Modeling similarity and psychological space

BD Roads, BC Love - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Similarity and categorization are fundamental processes in human cognition that help
complex organisms make sense of the cacophony of information in their environment. These …

Neural coding of cognitive control: the representational similarity analysis approach

MC Freund, JA Etzel, TS Braver - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Cognitive control relies on distributed and potentially high-dimensional frontoparietal task
representations. Yet, the classical cognitive neuroscience approach in this domain has …

THINGS-data, a multimodal collection of large-scale datasets for investigating object representations in human brain and behavior

MN Hebart, O Contier, L Teichmann, AH Rockter… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Understanding object representations requires a broad, comprehensive sampling of the
objects in our visual world with dense measurements of brain activity and behavior. Here …

Constructing neural network models from brain data reveals representational transformations linked to adaptive behavior

T Ito, GR Yang, P Laurent, DH Schultz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The human ability to adaptively implement a wide variety of tasks is thought to emerge from
the dynamic transformation of cognitive information. We hypothesized that these …

Multitask representations in the human cortex transform along a sensory-to-motor hierarchy

T Ito, JD Murray - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Human cognition recruits distributed neural processes, yet the organizing computational and
functional architectures remain unclear. Here, we characterized the geometry and …

Hyperscanning shows friends explore and strangers converge in conversation

SPH Speer, L Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L Tsoi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
During conversation, people often endeavor to convey information in an understandable
way (finding common ground) while also sharing novel or surprising information (exploring …

[HTML][HTML] The Dimensions of dimensionality

BD Roads, BC Love - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Cognitive scientists often infer multidimensional representations from data. Whether the data
involve text, neuroimaging, neural networks, or human judgments, researchers frequently …

Visual object categorization in infancy

C Spriet, E Abassi, JR Hochmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Humans make sense of the world by organizing things into categories. When and how does
this process begin? We investigated whether real-world object categories that …

[HTML][HTML] Feature-reweighted representational similarity analysis: A method for improving the fit between computational models, brains, and behavior

P Kaniuth, MN Hebart - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) has emerged as a popular method for
relating representational spaces from human brain activity, behavioral data, and …

Exploring the role of structuralist methodology in the neuroscience of consciousness: a defense and analysis

L Kob - Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Traditional contrastive analysis has been the foundation of consciousness science, but its
limitations due to the lack of a reliable method for measuring states of consciousness have …