HUMAN & MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

A foundation model of vision, audition, and language for in-silico neuroscience

March 26, 2026

Abstract

Cognitive neuroscience is fragmented into specialized models, each tailored to specific experimental paradigms, hence preventing a unified model of cognition in the human brain. Here, we introduce TRIBE v2, a tri-modal (video, audio and language) foundation model capable of predicting human brain activity in a variety of naturalistic and experimental conditions. Leveraging a unified dataset of over 1,000 hours of fMRI across 720 subjects, we demonstrate that our model accurately predicts high-resolution brain responses for novel stimuli, tasks and subjects, superseding traditional linear encoding models, delivering several-fold improvements in accuracy. Critically, TRIBE v2 enables in silico experimentation: tested on seminal visual and neuro-linguistic paradigms, it recovers a variety of results established by decades of empirical research. Finally, by extracting interpretable latent features, TRIBE v2 reveals the fine-grained topography of multisensory integration. These results establish artificial intelligence as a unifying framework for exploring the functional organization of the human brain.

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AUTHORS

Written by

Stéphane d'Ascoli

Jérémy Rapin

Yohann Benchetrit

Teon Brooks

Katelyn Begany

Josephine Raugel

Hubert Jacob Banville

Jean Remi King

Publisher

ArXiv

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