Abstracts

Day  1 -  October 29 : Poster session #1
Mohamed Abdelhack, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics [1P]
Neurometabolic regulation explains changes in fMRI signals across aging
Authors: Abdelhack, Mohamed; Griffiths, John D.; Felsky, Daniel

Hamza Abdelhedi, Université de Montréal [1D]
Neural trajectories of decision-making reveal motor commitment and ongoing sensory evidence tracking
Authors: Abdelhedi, Hamza; Thierry, Thomas; Rainville, Pierre; Cisek, Paul; Jerbi, Karim

Walter Adame-Gonzalez, McGill University [2D]
VARAN: Accurate voxel-wise brain age prediction
Authors: Adame-Gonzalez, Walter; Moqadam, Roqaie; Brzezinski-Rittner, Aliza; Azizi, Houman; Raheesi, Shima; Metz, Amelie; Alasmar, Zaki; Parent, Olivier; Dadar, Mahsa; Zeighami, Yashar

Ninad Aithal, McGill University [1M]
Neurodatahub
Author: Aithal, Ninad

Hafsa Moontari Ali, Ontario Tech University [3D]
Evidential Fusion of Task-Specific and Foundation Models for Brain Tumor Segmentation
Author: Ali, Hafsa Moontari

Reza Asri, Université de Montréal [4D]
Learning rules shape sensitivity to feedback inputs in embodied models of motor cortex
Authors: Asri, Reza; Codol, Olivier; Lajoie, Guillaume; Perich, Matthew G.

Zaynab Azeem, University of Toronto [5D]
Reading out face and ensemble representations from EEG through a generative latent space
Authors: Azeem, Zaynab; Shoura, Moaz; Jiang, Han Ning; Iancu, Otilia; Sama, Marco A.; Cant, Jonathan S.; Nestor, Adrian

Diaa Azzam, Concordia University [6D]
Learning when to stop listening: dissociating evidence use from response revision
Authors: Azzam, Diaa; Zhu, Xiang; Yaakoubi, Yassine

Frédéric Beaupré, Université Laval [7D]
Explainable Phenotype Discovery via Paired Normalizing Flows
Authors: Beaupré, Frédéric; Bilodeau, A.; Chabbert, J.; Pelletier-Rioux, A.; Bellavance, J.M.; Lavoie-Cardinal, F.; Gagné, C.

Catherine Bouchard, Université Laval [8D]
Latent Unmixing: Multiplexing Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Neuronal Proteins Under Limited Photon Budgets
Authors: Bouchard, Catherine; Ollier, Antoine; Thériault, Kamylle; Pelletier-Rioux, Alexy; Delamare, Marine; Pinel, Maryse; Lavoie-Cardinal, Flavie; Gagné, Christian

Thomas Bourgois, Polytechnique Montréal [2M]
Markerless pose estimation for early, automatic detection of reach onset in rats
Authors: Bourgois, Thomas; Zhao, Jean-Louis; Ting Windsor; Dancause, Numa

Jérémy Brunel, Université de Montréal [2P]
Towards a Neural Marker of Hypnotic Susceptibility? A Resting-State EEG Microstates Approach
Authors: Brunel, Jérémy; Ogez, David; Jerbi, Karim; Rainville, Pierre; Landry, Mathieu

Anne Calvel, Concordia University [3P]
Modulating sleep oscillations for memory and cardiovascular health
Authors: Calvel, Anne; Brooks, Mary; Bouteiller, Yann; Mutale, Mpimpa; Kaunda, Lumbuka; Chikopela, Theresa; Beltrame, Giovanni; Coffey, Emily

Veronica Chelu, McGill University [4P]
Behavioural and neural dynamics of adaptive learning following psilocybin
Authors: Chelu, Veronica; Wu, Serena; Precup, Doina; Bagot, Rosemary

Thomas Dagonneau, Polytechnique Montréal [9D]
Fast deep learning motion correction for spinal cord functional MRI
Authors: Dagonneau, Thomas; Bédard, Sandrine; Gori, Pietro; Le Folgoc, Loïc; Cohen-Adad, Julien

Hugo Delhaye, Université de Montréal [3M]
Quantifying Exploration and Exploitation in Humans and Artificial Agents During Naturalistic Learning
Authors: Delhaye, Hugo; Harel, Yann; Durand, Audrey; Bellec, Lune

