Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization

M Nau, AC Schmid, SM Kaplan, CI Baker… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Cognitive neuroscience seeks generalizable theories explaining the relationship between
behavioral, physiological and mental states. In pursuit of such theories, we propose a …

Neural tuning and representational geometry

N Kriegeskorte, XX Wei - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

Partial success in closing the gap between human and machine vision

R Geirhos, K Narayanappa, B Mitzkus… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A few years ago, the first CNN surpassed human performance on ImageNet. However, it
soon became clear that machines lack robustness on more challenging test cases, a major …

Getting aligned on representational alignment

I Sucholutsky, L Muttenthaler, A Weller, A Peng… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Biological and artificial information processing systems form representations that they can
use to categorize, reason, plan, navigate, and make decisions. How can we measure the …

THINGS-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale datasets for investigating object representations in human brain and behavior

MN Hebart, O Contier, L Teichmann, AH Rockter… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Understanding object representations requires a broad, comprehensive sampling of the
objects in our visual world with dense measurements of brain activity and behavior. Here …

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 …

Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system

O Contier, CI Baker, MN Hebart - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Object vision is commonly thought to involve a hierarchy of brain regions processing
increasingly complex image features, with high-level visual cortex supporting object …

Improving neural network representations using human similarity judgments

L Muttenthaler, L Linhardt, J Dippel… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Deep neural networks have reached human-level performance on many computer vision
tasks. However, the objectives used to train these networks enforce only that similar images …

Naturalistic reinforcement learning

T Wise, K Emery, A Radulescu - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Humans possess a remarkable ability to make decisions within real-world environments that
are expansive, complex, and multidimensional. Human cognitive computational …

Human alignment of neural network representations

L Muttenthaler, J Dippel, L Linhardt… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Today's computer vision models achieve human or near-human level performance across a
wide variety of vision tasks. However, their architectures, data, and learning algorithms differ …