NCAS 2025 - Neurocybernetics at Scale

October 15-17, 2025 — This is an archived version of the Champalimaud Research Symposium 2025 website. The original site was hosted at symposium.fchampalimaud.science. See also the Internet Archive for historical snapshots. Download the symposium booklet (PDF).

Poster Abstracts


Poster Session I

Wednesday, October 15 | 14:30 - 16:00

P1: The superior colliculus directs goal-oriented forelimb movements

Shrivas Chaterji,1,2 Punarva H. Belliappa,1,3 and Anupama Sathyamurthy,11. Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India2. Present address: Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon 1400-038, Portugal3. Present address: Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA

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P2: Brief Critical Windows for Memory Consolidation are Regulated by Behavioral State

N. Tatiana Silva 1, M Inês Ribeiro 1,2, Megan R Carey 11. Champalimaud Research - Neuroscience, Lisbon, PT2. OIST, Okinawa, JP

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P3: Second-order forward-mode optimization of recurrent neural networks for neuroscience

Youjing Yu, Rui Xia, Qingxi Ma, Máté Lengyel, Guillaume Hennequin1. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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P4: Exploring the Inner Workings and Internal Representations of Predictive Coding Networks in Comparison to Usual Feedforward Neural Networks

Aslan Satary Dizaji 11. NeuroAILab, Tehran, Iran

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P5: Towards a neuromechanical model of swimming in the jellyfish Clytia hemisphaerica

Ryan Lu 1, Karen Cunningham 2, James Fitzgerald 1, Brady Weissbourd 2, Ann Kennedy 31. Northwestern University, Chicago, US2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US3. Scripps Research, San Diego, US

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P7: A normative dynamical theory of intuitive human reasoning

Francesco Trapani 1, Daniel McNamee 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P8: Variations in Neuronal Selectivity Create Efficient Representational Geometries for Perception

Sonica Saraf 1, J. Anthony Movshon 1, SueYeon Chung 1, 21. New York University, New York, USA2. Flatiron Institute, New York, USA

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P9: Angular Self-Motion Estimation for Action Selection in Walking Drosophila

Corinna Gebehart 1, Tomás Cruz 2, M. Eugenia Chiappe 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, CH

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P10: Sensorimotor calibration in optic flow processing circuits

Claire Rusch 1, M. Eugenia Chiappe 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P11: Comparing the activity of four neuromodulators during decision-making

Kcénia Bougrova 1, Matteo Carandini 2, Davide Crombie 1, Eric deWitt 1, Carolina Quadrado 2, Georg Raiser 1,Laura Silva 1, Olivier Winter 1, Florian Rau 1, Gaelle Chapius 3, International Brain Lab, Zachary Mainen 11 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2 University College London, London, UK3 University of Geneva, Geneva, CH

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P12: Solving Constrained Minimax Problems with Spiking Neural Networks

Guillermo Martín-Sánchez 1, William F. Podlaski 1, Christian K. Machens 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P13: Contributions of Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum to Discrete and Continuous Behavioral Control

Teresa Serradas Duarte 1*, Simon A. Zamora 1*, Coralie Hérent 1, Megan R. Carey 1, Joseph J. Paton 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT* these authors contributed equally

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P14: Modulation of Granule Cell Activity by Locomotion During Associative Learning

Marta Forcella 1, Merit Kruse 1, Romain Sala 1, N. Tatiana Silva 1, Megan R. Carey 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P15: A Fully 3D Model of Jellyfish Swimming, Integrating Nerve Nets, Muscles, Body Biomechanics and Fluid-Structure Interaction

Simon Altrogge 1, Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer 11. University of Bonn, Bonn, DE

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P16: Input-dependent Directionality of Interactions Between Cortical Areas

Joana Carmona 1*, Francesca Mastrogiuseppe 1*, Byron M. Yu 2, Adam Kohn 3, and Christian K. Machens 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US3. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, US * these authors contributed equally

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P17: Hallucination of visual instability is promoted by psychedelics and suppressed by gaze shifts

Lydia Fettweis Neto 1, Scott Renie 1, Zachary Mainen 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P18: How Cortical and Thalamic inputs to the Sensorimotor striatum guide motor sequence execution

Cheshta Bhatia 1, Bence Olveczky 11 Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

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P19: Angular Self-Motion Estimation Guides Evasive Turning Decisions in Walking Drosophila

Virginia Palieri 1, Eugenia Chiappe 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P20: Brain-wide Functional Imaging Reveals Neuronal Dynamics of Working Memory in Larval Zebrafish