Varun Dhanraj, Université Laval [10D]
Representing Trees with Tensor-Train Vector Symbolic Architectures
Authors: Dhanraj, Varun; Prémont-Schwarz, Isabeau

Sina Esmaeili, Université de Montréal [11D]
MNE-MoBI: A Python ecosystem for Mobile Brain/Body Imaging
Authors: Esmaeili, Sina; Abdelhedi, Hamza; Mantilla Ramos, Yorguin José; Pascarella, Annalisa; Jerbi, Karim

Daniel Galindo Lazo, Université de Montréal [12D]
A Computer Vision Pipeline for Real-Time Sleep Monitoring in Epilepsy Care
Authors: Galindo Lazo, Daniel Alejandro; Rodrigue, Alex; Saber, Ralph; Nguyen, Emmanuelle; Hardy, François; Sarzo Wabi, Isabel; Jahani, Amirhossein; Nguyen, Dang Khoa; Bou Assi, Elie

Tom George, Mila [5P]
Pretraining decoders on synthetic neural data works
Authors: George, Tom; Krishna, Nanda; Lajoie, Guillaume; Richards, Blake

Alireza Gharahi, McGill University [6P]
Slow adaptation lowers the threshold for chaos in random neural networks
Authors: Gharahi, Alireza; Roudi, Yasser; Mohajerani, Majid H.

Erinn Grigsby, Université de Montréal [7P]
Prefrontal spiking at exploration onset scales with the behavioral energy barrier
Authors: Grigsby, Erinn; Medeiros, Catherina; Ozanick, Erica; Magen, Noa; Zennouche, Meriem; Ebitz, Becket

Paul Hoareau, Polytechnique Montréal [4M]
Manifold analysis of synthetic brain MRI for domain generalization
Authors: Hoareau, Paul; Cohen-Adad, Julien

Amirhossein Jahani, Université de Montréal [8P]
From Hospital to Home: Real-World Testing of a Wrist-Worn Seizure Detection Device
Authors: Jahani, Amirhossein; Galindo Lazo, Daniel Alejandro; Sarzo Wabi, Isabel; Chalifoux, Marilie; Robert, Manon; Gharbi, Oumayma; D'Onofrio, Gianluca; Millan, Juan Pablo; Nguyen, Dang K.; Bou Assi, Elie

Anirudh Jamkhandi, Université de Montréal [13D]
Inferring Local and Pathway-Specific Changes in Neural Dynamics from Multi-Region Neural Activity
Authors: Jamkhandi, Anirudh; Perich, Matthew

Evleen Kaur, Concordia University [1B]
Human Performance in Exploration Missions: Monitoring Real-Time Cognitive Workload using Electroencephalography and Pupillometry during Human-Robot Interactions
Authors: Kaur, Evleen; Calvel, Anne; Roy, Simon; Coffey, Emily; Beltrame, Giovanni

Valeria Kebets, Concordia University – Applied AI Institute [2B]
Evaluating A Transparency Intervention to Reduce AI Over-Trust Among Vulnerable Populations
Authors: Kebets, Valeria; Zambrano, Alejandra; Kreidstein, Jamie; Anwar, Shariq; Ojo, Akinlolu Oluwabusayo; Moughel, Mohamed Souhail; Ahenkorah, Deborah; Bekes, Vera; Bouguila, Nizar

Aziz Ktari, McGill University [7M]
An Integrated Framework for Evaluating Computational Behavioral Models
Authors: Ktari, Aziz; Liu, Yanan; Sahin, Emir; Masset, Paul

Cléo Lam, Université de Montréal [5M]
I Saw the Behaviour Glow: Discovering Behavioural Structure and Trends Through Gameplay
Authors: Lam, Cléo; Bellec, Lune

Yorguin Jose Mantilla Ramos, Université de Montréal [6M]
What deeper Whisper layers add to brain prediction: probing layer content in EEG and ECoG
Authors: Mantilla-Ramos, Yorguin Jose; Jerbi, Karim

Day  2 -  October 30: Poster session #2   
Tamires Marcal, McGill University [1D]
Dynamic Functional Connectivity Decomposition - Forecasting Brain States
Authors: Tamires C. Marcal; Paule-Joanne Toussaint; Alejandro Salinas-Medina; Alan C. Evans

Syrine Matoussi, Université de Montréal [1M]
Characterizing epilepsy in routine pediatric EEG: foundation models vs. handcrafted features
Authors: Matoussi, Syrine; Abdelhedi, Hamza; Davalan, William; Mantilla-Ramos, Yorguin; Weil, Alexander; Hadjinicolaou, Aris; Jerbi, Karim

Elmira Mirzabeigi, Université de Montréal [1P]

A3PreCore: Robust Rigid Registration for Native FLAIR-Space Brain-Mask Transfer

Authors: Mirzabeigi, Elmira; Khalilzad, Zahra; Snowden-Richardson, Taylor; Lugo Arce, Jesus Eduardo; Gawryluk, Jodie R.; Christie, Brian R.; Faubert, Jocelyn

Jigneshkumar Mistry, Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Center, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India [1B]
Learn the Metric, Not the Deformation: Contrastive Learning for Cross-Modal Histology-MRI Registration
Authors: Mistry, Jigneshkumar; Ram, Keerthi; Mulay, Supriti; Neelakantan, Sivathanu; Mohanasankar, Sivaprakasam

Amirhossein Mohammadi, McGill University [2D]
Few Steps, Many Modes: Mixture Transition Matching for 2D-to-3D Pose Lifting
Authors: Mohammadi, Amirhossein; Mohajerani, Majid H.

Ariana Mondiri, Boston College [3D]
When do physical judgements share a representation? Perturbing direction information in vision networks
Authors: Mondiri, Ariana

Chloé Morin, Université Laval [2M]
A Large Protein Organization Model: An LLM approach to multi-scale analysis of super-resolution microscopy
Authors: Morin, Chloé; Beaupré, Fred; Gagné, Christian; Hložek, Rénée; Lavoie-Cardinal, Flavie

Le Thuy Duong Nguyen, McGill University [3M]
Quantifying Learnable Structure in Neural Population Activity with Epiplexity
Authors: Nguyen, Le Thuy Duong; Richards, Blake; Perich, Matthew G.

Behrouz Niknejad, Université de Sherbrooke [4M]
A sparse representation inspired by systems neuroscience, with applications in neuroscience and engineering: a neuromorphic real-time implementation
Authors: Bahaid, Soufiyan; Rouat, Jean; Alibart, Fabien

Victor Oswald, Université du Québec à Montréal [2P]
What does a language model learn from meditation? Bodily labelling, not specific emotion regulation
Authors: Oswald, Victor; Arvisais, Olivier; Mantilla Ramos, Yorguin; Jerbi, Karim

Pegah Chehrazi, Université de Montréal [3P]
Multimodal Modeling of Brain-State Features Associated with Auditory N1 Variability
Authors: Chehrazi, Pegah; Carreño-Muñoz, Maria Isabel; Feng, Yiran; Di Cristo, Graziella

Maria Pescaru, McGill University [5M]
Dimensionality of neural manifolds during adaptive motor behaviors
Authors: Pescaru, Maria; Sakata, Jon; Perich, Matthew

Peter Plantinga, McGill University [4P]
Lost to Behavior, Preserved in Geometry: Neuroscience Tools Reveal the Mechanics of Continual Learning
Authors: Plantinga, Peter; Bertucci Dumoulin, Gianfranco; Moore, Charlotte; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Ravanelli, Mirco; Klein, Denise

Shreya Rajagopal, Université de Montréal [5P]
A dual-pathway model of memory formation and arbitration in the hippocampus
Authors: Rajagopal, Shreya; Perich, Matthew

Mahta Ramezanian-Panahi, Mila [4D]
Cross-modal control in the Virtual Brain
Authors: Ramezanian-Panahi, Mahta; Hajhashemi, Shayan; Rish, Irina

Confidence Raymond, McGill University [5D]
BEE: a language-model agent that can only answer brain-atlas questions through data
Authors: Raymond, Confidence; Soula, Oumayma; Toussaint, Paule-J.; Anazodo, Udunna C.

