Cognitive computational neuroscience

N Kriegeskorte, PK Douglas - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
To learn how cognition is implemented in the brain, we must build computational models
that can perform cognitive tasks, and test such models with brain and behavioral …

On staying grounded and avoiding quixotic dead ends

LW Barsalou - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2016 - Springer
The 15 articles in this special issue on The Representation of Concepts illustrate the rich
variety of theoretical positions and supporting research that characterize the area. Although …

Visual and linguistic semantic representations are aligned at the border of human visual cortex

SF Popham, AG Huth, NY Bilenko, F Deniz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Semantic information in the human brain is organized into multiple networks, but the fine-
grain relationships between them are poorly understood. In this study, we compared …

Flexible reuse of cortico-hippocampal representations during encoding and recall of naturalistic events

ZM Reagh, C Ranganath - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Although every life event is unique, there are considerable commonalities across events.
However, little is known about whether or how the brain flexibly represents information about …

Deep supervised, but not unsupervised, models may explain IT cortical representation

SM Khaligh-Razavi, N Kriegeskorte - PLoS computational biology, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Inferior temporal (IT) cortex in human and nonhuman primates serves visual object
recognition. Computational object-vision models, although continually improving, do not yet …

The functional specialization of visual cortex emerges from training parallel pathways with self-supervised predictive learning

S Bakhtiari, P Mineault, T Lillicrap… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The visual system of mammals is comprised of parallel, hierarchical specialized pathways.
Different pathways are specialized in so far as they use representations that are more …

Integrative and distinctive coding of visual and conceptual object features in the ventral visual stream

CB Martin, D Douglas, RN Newsome, LLY Man… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
A significant body of research in cognitive neuroscience is aimed at understanding how
object concepts are represented in the human brain. However, it remains unknown whether …

Decoding semantic representations in mind and brain

SL Frisby, AD Halai, CR Cox, MAL Ralph… - Trends in cognitive …, 2023 - cell.com
A key goal for cognitive neuroscience is to understand the neurocognitive systems that
support semantic memory. Recent multivariate analyses of neuroimaging data have …

Shared neural representations and temporal segmentation of political content predict ideological similarity

D de Bruin, JM van Baar, PL Rodríguez… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Despite receiving the same sensory input, opposing partisans often interpret political content
in disparate ways. Jointly analyzing controlled and naturalistic functional magnetic …

Brain encoding models based on multimodal transformers can transfer across language and vision

J Tang, M Du, V Vo, V Lal… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Encoding models have been used to assess how the human brain represents concepts in
language and vision. While language and vision rely on similar concept representations …