A. Lucas Martins 1, Catarina Matos 1, Margarida Pereira 1, João C. Marques 1, Michael Orger 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P21: Survival of Self vs Species: a Fly's Perspective

Saheli Roy 1, Matheus Farias 1, Hugo Marques 1, Nuno Machado 1, Sara Santos 1, Marta Moita 1, Maria LuisaVasconcelos 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P22: The heading change of a preceding movement predicts the escape bias in larval zebrafish

João C. Marques 1, Catarina Matos 1, A. Lucas Martins 1, Michael B. Orger 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P23: Sml sensory neurons regulate reproductive motor output in Drosophila

Nuno J. Machado 1, Sara Santos 1, Luisa Vasconcelos 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P24: Covert strategies determine the preservation of neural population dynamics across individuals during a cognitive task

Ioana Lazar 1, Mostafa Safaie 1, Juan Alvaro Gallego 11. Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK

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P25: Deep Reinforcement Learning Sheds Light on Neural Manifold Dynamics in Motor Adaptation

Mattia Della Vecchia 1, Mehdi Khamassi 2, N. Alex Cayco Gajic 11. Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, FR2. Sorbonne Universite, Paris, FR

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P26: Economic Behaviors Emerge from Local Learning Rules under Fast Environmental Feedback

Chenguang Li 1, Hanming Ye 2, Jeffrey Erlich 11. University College London, London, UK2. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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P27: (V)Repetition without (V)Repetition: using virtual reality tennis to replicate and expand on a foundational result in motor control

Alice C. Navalho 1*, Filipe S. Rodrigues 2*, Joseph J. Paton 21 Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, PT2 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT*co-first authors

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P28: Neuranimat: neurobiologically inspired sensorimotor control based on inverse action objectives

Afonso P. Dias 1*, Filipe S. Rodrigues 2*, Beatriz Lourenço 2, Artur Silva 2, Caroline Haimerl 2, Tiago Costa 2,Joseph J. Paton 21 Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, PT2 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT*co-first authors

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P29: Modeling neural adaptation to tendon transfer

Genji Kawakita 1Juan Alvaro Gallego 11. Imperial College London, London, UK

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P30: A Unified Perspective on Computation and Stochastic Spiking Neural Activity

Joan Gort 1, Alfonso Renart 1,1. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P31: Integration Timescales of Visuospatial Task Constraints and Composition Strategies in Sensory Feedback Responses

Pranshu Malik 1, Paul Gribble 2, Andrew Pruszynski 21. Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, JA2. University of Western Ontario, London, CA

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P32: Decoding individuality in the micro-structure of mouse behavior

Inês Laranjeira 1, Matthew Whiteway 2, The International Brain Laboratory, Zachary Mainen* 1, Daniel McNamee* 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA *equal contribution

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P33: Layered, Hierarchical Behavioral Control Underlies Dopamine Signals Across the Striatum During Decision-Making

Renato Sousa 1, Rodrigo Martins 1, Joseph J. Paton 1Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P34: Flies Rely on Numerosity to Assess the Relative Safety of the Group

Mirjam Heinemans 1, Marta Moita 1, Clara Ferreira 21. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

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P35: Task-Optimized Convolutional Recurrent Networks Align with Tactile Processing in the Rodent Brain

Trinity Chung*1, Yuchen Shen*2, Nathan C. L. Kong 4, and Aran Nayebi 2, 3, 11. Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA 152132. Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA 152133. Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh, PA 152134. Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, PA 19104* Equal contribution.

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P36: Identifying Termination Rules in Perceptual Decision Making

Juan R. Castiñeiras de Saa 1, Mafalda Valente 1, Ulysses Tsai 1, Alfonso Renart 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P37: Addressing non-stationarities in neural population dynamics for long-term behavioral decoding

Trung Le 1, Hao Fang 1, Jingyuan Li 1, Tung Nguyen 2, Lu Mi 3, Amy Orsborn 1, Uygar Sümbül 4, Eli Shlizerman 11. University of Washington, Seattle, US2. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US3. Tsinghua University, Beijing, CN4. Allen Institute, Seattle, US

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Poster Session II

Thursday, October 16 | 14:30 - 16:00

P2: Measuring the effects of serotonergic psychedelics on the structure of neural population activity

Davide Crombie 1, Jaime Arlandis 1, Joana Catarino 2, Daniel McNamee 1, Guido Meijer 3, Martin Zuniga 4, ZacharyMainen 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Karolinska Institute, Solna, SE3. Donders Institute, Nijmegen, NL4. Princeton University, Princeton, US

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P3: Cortico-subcortical dynamics during complex locomotion

