Convolutional neural networks as a model of the visual system: Past, present, and future

GW Lindsay - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were inspired by early findings in the study of
biological vision. They have since become successful tools in computer vision and state-of …

Neural population geometry: An approach for understanding biological and artificial neural networks

SY Chung, LF Abbott - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in experimental neuroscience have transformed our ability to explore the structure
and function of neural circuits. At the same time, advances in machine learning have …

The population doctrine in cognitive neuroscience

RB Ebitz, BY Hayden - Neuron, 2021 - cell.com
A major shift is happening within neurophysiology: a population doctrine is drawing level
with the single-neuron doctrine that has long dominated the field. Population-level ideas …

The features underlying the memorability of objects

MA Kramer, MN Hebart, CI Baker, WA Bainbridge - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
What makes certain images more memorable than others? While much of memory research
has focused on participant effects, recent studies using a stimulus-centric perspective have …

Contrastive learning explains the emergence and function of visual category-selective regions

JS Prince, GA Alvarez, T Konkle - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Modular and distributed coding theories of category selectivity along the human ventral
visual stream have long existed in tension. Here, we present a reconciling framework …

Individual differences among deep neural network models

J Mehrer, CJ Spoerer, N Kriegeskorte… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Deep neural networks (DNNs) excel at visual recognition tasks and are increasingly used as
a modeling framework for neural computations in the primate brain. Just like individual …

Priority coding in the visual system

NC Rust, MR Cohen - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Although we are continuously bombarded with visual input, only a fraction of incoming visual
events is perceived, remembered or acted on. The neural underpinnings of various forms of …

Modeling short visual events through the BOLD moments video fMRI dataset and metadata

B Lahner, K Dwivedi, P Iamshchinina… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Studying the neural basis of human dynamic visual perception requires extensive
experimental data to evaluate the large swathes of functionally diverse brain neural …

Comparing object recognition in humans and deep convolutional neural networks—an eye tracking study

LE Van Dyck, R Kwitt, SJ Denzler… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) and the ventral visual pathway share vast
architectural and functional similarities in visual challenges such as object recognition …

Embracing new techniques in deep learning for estimating image memorability

CD Needell, WA Bainbridge - Computational Brain & Behavior, 2022 - Springer
Various works have suggested that the memorability of an image is consistent across
people, and thus can be treated as an intrinsic property of an image. Using computer vision …