Preprints

Zhao Y, McMahon E, and Isik L. Separate Neural Representations for Physical and Communicative Social Interactions: Evidence from Data-driven Voxel Decomposition. [preprint]

 

McMahon E, Bonner M, and Isik L. A spatiotemporal hieararchy for social interaction perception in the lateral visual stream. [preprint]

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Conwell C, McMahon E, Jagadeesh A, Vinken K., Sharma S., Prince,J., Alvarez G., Konkle T., Livingstone M., and Isik L.  Monkey See Model Knew: Large Language Models Accurately Predict Visual Brain Responses in Humans and Non-Human Primates. [preprint]

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Conwell C, Hamblin C., Boccagno C, Mayo D, Cummings J, Isik L, and Barbu A. Using Multimodal Deep Neural Networks to Disentangle Language from Visual Aesthetics. [preprint]​

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Peters B, DiCarlo JJ, Gureckis T, Haefner R, Isik L, Tenenbaum J, Konkle T, Naselaris T, Stachenfeld K, Tavares Z, Tsao D, Yildirim I, and Kriegeskorte N. How does the primate brain combine discriminative and generative computations in vision? [preprint]

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Articles

Garcia K*, McMahon E*, Conwell C, Bonner M, and Isik L (2025) Modeling dynamic social vision highlights gaps between deep learning and humans. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) [pdf] [code]

        Press coverage in the Hub, WSJ, Popular Science, and Marketplace

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Im E*, Shirahatti A*, and Isik L (2025) Early neural development of social interaction perception: evidence from voxel-wise encoding in young children and adults. Journal of Neuroscience [pdf] [code]

Journal club by Waldir M. Sampaio

Commentary by Kami Koldewyn and Hilary Richardson.

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Shi H, Ye S, Fang, X, Jin, C, Isik L, Yen-Ling K, and Shu T (2025) Muma-tom: Multi-modal multi-agent theory of mind. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence [pdf] [project page]

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​Small H, Lee Masson H, Mostofsky S, and Isik L (2024) Vision and language representations in multimodal AI models and human social brain regions during natural movie viewing. NeurIPS UniReps Workshop [pdf]

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Soulos P and Isik L (2024) Disentangled deep generative models reveal coding principles of the human face processing system. PLoS Computational Biology [pdf] [code] 

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Lee Masson H, Chang L, and Isik L (2024) Multidemensional neural representations of social features during movie viewing. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience [pdf] [code]

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Lee Masson H, Chen J, and Isik L (2024) A shared neural code for social interaction encoding and memory in the human superior temporal sulcus. Neuropsychologia [pdf] [code and annotations]

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Malik M and Isik L (2023) Relational visual representations underlie human social interaction recognition. Nature Communications [pdf] [code]

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McMahon E, Bonner M, and Isik L (2023) Hierarchical organization of social action features along the lateral visual pathway. Current Biology [pdf] [code] [data]

Commentary by David Pitcher.

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Lee Masson H and Isik (2023) Rapid processing of observed social touch via a social perceptual pathway: and EEG-fMRI fusion study. Journal of Neuroscience [pdf] [code] [data]

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McMahon M and Isik L (2023) Seeing social interactions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences [pdf] 

Letter by Tobias Grossman, and our reply.

Letter by Liuba Papeo, and our reply.

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Dima D, Hebart M, and Isik L (2023) A data-driven investigation of human action representations. Scientific Reports [pdf][code]

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Dima D, Tomita T, Honey C, and Isik L (2022) Social affective features drive representations of human actions. eLife [pdf] [data] [code]

 

Ivanova A, Schrimpf M, Anzellottie S, Zaslavsky N, Fedorenko E, and Isik L (2022) Is it that simple? Beyond Linear Regression: mapping models in cognitive neuroscience should align with research goals. Neurons, Brain, Data, and Theory [pdf]

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Vogelstein J, Verstynen T, Kording K, Isik L et al. (2022) Prospective Learning: Back to the Future. [pdf]

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Lee Masson H and Isik L (2021) Functional selectivity for social interaction perception in the human superior temporal sulcus during natural viewing. Neuroimage.  [pdf] [code and movie annotations]

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Soulos P and Isik L (2020) Disentangled face representations in deep generative models and the human brain. NeurIPS SVRHM Workshop. [pdf]

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Isik L, Mynick A, Pantazis D, and Kanwisher N (2020) The speed of human social interaction perception. 

Neuroimage. [pdf] [code]

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Dobs K, Isik L, Pantazis D, and Kanwisher N (2019) How face perception unfolds over time. Nature communications. [pdf]

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Ward E, Isik L and Chun M (2018) General transformations of object representations in human visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience.

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Tacchetti A, Isik L, and Poggio T (2018) Invariant recognition shapes neural representations of visual input. Annual Reviews in Vision Science. [pdf] 

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Isik L, Tacchetti A, and Poggio T (2018) A fast, invariant representation for action in the human visual system. Journal of Neurophysiology. [pdf]

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Isik L, Koldewyn K, Beeler D, and Kanwisher N (2017) Perceiving social interactions in the posterior superior temporal sulcus. PNAS. [pdf]

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Isik L, Singer J, Madsen J, Kanwisher N, and Kreiman G (2017) What is changing when: Decoding visual information in movies from human intracranial recordings. Neuroimage. [pdf]

 

Tacchetti A*, Isik L*, and Poggio T (2017) Invariant recognition drives neural representations of actions. PLoS Computational Biology. [pdf]

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Chen F, Roig G, Isik L, Boix X, and Poggio T (2017) Eccentricity-dependent deep neural networks: modeling invariance in human vision. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. [pdf]

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Isik L, Meyers E, Leibo J, and Poggio T (2014) The dynamics of invariant object recognition in the human visual system. Journal of Neurophysiology. [pdf]

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Isik L, Mutch J, and Poggio T (2014) Computational role of eccentricity dependent cortical magnification. arXiv:1406.1770. [pdf]

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Isik L, Leibo J, and Poggio T (2012) Learning and disrupting invariance in visual recognition with a temporal association learning rule. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. [pdf]

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