From convolutional neural networks to models of higher‐level cognition (and back again)

RM Battleday, JC Peterson… - Annals of the New York …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The remarkable successes of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in modern computer
vision are by now well known, and they are increasingly being explored as computational …

Neural representational geometry underlies few-shot concept learning

B Sorscher, S Ganguli… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the neural basis of the remarkable human cognitive capacity to learn novel
concepts from just one or a few sensory experiences constitutes a fundamental problem. We …

Testing formal cognitive models of classification and old-new recognition in a real-world high-dimensional category domain

BJ Meagher, RM Nosofsky - Cognitive Psychology, 2023 - Elsevier
Categorization and old-new recognition memory are closely linked topics in the cognitive-
psychology literature and there have been extensive past efforts at develo** unified formal …

ViSpa (Vision Spaces): A computer-vision-based representation system for individual images and concept prototypes, with large-scale evaluation.

F Günther, M Marelli, S Tureski, MA Petilli - Psychological Review, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Quantitative, data-driven models for mental representations have long enjoyed popularity
and success in psychology (eg, distributional semantic models in the language domain), but …

On the informativeness of supervision signals

I Sucholutsky, RM Battleday… - Uncertainty in …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Supervised learning typically focuses on learning transferable representations from training
examples annotated by humans. While rich annotations (like soft labels) carry more …

[HTML][HTML] What's in a name? A large-scale computational study on how competition between names affects naming variation

E Gualdoni, T Brochhagen, A Mädebach… - Journal of Memory and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Different speakers often use different names to refer to the same entity (eg,“woman”
vs.“tennis player” for a given woman playing tennis). We study how visual typicality affects …

[PDF][PDF] Conformal prediction is robust to label noise

BS Einbinder, S Bates, AN Angelopoulos… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - cris.technion.ac.il
We study the robustness of conformal prediction—a powerful tool for uncertainty
quantification—to label noise. Our analysis tackles both regression and classification …

Augmenting human cognition with an ai-mediated intelligent visual feedback

S Xu, X Zhang - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we introduce an AI-mediated framework that can provide intelligent feedback
to augment human cognition. Specifically, we leverage deep reinforcement learning (DRL) …

Extracting low‐dimensional psychological representations from convolutional neural networks

A Jha, JC Peterson, TL Griffiths - Cognitive science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly widely used in psychology and
neuroscience to predict how human minds and brains respond to visual images. Typically …

How well do rudimentary plasticity rules predict adult visual object learning?

MJ Lee, JJ DiCarlo - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
A core problem in visual object learning is using a finite number of images of a new object to
accurately identify that object in future, novel images. One longstanding, conceptual …