What have we learned about artificial intelligence from studying the brain?

SJ Gershman - Biological Cybernetics, 2024 - Springer
Neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) share a long, intertwined history. It has been
argued that discoveries in neuroscience were (and continue to be) instrumental in driving …

[PDF][PDF] The neural architecture of language: Integrative reverse-engineering converges on a model for predictive processing

M Schrimpf, I Blank, G Tuckute, C Kauf, EA Hosseini… - BioRxiv, 2020 - mit.edu
The neuroscience of perception has recently been revolutionized with an integrative reverse-
engineering approach in which 3 computation, brain function, and behavior are linked …

A comparative biology approach to DNN modeling of vision: A focus on differences, not similarities

B Lonnqvist, A Bornet, A Doerig, MH Herzog - Journal of vision, 2021 - jov.arvojournals.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have revolutionized computer science and are now widely
used for neuroscientific research. A hot debate has ensued about the usefulness of DNNs as …

Computational models to study language processing in the human brain: A survey

S Wang, J Sun, Y Zhang, N Lin, MF Moens… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite differing from the human language processing mechanism in implementation and
algorithms, current language models demonstrate remarkable human-like or surpassing …

[HTML][HTML] The Dynamic Sensorium competition for predicting large-scale mouse visual cortex activity from videos

P Turishcheva, PG Fahey, L Hansel, R Froebe… - ArXiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Understanding how biological visual systems process information is challenging due to the
complex nonlinear relationship between neuronal responses and high-dimensional visual …

Explanatory models in neuroscience, Part 2: Functional intelligibility and the contravariance principle

R Cao, D Yamins - Cognitive Systems Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Computational modeling plays an increasingly important role in neuroscience, highlighting
the philosophical question of how computational models explain. In the particular case of …

[PDF][PDF] Is it that simple? Linear mapping models in cognitive neuroscience

AA Ivanova, M Schrimpf, S Anzellotti, N Zaslavsky… - bioRxiv, 2021 - scholar.archive.org
Advances in cognitive neuroscience are often accompanied by an increased complexity in
the methods we use to uncover new aspects of brain function. Recently, many studies have …

Robustified anns reveal wormholes between human category percepts

G Gaziv, MJ Lee, JJ DiCarlo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.06887, 2023 - arxiv.org
The visual object category reports of artificial neural networks (ANNs) are notoriously
sensitive to tiny, adversarial image perturbations. Because human category reports (aka …

Beyond linear regression: mapping models in cognitive neuroscience should align with research goals

AA Ivanova, M Schrimpf, S Anzellotti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Many cognitive neuroscience studies use large feature sets to predict and interpret brain
activity patterns. Feature sets take many forms, from human stimulus annotations to …

Inconsistencies between human and macaque lesion data can be resolved with a stimulus-computable model of the ventral visual stream

T Bonnen, MAG Eldridge - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Decades of neuroscientific research has sought to understand medial temporal lobe (MTL)
involvement in perception. Apparent inconsistencies in the literature have led to competing …