[HTML][HTML] Using artificial neural networks to ask 'why'questions of minds and brains

N Kanwisher, M Khosla, K Dobs - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023‏ - cell.com
Neuroscientists have long characterized the properties and functions of the nervous system,
and are increasingly succeeding in answering how brains perform the tasks they do. But the …

Against cortical reorganisation

TR Makin, JW Krakauer - elife, 2023‏ - elifesciences.org
Neurological insults, such as congenital blindness, deafness, amputation, and stroke, often
result in surprising and impressive behavioural changes. Cortical reorganisation, which …

Evidence for a third visual pathway specialized for social perception

D Pitcher, LG Ungerleider - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2021‏ - cell.com
Existing models propose that primate visual cortex is divided into two functionally distinct
pathways. The ventral pathway computes the identity of an object; the dorsal pathway …

Better models of human high-level visual cortex emerge from natural language supervision with a large and diverse dataset

AY Wang, K Kay, T Naselaris, MJ Tarr… - Nature Machine …, 2023‏ - nature.com
High-performing neural networks for vision have dramatically advanced our ability to
account for neural data in biological systems. Recently, further improvement in performance …

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 …

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 …

Visual and linguistic semantic representations are aligned at the border of human visual cortex

SF Popham, AG Huth, NY Bilenko, F Deniz… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Semantic information in the human brain is organized into multiple networks, but the fine-
grain relationships between them are poorly understood. In this study, we compared …

A map of object space in primate inferotemporal cortex

P Bao, L She, M McGill, DY Tsao - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
The inferotemporal (IT) cortex is responsible for object recognition, but it is unclear how the
representation of visual objects is organized in this part of the brain. Areas that are selective …

Neural correlates of action: Comparing meta-analyses of imagery, observation, and execution

RM Hardwick, S Caspers, SB Eickhoff… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Several models propose Motor Imagery, Action Observation, and Movement
Execution recruit the same brain regions. There is, however, no quantitative synthesis of the …

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 …