Gabriel Béna

- Lab member: 2021-
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- Supervised by: Dan Goodman
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My interests are broad but have lately aligned with the field of neuromorphic engineering. I study the structure-function relationship in neural-networks, understanding how structural modularity relates to functional specialization and compositional knowledge abilities, especially in resource-constrained architectures. I’ve also studied Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), especially the topic of multimodal integration, and I am currently an active developer of the SNN software stack for SpiNNaker2. Finally, I am fascinated by self-organising systems and have recently been trying to understand how continuous neural cellular automata can be harnessed as a universal computational medium.
Videos
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Multimodal units fuse-then-accumulate evidence across channelsTalk / 2023
Talk on multimodal processing given at VVTNS 2023 seminar series
Publications
Note that only publications as part of the Neural Reckoning group are included here (see external publications below for full list).
2025
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Béna G, Goodman DFM (2025)
Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints.
Nature Communications
2024
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Ghosh M, Béna G, Bormuth V, Goodman DFM (2024)
Nonlinear fusion is optimal for a wide class of multisensory tasks.
PLoS Computational Biology
External publications
This is a short preview of the publications from other sources (ORCID, Semantic Scholar). Note that publications from work done outside the Neural Reckoning group are included in this list.
2025
- Gabriel Béna, Dan F. M. Goodman (2025)
Dynamics of specialization in neural modules under resource constraints
Nature Communications
2024
- Gabriel Béna, Timo Wunderlich, Mahmoud Akl, Bernhard Vogginger, Christian Mayr, Hector Andres Gonzalez (2024)
Event-based backpropagation on the neuromorphic platform SpiNNaker2
NICE 2025
2023