Publications

Journal Articles

• Mentorship as a Mechanism for Equity, Retention & Scientific Innovation in Neuroscience-related Careers
  Bekele, B.A., Alaoui, Z., Mofor, N.A., & Memudu, A.E.
  Oxford Open Neuroscience, 5, kvag005.  DOI
• Familiarity Alters the Bandwidth of Perceptual Awareness
  Cohen, M.A., Sung, S., & Alaoui, Z.
  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 36(8), 1546–1556.  DOI

Conference Papers

• Causal Interpretation of Neural Network Computations with Contribution Decomposition (CODEC)
  *Melander, J.B., *Alaoui, Z., Liu, S., Ganguli, S., Baccus, S.
  * co-first authors  ·  ICLR 2026.  Paper

Selected Presentations

• Eye-tracking to correct gaze shifts in a natural virtual reality system for recording mouse visual cortical activity
  Poster presentation  ·  Society for Neuroscience 2025, San Diego, CA
  November 2025
• Rethinking Locomotor Modulation of Vision: Running Alters Eye Movements, Not Cortical Processing in Mice
  Oral presentation  ·  Stanford Postbaccalaureate Research Capstone Symposium (1 of 5 selected from 20)
  May 2025
• Relative Contributions of Locomotion, Gaze Dynamics, and Visual Encoding to Neural Responses in Primary Visual Cortex
  Oral presentation  ·  Stanford Postbaccalaureate Research in Progress Talk
  January 2025
• Familiarity Expands the Bandwidth of Perceptual Awareness
  Poster presentation  ·  Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists, Pittsburgh, PA
  November 2024
• Familiarity Alters the Bandwidth of Perceptual Awareness
  Program in Neuroscience Thesis Defense  ·  Amherst College
  May 2024
• Somatic Mutations in Enhancer Regions in Schizophrenia
  Summer Undergraduate Research Presentation  ·  Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Genetics and Genomics
  August 2022