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pith:2026:GAPQ5F2GWCCQCQT2BD75JWKNGD

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Letting the neural code speak: Automated characterization of monkey visual neurons through human language

Andreas S. Tolias, Katrin Franke, Nikos Karantzas, Sophia Sanborn, Surya Ganguli, Tamar Rott Shaham, Vedang Lad

Natural language descriptions capture the selectivity of most neurons in macaque V1 and V4.

arxiv:2605.12485 v2 · 2026-05-12 · q-bio.NC · q-bio.QM

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Across macaque V1 and V4, the selectivity of most neurons is captured by concise, verifiable semantic descriptions; in V4, images generated from activating and suppressing hypotheses drove 96.1% of neurons above the 95th and 97.6% below the 5th percentile of natural-image responses, respectively.

C2weakest assumption

That the digital-twin models of V1 and V4 faithfully reproduce the response statistics of real biological neurons for the novel synthetic images generated from language hypotheses.

C3one line summary

Natural-language descriptions generated and verified through generative models and digital twins capture the selectivity of most neurons in macaque V1 and V4.

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First computed	2026-05-20T00:04:36.600846Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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301f0e9746b08501427a08ffd4d94d30fdb07625a82e13dbc57e73f0402eaa3b

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arxiv: 2605.12485 · arxiv_version: 2605.12485v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.12485 · pith_short_12: GAPQ5F2GWCCQ · pith_short_16: GAPQ5F2GWCCQCQT2 · pith_short_8: GAPQ5F2G

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