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 …

[HTML][HTML] Integrative benchmarking to advance neurally mechanistic models of human intelligence

M Schrimpf, J Kubilius, MJ Lee, NAR Murty, R Ajemian… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
A potentially organizing goal of the brain and cognitive sciences is to accurately explain
domains of human intelligence as executable, neurally mechanistic models. Years of …

Face detection in untrained deep neural networks

S Baek, M Song, J Jang, G Kim, SB Paik - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Face-selective neurons are observed in the primate visual pathway and are considered as
the basis of face detection in the brain. However, it has been debated as to whether this …

A large-scale examination of inductive biases shaping high-level visual representation in brains and machines

C Conwell, JS Prince, KN Kay, GA Alvarez… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The rapid release of high-performing computer vision models offers new potential to study
the impact of different inductive biases on the emergent brain alignment of learned …

Visual number sense in untrained deep neural networks

G Kim, J Jang, S Baek, M Song, SB Paik - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Number sense, the ability to estimate numerosity, is observed in naïve animals, but how this
cognitive function emerges in the brain remains unclear. Here, using an artificial deep …

What can 1.8 billion regressions tell us about the pressures shaping high-level visual representation in brains and machines?

C Conwell, JS Prince, KN Kay, GA Alvarez, T Konkle - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The rapid development and open-source release of highly performant computer vision
models offers new potential for examining how different inductive biases impact …

The algonauts project 2023 challenge: How the human brain makes sense of natural scenes

AT Gifford, B Lahner, S Saba-Sadiya, MG Vilas… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The sciences of biological and artificial intelligence are ever more intertwined. Neural
computational principles inspire new intelligent machines, which are in turn used to advance …

The dynamic sensorium competition for predicting large-scale mouse visual cortex activity from videos

P Turishcheva, PG Fahey, M Vystrčilová, L Hansel… - ArXiv, 2024 - pmc.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 …

The algonauts project 2021 challenge: How the human brain makes sense of a world in motion

RM Cichy, K Dwivedi, B Lahner, A Lascelles… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The sciences of natural and artificial intelligence are fundamentally connected. Brain-
inspired human-engineered AI are now the standard for predicting human brain responses …

Attention modulates neural representation to render reconstructions according to subjective appearance

T Horikawa, Y Kamitani - Communications Biology, 2022 - nature.com
Stimulus images can be reconstructed from visual cortical activity. However, our perception
of stimuli is shaped by both stimulus-induced and top-down processes, and it is unclear …