Clarifying status of DNNs as models of human vision.

Journal: The Behavioral and brain sciences
Published Date: Dec 6, 2023

Abstract

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.

Authors

  • Jeffrey S Bowers
    University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Electronic address: j.bowers@bristol.ac.uk.
  • Gaurav Malhotra
    School of Psychological, Science University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TU, UK. Electronic address: gaurav.malhotra@bristol.ac.uk.
  • Marin Dujmović
    School of Psychological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
  • Milton L Montero
    School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK j.bowers@bristol.ac.uk; https://jeffbowers.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/ gaurav.malhotra@bristol.ac.uk marin.dujmovic@bristol.ac.uk m.lleramontero@bristol.ac.uk christian.tsvetkov@bristol.ac.uk valerio.biscione@gmail.com.
  • Christian Tsvetkov
    School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK j.bowers@bristol.ac.uk; https://jeffbowers.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/ gaurav.malhotra@bristol.ac.uk marin.dujmovic@bristol.ac.uk m.lleramontero@bristol.ac.uk christian.tsvetkov@bristol.ac.uk valerio.biscione@gmail.com guillermo.puebla@bristol.ac.uk.
  • Valerio Biscione
    School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
  • Guillermo Puebla
    School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, UK.
  • Federico Adolfi
    Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max-Planck Society.
  • John E Hummel
    Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA jehummel@illinois.edu rmflood2@illinois.edu.
  • Rachel F Heaton
    Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA jehummel@illinois.edu rmflood2@illinois.edu.
  • Benjamin D Evans
  • Jeffrey Mitchell
    Department of Informatics, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK b.d.evans@sussex.ac.uk j.mitchell@napier.ac.uk.
  • Ryan Blything
    School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, 12a Priory Road, Bristol BS8 1TU, UK. Electronic address: ryan.blything@bristol.ac.uk.

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