Martín Esparza-Iaizzo1,2*, Ioana Lazar1*, Catia Fortunato1, Mostafa Safaie1, Juan Álvaro Gallego1.1. Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK2. INBRAIN Neuroelectronics S.L, Barcelona, Spain *equal contribution

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P5: Eigenmode analysis of spherical brain activity via neural field theory

K. N. Mukta 1,2 , J. N. MacLaurin 1,2 , and P. A. Robinson 1, 21. School of Physics, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia2. Center for Integrative Brain Function, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia

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P6: Freezing Duration in Drosophila Reflects Bounded Accumulation of Evidence about Safety

Marco Colnaghi 1, Juan Castiñeiras 1, Mirjam Heinemans 1, Clara Ferreira 2, Marta Moita 1, Alfonso Renart 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

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P7: Contributions of the ACx to Fine Discriminations of Sound Lateralization

Mafalda Valente 1, Juan Castiñeiras 1, Raghavendra Kaushik Archak 1, Alfonso Renart 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P8: Motor Cortex Encodes Speed Through Temporal Scaling of Latent Population Dynamics

Kumar Neelabh 1, Andrea Colins Rodriguez 2, Mark D Humphries 31. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, CL3. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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P10: Mouse lockbox: a sequential mechanical decision-making task for freely moving mice

Marcus Nicolaas Boon 1, 2; Niek Andresen 1, 2, 4; Sole Traverso 1, 2; Sophia Meier 1, 2; Friedrich Schuessler 1, 2; Olaf Hellwich 1, 3, 4; Lars Lewejohann 1, 3, 4; Christa Thöne-Reineke 1, 4; Katharina Hohlbaum 1, 3; Henning Sprekeler 1, 2 1. Cluster of Excellence “Science of Intelligence”, Berlin, Germany, DE2. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, DE3. German Centre for the Protection of Laboratory Animals, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin,Germany, DE4. Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, DE

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P11: Dynamical Archetype Analysis: Autonomous Computation

Abel Sagodi 1, Il Memming Park 11. Champalimaud Research, Lisbon, PT

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P12: Facilitating cognitive synergy: AI’s ability to support collaborative cognitive search strategies

Eric Lacosse* 1, Mariana Duarte* 1, Graham Todd 2, Peter M. Todd 3, Daniel C. McNamee 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon PT2. New York University, NYC3. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN *equal contribution

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P13: Larval Zebrafish’s Sophisticated Short-term Memory Shares Key Features of Working Memory with Mammals

Catarina Matos 1, A. Lucas Martins 1, João C. Marques 1, Michael B. Orger 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P14: Head-body coordination for high-performance courtship pursuit in Drosophila

Nuno Rito 1, Martina Canova 1,2, Miguel Paço 1, Claire Rusch 1, Sofia Pinto 1, M.Eugenia Chiappe 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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P15: Planning to Learn: Active Inference of Latent Dynamics with Fisher Information

Hyungju Jeon 1, Isabel Rosário 1,2, Il Memming Park 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, PT

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P16: Exploring Human Information Processing in Virtual Reality during Physical Inverse Design

Daniel McNamee 1, Sara Monteiro 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P17: Forecasting motor cortical population activity during delayed reaching using XFADS

Mahmoud Elmakki 1, Matthew Dowling 1, 2, Yuan Zhao 3, Il Memming Park 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. New York University, New York, USA3. National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland, USA

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P18: Contextual reconfiguration of mouse V1 representations driven by top-down input

Dimitra Maoutsa 1, 21. School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Munich, DE2. Independent, DE

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P19: Altered States and Basic Taste Perception: Evaluating Detection and Recognition Thresholds Under Psychedelics

Zuzanna Dedyk 1,2,3; Razvan Sandru 1; Zachary Mainen 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, FR3. Institut Lyfe Research & Innovation Center, Ecully, FR

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P20: The Rest of the Fish: Light-Sheet Microscopy Imputation with Transformers

Dean Rance 1, Aaron Ostrovsky 1, Lucas Martins 1, João Marques 1, Pedro Tomás Silva 1, Carolina Gonçalves 1,Tiago Costa 1, Michael Orger 1, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P21: Exploring trade-offs between sequential and parallel computation in recurrent neural networks

Marcel Graetz 1, Caroline Haimerl 1, Daniel McNamee* 1, Alfonso Renart* 11 Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT* equal contribution

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P22: Startle Responses and Behavioural State Switching

Charlie Rosher 1, Roian Egnor 2, Alice Robie 2, Violetta LaFranca 1, Matheus Farias 1, Kristin Branson 1, MartaMoita 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA

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P23: Architecture as Neuro-Cybernetic Feedback: Designing Spaces That Regulate the Human Nervous System

