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Clarifying status of DNNs as models of human vision

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posted on 2024-09-30, 10:31 authored by JS Bowers, G Malhotra, M Dujmović, ML Montero, C Tsvetkov, V Biscione, G Puebla, F Adolfi, JE Hummel, RF Heaton, Benjamin EvansBenjamin Evans, Jeff MitchellJeff Mitchell, R Blything
On several key issues we agree with the commentators. Perhaps most importantly, everyone seems to agree that psychology has an important role to play in building better models of human vision, and (most) everyone agrees (including us) that deep neural networks (DNNs) will play an important role in modelling human vision going forward. But there are also disagreements about what models are for, how DNN-human correspondences should be evaluated, the value of alternative modelling approaches, and impact of marketing hype in the literature. In our view, these latter issues are contributing to many unjustified claims regarding DNN-human correspondences in vision and other domains of cognition. We explore all these issues in this response.

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Journal

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

ISSN

0140-525X

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Volume

46

Page range

e415-

Article number

e415

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  • Informatics Publications

Institution

University of Sussex

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