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🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to Gabe Sarch for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Goal-Driven Reasoning for Multimodal AI Agents" (Aug 4, 2025)!

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to Yuchen Zhou for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Neural Mechanisms of Language Processing: Computational Models of Representational Structures and Attentional Dynamics" (June 3, 2025)!

📝 NEW Scientific Reports PAPER: Kasarda, JP, Zhang, A, Tong, H, Tan, Y, Wang, R, Verstynen, T, Tarr, MJ (2025) The Oomplet dataset toolkit as a flexible and extensible system for large-scale, multi-category image generation. Sci Rep 15, 9287. paper | kilthub

📝 NEW CVPR PAPER: Yeung, J, Luo, A, Sarch GH, Henderson, MM, Ramanan, D,  Tarr, MJ (2025) Reanimating Images using Neural Representations of Dynamic Stimuli. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR Oral). BrainNRDS™| demo

📝 NEW TINS PAPER: Henderson, MM, Tarr, MJ, Wehbe, L (2025) Origins of food selectivity in human visual cortex. Trends in Neurosciences. paper

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ NEW FEATURE: We have a custom lab GPT trained on the website and some of our papers. It appears to provide pretty solid summaries on all sorts of things related to our work. Try it out here: tarrlabGPT