Tool representations in human visual cortex

D Cortinovis, MV Peelen, S Bracci - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Tools such as pens, forks, and scissors play an important role in many daily-life activities, an
importance underscored by the presence in visual cortex of a set of tool-selective brain …

A unifying framework for functional organization in early and higher ventral visual cortex

E Margalit, H Lee, D Finzi, JJ DiCarlo, K Grill-Spector… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
A key feature of cortical systems is functional organization: the arrangement of functionally
distinct neurons in characteristic spatial patterns. However, the principles underlying the …

Teaching CORnet Human fMRI Representations for Enhanced Model-Brain Alignment

Z Lu, Y Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.10414, 2024 - arxiv.org
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have demonstrated excellent performance in
object recognition and have been found to share some similarities with brain visual …

Local lateral connectivity is sufficient for replicating cortex-like topographical organization in deep neural networks

X Qian, AO Dehghani, A Farahani, P Bashivan - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Across the primate cortex, neurons that perform similar functions tend to be spatially
grouped together. In the high-level visual cortex, this biological principle manifests itself as a …

[HTML][HTML] Achieving more human brain-like vision via human EEG representational alignment

Z Lu, Y Wang, JD Golomb - Ar**v, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite advancements in artificial intelligence, object recognition models still lag behind in
emulating visual information processing in human brains. Recent studies have highlighted …

TopoNets: High Performing Vision and Language Models with Brain-Like Topography

M Deb, M Deb, N Murty - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.16396, 2025 - arxiv.org
Neurons in the brain are organized such that nearby cells tend to share similar functions. AI
models lack this organization, and past efforts to introduce topography have often led to …

Neurophenomenal Structuralism and the Role of Computational Context

M Paßler, A Doerig - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.20873, 2024 - arxiv.org
Neurophenomenal structuralism posits that conscious experiences are defined relationally
and that their phenomenal structures are mirrored by neural structures. While this approach …

Decoding the Recognition of Occluded Objects in the Human Brain

CE Mansfield - 2024 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
The dynamics of object recognition are intricate, particularly when under challenging visual
conditions, such as occlusion. Current models of vision often fall short in explaining the …

AI, Robot Neuroscientist: Reimagining Hypothesis Generation

J Shang, W **ao - NeurIPS 2023 AI for Science Workshop - openreview.net
Neuroscience has long relied on human-conceived hypotheses, yet the brain's complexity
fundamentally challenges this epistemology. Modern technologies and the large-scale data …