# Microsoft Research — Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments

- Company: Microsoft Research (microsoft.com)
- Announced: 2026-06-25T16:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research / Phi
- Source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/understanding-the-brain-with-ai-driven-explanations-and-experiments/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2463-understanding-the-brain-with-ai-driven-explanations-and-experiments

Microsoft Research, in collaboration with UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Columbia University, published a paper in Nature Neuroscience introducing generative causal testing (GCT), a framework that distills black-box brain-prediction models into testable verbal explanations and validates them with fMRI experiments.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/understanding-the-brain-with-ai-driven-explanations-and-experiments/:

> In a new paper accepted in Nature Neuroscience, Microsoft Research scientists, in collaboration with scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, San Francisco, and Columbia University, introduce a framework to overcome this explainability crisis: generative causal testing (GCT).

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