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Modelling human vision needs to account for subjective experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2023

Marcin Koculak Open the ORCID record for Marcin Koculak [Opens in a new window]  and
Michał Wierzchoń Open the ORCID record for Michał Wierzchoń [Opens in a new window]
Marcin Koculak
Affiliation:
Centre for Brain Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland [email protected] Consciousness Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland [email protected] https://c-lab.pl
Michał Wierzchoń
Affiliation:
Centre for Brain Research, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland [email protected] Consciousness Lab, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland [email protected] https://c-lab.pl
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Abstract

Vision is inseparably connected to perceptual awareness which can be seen as the culmination of sensory processing. Studies on conscious vision reveal that object recognition is just one of the means through which our representation of the world is built. We propose an operationalization of subjective experience in the context of deep neural networks (DNNs) that could encourage a more thorough comparison of human and artificial vision.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e397
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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