Tactile Processing with Mouse Whiskers

This repo contains the code for our paper, Task-Optimized Convolutional Recurrent Networks Align with Tactile Processing in the Rodent Brain. Accepted to NeurIPS 2025 as an oral! 🐭🎉

Dataset is available on HuggingFace.

• whisker-sim is where the mouse whisker data generation is
• tactile-nn is where the model training is
• neural-data is where neural predictivity work is

See the README's in each subdirectory for how to run.

Citation

@misc{chung2025tactile,
      title={Task-Optimized Convolutional Recurrent Networks Align with Tactile Processing in the Rodent Brain}, 
      author={Trinity Chung and Yuchen Shen and Nathan C. L. Kong and Aran Nayebi},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2505.18361},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={q-bio.NC},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18361}, 
}

Contact

If you have any questions or encounter issues, either submit a Github issue here (preferred) or email Trinity.