2025
Beginning with You: Perceptual-Initialization Improves Vision-Language Representation and Alignment
Yang Hu, Runchen Wang, Stephen Chong Zhao, Xuhui Zhan, Do Hun Kim, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
arXiv
Shifting Attention to You: Personalized Brain-Inspired AI Models
Stephen Chong Zhao, Yang Hu, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Trisha Mazumdar, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
arXiv
2024
Identifying Behavioral Correlates to Visual Comfort
David A. Tovar, James Wilmott, Xiuyun Wu, Daniel Martin, Michael Proulx, Dave Lindberg, Yang Zhao, Olivier Mercier, Phillip Guan
SIGGRAPH Asia
Assessing Translational Applicability of Perineuronal Net Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease Across Species
Aarun S. Hendrickson, Kendra L. Francis, Asmit Kumar, Jaden P. Le, Jarrad M. Scarlett, C. Dirk Keene, David A. Tovar, Kimberly M. Alonge
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Investigating the Emergence of Complexity from the Dimensional Structure of Mental Representations
Trisha Mazumdar, Vivian Cai, Stephen Zhao, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Adaline Leong, Jad El Harake, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
Brain-Inspired Embedding Model: Scaling and Perceptual Fine-tuning
Stephen Chong Zhao, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Trisha Mazumdar, Adaline Leong, Prince Owusu Nkrumah, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
The Role of Image Quality in Shaping Neural Network Representations and Performance
Jason Lee, Prince Owusu Nkrumah, Stephen Chong Zhao, William J. Quackenbush, Adaline Leong, Trisha Mazumdar, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
Language Evolution in Large Language Models and Humans: A Comparative Analysis of Developmental Linguistics Across Ages and Sensory Modalities
Gina Yu, Jad El Harake, Stephen Chong Zhao, Jason Lee, Andrew Bender, Trisha Mazumdar, Adaline Leong, Prince Owusu Nkrumah, Mark Wallace, David A. Tovar
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience
Primary Visual Pathway Changes in Chronic Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Participants: A Case-Control Study
Marselle A. Rasdall, Chloe Cho, Amy N. Stahl, David A. Tovar, Patrick Lavin, Cailey I Kerley, Qingxia Chen, Xiangyu Ji, Marcus H. Coyler, Lucas Groves, Reid Longmuir, Amy Chomsky, Martin J. Gallagher, Adam Anderson, Bennet A. Landman, Tonia S. Rex
JAMA Ophthalmology
2023
Near-field potentials index local neural computations more accurately than population spiking
David A. Tovar, Jacob A. Westerberg, Michele A. Cox, Kacie Dougherty, Mark T. Wallace, Andre M. Bastos, Alexander Maier
bioRxiv
AI Literature Review Suite
David A. Tovar
arXiv
Exploring the interplay of age and pedagogy in the maturation of error-monitoring
Solange Denervaud, David A. Tovar, Jean-François Knebel, Emeline Mullier, Yasser Alemán-Gómez, Patric Hagmann, Micah Murray
Mind, Brain and Education
2021
Getting the gist faster: Blurry images enhance the early temporal similarity between neural signals and convolutional neural networks
David A. Tovar, Tijl Grootswagers, James Jun, Oakyoon Cha, Randolph Blake, Mark T. Wallace
bioRxiv
Visual Influences on Auditory Behavioral, Neural, and Perceptual Processes: A Review
Collins Opoku-Baah, Adriana M. Schoenhaut, Sarah G. Vassall, David A. Tovar, Ramnarayan Ramachandran, Mark T. Wallace
JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
2020
The neural computations for stimulus presence and modal identity diverge along a shared circuit
David A. Tovar, Jean-Paul Noel, Yumiko Ishizawa, Shaun R. Patel, Emad N. Eskandar, Mark T. Wallace
bioRxiv
Selective enhancement of object representations through multisensory integration
David A. Tovar, Micah Murray, Mark Wallace
Journal of Neuroscience
Stimulus Feature-Specific Information Flow Along the Columnar Cortical Microcircuit Revealed by Multivariate Laminar Spiking Analysis
David A. Tovar, Jacob A. Westerberg, Michele A. Cox, Kacie Dougherty, Thomas A. Carlson, Mark T. Wallace, Alexander Maier
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience