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Johannes Mehrer

3 accepted papers

2026

Inducing Dyslexia in Vision Language Models

ICLR 2026poster

Dyslexia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent reading difficulties, is often linked to reduced activity of the visual word form area in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex. Traditional approaches to studying dyslexia, such as behavioral and neuroimaging methods, have provided…

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2026

Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior

ICLR 2026poster

Brain stimulation is a powerful tool for understanding cortical function and holds the promise of therapeutic interventions to treat neuropsychiatric disorders such as impaired vision. Prototypical approaches to visual prosthetics apply patterns of electric microstimulation to the early visual corte…

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2025

TopoLM: brain-like spatio-functional organization in a topographic language model

ICLR 2025oral

Neurons in the brain are spatially organized such that neighbors on tissue often exhibit similar response profiles. In the human language system, experimental studies have observed clusters for syntactic and semantic categories, but the mechanisms underlying this functional organization remain uncle…