Arianna Bavuso 11. AB+AC Architects, Lisbon, PT

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P24: Meta-learning three-factor learning rules for structured credit assignment in recurrent neural networks

Dimitra Maoutsa 1, 21. Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, DE2. Independent, DE

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P25: Multitasking Recurrent Networks Utilize Compositional Strategies for Control of Movement

John Lazzari 1, Shreya Saxena 11. Yale University, New Haven, USA

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P26: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning to understand Cooperation in Animals

Amelia Johnson 1, S William Li 1, Henry W Kietzman 1, David Backer Peral 1, R. Allie Cauchon 1, Nina Pelias 1,Jane R. Taylor 1, Shreya Saxena 11. Yale University, New Haven, US

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P27: Towards a Disease Model of Cerebellar Ataxia Using Supervised Learning

Latavia Thompson 1, Heather Snell 11. Yale University, New Haven, US

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P28: Adaptive behavioral strategies in Drosophila courtship pursuit

Miguel Paço 1, Nuno Rito 1, Roman Goulard 2, Barbara Webb 2, Eugenia Chiappe 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT2. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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P29: Supervised Mechanisms for Locomotor Learning Driven by Climbing Fibers

Alice Geminiani 1*, Ana Gonçalves 1*, Hugo G. Marques 1*, Tatiana Silva 1, Francesco Costantino 1, Megan R.Carey 11. Neuroscience Program, Champalimaud Center for the Unknown, Lisbon, PT* equal contribution

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P30: A unifying theory for hippocampal remapping through the lens of contextual inference

Changmin Yu 1, Máté Lengyel 1, 21. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK2. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

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P31: Deep reinforcement learning to mimic neuromechanical control: realistic locomotion in an embodied fly

Elliott T. T. Abe 1, Charles Zhang 2, Raveena Chhibber 1, Grant M. Chou 1, Dang P. Q. Truong 1, Bence P. Ölveczky2, Nathan Sniadecki 1, John C. Tuthill 1, Talmo D. Pereira 3, Bing W. Brunton 11. University of Washington, Seattle, USA2. Harvard University, Boston, USA3 Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, USA

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P32: Evolution Imposes an Inductive Bias that Alters and Accelerates Learning Dynamics

Benjamin Midler 1, Alejandro Pan Vazquez 11. Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, USA

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P33: A Transient Neural Code for Feedback-Driven Motor Corrections During Reaching

Nina Kudryashova [1], Cole Hurwitz [2], Matthew G. Perich [3-4], Matthias H. Hennig [1]1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton St, Newington, Edinburgh EH8 9AB,United Kingdom2. Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University; 3227 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, United States3. Département de neurosciences, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal; Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, 2900Edouard Montpetit Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J4, Canada4. Mila, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute; 6666 Rue Saint-Urbain, Montréal, QC H2S 3H1, Canada

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P34: A Bio-Inspired Algorithm Enables Scalable Training of Spiking Neural Networks Using Feedback Control Across Layers

Jonathan Haag* 1; Christian Metzner* 1; Chiara De Luca 1, 2; Dmitrii Zendrikov 1; Giacomo Indiveri 1; BenjaminGrewe 1, 3; Matteo Saponati 11. Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, Zürich, CH2. Digital Society Initiative, University of Zurich, Zürich, CH3. ETH AI Center, ETH Zurich, Zürich, CH*equal contribution

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P35: From Principles to Production: How Visual Design Shapes Understanding

Ágota Végső 1, Paulo Nuno Vicente 1, Ana Figueiras 21. ICNOVA, NOVA FCSH University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT2. CICANT, Lusófona University, Lisbon, PT

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P36: Dynamic Scale Equivariance in Retinal Neural Codes Supports Object Tracking

S. Azeglio* 1. 2., R. Baroux* 1., U. Ferrari 1., O. Marre 1.1. Institut de la Vision, Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, 17 Rue Moreau, 75012, Paris, FR2. Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75005, Paris, FR *equal contribution

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P37: Computational and Representational contributions to intensity invariance in Weber’s Law

Raghavendra Kaushik Archak 1, Mafalda Valente 1, Juan R. Castiñeiras de Saa 1, Alfonso Renart 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P38: Bridging scales between chemical space and behavioral phenotype

Adrien Jouary 1, Dean Rance 1, Gonzalo G. de Polavieja 1, Christian K. Machens 1, Michael B. Orger 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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P39: Learning What Matters: An Episodic Memory Perspective on Video-Language Models

Inês Baptista 1, Daniel MacNamee 11. Champalimaud Foundation, Lisbon, PT

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