murty, N. Apurva},
      journal={bioRxiv},
      year={2026},
      doi={10.64898/2026.10.07.756448},
    }
  2. [8]

    What a Shared Week of Open Python Learning Revealed About Access, Motivation, and the Path into Computational Neuroscience

    Ohue, P., Gbayisomore, T., Dipani, A., Guha, A., … Umoquit, M.

    Zenodo, 2026ReportPaper
    BibTeX
    @misc{ohue2026shared,
      title={What a Shared Week of Open Python Learning Revealed About Access, Motivation, and the Path into Computational Neuroscience},
      author={Ohue, Peter and Gbayisomore, Tolulope and Dipani, Alish and Guha, Aparajeeta and Kurmashev, Ruslan and Oladokun, Afeez and Oladele, Tolulope and Ranasinghe, Chathura and Sinha, Manisha and Yang, Apollo and Umoquit, Muriah},
      publisher={Zenodo},
      year={2026},
      doi={10.5281/zenodo.23082542},
    }
  3. [7]

    Zero-shot evaluations expose structured generalization limits in predictive models of the brain

    Wang, R.*, Deb, M.*, Abate, A., Dipani, A., … Ratan Murty, N. A.

    bioRxiv, 2026Under reviewPaper
    BibTeX
    @article{wang2026zero,
      title={Zero-shot evaluations expose structured generalization limits in predictive models of the brain},
      author={Wang, Ruolin and Deb, Mayukh and Abate, Alex and Dipani, Alish and Dudipala, Kushal R and Chillarege, Sanjana and Ravikanti, Kruthik and Li, Yuxuan and Al-Tahan, Haider and Koushik, Ranjani and Mieczkowski, Elizabeth and Fung, Herrick and Kanwisher, Nancy and Ratan Murty, N. Apurva},
      journal={bioRxiv},
      year={2026},
      doi={10.64898/2026.09.15.751562},
    }
  4. [6]

    Category selectivity observed in the human brain is distinct from category selectivity observed in artificial neural networks

    Dipani, A., & Ratan Murty, N. A.

    bioRxiv, 2026In revision, Communications BiologyPaper
    BibTeX
    @article{dipani2026category,
      title={Category selectivity observed in the human brain is distinct from category selectivity observed in artificial neural networks},
      author={Dipani, Alish and Ratan Murty, N. Apurva},
      journal={bioRxiv},
      year={2026},
      doi={10.64898/2026.05.29.728609},
    }
  5. [5]

    Linking faces to social cognition: The temporal pole as a potential social switch

    Dipani, A.*, McNeal, N.*, & Ratan Murty, N. A.

    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), commentary, 2024Paper
    BibTeX
    @article{dipani2024linking,
      doi={10.1073/pnas.2411735121},
      title={Linking faces to social cognition: The temporal pole as a potential social switch},
      author={Dipani, Alish and McNeal, Nikolas and Ratan Murty, N. Apurva},
      journal={Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
      volume={121},
      number={31},
      pages={e2411735121},
      year={2024},
      publisher={National Academy of Sciences},
    }
  6. [4]

    Essential tremor and essential tremor plus are essentially similar electrophysiologically

    Rajan, R., Anandapadmanabhan, R., … Dipani, A., … Bhatia, K. P.

    Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, 2024Paper
    BibTeX
    @article{rajan2024essential,
      doi={10.1002/mdc3.13941},
      title={Essential tremor and essential tremor plus are essentially similar electrophysiologically},
      author={Rajan, Roopa and Anandapadmanabhan, Reghu and Vishnoi, Aayushi and Latorre, Anna and Thirugnanasambandam, Nivethida and Dipani, Alish and Biswas, Deblina and Radhakrishnan, Divya M and Srivastava, Achal and Bhatia, Kailash P},
      journal={Movement Disorders Clinical Practice},
      volume={11},
      number={2},
      pages={136--142},
      year={2024},
      publisher={Wiley Online Library}
    }
  7. [3]

    Inter-individual variability in motor output is driven by recruitment gain in the corticospinal tract rather than motor threshold

    Sarkar, A., Dipani, A., Leodori, G., Popa, T., Kassavetis, P., Hallett, M., & Thirugnanasambandam, N.

    Brain Sciences, 2022Paper
    BibTeX
    @article{sarkar2022inter,
      doi={10.3390/brainsci12101401},
      title={Inter-individual variability in motor output is driven by recruitment gain in the corticospinal tract rather than motor threshold},
      author={Sarkar, Arkaprovo and Dipani, Alish and Leodori, Giorgio and Popa, Traian and Kassavetis, Panagiotis and Hallett, Mark and Thirugnanasambandam, Nivethida},
      journal={Brain Sciences},
      volume={12},
      number={10},
      pages={1401},
      year={2022},
      publisher={MDPI}
    }
  8. [2]

    Neuromatch Academy: a 3-week, online summer school in computational neuroscience

    ’t Hart, B. M., Achakulvisut, T., … Dipani, A., … van Viegen, T.

    Journal of Open Source Education, 2022Paper
    BibTeX
    @article{t2022neuromatch,
      doi={10.21105/jose.00118},
      title={Neuromatch Academy: a 3-week, online summer school in computational neuroscience},
      author={’t Hart, Bernard Marius and Achakulvisut, Titipat and Adeyemi, Ayoade and Akrami, Athena and Alicea, Bradly and Alonso-Andres, Alicia and Alzate-Correa, Diego and Ash, Arash and Ballesteros, Jesus J and Balwani, Aishwarya and Batty, Eleanor and Beierholm, Ulrik and Benjamin, Ari and Bhalla, Upinder and Blohm, Gunnar and Blohm, Joachim and Bonnen, Kathryn and Brigham, Marco and Brunton, Bingni and Butler, John and Caie, Brandon and Gajic, N and Chatterjee, Sharbatanu and Chavlis, Spyridon and Chen, Ruidong and Cheng, You and Chow, H.m. and Chua, Raymond and Dai, Yunwei and David, Isaac and DeWitt, Eric and Denis, Julien and Dipani, Alish and Dorschel, Arianna and Drugowitsch, Jan and Dwivedi, Kshitij and Escola, Sean and Fan, Haoxue and Farhoodi, Roozbeh and Fei, Yicheng and Fiquet, Pierre-Étienne and Fontolan, Lorenzo and Forest, Jeremy and Fujishima, Yuki and Galbraith, Byron and Galdamez, Mario and Gao, Richard and Gjorgjieva, Julijana and Gonzalez, Alexander and Gu, Qinglong and Guo, Yueqi and Guo, Ziyi and Gupta, Pankaj and Gurbuz, Busra and Haimerl, Caroline and Harrod, Jordan and Hyafil, Alexandre and Irani, Martin and Jacobson, Daniel and Johnson, Michelle and Jones, Ilenna and Karni, Gili and Kass, Robert and Kim, Hyosub and Kist, Andreas and Koene, Randal and Kording, Konrad and Krause, Matthew and Kumar, Arvind and Kühn, Norma and Lc, Ray and Laporte, Matthew and Lee, Junseok and Li, Songting and Lin, Sikun and Lin, Yang and Liu, Shuze and Liu, Tony and Livezey, Jesse and Lu, Linlin and Macke, Jakob and Mahaffy, Kelly and Martins, A and Martorell, Nicolás and Martínez, Manolo and Mattar, Marcelo and Menendez, Jorge and Miller, Kenneth and Mineault, Patrick and Mohammadi, Nosratullah and Mohsenzadeh, Yalda and Morgenroth, Elenor and Morshedzadeh, Taha and Mosberger, Alice and Muliya, Madhuvanthi and Mur, Marieke and Murray, John and Nd, Yashas and Naud, Richard and Nayak, Prakriti and Oak, Anushka and Castillo, Itzel and Orouji, Seyedmehdi and Otero-Millan, Jorge and Pachitariu, Marius and Pandey, Biraj and Paredes, Renato and Parent, Jesse and Park, Il and Peters, Megan and Pitkow, Xaq and Poirazi, Panayiota and Popal, Haroon and Prabhakaran, Sandhya and Qiu, Tian and Ragunathan, Srinidhi and Rodriguez-Cruces, Raul and Rolnick, David and Sahoo, Ashish and Salehinajafabadi, Saeed and Savin, Cristina and Saxena, Shreya and Schrater, Paul and Schroeder, Karen and Schwarze, Alice and Sedigh-Sarvestani, Madineh and Sekhar, K and Shadmehr, Reza and Shanechi, Maryam and Sharma, Siddhant and Shea-Brown, Eric and Shenoy, Krishna and Shimabukuro, Carolina and Shuvaev, Sergey and Sin, Man and Smith, Maurice and Steinmetz, Nicholas and Stosio, Karolina and Straley, Elizabeth and Strandquist, Gabrielle and Stringer, Carsen and Tomar, Rimjhim and Tran, Ngoc and Triantafillou, Sofia and Udeigwe, Lawrence and Valeriani, Davide and Valton, Vincent and Vaziri-Pashkam, Maryam and Vincent, Peter and Vishne, Gal and Wallisch, Pascal and Wang, Peiyuan and Ward, Claire and Waskom, Michael and Wei, Kunlin and Wu, Anqi and Wu, Zhengwei and Wyble, Brad and Zhang, Lei and Zysman, Daniel and Uquillas, Federico and van Viegen, Tara},
      journal={Journal of Open Source Education},
      volume={5},
      number={49},
      pages={118},
      year={2022},
      publisher={The Open Journal}
    }
  9. [1]

