The neuroconnectionist research programme

A Doerig, RP Sommers, K Seeliger… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to
model behavioural and neural data, an approach we call 'neuroconnectionism'. ANNs have …

BrainSCUBA: Fine-Grained Natural Language Captions of Visual Cortex Selectivity

AF Luo, MM Henderson, MJ Tarr, L Wehbe - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Understanding the functional organization of higher visual cortex is a central focus in
neuroscience. Past studies have primarily mapped the visual and semantic selectivity of …

Interaction between the prefrontal and visual cortices supports subjective fear

V Taschereau-Dumouchel, M Côté… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
It has been reported that threatening and non-threatening visual stimuli can be distinguished
based on the multi-voxel patterns of haemodynamic activity in the human ventral visual …

Brain2GAN: Feature-disentangled neural encoding and decoding of visual perception in the primate brain

T Dado, P Papale, A Lozano, L Le… - PLoS computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
A challenging goal of neural coding is to characterize the neural representations underlying
visual perception. To this end, multi-unit activity (MUA) of macaque visual cortex was …

What comparing deep neural networks can teach us about human vision

K Seeliger, MN Hebart - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024 - nature.com
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[HTML][HTML] Human EEG and artificial neural networks reveal disentangled representations of object real-world size in natural images

Z Lu, JD Golomb - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Remarkably, human brains have the ability to accurately perceive and process the real-
world size of objects, despite vast differences in distance and perspective. While previous …

Vision-Language Integration in Multimodal Video Transformers (Partially) Aligns with the Brain

DT Dong, M Toneva - arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07766, 2023 - arxiv.org
Integrating information from multiple modalities is arguably one of the essential prerequisites
for grounding artificial intelligence systems with an understanding of the real world. Recent …

Empirically identifying and computationally modeling the brain–behavior relationship for human scene categorization

A Karapetian, A Boyanova, M Pandaram… - Journal of Cognitive …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Humans effortlessly make quick and accurate perceptual decisions about the nature of their
immediate visual environment, such as the category of the scene they face. Previous …

Characterising representation dynamics in recurrent neural networks for object recognition

S Thorat, A Doerig, TC Kietzmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12435, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have yielded promising results for both recognizing
objects in challenging conditions and modeling aspects of primate vision. However, the …

Neural computations in prosopagnosia

S Faghel-Soubeyrand, AR Richoz, D Waeber… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We report an investigation of the neural processes involved in the processing of faces and
objects of brain-lesioned patient PS, a well-documented case of pure acquired …