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Matthew A. Smith

3 accepted papers

2026

A tale of two tails: Preferred and anti-preferred natural stimuli in visual cortex

ICLR 2026poster

A fundamental quest in neuroscience is to find the preferred stimulus of a sensory neuron. This search lays the foundation for understanding how selectivity emerges in the primate visual stream---from simple edge-detecting neurons to highly-selective "grandmother" neurons---as well as for the archit…

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2025

OMiSO: Adaptive optimization of state-dependent brain stimulation to shape neural population states

NeurIPS 2025poster

The coordinated activity of neural populations underlies myriad brain functions. Manipulating this activity using brain stimulation techniques has great potential for scientific and clinical applications, as it provides a tool to causally influence brain function. To improve the accuracy by which on…

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2024

MiSO: Optimizing brain stimulation to create neural activity states

NeurIPS 2024poster

Brain stimulation has the potential to create desired neural population activity states. However, it is challenging to search the large space of stimulation parameters, for example, selecting which subset of electrodes to be used for stimulation. In this scenario, creating a model that maps the conf…

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