Dissociating language and thought in large language models

K Mahowald, AA Ivanova, IA Blank, N Kanwisher… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Large language models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering
human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split …

Next-generation deep learning based on simulators and synthetic data

CM de Melo, A Torralba, L Guibas, J DiCarlo… - Trends in cognitive …, 2022 - cell.com
Deep learning (DL) is being successfully applied across multiple domains, yet these models
learn in a most artificial way: they require large quantities of labeled data to grasp even …

The neural architecture of language: Integrative modeling converges on predictive processing

M Schrimpf, IA Blank, G Tuckute… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative
modeling approach in which computation, brain function, and behavior are linked across …

[PDF][PDF] Modern language models refute Chomsky's approach to language

S Piantadosi - Lingbuzz Preprint, lingbuzz, 2023 - lingbuzz.net
The rise and success of large language models undermines virtually every strong claim for
the innateness of language that has been proposed by generative linguistics. Modern …

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 …

Large-scale evidence for logarithmic effects of word predictability on reading time

C Shain, C Meister, T Pimentel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

Harmonizing the object recognition strategies of deep neural networks with humans

T Fel, IF Rodriguez Rodriguez… - Advances in neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The many successes of deep neural networks (DNNs) over the past decade have largely
been driven by computational scale rather than insights from biological intelligence. Here …

Model metamers reveal divergent invariances between biological and artificial neural networks

J Feather, G Leclerc, A Mądry, JH McDermott - Nature Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Deep neural network models of sensory systems are often proposed to learn
representational transformations with invariances like those in the brain. To reveal these …

Reassessing hierarchical correspondences between brain and deep networks through direct interface

NJ Sexton, BC Love - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Functional correspondences between deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and the
mammalian visual system support a hierarchical account in which successive stages of …

A language of thought for the mental representation of geometric shapes

M Sablé-Meyer, K Ellis, J Tenenbaum, S Dehaene - Cognitive Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
In various cultures and at all spatial scales, humans produce a rich complexity of geometric
shapes such as lines, circles or spirals. Here, we propose that humans possess a language …