The neuroconnectionist research programme

A Doerig, RP Sommers, K Seeliger… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to
model behavioural and neural data, an approach we call 'neuroconnectionism'. ANNs have …

Understanding human object vision: a picture is worth a thousand representations

S Bracci, HP Op de Beeck - Annual review of psychology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Objects are the core meaningful elements in our visual environment. Classic theories of
object vision focus upon object recognition and are elegant and simple. Some of their …

Getting aligned on representational alignment

I Sucholutsky, L Muttenthaler, A Weller, A Peng… - ar** high-level visual representation in brains and machines?
C Conwell, JS Prince, KN Kay, GA Alvarez, T Konkle - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The rapid development and open-source release of highly performant computer vision
models offers new potential for examining how different inductive biases impact …

A large-scale examination of inductive biases sha** high-level visual representation in brains and machines

C Conwell, JS Prince, KN Kay, GA Alvarez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The rapid release of high-performing computer vision models offers new potential to study
the impact of different inductive biases on the emergent brain alignment of learned …

High-performing neural network models of visual cortex benefit from high latent dimensionality

E Elmoznino, MF Bonner - PLoS computational biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Geometric descriptions of deep neural networks (DNNs) have the potential to uncover core
representational principles of computational models in neuroscience. Here we examined the …

Degrees of algorithmic equivalence between the brain and its DNN models

PG Schyns, L Snoek, C Daube - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become powerful and increasingly ubiquitous tools to
model human cognition, and often produce similar behaviors. For example, with their …

[HTML][HTML] Neurobiological mechanisms for language, symbols and concepts: clues from brain-constrained deep neural networks

F Pulvermüller - Progress in Neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Neural networks are successfully used to imitate and model cognitive processes. However,
to provide clues about the neurobiological mechanisms enabling human cognition, these …

[HTML][HTML] Skeletal representations of shape in the human visual cortex

V Ayzenberg, FS Kamps, DD Dilks, SF Lourenco - Neuropsychologia, 2022 - Elsevier
Shape perception is crucial for object recognition. However, it remains unknown exactly how
shape information is represented and used by the visual system. Here, we tested the …

Diverse task-driven modeling of macaque V4 reveals functional specialization towards semantic tasks

SA Cadena, KF Willeke, K Restivo… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Responses to natural stimuli in area V4—a mid-level area of the visual ventral stream—are
well predicted by features from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on image …