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 …

Are deep neural networks adequate behavioral models of human visual perception?

FA Wichmann, R Geirhos - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are machine learning algorithms that have revolutionized
computer vision due to their remarkable successes in tasks like object classification and …

Partial success in closing the gap between human and machine vision

R Geirhos, K Narayanappa, B Mitzkus… - Advances in …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A few years ago, the first CNN surpassed human performance on ImageNet. However, it
soon became clear that machines lack robustness on more challenging test cases, a major …

Deep problems with neural network models of human vision

JS Bowers, G Malhotra, M Dujmović… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have had extraordinary successes in classifying
photographic images of objects and are often described as the best models of biological …

[HTML][HTML] Successes and critical failures of neural networks in capturing human-like speech recognition

F Adolfi, JS Bowers, D Poeppel - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Natural and artificial audition can in principle acquire different solutions to a given problem.
The constraints of the task, however, can nudge the cognitive science and engineering of …

[HTML][HTML] From photos to sketches-how humans and deep neural networks process objects across different levels of visual abstraction

JJD Singer, K Seeliger, TC Kietzmann… - Journal of …, 2022 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Line drawings convey meaning with just a few strokes. Despite strong simplifications,
humans can recognize objects depicted in such abstracted images without effort. To what …

[HTML][HTML] A novel feature-scrambling approach reveals the capacity of convolutional neural networks to learn spatial relations

A Farahat, F Effenberger, M Vinck - Neural networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are one of the most successful computer vision
systems to solve object recognition. Furthermore, CNNs have major applications in …

Clarifying status of DNNs as models of human vision

JS Bowers, G Malhotra, M Dujmović… - Behavioral and …, 2023 - publications.aston.ac.uk
On several key issues we agree with the commentators. Perhaps most importantly, everyone
seems to agree that psychology has an important role to play in building better models of …

Covariant spatio-temporal receptive fields for neuromorphic computing

JE Pedersen, J Conradt, T Lindeberg - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00318, 2024 - arxiv.org
Biological nervous systems constitute important sources of inspiration towards computers
that are faster, cheaper, and more energy efficient. Neuromorphic disciplines view the brain …

[HTML][HTML] The role of capacity constraints in Convolutional Neural Networks for learning random versus natural data

C Tsvetkov, G Malhotra, BD Evans, JS Bowers - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are often described as promising models of human
vision, yet they show many differences from human abilities. We focus on a superhuman …