The best game in town: The reemergence of the language-of-thought hypothesis across the cognitive sciences

J Quilty-Dunn, N Porot, E Mandelbaum - Behavioral and Brain …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Mental representations remain the central posits of psychology after many decades of
scrutiny. However, there is no consensus about the representational format (s) of biological …

Limits to visual representational correspondence between convolutional neural networks and the human brain

Y Xu, M Vaziri-Pashkam - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly used to model human vision due to
their high object categorization capabilities and general correspondence with human brain …

Two “what” networks in the human brain

M Vaziri-Pashkam - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Ungerleider and Mishkin, in their influential work that relied on detailed anatomical and
ablation studies, suggested that visual information is processed along two distinct pathways …

The spatiotemporal neural dynamics of object location representations in the human brain

M Graumann, C Ciuffi, K Dwivedi, G Roig… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
To interact with objects in complex environments, we must know what they are and where
they are in spite of challenging viewing conditions. Here, we investigated where, how and …

Retina‐Like Chlorophyll Heterojunction‐Based Optoelectronic Memristor with All‐Optically Modulated Synaptic Plasticity Enabling Neuromorphic Edge Detection

J Jiang, X Shan, J Xu, Y Sun, TF Xiang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Optoelectronic memristors, which possess the potential capacities of in‐sensor computing,
promote the development of highly efficient neuromorphic vision. In this work, a novel …

Self-attention in vision transformers performs perceptual grouping, not attention

P Mehrani, JK Tsotsos - Frontiers in Computer Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Recently, a considerable number of studies in computer vision involve deep neural
architectures called vision transformers. Visual processing in these models incorporates …

Joint representation of color and form in convolutional neural networks: A stimulus-rich network perspective

JM Taylor, Y Xu - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
To interact with real-world objects, any effective visual system must jointly code the unique
features defining each object. Despite decades of neuroscience research, we still lack a firm …

The human posterior parietal cortices orthogonalize the representation of different streams of information concurrently coded in visual working memory

Y Xu - PLoS biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The key to adaptive visual processing lies in the ability to maintain goal-directed visual
representation in the face of distraction. In visual working memory (VWM), distraction may …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging the gap between EEG and DCNNs reveals a fatigue mechanism of facial repetition suppression

Z Lu, Y Ku - IScience, 2023 - cell.com
Facial repetition suppression, a well-studied phenomenon characterized by decreased
neural responses to repeated faces in visual cortices, remains a subject of ongoing debate …

Mixed evidence for gestalt grouping in deep neural networks

V Biscione, JS Bowers - Computational Brain & Behavior, 2023 - Springer
Gestalt psychologists have identified a range of conditions in which humans organize
elements of a scene into a group or whole, and perceptual grouping principles play an …