Papers & preprints

@inproceedings{mehrer2026microstimulation,
  title     = {Model-Guided Microstimulation Steers Primate Visual Behavior},
  author    = {Mehrer, Johannes and Lonnqvist, Ben and Mitola, Anna and Papale, Paolo and Schrimpf, Martin},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year      = {2026}
}

@article{scialom2026diagnostic,
  title   = {Diagnostic features predicted by deep learning improve human object recognition in simulated prosthetic vision},
  author  = {Scialom, Elsa and Lonnqvist, Ben and Bornet, Alban and Herzog, Michael H.},
  journal = {Journal of Neural Engineering},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.1088/1741-2552/ae9227}
}

@phdthesis{lonnqvist2025thesis,
  title  = {Differences in Visual Perception in Humans and Deep Neural Networks},
  author = {Lonnqvist, Ben},
  school = {{\'E}cole Polytechnique F{\'e}d{\'e}rale de Lausanne (EPFL)},
  year   = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{lonnqvist2025contour,
  title     = {Contour Integration Underlies Human-Like Vision},
  author    = {Lonnqvist, Ben and Scialom, Elsa and Gokce, Abdulkadir and Merchant, Zehra and Herzog, Michael H. and Schrimpf, Martin},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  series    = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  volume    = {267},
  pages     = {40290--40311},
  year      = {2025}
}

@inproceedings{lonnqvist2024latent,
  title     = {Latent Noise Segmentation: How Neural Noise Leads to the Emergence of Segmentation and Grouping},
  author    = {Lonnqvist, Ben and Wu, Zhengqing and Herzog, Michael H.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Machine Learning},
  series    = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  volume    = {235},
  year      = {2024}
}

@article{lonnqvist2022comment,
  title   = {A comment on {G}uo et al. [arXiv:2206.11228]},
  author  = {Lonnqvist, Ben and Machiraju, Harshitha and Herzog, Michael H.},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.01456},
  year    = {2022}
}

@article{lonnqvist2021comparative,
  title   = {A comparative biology approach to {DNN} modeling of vision: A focus on differences, not similarities},
  author  = {Lonnqvist, Ben and Bornet, Alban and Doerig, Adrien and Herzog, Michael H.},
  journal = {Journal of Vision},
  volume  = {21},
  number  = {10},
  pages   = {17},
  year    = {2021},
  doi     = {10.1167/jov.21.10.17}
}

@article{lonnqvist2020crowding,
  title   = {Crowding in humans is unlike that in convolutional neural networks},
  author  = {Lonnqvist, Ben and Clarke, Alasdair D. F. and Chakravarthi, Ramakrishna},
  journal = {Neural Networks},
  year    = {2020},
  doi     = {10.1016/j.neunet.2020.03.021}
}

@article{lonnqvist2020modeling,
  title   = {Modeling individual variation in visual search with reinforcement learning},
  author  = {Lonnqvist, Ben and Elsner, Micha and Hunt, Amelia R. and Clarke, Alasdair D. F.},
  journal = {PsyArXiv},
  year    = {2020},
  doi     = {10.31234/osf.io/suj28}
}