Winrich A. Freiwald

This paper trains a recurrent neural network to generate grammatical action sequences and identifies experimentally testable predictions about its internal representation and generalization.

The paper describes the iterative creation of harmonized ontologies and 3D frameworks for the basal ganglia across human and non-human primates to enable cross-species comparisons of cellular and molecular data.

The paper develops a method for large-scale volumetric calcium imaging in marmoset brains, revealing fine-grain tuning properties and columnar organization in auditory and visual cortices.

The paper identifies a neural representation of action symbols in the ventral premotor cortex of macaque monkeys performing a drawing-like task.

The paper investigates how primate frontal cortex represents action grammar structure during novel problem-solving tasks and identifies preSMA as a key region for encoding grammatical properties.

The paper investigates neural synchrony in primate sensorimotor cortices during facial motor control, finding that medial and lateral areas interact in a network rather than functioning independently.

The paper creates a cross-species consensus atlas of primate basal ganglia cell types using multiomic data from human, macaque, and marmoset, identifying 61 conserved cell types and a novel hybrid medium spiny neuron type.

This paper creates a cross-species spatial transcriptomic atlas of the basal ganglia in human, rhesus macaque, and common marmoset, revealing conserved molecular organization and cell type-specific compartments.

The paper investigates whether stereotypical facial expressions are organized into discrete cortical zones using microstimulation, finding that stimulation evokes complex facial responses but not social-communicative behavior.

This study identifies how lateral and medial cortical regions encode facial gestures through distinct temporal patterns, forming a hierarchy for coherent motor outputs during social communication.

This study creates normative brain growth charts for rhesus macaques across their lifespan using MRI data, revealing developmental milestones and cross-species comparisons with humans.

This paper shows that mirror-symmetric viewpoint tuning emerges in convolutional neural networks trained on object recognition tasks, even without face-specific training, and explains its mechanism through reflection-equivariant representations.

The paper identifies a localized population of neurons in social wasps that are specifically tuned to wasp faces, analogous to face cells in primates.

The paper investigates how neural activity fluctuates in response to multiple visual stimuli in different cortical areas, suggesting fluctuating activity may underlie visual object formation.

The paper tests priority map theory by analyzing electrophysiological data from two brain areas, finding they process spatial attention differently and challenge existing models of attention control.

The paper identifies a temporal pole region that responds to familiar faces and social cognition tasks, distinct from perirhinal cortex, which responds only to faces.

This study identifies mixed signals in macaque F7 neurons during video exploration, showing integration of visual, reward, and motor information.

The paper investigates how the middle dorsal face area (MD) in macaques encodes dynamic facial motion and shape, revealing heterogeneous cell responses and a high-dimensional representation of facial movements.

The paper identifies parallel, domain-specific neural networks for social and spatial reasoning in the human cortex using neuroimaging data.

This study identifies face-selective patches in the frontal cortex of marmosets, suggesting a conserved neural network for social face processing across primate lineages.

The paper presents a neurally plausible model for efficiently inverting generative models of images, specifically testing its application in face perception.

The paper identifies altered thalamo-hippocampal functional connectivity as a potential biomarker for treatment resistance in temporal lobe epilepsy using resting state fMRI.

The paper shows single neurons can represent multiple simultaneous stimuli by switching between activity patterns, suggesting a general strategy for enhancing brain processing capacity.

The paper introduces PRIME-DE, an open resource for non-human primate MRI data, aggregating 13 datasets from 11 sites across 98 macaques.