    AvaTr: One-shot speaker extraction with transformers

    Hu, S. X.*, Arefin, M. R.*, Nguyen, V.-N.*, Dipani, A., Pitkow, X., & Tolias, A. S.

    Interspeech, 2021Paper
    BibTeX
    @inproceedings{hu2021avatr,
      url={https://www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_2021/hu21_interspeech.html},
      title={AvaTr: One-shot speaker extraction with transformers},
      author={Hu, Shell Xu and Arefin, Md Rifat and Nguyen, Viet-Nhat and Dipani, Alish and Pitkow, Xaq and Tolias, Andreas Savas},
      booktitle={Interspeech 2021},
      pages={3510--3514},
      year={2021},
      doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2021-1378},
      publisher={ISCA},
    }
  1. [13]

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

    Wang, R., Deb, M., Abate, A., Dipani, A., … Murty, N. A. R.

    Talk, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (VSS) 2026
  2. [12]

    Encoding models reveal selective differences in face representations in developmental prosopagnosia

    Martinez-Addiego, F., Stehr, D., Dipani, A., Duchaine, B., & Murty, N. A. R.

    Poster, Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) 2026Paper
  3. [11]

    Category-selectivity in ANNs differs systematically from human fMRI responses

    Dipani, A., & Murty, N. A. R.

    Poster, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (VSS) 2026
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  5. [9]

    Visual experience and sensitivity to motion sequences, from human movement patterns to animated shapes

    Verma, D., Ben-Ami, S., Dipani, A., Lall, N., Ganesh, S., Ralekar, C., Gilad-Gutnick, S., & Sinha, P.

    Poster, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (VSS) 2024Abstract
  6. [8]

    A novel approach for analyzing the Heider and Simmel animation

    Verma, D., Dipani, A., Lall, N., Gupta, P., … Sinha, P.

    Talk, Annual Conference of Cognitive Science (ACCS) 2023
  7. [7]

    Local texture manipulation further illuminates the intrinsic difference between CNNs and human vision

    Dipani, A., Jiang, H., & Kwon, M.

    Talk, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (VSS) 2023Abstract
  8. [6]

    Mr. Chips Jr.: A transformer-based computational model to study eye movements during reading

    Kwon, M., & Dipani, A.

    Poster, Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting (VSS) 2023Abstract
  9. [5]

    An interpretable machine learning model to predict motor surround inhibition

    Dipani, A., Lakshminarayanan, R., Leodori, G., Popa, T., … Thirugnanasambandam, N.

    Poster, International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN) 2022
  10. [4]

    Inter-individual variability in motor output is driven by recruitment gain rather than motor threshold

    Sarkar, A., Dipani, A., Leodori, G., Popa, T., Kassavetis, P., Hallett, M., & Thirugnanasambandam, N.

    Poster, International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN) 2022
  11. [3]

    Recognizing Music Mood and Theme Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Attention

    Dipani, A., Iyer, G., & Baths, V.

    Talk, MediaEval Workshop 2020Paper
  12. [2]

    Classifying fMRI data for context-dependent and context-independent language tasks

    Akshi*, Kalra, K.*, Choudhary, Y.*, Dipani, A., Bhattacharjee, A., & Urai, A.

    Poster, Bernstein Conference 2020
  13. [1]

    Shared neural activity patterns between facial expression and shape recognition

    Avisha, Singh, A., Bhatnagar, H., Dipani, A., Bhattacharjee, A., & Seethapathi, N.

    Poster, Neuromatch Conference 2020