Going after the bigger picture: Using high-capacity models to understand mind and brain.
Hans P Op de BeeckStefania BracciPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide a unique opportunity to move towards a generic modelling framework in psychology. The high representational capacity of these models combined with the possibility for further extensions has already allowed us to investigate the forest, namely the complex landscape of representations and processes that underlie human cognition, without forgetting about the trees, which include individual psychological phenomena.