Better models of human high-level visual cortex emerge from natural language supervision with a large and diverse dataset

AY Wang, K Kay, T Naselaris, MJ Tarr… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
High-performing neural networks for vision have dramatically advanced our ability to
account for neural data in biological systems. Recently, further improvement in performance …

Principles of intensive human neuroimaging

ER Kupers, T Knapen, EP Merriam, KN Kay - Trends in Neurosciences, 2024 - cell.com
The rise of large, publicly shared functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data sets in
human neuroscience has focused on acquiring either a few hours of data on many …

Distributed representations of behaviour-derived object dimensions in the human visual system

O Contier, CI Baker, MN Hebart - Nature Human Behaviour, 2024 - nature.com
Object vision is commonly thought to involve a hierarchy of brain regions processing
increasingly complex image features, with high-level visual cortex supporting object …

Incorporating natural language into vision models improves prediction and understanding of higher visual cortex

AY Wang, K Kay, T Naselaris, MJ Tarr, L Wehbe - BioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
We hypothesize that high-level visual representations contain more than the representation
of individual categories: they represent complex semantic information inherent in scenes …

Vision+ language applications: A survey

Y Zhou, N Shimada - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Text-to-image generation has attracted significant interest from researchers and practitioners
in recent years due to its widespread and diverse applications across various industries …

Graspable foods and tools elicit similar responses in visual cortex

JB Ritchie, ST Andrews, M Vaziri-Pashkam… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The extrastriatal visual cortex is known to exhibit distinct response profiles to complex stimuli
of varying ecological importance (eg faces, scenes, and tools). Although food is primarily …

The geometry of low-and high-level perceptual spaces

SA Waraich, JD Victor - Journal of Neuroscience, 2024 - Soc Neuroscience
Low-level features are typically continuous (eg, the gamut between two colors), but semantic
information is often categorical (there is no corresponding gradient between dog and turtle) …

Tool representations in human visual cortex

D Cortinovis, MV Peelen, S Bracci - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Tools such as pens, forks, and scissors play an important role in many daily-life activities, an
importance underscored by the presence in visual cortex of a set of tool-selective brain …

Brain diffusion for visual exploration: Cortical discovery using large scale generative models

A Luo, M Henderson, L Wehbe… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A long standing goal in neuroscience has been to elucidate the functional organization of
the brain. Within higher visual cortex, functional accounts have remained relatively coarse …

Reduced food neophobia and food disgust in colorblind men

I Gauthier, B Olatunji - Motivation and Emotion, 2024 - Springer
Food neophobia is the fear of new foods, and it is associated with negative health outcomes.
Recent work suggests that it is negatively correlated with the ability to discriminate visually …