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Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in cognitive modeling as a means of deriving representations for complex stimuli such as images. While the predictive power of these networks is high, it is often not clear whether they also…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-06-01 Aditi Jha , Joshua Peterson , Thomas L. Griffiths

Humans can effortlessly describe what they see, yet establishing a shared representational format between vision and language remains a significant challenge. Emerging evidence suggests that human brain representations in both vision and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-30 Katerina Marie Simkova , Adrien Doerig , Clayton Hickey , Ian Charest

How similar is the human mind to the sophisticated machine-learning systems that mirror its performance? Models of object categorization based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved human-level benchmarks in assigning known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Zhenglong Zhou , Chaz Firestone

For a considerable time, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have reached human benchmark performance in object recognition. On that account, computational neuroscience and the field of machine learning have started to attribute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Leonard E. van Dyck , Walter R. Gruber

Visual scene understanding often requires the processing of human-object interactions. Here we seek to explore if and how well Deep Neural Network (DNN) models capture features similar to the brain's representation of humans, objects, and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-07 Aditi Jha , Sumeet Agarwal

Despite the rapid pace at which deep networks are improving on standardized vision benchmarks, they are still outperformed by humans on real-world vision tasks. One solution to this problem is to make deep networks more brain-like. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Niranjan Rajesh , Georgin Jacob , SP Arun

Humans readily generalize, applying prior knowledge to novel situations and stimuli. Advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence have begun to approximate and even surpass human performance, but machine systems reliably…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Leonidas A. A. Doumas , Guillermo Puebla , Andrea E. Martin

It is widely believed that learning good representations is one of the main reasons for the success of deep neural networks. Although highly intuitive, there is a lack of theory and systematic approach quantitatively characterizing what…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Liwei Wang , Lunjia Hu , Jiayuan Gu , Yue Wu , Zhiqiang Hu , Kun He , John Hopcroft

Deep Learning models like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are powerful image classifiers, but what factors determine whether they attend to similar image areas as humans do? While previous studies have focused on technological factors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Romy Müller , Marcel Dürschmidt , Julian Ullrich , Carsten Knoll , Sascha Weber , Steffen Seitz

People acquire concepts through rich physical and social experiences and use them to understand and navigate the world. In contrast, large language models (LLMs), trained solely through next-token prediction on text, exhibit strikingly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ningyu Xu , Qi Zhang , Chao Du , Qiang Luo , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang , Menghan Zhang

Inferring reward functions from human behavior is at the center of value alignment - aligning AI objectives with what we, humans, actually want. But doing so relies on models of how humans behave given their objectives. After decades of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Joey Hong , Kush Bhatia , Anca Dragan

The perceptual representations supporting our ability to recognize faces remain a computational mystery. Deep neural networks offer mechanistic hypotheses for human face perception, but theoretically distinct models often make…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-14 Wenxuan Guo , Heiko H. Schütt , Kamila Maria Jozwik , Katherine R. Storrs , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Tal Golan

In light of the recent widespread adoption of AI systems, understanding the internal information processing of neural networks has become increasingly critical. Most recently, machine vision has seen remarkable progress by scaling neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Roland S. Zimmermann , Thomas Klein , Wieland Brendel

Recent success in training deep neural networks have prompted active investigation into the features learned on their intermediate layers. Such research is difficult because it requires making sense of non-linear computations performed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Yixuan Li , Jason Yosinski , Jeff Clune , Hod Lipson , John Hopcroft

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) exhibit strong visual understanding and reasoning abilities. However, whether their internal representations reflect human visual cognition is still under-explored. In this paper, we address this by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xin Xiao , Yang Lei , Haoyang Zeng , Xiao Sun , Xinyi Jiang , Yu Tian , Hao Wu , Kaiwen Wei , Jiang Zhong

Do machines and humans process language in similar ways? Recent research has hinted at the affirmative, showing that human neural activity can be effectively predicted using the internal representations of language models (LMs). Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yuchen Zhou , Emmy Liu , Graham Neubig , Michael J. Tarr , Leila Wehbe

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data captured by humans emulating our understanding of the world. However, known as visual illusions, human's perception of reality isn't always faithful to the physical world.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yichi Zhang , Jiayi Pan , Yuchen Zhou , Rui Pan , Joyce Chai

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly proposed as models of human vision, bolstered by their impressive performance on image classification and object recognition tasks. Yet, the extent to which DNNs capture fundamental aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Ethan O. Nadler , Elise Darragh-Ford , Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan , Christian Conaway , Mark Chu , Tasker Hull , Douglas Guilbeault

Many AI models trained on natural images develop representations that resemble those of the human brain. However, the factors that drive this brain-model similarity remain poorly understood. To disentangle how the model, training and data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Joséphine Raugel , Marc Szafraniec , Huy V. Vo , Camille Couprie , Patrick Labatut , Piotr Bojanowski , Valentin Wyart , Jean-Rémi King

With the advent of large labelled datasets and high-capacity models, the performance of machine vision systems has been improving rapidly. However, the technology has still major limitations, starting from the fact that different vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi