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*Concept-based explanations* offer a promising approach for explaining the predictions of deep neural networks in terms of high-level, human-understandable concepts. However, existing methods either do not establish a causal connection…

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A common assumption in Computational Linguistics is that text representations learnt by multimodal models are richer and more human-like than those by language-only models, as they are grounded in images or audio -- similar to how human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Anna Bavaresco , Raquel Fernández

The neural mechanism of memory has a very close relation with the problem of representation in artificial intelligence. In this paper a computational model was proposed to simulate the network of neurons in brain and how they process…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-02 Hui Wei

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis suggests a universal, modality-independent reality representation behind different data modalities. Inspired by this, we view each neuron as a system and detect its multi-segment activity data under…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-19 Wei Wu , Can Liao , Zizhen Deng , Zhengrui Guo , Jinzhuo Wang

Modern visual generative models acquire rich visual knowledge through large-scale training, yet existing visual representations (such as pixels, latents, or tokens) remain external to the model and cannot directly exploit this knowledge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zongyu Guo , Jiajun He , Zhaoyang Jia , Xiaoyi Zhang , Jiahao Li , Xiao Li , Bin Li , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Yan Lu

The human language system represents both linguistic forms and meanings, but the abstractness of the meaning representations remains debated. Here, we searched for abstract representations of meaning in the language cortex by modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Shreya Saha , Shurui Li , Greta Tuckute , Yuanning Li , Ru-Yuan Zhang , Leila Wehbe , Evelina Fedorenko , Meenakshi Khosla

Modern vision models have achieved strong object-recognition performance, yet it remains unclear whether their representations encode object-level semantic relatedness, the meaningful connection between object concepts that supports human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hansang Lee , Haeil Lee , Junmo Kim

Brain decoding involves the determination of a subject's cognitive state or an associated stimulus from functional neuroimaging data measuring brain activity. In this setting the cognitive state is typically characterized by an element of a…

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Skeleton-based human activity recognition has achieved strong empirical performance, yet most existing models remain black boxes and difficult to interpret. In this work, we introduce a neurosymbolic formulation of skeleton-based HAR that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Talha Ilyas , Deval Mehta , Zongyuan Ge

Understanding how neural models represent human-interpretable concepts is challenging. Prior work has explored linear concept subspaces from diverse perspectives, such as probing and concept erasure. We introduce a unified framework to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Burin Naowarat , Hao Tang , Sharon Goldwater

Cognition refers to the function of information perception and processing, which is the fundamental psychological essence of human beings. It is responsible for reasoning and decision-making, while its evaluation is significant for the…

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Human memory -- the learning of new information involves changes at the synaptic level between neurons dedicated for storage of in-formation. Generally, memory is classified as Long-Term Memory and Short-Term Memory. The various types of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-07 Qazi Emad-Ul-Haq , Muhammad Hussain , Hatim Aboalsamh , Saeed Bamatraf , Aamir Saeed Malik , Hafeez Ullah Amin

It is widely supposed that following unilateral brain injury, there arises an asymmetry in inter-hemispheric inhibition which has an adverse influence upon motor control. I argue that this 'inter-hemispheric imbalance' model arises from a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-17 Richard G. Carson

Cognitive imagination is a type of imagination that plays a key role in human thinking. It is not a ``picture-in-the-head'' imagination. It is a faculty to mentally visualize coherent and holistic systems of concepts and causal links that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Evgenii E. Vityaev , Andrei Mantsivoda

The dispute of how the human brain represents conceptual knowledge has been argued in many scientific fields. Brain imaging studies have shown that the spatial patterns of neural activation in the brain are correlated with thinking about…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-15 Subba Reddy Oota , Naresh Manwani , Bapi Raju S

Modern generative models demonstrate impressive capabilities, likely stemming from an ability to identify and manipulate abstract concepts underlying their training data. However, fundamental questions remain: what determines the concepts a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Core Francisco Park , Maya Okawa , Andrew Lee , Hidenori Tanaka , Ekdeep Singh Lubana

Neural networks deliver impressive predictive performance across a variety of tasks, but they are often opaque in their decision-making processes. Despite a growing interest in mechanistic interpretability, tools for systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ricardo Knauer , Andre Beinrucker , Erik Rodner

In this paper, we review recent approaches for explaining concepts in neural networks. Concepts can act as a natural link between learning and reasoning: once the concepts are identified that a neural learning system uses, one can integrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jae Hee Lee , Sergio Lanza , Stefan Wermter

The self-simulational theory of temporal extension describes an information-theoretically formalized mechanism by which the width of subjective temporality emerges from the architecture of self-modelling. In this paper, the perspective of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-01 Jan Erik Bellingrath

The highly influential framework of conceptual spaces provides a geometric way of representing knowledge. Instances are represented by points in a high-dimensional space and concepts are represented by regions in this space. Our recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Lucas Bechberger , Kai-Uwe Kühnberger