GitHub

High-level visual representations in the human brain are aligned with large language models

The human brain extracts complex information from visual inputs, including objects, their spatial and semantic interrelations, and their interactions with the environment. However, a quantitative ...
Phys.org

Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...
The Conversation

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly

Bilal Haider receives funding from NIH and the Simons Foundation. Despite the nursery rhyme about three blind mice, mouse eyesight is surprisingly sensitive. Studying how mice see has helped ...
GitHub

GSM8K-V: Can Vision Language Models Solve Grade School Math Word Problems in Visual Contexts?

GSM8K-V is a purely visual multi-image mathematical reasoning benchmark that systematically maps each GSM8K math word problem into its visual counterpart to enable a clean, within-item comparison ...
Janesville Gazette

'Set an example of civil, respectful discourse.' Rock County Board condemns political violence, 'inflammatory language'

JANESVILLE — The Rock County Board on Thursday night approved a resolution that condemns political violence and intimidation and called on elected officials to refrain from making “inflammatory ...
KOMU

Missouri appeals court rewrites ballot language for amendment to ban most abortions again

COLUMBIA — A Missouri appeals court in Kansas City has rewritten the ballot language for an amendment that would ban most abortions again in the state, ruling that the language approved by a Cole ...
The Washington Post

Can you tell when you’re seeing CGI in movies and TV shows?

In subreddits and X threads, commenters seem to be railing more and more against terrible visual effects and wondering why modern films and TV shows look so bad. But is that actually true? Let’s flip ...
inforum

Lack of sign language interpreters in North Dakota a major barrier

North Dakota has 15 nationally certified American Sign Language interpreters for the whole state, with none living west of U.S. Highway 83, according to a national registry. Lindsey Solberg Herbel, ...
Pratt Institute

Beyond Words: Visual Language of the Pratt Illustration Department

Images and words are seemingly inseparable. Just as our five senses appear indivisible from our waking narrative, so does our need to communicate those experiences in images and words, whether it be ...
TechNode

Alibaba’s new Qwen3-VL models bring visual-language AI to mobile devices

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing ...
PBS

What is language deprivation?

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...
NPR

Retired federal land managers say that partisan shutdown language is chilling

There are brewing legal fights against the Trump administration for language it's posting on federal websites and in government emails blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown. The ...