Models of vision need some action.
Constantin A RothkopfFrank BremmerKatja FiehlerKatharina DobsJochen TrieschPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
Bowers et al. focus their criticisms on research that compares behavioral and brain data from the ventral stream with a class of deep neural networks for object recognition. While they are right to identify issues with current benchmarking research programs, they overlook a much more fundamental limitation of this literature: Disregarding the importance of action and interaction for perception.