Henrique Reis Aguiar, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, Institute for Machine Learning [6D]
Learning representations by predicting the action of inhibitory dynamics
Authors: Reis Aguiar, Henrique; Hennig, Matthias

Mauricio Rivera, Université de Montréal [7D]
Accelerating neurostimulation personalization by learning parameter interactions
Authors: Rivera, Mauricio; Burchielli, Davide; Bonizzato, Marco

Ralph Saber, Université de Montréal [6P]
One EEG Representation for Multiple Clinical Tasks: Self-Supervised Learning for Epilepsy
Authors: Saber, Ralph; Lemoine, Émile; Nguyen, Dang Khoa; Bou Assi, Elie

Siddhesh Salfale, McGill University [8D]
Can we trust imputed MRI for brain tumor segmentation?
Authors: Salfale, Siddhesh; Livingston, Charlotte; Padilla, Hadrien; Cera, Axel; Aithal, Ninad; Setayesh, Mani; Rotermann, Paul-Moritz; Mansour, Anis; Poline, J.-P.; Bzdok, Danilo

Alejandro Salinas-Medina, McGill University, MCIN [9D]
NeuroAgents 1.2: From Natural-Language Brain Simulations to Scientific Fidelity Audits
Authors: Salinas-Medina, Alejandro; Gonzalez-Mitjans, Anisleidy; Corrêa Marçal, Tamires; Toussaint, Paule Joanne; Evans, Alan; Liu, Xue

Isabel Sarzo Wabi, Université de Montréal [10D]
Development and Evaluation of a Seizure Detection Algorithm Using a Multimodal Biometric Shirt in Clinical and Residential Settings
Authors: Sarzo Wabi, Isabel; Gharbi, Oumayma; Galindo Lazo, Daniel Alejandro; Jahani, Amirhossein; Saber, Ralph; Robert, Manon; Hardy, François; Nguyen, Dang Khoa; Bou Assi, Elie

Oumayma Soula, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia [11D]
TissueLink: a visual workflow for BigBrain tissue collection and spatially traceable annotation
Authors: Anazodo, Udunna C.; Confidence, Raymond

Jean-Philippe Thivierge, University of Ottawa [2B]
Low-Rank Homeostatic Plasticity: A Biologically Inspired Learning Rule for Controlling Recurrent Neural Network Dynamics
Authors: Godin, Camille; Thivierge, Jean-Philippe

Achille Vigneault, McGill University / Neuro [3B]
AI-enabled high-throughput processing: Generating the multiverse of dynamic functional connectivity methods
Authors: Vigneault, Achille; Chen, Kini; Torabi, Mohammad; Mitsic, Georgios; Poline, Jean-Baptiste

Doris Voina, Université de Montréal [7P]
How Simple Heuristics Emerge from Learning Rules and Dynamics
Authors: Voina, Doris; Pack, Christopher; Bakhtiari, Shahab

Charlotte Volk, McGill University, School of Computer Science [12D]
A biologically inspired predictive coding algorithm with multiplicative and additive feedback
Authors: Volk, Charlotte; Bredenberg, Colin; Richards, Blake

Maren Wehrheim, York University [8P]
Prefrontal cortex supports demand-dependent refinement of visual object representations
Authors: Wehrheim, Maren; Kar, Kohitij

Zijing Wu, McGill University [13D]
QD-Learning for Continual Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Wu, Zijing; Precup, Doina; Masset, Paul; Anand, Nishanth

Zahra Yazdani, Université Laval [14D]
Multimodal imaging and machine learning reveal distinct neuronal maturation trajectories in schizophrenia
Authors: Yazdani, Zahra; Patel, Niraj; Haouat, Mohamed; Roy, Anne-Sophie; Belanger, Erik; Allard, Antoine; Desrosiers, Patrick; Marquet, Pierre

Jade Xiaoxuan Yu, McGill University [15D]
Automated Homecage Monitoring of Maternal Care: A Scalable Hardware-Software Platform for Modelling Early Life Adversity in Rodents
Authors: Yu, Jade Xiaoxuan; Mohammadi, Amirhossein; Ghassemi, Navid; Azami, Pooria; Fu, Rao; Zhu, Yujun; Psycharis, Konstantina; Wang, Cindy; Mohajerani, Majid H.

Xiang Chen Zhu, Concordia University [16D]
Stable world models from an unstable motor code: diverse movements shape recovery from representational drift
Authors: Zhu, Xiang Chen; Azzam, Diaa; Yaakoubi, Yassine

Fayçal Zine-Eddine, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal [17D]
Reasoning adds confidence, not accuracy: Jev versus DeepSeek in seizure localization from semiology
Authors: Zine-Eddine, Fayçal; Bou Assi, Elie; Nguyen, Dang Khoa