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Evaluating (and Improving) the Correspondence Between Deep Neural Networks and Human Representations

Abstract Decades of psychological research have been aimed at modeling how people learn features and categories. The empirical validation of these theories is often based on artificial stimuli with simple representations. Recently, deep neural networks have reached or surpassed human accuracy on tasks such as identifying objects in natural images. These networks learn representations of […]

Published on December 9, 2018

Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Semantic Processing

Abstract The contents and structure of semantic memory have been the focus of much recent research, with major advances in the development of distributional models, which use word co‐occurrence information as a window into the semantics of language. In parallel, connectionist modeling has extended our knowledge of the processes engaged in semantic activation. However, these […]

Published on December 9, 2018